Routledge Research in American Politics and Governance
Dominican American Politics: Immigrants, Activists, and Politicians
1st Edition
By Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco
October 01, 2025
In this book, Jacqueline Jiménez Polanco examines the politics of empowerment of Dominican Americans in the United States. Covering the first two decades of the twenty-first century, Jiménez Polanco provides a new analytical perspective to understand the political development of a growing ethnic ...
The Crossroads Elections: European Perspectives on the 2022 U.S. Midterm Elections
1st Edition
Edited
By Renata Duda, Maciej Turek
July 30, 2025
This wide-ranging collection acquaints American college instructors with insightful contributions and critical reflections from Europe on the study of campaigns, elections, Congress, and political behavior. Using an organizing conceptual framework of a "crossroads," which sets two parties apart on ...
Congress and the Politics of Sports: Homefield Advantage
1st Edition
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By Colton Campbell, David Dulio
May 05, 2025
This volume covers an aspect of Congress mostly untouched in literature, examining Congress through the lens of sports. Across a set of broad and probing chapters, this book offers insights into some of the historic and contemporary challenges that sports have presented to Congress, along with ...
Legitimizing Authority: American Government and the Promise of Equality
1st Edition
By Boris Vormann, Christian Lammert
May 05, 2025
Legitimizing Authority places the American state apparatus back in the foreground to rethink the development of the country’s government in the context of its unfulfilled promise of equality. The book argues that the tensions between calls for equality and the simultaneous tolerance of inequality ...
California Politics Is Local: Voting Behavior and Special Districts
1st Edition
By Brett L. Savage, Jacob Sutherland
March 10, 2025
In California Politics Is Local, Brett L. Savage and Jacob Sutherland argue that California politics should be viewed through a local lens due to the unique nature of the principal–agent relationship present in local governments around the state. Local governments make up the most common form of ...
Mexicans and the Future of the American Dream: Trump, Immigration and Border Relations
1st Edition
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By Maria Regina Martínez Casas, Magdalena Barros Nock, Georgina Rojas García
August 26, 2024
Mexicans and the Future of the American Dream examines the lives of Mexican society and government officials in the United States. The 2016 U.S. presidential election marked a defining moment in the lives of Mexicans in the United States. It rekindled nightmares in many Mexicans and pitted a new ...
Presidential Rhetoric and Indian Policy: From Nixon to the Present
1st Edition
By Anne F. Boxberger Flaherty
August 26, 2024
Presidential Rhetoric and Indian Policy explores and analyses the dynamics of presidential rhetoric on Native peoples and issues from Nixon to the present. Covering Presidents Washington through Johnson in an overview before turning to focus on the modern era of self-determination, Anne Flaherty ...
A Democracy That Works: How Working-Class Power Defines Liberal Democracy in the United States
1st Edition
By Stephen Amberg
May 27, 2024
A Democracy That Works argues that rather than corporate donations, Republican gerrymandering and media manipulation, the conservative ascendancy reflects the reconstruction of the rules that govern work that has disempowered workers. Using six historical case studies from the emergence of the New ...
The Generational Gap in American Politics
1st Edition
By Patrick Fisher
May 27, 2024
This book examines the history of the generational gap in American politics, with an emphasis on the remarkable contemporary gap. Using data derived primarily from the American National Election Studies (ANES), 2020 National Election Pool, A.P VoteCast, and the Pew Research Center, Patrick Fisher ...
A Tale of Two Parties: Living Amongst Democrats and Republicans Since 1952
1st Edition
By Kenneth Janda
September 26, 2022
Since 1952, the social bases of the Democratic and Republican parties have undergone radical reshuffling. At the start of this period southern Blacks favored Lincoln’s Republican Party over suspect Democrats, and women favored Democrats more than Republicans. In 2020 these facts have been...
Homeland Insecurity: Terrorism, Mass Shootings and the Public
1st Edition
By Ann Gordon, Kai Hamilton Gentry
September 26, 2022
In this book, Ann Gordon and Kai Hamilton Gentry expertly illuminate how the public has a role to play in ensuring its own security.Recent terror attacks and mass shootings in the United States have added urgency to the need for research on terrorism, the public’s understanding of the precursors of...
Pop-Up Civics in 21st Century America: Understanding the Political Potential of Placemaking
1st Edition
By Ryan Salzman
June 30, 2022
How people associate and engage in politics in the 21st century is notably different from similar behaviors in the 20th century. Ryan Salzman examines the political potential of placemaking, an increasingly popular set of behaviors that were unfamiliar to the American public until the last two ...