Michigan Government, Politics, and Policy
Title | Michigan Government, Politics, and Policy PDF eBook |
Author | John S Klemanski |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 409 |
Release | 2017-08-02 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472037005 |
A comprehensive overview of how Michigan's government and political institutions function
Coronavirus Politics
Title | Coronavirus Politics PDF eBook |
Author | Scott L Greer |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2021-04-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472902466 |
COVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. Editors Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and André Peralta-Santos bring together over 30 authors versed in politics and the health issues in order to understand the health policy decisions, the public health interventions, the social policy decisions, their interactions, and the reasons. The book’s coverage is global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, and contains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated country studies. All go beyond reporting and monitoring to develop explanations that draw on the authors' expertise while engaging in structured conversations across the book.
Latin American Elections
Title | Latin American Elections PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Nadeau |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2017-01-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472130226 |
Comprehensive study of the application of the Michigan model to explain voting behavior in Latin America
Losing to Win
Title | Losing to Win PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Gelman |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 183 |
Release | 2020-07-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472054600 |
Most everyone, voters, political scientists, even lawmakers, think Congress is dysfunctional. Instead of solving problems, Democrats and Republicans spend their time playing politics. These days Capitol Hill seems more a place to bicker, not to pass laws. The reality is more complicated. Yes, sometimes Congress is broken. But sometimes it is productive. What explains this variation? Why do Democrats and Republicans choose to legislate or score political points? And why do some issues become so politicized they devolve into partisan warfare, while others remain safe for compromise? Losing to Win answers these questions through a novel theory of agenda-setting. Unlike other research that studies bills that become law, Jeremy Gelman begins from the opposite perspective. He studies why majority parties knowingly take up dead-on-arrival (DOA) bills, the ideas everyone knows are going to lose. In doing so, he argues that congressional parties’ decisions to play politics instead of compromising, and the topics on which they choose to bicker, are strategic and predictable. Gelman finds that legislative dysfunction arises from a mutually beneficial relationship between a majority party in Congress, which is trying to win unified government, and its allied interest groups, which are trying to enact their policies. He also challenges the conventional wisdom that DOA legislation is political theater. By tracking bills over time, Gelman shows that some former dead-on-arrival ideas eventually become law. In this way, ideas viewed as too extreme or partisan today can produce long-lasting future policy changes. Through his analysis, Gelman provides an original explanation for why both parties pursue the partisan bickering that voters find so frustrating. He moves beyond conventional arguments that our discordant politics are merely the result of political polarization. Instead, he closely examines the specific circumstances that give rise to legislative dysfunction. The result is a fresh, straightforward perspective on the question we have all asked at some point, “Why can’t Democrats and Republicans stop fighting and just get something done?”
William G. Milliken
Title | William G. Milliken PDF eBook |
Author | Dave Dempsey |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780472115457 |
The story of one of the Great Lake State's most fascinating political figures, the "gentleman governor" of Michigan
The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey
Title | The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey PDF eBook |
Author | Erdem Yoruk |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 232 |
Release | 2022-05-23 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0472902822 |
In The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey, author Erdem Yörük provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced employment-based social security. This book is one of the results of Yörük’s European Research Council-funded project, which compares the political dynamics in several emerging markets in order to develop a new political theory of welfare in the global south. As such, this book is an ambitious analytical and empirical contribution to understanding the causes of a sweeping shift in the nature of state welfare provision in Turkey during the recent decades—part of a global trend that extends far beyond Turkey. Most scholarship about Turkey and similar countries has explained this shift toward poor relief as a response to demographic and structural changes including aging populations, the decline in the economic weight of industry, and the informalization of labor, while ignoring the effect of grassroots politics. In order to overcome these theoretical shortages in the literature, the book revisits concepts of political containment and political mobilization from the earlier literature on the mid-twentieth-century welfare state development and incorporates the effects of grassroots politics in order to understand the recent welfare system shift as it materialized in Turkey, where a new matrix of political dynamics has produced new large-scale social assistance programs.
Information and Legislative Organization
Title | Information and Legislative Organization PDF eBook |
Author | Keith Krehbiel |
Publisher | University of Michigan Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 1992-08-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 9780472064601 |
DIVPresents an alternative informational theory of legislative politics to challenge the conventional view /div