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Prius Or Pickup?

Author : Marc Hetherington
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
ISBN 13 : 1328866785
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Prius Or Pickup? written by Marc Hetherington and published by Houghton Mifflin. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two award-winning political scientists provide the psychological key to America's deadlocked politics, showing that we are divided not by ideologies but something deeper: personality differences that appear in everything from politics to parenting to the workplace to TV preferences, and which would be innocuous if only we could decouple them from our noxious political debate. What's in your garage: a Prius or a pickup? What's in your coffee cup: Starbucks or Dunkin' Donuts? What about your pet: cat or dog? As award-winning political scholars Marc Hetherington and Jonathan Weiler explain, even our smallest choices speak volumes about us--especially when it comes to our personalities and our politics. Liberals and conservatives seem to occupy different worlds because we have fundamentally different worldviews: systems of values that can be quickly diagnosed with a handful of simple parenting questions, but which shape our lives and decisions in the most elemental ways. If we're to overcome our seemingly intractable differences, Hetherington and Weiler show, we must first learn to master the psychological impulses that give rise to them, and to understand how politicians manipulate our mindsets for their own benefit. Drawing on groundbreaking original research, Prius or Pickup? is an incisive, illuminating study of the fracturing of the American mind.

The “Stench” of Politics

Author : Joseph Russomanno
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 166692394X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)

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Download or read book The “Stench” of Politics written by Joseph Russomanno and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-11-08 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Supreme Court is more important than ever in the lives of Americans. Its politicization, however, has hijacked its mission to provide equal justice under law. This book explains how politics, polarization and worldview – factors that affect everyone – have adversely influenced the Court and thus the nation.

Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age

Author : Thomas C. Berg
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467463965
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (674 download)

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Book Synopsis Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age by : Thomas C. Berg

Download or read book Religious Liberty in a Polarized Age written by Thomas C. Berg and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to heal America’s deep divisions by preserving religious liberty for all As our political and social landscapes polarize along party lines, religious liberty faces threats from both sides. From antidiscrimination commissions targeting conservative Christians to travel bans punishing Muslims, recent litigation has revealed the selective approach both left and right take when it comes to freedom of religion. But what if religious liberty can help cure our political division? Drawing on constitutional law, history, and sociology, Thomas C. Berg shows us how reaffirming religious freedom cultivates the good of individuals and society. After explaining the features of polarization and the societal benefits of diverse religious practices, Berg offers practical counsel on balancing religious freedom against other essential values. Protecting Americans’ ability to live according to their beliefs undergirds a healthy, pluralistic society—and this protection must extend to everyone, not just political allies. Lay readers and legal scholars who are weary of partisan quarreling will find Berg’s case timely and compelling.

New Directions in Public Opinion

Author : Adam J. Berinsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351054600
Total Pages : 561 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book New Directions in Public Opinion written by Adam J. Berinsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2016 elections called into question the accuracy of public opinion polling while tapping into new streams of public opinion more widely. The third edition of this well-established text addresses these questions and adds new perspectives to its authoritative line-up. The hallmark of this book is making cutting-edge research accessible and understandable to students and general readers. Here we see a variety of disciplinary approaches to public opinion reflected including psychology, economics, sociology, and biology in addition to political science. An emphasis on race, gender, and new media puts the elections of 2016 into context and prepares students to look ahead to 2020 and beyond. New to the third edition: • Includes 2016 election results and their implications for public opinion polling going forward. • Three new chapters have been added on racializing politics, worldview politics, and the modern information environment. • New authors include Shanto Iyengar, Michael Tesler, Vladimir E. Medenica, Erin Cikanek, Danna Young, Jennifer Jerit, and Jake Haselswerdt.

Irony and Outrage

Author : Dannagal Goldthwaite Young
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190913088
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Irony and Outrage written by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the aesthetics, underlying logics, and histories of two seemingly distinct genres - liberal political satire and conservative opinion talk - making the case that they should be thought of as the logical extensions of the psychology of the left and right, respectively.

Political Culture in the Age of Trump

Author : Albert P. Melone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793610029
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Book Synopsis Political Culture in the Age of Trump by : Albert P. Melone

Download or read book Political Culture in the Age of Trump written by Albert P. Melone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-08-03 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Trump presidency alone is a topic of considerable public discussion and debate. Yet, Donald Trump signals much more than the behavior of a single person. He is a symptom and not the sole cause a greater malaise gripping the republic. Albert P. Melone argues that the Trump phenomenon is an instance of the rise of mass society and the decline of pluralist democracy. He points out that yesteryear’s Madisonian pluralist paradigm of democracy no longer aptly describes and explains the American political world as it now exists. By substituting the conceptual framework of mass society for the pluralism model, the author points the way to a more powerful and convincing explanation of the Trump phenomenon.

