In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain specific provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the 'worst of the worst.' The same court had rejected the death penalty just four years before in the Furman decision because it found that the penalty had been applied in a capricious and arbitrary manner. The 1976 decision ushered in the 'modern' period of the US death penalty, setting the country on ...

When Agendas and Instability in American Politics appeared fifteen years ago, offering a profoundly original account of how policy issues rise and fall on the national agenda, the Journal of Politics predicted that it would "become a landmark study of public policy making and American politics." That prediction proved true and, in this long-awaited second edition, Bryan Jones and Frank Baumgartner refine their influential argument and expand it to illuminate the workings ...

A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system. Today, political scientists are more likely to see groups as a marginal influence compared to institutions such as Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary. Frank Baumgartner and Beth Leech show that scholars have veered from one extreme to another not because of changes in the political system, but because of changes in political science. They review hundreds of books a...

Written by leading historians of the mid–nineteenth century United States, this book focuses on the continental dimensions of the U.S. Civil War. It joins a growing body of scholarship that seeks to understand the place of America’s mid-nineteenth-century crisis in the broader sweep of world history. However, unlike other studies that have pursued the Civil War’s connections with Europe and the Caribbean, this volume focuses on North America, particularly Mexico, British Canada, and sovere...

How does the government decide what's a problem and what isn't? And what are the consequences of that process? Like individuals, Congress is subject to the "paradox of search." If policy makers don't look for problems, they won't find those that need to be addressed. But if they carry out a thorough search, they will almost certainly find new problems—and with the definition of each new problem comes the possibility of creating a government program to address it.With The Politi...

Diese Neuauflage des kompakten Lehrbuchs der Sportpsychologie bietet Studierenden der Sportwissenschaft wie auch der Psychologie einen optimalen Überblick. Grundlegende Fragestellungen und Themen der Sportpsychologie werden kompakt und gut verständlich erklärt. Da sich die Sportpsychologie ganz grundsätzlich mit dem menschlichen Erleben und Verhalten in sportlichen Situationen beschäftigt, werden Fragestellungen aus einem breiten Spektrum aufgegriffen. Die Antworten basieren auf der aktuel...

Sind die sogenannten sächsischen Verhältnisse mit der Pegida-Bewegung und den vielen rechten Gewalttaten ein auf den Freistaat begrenztes Phänomen? Oder muss die zunehmende Radikalisierung der gesellschaftlichen Mitte als Vorbote künftiger politischer Veränderungen in ganz Deutschland verstanden werden?Die Frage »Warum Sachsen?« wird von vielen gestellt. In diesem Buch begeben sich über 40 Autorinnen und Autoren auf die Suche nach Antworten. In Analysen, Interviews, literarischen Te...

Sind die sogenannten sächsischen Verhältnisse mit der Pegida-Bewegung und den vielen rechten Gewalttaten ein auf den Freistaat begrenztes Phänomen? Oder muss die zunehmende Radikalisierung der gesellschaftlichen Mitte als Vorbote künftiger politischer Veränderungen in ganz Deutschland verstanden werden?Die Frage »Warum Sachsen?« wird von vielen gestellt. In diesem Buch begeben sich über 40 Autorinnen und Autoren auf die Suche nach Antworten. In Analysen, Interviews, literarischen Te...

A central question in political representation is whether government responds to the people. To understand that, we need to know what the government is doing, and what the people think of it. We seek to understand a key question necessary to answer those bigger questions: How does American public opinion move over time? We posit three patterns of change over time in public opinion, depending on the type of issue. Issues on which the two parties regularly disagree provide clear partisan cue...

Suspect Citizens offers the most comprehensive look to date at the most common form of police-citizen interactions, the routine traffic stop. Throughout the war on crime, police agencies have used traffic stops to search drivers suspected of carrying contraband. From the beginning, police agencies made it clear that very large numbers of police stops would have to occur before an officer might interdict a significant drug shipment. Unstated in that calculation was that many Americans would...

Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende der Sportwissenschaft und der Psychologie, aber auch an alle, die an den wissenschaftlichen Grundlagen der Sportpsychologie interessiert sind. Es führt in verständlicher und ansprechender Form in die grundlegenden Fragestellungen und Themen der Sportpsychologie ein, stellt die Antworten aus der aktuellen Forschung in kompakter Form dar und weist beispielhaft auf Anwendungen für die Sportpraxis hin.Die Sportpsychologie bes...

Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of Spanish political history to understand party competition, the impact of the EU, media-government relations, aspirations for independence in Catalonia and the Basque region, and the declining role of religion.