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• PART I. SPRING OPTIMISM
• 1. Johnson
• 2. Humphrey
• 3. Nixon
• 4. Wallace
• PART II. SUMMER HEAT
• 5. Paris
• 6. Miami
• 7. Chicago
• 8. Pittsburgh
• PART III. AUTUMN DISQUIET
• 9. Messenger
• 10. Stalemate
• 11. Allies
• PART IV. OCTOBER SURPRISES
• 12. Home Stretch
• 13. Bombing Halt
• 14. Dragon Lady
• 15. Photo Finish
• Epilogue.

• Prelude: Posing the woman question in 1838
• Observing American democracy
• Domesticating democracy
• To make democracy consistent
• Interlude: Self-government on trial in 1863
• Amending democracy
• Reconstructing the woman question
• Unresolved questions
• Epilogue: New women, new questions in 1893.

• The constitutional logic of the presidency
• John Tyler : the expelled president
• Andrew Johnson : the impeached president
• Gerald Ford : the appointed president.

• Introduction
• Legislators Not Seeking Reelection: You Can't Fire Me If I Quit
• Challengers in State Legislative Elections: A Lack of Choice
• Who Represents You in the Legislature?
• What Do Voters Think About in State Legislative Elections?
• Accountability for Representation: "Out of Step" but Mostly Still In Office
• The Electoral Impact of Party Performance: All Politics Are Not Local
• "Accountability" in Primary Elections
• The Cracking Foundation of Statehouse Democracy.

"State legislatures hold tremendous authority over key facets of our lives, in domains ranging from healthcare to education to election administration. And in an era of polarization and frequent policy gridlock at the national level, their significance has only increased. Political scientist Steven Rogers asks what voters know about state legislators, whether they have a meaningful opportunity to register their preferences in state legislative elections, and if there is evidence of accountability for performance in the outcomes of those elections. Drawing on broad-ranging evidence and creative research strategies, Rogers shows that, most often, state legislatures can produce policies contrary to citizens' priorities with little fear of being held accountable at the ballot box. Assembling an encyclopedic range of data on candidacy and retirements, lawmaker issue stances, news coverage, general elections, primaries, electoral competition, legislator effectiveness, state economic performance, public opinion, voter knowledge, and election outcomes, this book foregrounds a major issue: Voters do not know enough about their state representatives. They are often not presented with alternatives in elections where incumbents routinely run unopposed, and outcomes normally fail to correlate with indicators of legislative performance, either for individual lawmakers or in the aggregate performance of state government"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• A theory of back-channel policymaking
• The Freedom of Information Act and the war against transparency
• The nature of inter-branch policy communication
• Misconceptions about inter-branch relations
• The bureaucracy : Congress's backdoor to policy influence
• Back-channel representation
• Congressional access and influence in the bureaucracy
• Conclusion.

"Backdoor Lawmaking reveals how members of the US Congress use the federal bureaucracy as a backdoor for policymaking. Lawmakers pressure agencies to make policy changes in order to avoid obstacles in the legislative process. The book uses records obtained under the Freedom of Information Act in qualitative and quantitative analyses to show how members of Congress are incorporating agency regulations into a broader strategy of policymaking that spans branches of government and which lawmakers are most effective at using this approach. Lawmakers use agency regulations as a substitute for legislative action, pressure agencies to delay and block the implementation of law until new legislation is passed, and work with agencies to draft legislation. The bureaucracy also offers lawmakers a discreet way to represent controversial interests outside of the formal constraints of Congress. The book considers the implications of its findings for democratic accountability and representation and assesses the normative tradeoffs: Inter-branch policymaking allows members of Congress to evade accountability and to bypass the lawmaking process established in the US Constitution. Yet, it may be critical for preserving democratic norms given the growth of administrative lawmaking"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• Partisanship and Ideology in Political Decision-Making
• Elite Cues, Negative Partisanship, and the Changing Media Landscape
• Partisanship, Policy, Compromise, and the Non-political
• Partisanship, Race, and Intergroup Contact
• Prospect Theory and Partisan Cues
• Political Responsiveness to the Lived Experience
• Independents, Knowledge, and Alienation
• An Elite Problem Calls for an Elite Solution.