Irreconcilable Differences

Author : David R. Cole
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793623791
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (936 download)

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Download or read book Irreconcilable Differences written by David R. Cole and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Irreconcilable Differences is an attempt to peer into the future in the light of recent and ongoing events. Author David Cole proposes that Americans may be living through the beginning of the devolution of the United States of America – a development that may unfold after our lifetimes, although it could happen sooner. Cole surveys examples of devolutionary political developments around the world in recent decades. He offers a running commentary on recent polemics, as commentators in the press consider the evidence of American political decline and decay. He speculates as to exactly what form a devolved United States might take. The conjecture is that a point could be reached at which Americans conclude that an amicable breakup is to be preferred on the whole to an attempt to continue to live under the same tent. Is contemporary America an example of the Aristotelian phenomenon of “coming into being and passing away”?

How White Evangelicals Think

Author : Dave Verhaagen
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1666710687
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (667 download)

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Download or read book How White Evangelicals Think written by Dave Verhaagen and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The majority of Americans have looked on in some combination of horror and befuddlement as many white Christians, particularly evangelicals, have revealed beliefs and opinions seemingly antithetical to the Christian faith, whether holding racist attitudes, supporting conspiracy theories, aligning with nationalistic and authoritarian movements, or becoming hostile toward the different and marginalized. Dr. Dave Verhaagen, a nationally board-certified psychologist and author, tackles the challenge of explaining the psychology behind what has become the unique mind of the modern white Christian. Each chapter explores one or more robust psychological principles that help make sense of why white Christians think like they do.

Embracing Prodigals

Author : John Sanders
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1725264064
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (252 download)

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Download or read book Embracing Prodigals written by John Sanders and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-07-31 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you wonder why some people you know hold theological and political views that blow your mind but they find quite reasonable? Today, Christians are at odds over how to understand the Bible, atonement, and salvation of non-Christians. They are also polarized over issues such as same-gender marriage, income inequality, and health care. Two social science models, Nurturant and Authoritative, explain this divide. Values are at the heart of our disagreements. Nurturants prize empathy and cooperation while Authoritatives cherish obedience to law and order. Each group has distinct core values and these lead them to embrace different theological, moral, and political views. This book explains the divide and makes the case that Jesus embodied the Nurturant way of life. He modeled empathy, grace, forgiveness, and care for those beyond his own tribe. The Nurturant and Authoritative approaches have competed for thousands of years but contemporary research shows that the Nurturant way of life produces better mental and spiritual health as well as superior communities in which to live.

Rightsizing Nations

Author : David Lockwood
Publisher : Greenleaf Book Group
ISBN 13 : 1632996340
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (329 download)

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Download or read book Rightsizing Nations written by David Lockwood and published by Greenleaf Book Group. This book was released on 2023-05-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nations, size matters. The United States can afford aircraft carriers; Costa Rica cannot. The more populous a nation, the lower the cost per taxpayer of highways, schools, and public safety. The more domestic consumers, the larger the scale of markets unfettered by trade barriers. The larger a nation’s economy, the greater the diversity of jobs available to workers. But greater size comes at a cost: the more people, the more potential for conflict. This trade-off between the benefits of size and the potential for conflict often determines whether a nation succeeds—or fails. Since WWII, most nations in which the advantages of size were outweighed by the disadvantages of internal strife have split apart. As a result, the number of nations in the world has exploded from 74 in 1945 to 196 in 2022. But some large countries today remain “too big.” Nations that fail to rightsize will suffer from increasing social turmoil and political violence in the years ahead. These countries risk civil war or the rise of authoritarian leaders from both the far-right and far-left who promise to bind a nation together by force. Praise for Rightsizing Nations "Provocative . . . and absorbing . . .” —BookLife Reviews by Publishers Weekly , Editor's Pick “Engaging and timely . . . ” —Foreword Clarion Reviews “Well-written and intriguing . . . breaks down a complex analysis into accessible prose.” —Kirkus Reviews “Fascinating and scary . . . ” —Readers’ Favorite (5 Stars)

