Research Catalog

Title

The Oxford handbook of American political development / edited by Richard Valelly, Suzanne Mettler, and Robert Lieberman.

Publication

• Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Valelly, Richard M.
• Mettler, Suzanne
• Lieberman, Robert C., 1964-

Description

xix, 773 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding the history of American politics -- and thus they question stylized facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to American politics, APD prizes analytical rigor, data collection, the development and testing of theory, and the generation of provocative hypotheses. Much APD scholarship indeed overlaps with the American politics subfield and its many well developed literatures on specific institutions or processes (for example Congress, judicial politics, or party competition), specific policy domains (welfare policy, immigration), the foundations of (in)equality in American politics (the distribution of wealth and income, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual and gender orientation), public law, and governance and representation. What distinguishes APD is careful, systematic thought about the ways that political processes, civic ideals, the political construction of social divisions, patterns of identity formation, the making and implementation of public policies, contestation over (and via) the Constitution, and other formal and informal institutions and processes evolve over time -- and whether (and how) they alter, compromise, or sustain the American liberal democratic regime. APD scholars identify, in short, the histories that constitute American politics. They ask: what familiar or unfamiliar elements of the American past illuminate the present? Are contemporary phenomena that appear new or surprising prefigured in ways that an APD approach can bring to the fore? If a contemporary phenomenon is unprecedented then how might an accurate understanding of the evolution of American politics unlock its significance?

Alternative Title

• Handbook of American political development
• American political development

Subject

• Political science > United States > History
• United States > Politics and government

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFF 16-1676

ISBN

• 0199697914
• 9780199697915

OCLC

930758516

Title

The Oxford handbook of American political development / edited by Richard Valelly, Suzanne Mettler, and Robert Lieberman.

Publisher

Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Valelly, Richard M., editor.

Mettler, Suzanne, editor.

Lieberman, Robert C., 1964- editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 16-1676