"We argue that ideology lacks meaning in the United States: what is conservative and liberal is that which Republicans and Democrats have labeled "conservative," and "liberal." This premise is central to how we understand the role of the political parties in American political behavior and why political party leaders are so essential to crafting the beliefs of partisans in the electorate. Second, we trace how the parties have evolved on issues over time, highlighting the lack of ideological consistency in the party platforms. We then explain how negative partisanship and partisan-motivated reasoning create a situation where partisans are psychologically rewarded for adopting the party's position and being receptive to information from their own party while blocking information from other sources"-- Provided by publisher.

• Prologue : why radical moderation?
• Interlude : the interlocutors
• Can liberal democracy be saved?
• Rediscovering moderation in our immoderate age
• The skepticism toward moderation and what its critics miss about it
• The archipelago of moderation (I) : the old world
• The archipelago of moderation (II) : the new world
• An alternative to ideology
• An antidote to fanaticism
• The limits of moral clarity
• Against the politics of warfare
• No Manichaeism and no litmus tests
• Compromise
• Trimming and balance
• Centrism
• Eclecticism and pluralism
• Dialogue
• Intermezzo : the lure of radicalism
• The spirit of moderation
• Modesty and humility
• Civility
• Prudence
• Realism and pragmatic partisanship
• the last beacon of hope?
• Epilogue : rules for "radical moderates".

"Moderation is often presented as a simple virtue for lukewarm and indecisive minds, searching for a fuzzy center between the extremes. Not surprisingly, many politicians do not want to be labeled "moderates" for fear of losing elections. Why Not Moderation? challenges this conventional image and shows that moderation is a complex virtue with a rich tradition and unexplored radical sides. Through a series of imaginary letters between a passionate moderate and two young radicals, the book outlines the distinctive political vision undergirding moderation and makes a case for why we need this virtue today in America. Drawing on clearly written and compelling sources, Craiutu offers an opportunity to rethink moderation and participate in the important public debate on what kind of society we want to live in. His book reminds us that we cannot afford to bargain away the liberal civilization and open society we have inherited from our forefathers"-- Provided by publisher.

• The faction
• The deputy
• The judge
• The assembly
• The shield
• The sword
• The citizen
• The angel.

"Donald Trump will be president again, whether he is on the ballot or not. That is because Trumpism is overtaking the Republican Party and will mount a vigorous comeback, potentially in the hands of a savvier successor--The Next Trump. This prophecy will come true, according to Miles Taylor, if we do not learn the lessons of the recent past. With the 2024 election approaching, the formerly "Anonymous" official is back with bombshell revelations and a sobering national forecast. Through interviews with dozens of ex-Trump aides and government leaders, Taylor predicts what could happen inside "Trump 2.0," the White House of a more competent and more formidable copycat. What sounds like a political thriller -- from shadowy presidential powers and CIA betrayals to angry henchmen and assassination plots -- is instead America's political reality, as Taylor uses never-before-told stories to shed light on the ex-president's unfulfilled plans, the dark forces haunting our civic lives, and to show how we can thwart the rise of extremism in the United States. Blowback is also a surprisingly emotional and self-critical portrait of a dissenter, one whose own unmasking provides a vivid warning about what happens when we hide the truth from others and, most important, from ourselves."-- Page 4 of cover.

"Old friends--one a Jew, the other a Christian--Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience, they write, makes us anxious about democracy, because we are also Americans living in perilous times. The 2020s remind us of the 1930s when Nazis destroyed democracy in Germany. Carnage followed. In the 2020s, Donald Trump and his followers endanger democracy in the United States. With Vladimir Putin's ruthless assault against Ukraine compounding the difficulties, democracy must not be taken for granted. Americans love democracy--except when we don't. That division and conflict mean that democracy will be on the ballot in the 2024 American elections. Probing the prospects, Warnings: The Holocaust, Ukraine, and Endangered American Democracy features exchanges between us that underscore the most urgent threats to democracy in the United States and show how to resist them. What's most needed is ethical patriotism that urges us Americans to be our best selves. Our best selves defend liberal democracy; they strive for inclusive pluralism. Our best selves resist decisions and policies like those that led to the Holocaust or genocidal war in Ukraine or conspiracies to overturn fair and free elections in the United States. Our best selves reject antisemitism and racism; they oppose hypocrisy and autocracy. Our best selves hold lying leaders accountable. Our best selves believe that, against all odds, democracy can win out if we never give up trying to be our best." -- Page 4 of cover.