Why We're Polarized

Author : Ezra Klein
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476700397
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Why We're Polarized written by Ezra Klein and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2022 One of Bill Gates’s “5 books to read this summer,” this New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller shows us that America’s political system isn’t broken. The truth is scarier: it’s working exactly as designed. In this “superbly researched” (The Washington Post) and timely book, journalist Ezra Klein reveals how that system is polarizing us—and how we are polarizing it—with disastrous results. “The American political system—which includes everyone from voters to journalists to the president—is full of rational actors making rational decisions given the incentives they face,” writes political analyst Ezra Klein. “We are a collection of functional parts whose efforts combine into a dysfunctional whole.” “A thoughtful, clear and persuasive analysis” (The New York Times Book Review), Why We’re Polarized reveals the structural and psychological forces behind America’s descent into division and dysfunction. Neither a polemic nor a lament, this book offers a clear framework for understanding everything from Trump’s rise to the Democratic Party’s leftward shift to the politicization of everyday culture. America is polarized, first and foremost, by identity. Everyone engaged in American politics is engaged, at some level, in identity politics. Over the past fifty years in America, our partisan identities have merged with our racial, religious, geographic, ideological, and cultural identities. These merged identities have attained a weight that is breaking much in our politics and tearing at the bonds that hold this country together. Klein shows how and why American politics polarized around identity in the 20th century, and what that polarization did to the way we see the world and one another. And he traces the feedback loops between polarized political identities and polarized political institutions that are driving our system toward crisis. “Well worth reading” (New York magazine), this is an “eye-opening” (O, The Oprah Magazine) book that will change how you look at politics—and perhaps at yourself.

The Aftermath

Author : Philip Bump
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593489691
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (934 download)

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Download or read book The Aftermath written by Philip Bump and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Philip Bump helps us understand that no matter the troubles of our days, the future of this nation rests with what we do now. And that means all of us—not just Baby Boomers.” —Eddie S. Glaude, Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor, Princeton University A popular Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means for American politics and economics. Philip Bump, a reporter as adept with a graph as with a paragraph, is popular for his ability to distill vast amounts of data into accessible stories. THE AFTERMATH is a sweeping assessment of how the baby boom created modern America, and where power, wealth, and politics will shift as the boom ends. How much longer than we'd expected will Boomers control wealth? Will millennials get shortchanged for jobs and capital as Gen Z rises? What kind of pressure will Boomers exert on the health care system? How do generations and parties overlap? When will regional identity trump age or ethnic or racial identity? Who will the future GOP voter be, and how does that affect Democratic strategies? What does the Census get right, and terribly wrong? The questions are myriad, and Bump is here to fight speculation with fact Writing with a light hand and deft humor, Bump helps us navigate the flood of data in which our sense of the country now drowns. He fits numbers into a narrative about who we are (including what "we" really means), how we vote, where we live, what we buy—and what predictions we can make with any confidence. We know what will happen eventually to the baby boomers. What we don't know is how the boomer legacies might reshape the country one final time. The answers in this book will help us manage the historic disruption of the American state we are now experiencing.

The Whistler

Author : John Grisham
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101967676
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Whistler written by John Grisham and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-07-11 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A high-stakes thrill ride through the darkest corners of the Sunshine State, from the author hailed as “the best thriller writer alive” by Ken Follett We expect our judges to be honest and wise. Their integrity is the bedrock of the entire judicial system. We trust them to ensure fair trials, to protect the rights of all litigants, to punish those who do wrong, and to oversee the flow of justice. But what happens when a judge bends the law or takes a bribe? Lacy Stoltz is an investigator for the Florida Board on Judicial Conduct. It is her job to respond to complaints dealing with judicial misconduct. After nine years with the Board, she knows that most problems are caused by incompetence, not corruption. But a corruption case eventually crosses her desk. A previously disbarred lawyer is back in business, and he claims to know of a Florida judge who has stolen more money than all other crooked judges combined. And not just crooked judges in Florida. All judges, from all states, and throughout United States history. And now he wants to put a stop to it. His only client is a person who knows the truth and wants to blow the whistle and collect millions under Florida law. When the case is assigned to Lacy, she immediately suspects that this one could be dangerous. Dangerous is one thing. Deadly is something else. “[A] main character [who’s] a seriously appealing woman . . . a whistle-blower who secretly calls attention to corruption . . . a strong and frightening sense of place . . . [John Grisham’s] on his game.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times “[John Grisham is] our guide to the byways and backwaters of our legal system, superb in particular at ferreting out its vulnerabilities and dramatizing their abuse in gripping style.”—USA Today “Riveting . . . an elaborate conspiracy.”—The New York Times Book Review Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

