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POLS&202: American Government: Sample Titles

Searching, selecting, citing and using ebooks for POLS&202 (Kerzner)

This display is just a small selection of the books on American Government available through the Columbia Basin College Library. These books were selected to meet the criteria for Ms. Kerzner's book project:

  • ebook from the CBC Library;
  • subject related to course topic areas;
  • authored not an edited volume;
  • author/s express point/s of view (not a textbook or reference);
  • author is reliable/expert in their subject;
  • includes an index.
The New Student Activists

Parties & Political Movements

The Rise of the Latino Vote: a History

Parties & Political Movements

Firepower: How the NRA Turned Gun Owners into a Political Force

Parties & Political Movements

Beyond Abortion: Roe V. Wade and the Battle for Privacy

Rights & Responsibilities

To Fulfill These Rights: Political Struggle Over Affirmative Action and Open Admissions

Rights & Responsibilities

Who Killed Higher Education? Maintaining White Dominance in a Desegregating Era

Rights & Responsibilities

Mourning in America: Race and the Politics of Loss

Parties & Political Movements

Handcuffs and Chain Link: Criminalizing the Undocumented in America

Congress
Presidency

The Path to Gay Rights

Political Movements
Rights & Responsibilities

Individualism in the United States

Political Culture
Democracy

The Loud Minority: Why Protests Matter in American Democracy

Political Movements

Rising Fascism in America

Political Culture

Real Americans: National Identity, Violence, and the Constitution

Political Culture

Crisis!: When Political Parties Lose the Consent to Rule

Parties & Political Movements

The Great Alignment: Race, Party Transformation, and the Rise of Donald Trump

Parties & Political Movements

Anti-Pluralism: The Populist Threat to Liberal Democracy

Democracy
Political Culture

Challengers to Duopoly: Why Third Parties Matter in American Two-Party Politics

Parties & Political Movements

Democracy for Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government

Democracy

Steadfast Democrats: How Social Forces Shape Black Political Behavior

Parties & Political Movements

Democracy and Political Ignorance: Why Smaller Government Is Smarter

Democracy

Democratic Equality

Democracy

Political Power in America: Class Conflict and the Subversion of Democracy

Democracy
Political Movements

Dirty Tricks in the Digital Age: Cybersecurity and Election Interference

Elections

Uncounted: The Crisis of Voter Suppression in America

Elections

How We Vote: Innovation in American Elections

Elections

Local Elections and the Politics of Small-Scale Democracy

Elections

Pork Barrel Politics: How Government Spending Determines Elections in a Polarized Era

Elections
Congress

Accessible Elections : How the States Can Help Americans Vote

Elections
Federalism

The Cash Ceiling: Why Only the Rich Run for Office--and What We Can Do about It

Elections
Political Culture

The Embattled Vote in America

Rights & Responsibilities

Myths America Lives By: White Supremacy and the Stories That Give Us Meaning

Political Culture

The Cult of the Constitution

Political Culture

Exceptional America: What Divides Americans From the World and From Each Other

Political Culture

Presidential Privilege and the Freedom of Information Act

Presidency

By Order of the President: The Use and Abuse of Executive Direct Action

Presidency

Contested Ground: How to Understand the Limits of Presidential Power

Presidency

Permanent State of Emergency: Unchecked Executive Power and the Demise of the Rule of Law

Presidency

Lie Machines: How to Save Democracy from Troll Armies, Deceitful Robots, Junk News Operations, and Political Operatives

Political Culture

How America Lost Its Mind: The Assault on Reason That's Crippling Our Democracy

Political Culture

Whistleblowers: Honesty in America from Washington to Trump

Political Culture
Rights & Responsibilities

Congress: Protecting Individual Rights

Congress
Rights & Responsibilities

Filibuster: Obstruction and Lawmaking in the U.S. Senate

Congress

Misreading Law, Misreading Democracy

Judiciary

The Senate: From White Supremacy to Governmental Gridlock

Congress

The Senate Syndrome: The Evolution of Procedural Warfare in the Modern U.S. Senate

Congress

American Contagions: Epidemics and the Law From Smallpox to COVID-19

Federalism
Rights & Responsibilities

Common Core: National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy

Federalism

Suburban Crossroads: The Fight for Local Control of Immigration Policy

Federalism

Advice and Dissent: The Struggle to Shape the Federal Judiciary

Judiciary

Law and Legitimacy in the Supreme Court

Judiciary

Pack the Court!: A Defense of Supreme Court Expansion

Judiciary

The Battle for the Court: Interest Groups, Judicial Elections, and Public Policy

Federalism and the Judiciary

Attacking Judges: How Campaign Advertising Influences State Supreme Court Elections

Federalism and the Judiciary

Congress and Crime: The Impact of Federalization of State Criminal Laws

Federalism & the Judiciary

The Police Power: Patriarchy and the Foundations of American Government

Federalism & the Judiciary

Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes That Never Happened

Judiciary

Prosecution Complex: America's Race to Convict and Its Impact on the Innocent

Judiciary

_A History of the Innocence Movement

Judiciary
Political Movements

Punishing Poverty: How Bail and Pretrial Detention Fuel Inequalities in the Criminal Justice System

Rights & Responsibilities

The Collapse of Constitutional Remedies

Rights & Responsibilities

Free Justice: A History of the Public Defender in Twentieth-Century America

Judiciary
Rights & Responsibilities

Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America's Positive Rights

Federalism & the Judiciary
Rights & Responsibilities

The Soul of the First Amendment

Rights & Responsibilities

Saving the News : Why the Constitution Calls for Government Action to Preserve Freedom of Speech

Rights & Responsibilities

News Grazers: Media, Politics, and Trust in an Information Age

Rights & Responsibilities

Beyond Belief, Beyond Conscience: The Radical Significance of the Free Exercise of Religion

Rights & Responsibilities

More Essential Than Ever: The Fourth Amendment in the Twenty First Century

Rights & Responsibilities

_Falsehoods and Free Speech in an Age of Deception

Rights & Responsibilities

Rights & Responsibilities

Limited Government

The Baseball Trust: A History of Baseball's Antitrust Exemption

Presidency & Bureaucracy

More Than You Wanted to Know: The Failure of Mandated Disclosure

Presidency & Bureaucracy

Ultimate Price: The Value We Place on Life

Presidency & Bureaucracy

The High Cost of Good Intentions: A History of U.S. Federal Entitlement Programs

Presidency & Bureaucracy

Freedom to Harm: The Lasting Legacy of the Laissez Faire Revival

Presidency & Bureaucracy

The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment From Nixon to Trump

Presidency & Bureaucracy

_How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States

Presidency & Bureaucracy

Fed Power : How Finance Wins

Presidency & Bureaucracy

Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective

Presidency & Bureaucracy

The Presidents and the Poor: America Battles Poverty, 1964-2017

Presidents & Bureaucracy

America's Inequality Trap

Political Culture

What Women Want: An Agenda for the Women's Movement

Political Movements

Political Movements

The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy

Federalism

Federalism

When Freedom Speaks: the Boundaries and the Boundlessness of Our First Amendment Right

Rights & Responsibilities

Picking Presidents: How to Make the Most Consequential Decision in the World

Elections

Border Games: The Politics of Policing the U.S.-Mexico Divide

Presidency & The Bureaucracy

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