Getting Primaried : The Changing Politics of Congressional Primary Challenges [1 ed.] 9780472029044, 9780472118700

Each of the past few election cycles has featured at least one instance of "primarying," a challenge to an inc

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Getting Primaried : The Changing Politics of Congressional Primary Challenges [1 ed.]
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J.A. Corry, one of Canada's outstanding political scientists, in the Alan B. Plaunt Lectures for 1963 has contribut

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Tells the story of the multitude of decisions Congress made from 1941-1945 to convert the economy from peace to war and

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Members of Congress often delegate power to bureaucratic experts, but they fear losing permanent control of the policy.

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Congress regularly enacts laws that benefit particular groups or localities while imposing costs on everyone else. Somet

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Global challenges ranging from climate change and ecological regime shifts to refugee crises and post-national territori

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At a moment when Congress is viewed by a skeptical public as hyper-partisan and dysfunctional, Richard Fenno provides a

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Asia-Pacific economic development is at a decisive point. The particular system of open trading is breaking down, and no

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This volume offers a comprehensive evaluation of the concept of global order, with a particular emphasis on the role of

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Focusing on the nexus between global, regional, and national dynamics in Southeast Asia, Jörn Dosch explores the profoun

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