Reading the Social in American Studies

Author : Astrid Franke
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030935515
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Reading the Social in American Studies written by Astrid Franke and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-03-12 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading the Social in American Studies offers a unique exploration of the advantages and benefits in using sociological terms and concepts in American literary and cultural studies and, conversely, in using literature—understood broadly—to uncover a microlevel of the social. Its temporal scope ranges from the early 19th to the 21st century, providing a historical dimension that is otherwise often missing from studies on the conjunction of literature and sociology. The contributors’ approaches include genre reflections as well as close readings, theoretical discussions of crucial sociological terms, and literary observations backed up by empirical sociological studies. The book will familiarize international readers with ideas on the social from both sides of the Atlantic, including scholarship of such figures as John Dewey, Georg Simmel, Norbert Elias, and Pierre Bourdieu.

The Dead Gathering

Author : Duncan McArdle
Publisher : Duncan McArdle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dead Gathering written by Duncan McArdle and published by Duncan McArdle. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to THE DEAD GATHERING, part one of AFTERMATH, the post-apocalyptic zombie series set in the United States of America. Separated from his family, John Parker will stop at nothing to reunite with his wife and daughter, no matter who he has to go through to get them back. But what if the people he has to go through, are no longer living? Worse still, what if those that do remain living, are actively turning on each other, hell-bent on ensuring their own survival? With little idea of where to look, John Parker embarks on an epic journey in search of that which matters most to him, fighting each and every obstacle he finds along the way.

False Front

Author : Debbie Baldwin
Publisher : Gatekeeper Press
ISBN 13 : 1642379271
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (423 download)

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Download or read book False Front written by Debbie Baldwin and published by Gatekeeper Press. This book was released on 2020-04-25 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: • a steamy romantic thriller • a fast-paced, edge-of-your-seat suspense novel • a timeless romance Emma Porter is not real. She is an accomplished young woman, living a fulfilling life in New York City, working for an online news agency, and striving toward normalcy. The truth, however, is something else. She was once Emily Webster, a child of privilege, and the twenty-first century Lindbergh Baby. Her high-profile, unexplained abduction and subsequent rescue led to a childhood of paranoia and preparedness, as her kidnapper remained at large and still on the hunt. With her father’s guidance and resources, Emily became Emma Porter, living each day in her new identity, vigilant and unattached. Unattached but for the seemingly unbreakable tether that connects her to the man who, as a young boy, lived next door. Like Emma, Nathan Bishop is not what he seems. Preparing to helm his family’s defense contracting company, Nathan is better known for his womanizing and reckless behavior than his business acumen. His striking image peppers the pages of society tabloids and police blotters, but beneath the facade of a rake, lurks a warrior. When an arms dealer procures a lethal bioweapon and is rumored to be selling it on U.S. soil, Nathan and his team must use every resource at their disposal to stop the threat. With danger closing in, fate, once again, puts Emma in Nathan’s path, and the two must determine if the weathered bond between them is enough to find the truth behind their false fronts. Fans of Nora Roberts, Linda Howard, and Jayne Ann Krentz will love False Front. Be advised: this story contains scenes of violence equivalent to an R-rated movie and explicit sexual situations.

White Pickups

Author : Larry Kollar
Publisher : Green Envy Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book White Pickups written by Larry Kollar and published by Green Envy Press. This book was released on 2015-01-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Legends are about ordinary people who stepped up and did what had to be done.” At summer’s end, mysterious white pickup trucks take to the roads and compel nearly everyone to “drive off.” Some of those who remain gather in a suburban Atlanta subdivision, and struggle to cope with a world whose infrastructure is rapidly crumbling. One of the few who are mentally and emotionally prepared for the end of the world is Cody Sifko, a youth who quickly becomes the inspiration for the others. When a strange homeless woman names him “Father of Nations,” is she seeing his future or her own delusions? As winter and a hate group try to destroy Laurel Hills, can Cody overcome personal tragedy and seize his destiny? Love, hate, survival, and an apocalypse like no other—White Pickups is ready to take you on the ride of your life!