Contesting Values and Economics in American Politics
Gwendoline M. Alphonso
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829655
Pub Date: January 2026
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Polarized Families, Polarized Parties demonstrates that differing regional ideals of family have shaped party policy and ideological positions throughout the twentieth century.
Developmental Approaches to American Party Politics
Edited by Jessica Hejny and Adam Hilton
Price: $54.95
ISBN: 9781512828085
Pub Date: September 2025
Format: Hardcover
304 Pages
Drawing together a new generation of historically oriented party scholars into one volume, Parties, Power, and Change both contributes to readers’ understanding of the durability and dynamism animating American party politics and explores the roots of partisan polarization and democratic backsliding that threaten American democracy today.
Black Excellence offers a provocative new history of modern black liberalism by situating the seemingly conservative tendencies of black elected officials in the post–civil rights era within neoliberal American politics and an enduring black liberal tradition.
How Research Organizations Became Party Allies and Political Advocates
Zachary Albert
Price: $74.95
ISBN: 9781512828016
Pub Date: August 2025
Format: Hardcover
360 Pages
Zachary Albert explores how elected officials, think tanks, and interest groups form partisan policy networks to forward their agendas. He argues that policy research is not objective and is heavily influenced by partisan and ideological incentives, impacting policy outcomes and undermining democratic representation.
In Nuclear Country, Catherine McNicol Stock explores the question of why, between 1968 and 1992, most voters in the Dakotas abandoned their distinctive ideological heritage and came to embrace the New Right. Stock focuses on how this transformation coincided with the coming of the military and national security states to the countryside.
In his narrative history of black Republicans in the twentieth century, Joshua Farrington reevaluates the relationship between black politicians, activists, and voters and the Republican Party, challenging the assumption that African Americans abandoned the "Party of Lincoln" after 1936.
Far-Right Vanguard chronicles the history of the ultraconservative movement, its national network, its influence on Republican Party politics, and its centrality to America's rightward turn during the second half of the twentieth century.
Barbara Jordan’s Life and Legacy in Black Politics
Mary Ellen Curtin
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9781512825800
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
480 Pages
Mary Ellen Curtin’s important new biography of Barbara Jordan, the first Black woman from the South to serve in Congress, explores the personal and political dimensions of her life, showing how she navigated the extraordinary pressures of office while seeking to use persuasion, governance, and popular politics as instruments of social change.
The Contentious Transformation of the Democratic Party
Adam Hilton
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512826890
Pub Date: August 2024
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Tracing the rise of the advocacy party from the fall of the New Deal order through the presidency of Barack Obama, True Blues explains how and why the Democratic Party has come to its current crossroads and suggests a bold new perspective for comprehending the dynamics driving American party politics more broadly.
