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The Dynamics Of American Politics Lawrence C. Dodd

The Dynamics Of American Politics By Lawrence C. Dodd

The Dynamics Of American Politics by Lawrence C. Dodd


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This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the major theoretical approaches and integrated interpretations of American politics. It includes systematic overviews of the patterns of constancy and change, and comparative discussions of theoretical traditions that characterize American politics.

The Dynamics Of American Politics Summary

The Dynamics Of American Politics: Approaches And Interpretations by Lawrence C. Dodd

This book offers a comprehensive assessment of the major theoretical approaches to the study of American politics. Written by leading scholars in the field, the book's essays focus particularly on the contributions that competing macro- and microanalytic approaches make to our understanding of political change in America.The essays include systemat

About Lawrence C. Dodd

Lawrence C. Dodd is professor of political science at the University of Florida. He is the co-author of The Dynamics of American Politics, and is series editor for the Westview Press series Transforming American Politics. Calvin Jillson is associate professor of political science and director of the Keller centre for the Study of the First Amendment at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Conversations on the Study of American Politics: An Introduction -- Patterns of Political Change and Inquiry -- Patterns and Periodicity in American National Politics -- Pattern Recognition and "Doing" Political History: Art, Science, or Bootless Enterprise? -- Common Ground: History and Theories of American Politics -- Macroanalysis -- American Exceptionalism Reconsidered: Culture or Institutions? -- Liberalism and the Course of American Social Welfare Policy -- Macroeconomic Change and Political Transformation in the United States -- The Origins of Social Policy in the United States: A Polity-Centered Analysis -- Microanalysis -- Rational Choice Theory and the Study of American Politics -- The Social Psychology of Politics -- Contexts, Intermediaries, and Political Behavior -- Group Politics Reexamined: From Pluralism to Political Economy -- Linkage Processes -- Politics as Persuasion -- Beyond the Iconography of Order: Notes for a "New Institutionalism" -- Political Learning and Political Change: Understanding Development Across Time -- Conclusion -- Ideas, Interests, and Institutions

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NPB9780367318420
9780367318420
0367318423
The Dynamics Of American Politics: Approaches And Interpretations by Lawrence C. Dodd
New
Hardback
Taylor & Francis Ltd
2019-09-13
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