• Foreword
• Part 1: Undermining democracy. American conservatism
• The liberal consensus
• Bringing the Declaration of Independence to life
• Race and taxes
• Nixon and the southern strategy
• Positive polarization
• The Reagan revolution
• Skewing the system
• A new global project
• Illegitimate democracy
• Part 2: The authoritarian experiment. A snapshot of America
• A shocking event
• Russia, Russia, Russia
• The streets of Charlottesville
• The first impeachment
• Destabilizing the government
• Embracing authoritarianism
• Rewriting American history
• January 6
• The big lie
• Part 3: Reclaiming America. What is America?
• Declaring independence
• The Constitution
• Expanding democracy
• Mudsills or men
• Of the people, by the people, for the people
• American renewed
• A progressive America
• The road to the New Deal
• Democracy awakening
• Conclusion: Reclaiming our country.

"From historian and author of the popular daily newsletter LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN, a vital narrative that explains how America, once a beacon of democracy, now teeters on the brink of autocracy--and how we can turn back. In the midst of the impeachment crisis of 2019, Heather Cox Richardson launched a daily Facebook essay providing the historical background of the daily torrent of news. The essays soon turned into a newsletter and, spread by word of mouth, its readership ballooned to more than 2 million dedicated readers who rely on its plainspoken and informed take on the present and past in America. In Democracy Awakening, Richardson crafts a compelling and original narrative, explaining how, over the decades, a small group of wealthy people have made war on American ideals. By weaponizing language and promoting false history they have led us into authoritarianism--creating a disaffected population and then promising to recreate an imagined past where those people could feel important again. She argues that taking our country back starts by remembering the elements of the nation's true history that marginalized Americans have always upheld. Their dedication to the principles on which this nation was founded has enabled us to renew and expand our commitment to democracy in the past. Richardson sees this history as a roadmap for the nation's future. Richardson's unique talent is to wrangle our giant, meandering, confusing news feed into a coherent story that singles out what we should pay attention to, what the historical roots and precedents are, and what possible paths lie ahead. Writing in her trademark calm prose, she manages to be both realistic and optimistic about the future of democracy. Richardson's easy command of history allows her to pivot effortlessly from the Founders to the abolitionists to Reconstruction to Goldwater to Mitch McConnell, highlighting the political legacies of the New Deal, the lingering fears of socialism, the death of the liberal consensus and birth of "movement conservatism." There are many books that tell us what has happened over the last five years. Democracy Awakening explains how we got to this perilous point, what our history really tells us about ourselves, and what the future of democracy can be"-- Provided by publisher.

• Prologue : The war on persuasion
• "The waking among the woke"
• Can love change a mind?
• A movement that grows
• The inside-outside game
• The art of messaging
• The vaccine against lies
• Meaning-making at the door.

"An insider account of activists, politicians, educators, and everyday citizens working to change minds, bridge divisions, and save democracy"-- Provided by publisher
The lifeblood of any free society is persuasion: changing other people's minds in order to change things. Giridharadas takes us inside movements and political parties that have built barriers and increasingly write one another off instead of seeking to win one another over. Meet activists, politicians, educators and more who work to change minds, bridge divisions, and fight for democracy-- hoping one day to point the way to healing, and changing our fracturing country. -- adapted from jacket

• Introduction: Doing well by doing good
• Part I: Crisis and opportunity. Growth and opportunity ; The power of credit ; Be your own boss ; Reinventing liberalism
• Part II: Win-wins. Better than welfare ; Change their heads ; From a right to a reward ; Public schools are our most important business ; The fox and the henhouse ; Untapped markets - Epilogue.

"The 40-year history of how Democrats chose political convenience over addressing inequality--and how the poor have paid the price. For decades, the Republican party has been known as the party of the rich: arguing for "business-friendly" policies like deregulation and tax cuts. But as our national and global economy confronts a crisis of inequality, the truth is that Democrats have been unwilling to take risks that would help eliminate poverty. In this incisive new book, political historian Lily Geismer shows how the Democratic party of the 80s and 90s -- particularly during the height of the Clinton years -- peddled policy ideas that centered on helping the poor without asking the rich to make any sacrifices: doing well by doing good. Micro-lending became a big business, and private programs to promote democracy and equality abroad grew trendy. But as social programs in the private sector boomed, the structure of the government began to weaken, contributing to a crisis that has now fully arrived. Geismer makes her case through artful storytelling and a savvy eye, conjuring in meticulous detail the political moments that led to these fateful decisions. We've seen skyrocketing income inequality, huge discrepancies between the haves and have-nots, and growing poverty in America. This is the story of how we got ourselves into this mess, and where we can go from here"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction / John G. Milliken and Mark J. Rozell
• Prelude to revolution: The rise and fall of the Byrd organization, 1925-49 / Ronald Heinemann
• The emergence of the modern Democratic Party: Bill Spong and the election of 1966 / John G. Milliken
• Virginia's "Armageddon" and its legacy of partisan competition: The 1973 gubernatorial election / Frank B. Atkinson
• Chuck Robb's 1981 gubernatorial campaign and the Democratic realignment / Stephen J. Farnsworth, Stephen P. Hanna and Sally Burkley
• Breakthrough: The rise and 1989 gubernatorial election of L. Douglas Wilder / Julian Hayter
• The rise of a competitive Republican Party: George Allen and the election of 1993 / Warren Fiske and Robert Holsworth.
• Conclusion: The New Dominion in the twenty-first century / John J. Milliken and Wendy Chen.

