While the thrust of Stranger in a Strange State is on this topic of carpetbagging, our understanding of carpetbagging also brings forward considerations of representation, since the critique of the carpetbagger tends to be a disconnection from the citizens to be represented, especially for those running for the United States Senate...

James Miller encapsulates 2500 years of democracy history into about 250 pages — making the case that “people power” will always need to be at the heart of any successful democracy...

"Appalachian Reckoning" is a retort, at turn rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow J.D. Vance’s "Hillbilly Elegy" has cast over the region and its imagining.

As How Democracies Die illustrates, it’s much easier to succumb to the power of an autocratic leader than it is to stand up and protect the institutions that serve as the guardrails of democracy...

Alphonso demonstrates how regional ideas about family in the 20th century shaped, not only Republican and Democratic policy and ideological positions concerning race and gender, but also their ideals concerning the economy and the state...

Following the 2014 elections, a group of conservatives called the House Freedom Caucus regularly issued threats against its own party's leadership...

The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt...

The Bloomsbury Handbook is is the most comprehensive available survey of the state of the art of contemporary feminist thought...

Daou analyzes the daily political skirmishing that rages online, urges progressives to engage on the “digital battlefield.”

The author examines how 1970s right-wing women activists in the state of Indiana combined earlier political conspiracy theories, Cold War anti-communism and anti-ERA sentiment to cast feminism as threat to American democracy, free enterprise, and the family.

We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...

Abraham Singer essentially marries together two disciplinary schools of thought and approaches to understand and consider the corporate firm...

Scholars and pundits have been busy trying to assess the legacy of President Barack Obama...

As active members of the Civil Rights movement and the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s, and leaders in today’s social movements, the Flacks' stories are a first-hand account of progressive American activism from the 1960s to the present.

Hard won transgender rights have been under attack by the Trump administration...

Cox highlights how social movements have shaped the world we live in and their importance for today’s social struggles...

Who funds local school board elections?

Schmidt puts himself and the reader into conversation with Machiavelli, exploring Machiavelli’s thinking and how Machiavelli explains his theories...

Black Politics in Transition examines the role of three themes—immigration, suburbanization, and gentrification—in Black politics today...

In the information age, knowledge is power. Hence, facilitating the access to knowledge to wider publics empowers citizens and makes societies more democratic...

Politicians love to woo entertainment corporations to their states and cities through subsidies and tax cities. But...

Peck traces the history of Fox's counter-elite brand from Murdoch to O’Reilly to Hannity...

The 1996 repeal of Aid to Families with Dependent Children -- the New Deal-era relief program for poor women with children -- was a seminal moment in the modern history of the US welfare state...

The book demonstrates the rich contribution of Jewish values and identity had on the women’s liberation movement and how in turn they changed Jewish life in America...

Sargent, a writer and columnist at The Washington Post, takes seriously this broad question about democratic health...