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Summary: "Updated for the 2024 election cycle, this revised edition provides a compelling primer of how US election processes came to be and how they work"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zest Books 2024
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 324.6 FLEPhillips, Kevin P.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Broadway Books 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 305.5234 PHIAchen, Christopher H.
Summary: Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters.Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government. --Publisher
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Publisher / Publication Date: Princeton University Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 321.8 ACHLevitsky, Steven
Summary: "A call to reform our antiquated political institutions before it's too late-from the New York Times bestselling authors of How Democracies Die. America is undergoing a massive experiment: It is moving, in fits and starts, toward a multiracial democracy, something few societies have ever done. But the prospect of change has sparked an authoritarian backlash that threatens the very foundations...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2023
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Summary: "An insider's account of how politicians representing a radical minority of Americans are using "the greatest deliberative body in the world" to hijack our democracy. Every major decision governing our diverse, majority-female, and increasingly liberal country bears the stamp of the US Senate, yet the Senate allows an almost exclusively white, predominantly male, and radically conservative...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 328.73 JENLessig, Lawrence
Summary: "In the vein of On Tyranny and How Democracies Die, the bestselling author of Republic, Lost argues that our democracy no longer represents us and shows that reform is both necessary and possible"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dey Street Books 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.973 LESSchaller, Thomas F.
Summary: "It's an open secret that voters in smaller, less populous states have more electoral power than their urban counterparts, so why are these same voters the most eager to leave behind democratic principles? In this book, political scientists Thomas Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why, with all of this extra influence, these same voters fail to see real benefits, for instance suffering worse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2024