""The New Dominion" analyzes the key Virginia elections that shaped the political Virginia of today. Whereas many observers tend to see the rising Blue Virginia to be the result of very recent and rapid demographic changes, the editors and contributors argue that the process of the political transformation of the Commonwealth has its roots in the twentieth centuries' critical elections. As each contributor analyzes significant twentieth-century political moments and elections, with essays building on one another and moving the story forward in chronological order, from the 1920s to today, the result is a detailed and comprehensive overview of the Commonwealth's political evolution over the past 100 years"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction
• "An instrument to attain their hopes and dreams": Democratic Party women, 1928-1935
• "Women have indeed come of age politically": The Democratic Women's Division, 1936-1940
• "The consensus is that women will swing the pendulum": the Women's Division in wartime
• After Roosevelt: the postwar fate of the Democratic Women's Division
• Housewives for Truman: the 1948 campaign
• "Merger or murder?": the evolution of the Democratic Women's Division, 1949-1953
• Reaching Republican women: the 1952 campaign
• "Government comes right into the home": women's party politics during the Baby Boom
• Fundraisers and pollsters: The 1956 election and the decline of the Women's Division
• Epilogue.

• Introduction : national committees and party brands
• Examining DNC and RNC party branding quantitatively : presidential control and national committee branding decline
• Building permanently active national committees, 1912-1932
• National committees and the New Deal, 1933-1952
• "We either have a national party or we do not have," 1953-1968
• Managing mixed-ideological parties, 1969-1980
• "Reagan's party" vs. "recapturing the center of American politics," 1981-2000
• "Near obscurity" : the deterioration of national committee branding, 2001-2016
• Conclusion : the past and future of national committees.

"National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics reassesses the role and influence of national party organizations in American politics. This book argues that the Democratic and Republican National Committees have particular roles previous scholarship has ignored: party leaders turn to the DNC and RNC after electoral defeats with the goal of using these institutions to reshape their party's brand. Politicians believe such a brand - the basic understanding voters have of what a party stands for - helps mobilize voters and, because of this, care deeply about what kind of party image their national committees promote. Through qualitative case studies covering the history and development of the DNC and RNC between 1912-2016, this book shows that the committees have had major influence on when, and how, parties tried to adjust their positions on important issues such as civil rights, Prohibition, economic policies, and foreign affairs. In addition to the qualitative historical assessments, it also relies on new quantitative data measuring DNC and RNC activity across time on the basis of a content analysis of more than 40,000 New York Times articles covering both committees. These data help illustrate temporal changes in committee activity, often in response to the demands or lack of interest of American presidents serving as party leaders. Combined, National Party Organizations and Party Brands in American Politics showcases the importance of national party organizations in American political development throughout the 20th century and beyond"-- Provided by publisher.

"Rumors and the misinformation they spread play an important role in American politics-and a dangerous one with direct consequences, such as wrecking trust in government, promoting hostility toward truth-finding, and swaying public opinion on otherwise popular policies. One only has to look at the rate of vaccination in the United States or peruse internet forums discussing the 2020 election to see lasting effects. How can democracy work if there is a persistence of widely held misinformation? In Political Rumors: Why We Accept Misinformation and How to Fight It, Adam Berinsky explains why incredulous and discredited stories about politicians and policies grab the public's attention and who is most likely to believe these stories and act on them. For instance, he shows that rather than a small set of people believing a lot of conspiracies, a lot of people believe some conspiracies; he also demonstrates that partisans are more likely to believe false rumors about the opposing party. Pulling from a wealth of social science work, and from his own original data, the author shows who believes political rumors, and why-and establishes how democracy is threatened when citizens base their political decision-making on the content of political rumors. While acknowledging that there is no one magical solution to the problem of misinformation, Berinsky explores strategies that can work to combat false information, such as targeting uncertain citizens rather than "true believers," and focusing on who is delivering the message ("neutral" third parties are often ineffective). Ultimately, though, the only long-term solution is for misinformation tactics to be disincentivized from the political elites and opinion leaders who dominate political discussion"-- Provided by publisher.
"Why debunked political rumors persist and how to combat themPolitical rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape. This is not a recent phenomenon; before the currently rampant and unfounded rumors about a stolen election and vote-rigging, there were other rumors that continued to spread even after they were thoroughly debunked, including doubts about 9/11 (an "inside job") and the furor over President Obama's birthplace and birth certificate. If misinformation crowds out the truth, how can Americans communicate with one another about important issues? In this book, Adam Berinsky examines why political rumors exist and persist despite their unsubstantiated and refuted claims, who is most likely to believe them, and how to combat them.Drawing on original survey and experimental data, Berinsky shows that a tendency toward conspiratorial thinking and vehement partisan attachment fuel belief in rumors. Yet the reach of rumors is wide, and Berinsky argues that in fighting misinformation, it is as important to target the undecided and the uncertain as it is the true believers. We're all vulnerable to misinformation, and public skepticism about the veracity of political facts is damaging to democracy. Moreover, in a world where most people simply don't pay attention to politics, political leaders are often guilty of disseminating false information-and failing to correct it when it is proven wrong. Berinsky suggests that we should focus on the messenger as much as the message of rumors. Just as important as how misinformation is debunked is who does the debunking"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction: a different senate
• The Mansfield-Dirksen way
• Butte and Pekin-political roots
• Apprentice to leadership
• Elements of leadership: eloquence, cornpone, substance, and humor
• Highest aspirations-Moving to Senate Leadership
• Elements of leadership: care and Feeding of the Press
• One brief shining moment
• Camelot's end.
• An idea whose time has come
• A great society and a bitch of a war
• End of an era
• Epilogue: The senate, Mansfield, and Dirksen.

""The excavation of a cross-party political relationship that sheds light on the workings of the U.S. Senate during the 1960s. From divergent backgrounds and ideologies, Mike Mansfield of Montana and Everett Dirksen of Illinois were responsible for making the Senate work amid political upheaval. Their efforts resulted in a spate of surprisingly durable legislation around civil rights, voting rights, the environment, and social welfare"-Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.

• Introduction : stories as knowledge creation / Staci M. Zavattaro, Jessica E. Sowa, Alexander C. Henderson, and Lauren Hamilton Edwards
• Navigating between the state and the community : stories from community health workers / Gabriela Lotta and Juliana Rocha Miranda
• Under the radar : stories from government meteorologists / Kelly A. Stevens
• Revisiting librarians as public servants / Alicia Schatteman
• Teachers and their monitors : negotiating disciplinary regimes in Pakistan / Moiz Abdul Majid and Sameen A. Mohsin Ali
• (In)visible and (mis)understood : the public service work of American Sign Language (ASL) interpreters during emergencies / Stephanie Dolamore and Geoffrey Whitebread
• Unseen but irreplaceable : the role of air traffic controllers / Sean A. McCandless
• Serving in silence : the emergency manager / Kyle R. Overly
• When silence is golden : stories from an elections office / Amanda D. Clark
• Public defenders as constitutional pariahs, surrogate deviants, and emotional laborers / Adam Croft
• New York City property tax assessment : public employees serving in silence / Michael J. Fouassier
• Affordable housing and homelessness policy professionals / Maren B. Trochmann
• Making in the invisible visible : the photographers and videographers in public service / Maja Husar Holmes
• Arts and cultural management during the pandemic : introducing the observant servant / Sarah Berry, Dutch Reutter, Judith L. Millesen, and Maren B. Trochmann
• Inconspicuously indispensable for India : the untold stories of accredited social health activists (ASHAs) / Nandhini Rangarajan, Aroon P. Manoharan, Bianca Ortiz-Wythe
• Multiple mandates, competing goals, and the challenges of working in combined environmental agencies in the U.S. / JoyAnna S. Hopper
• Conclusion : a path forward for the field / Staci M. Zavattaro, Jessica E. Sowa, Alexander C. Henderson, and Lauren Hamilton Edwards.

"Reveals the often-untold stories of front-line public servants"-- Provided by publisher.