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Police-community relations --- Demonstrations --- Police --- Complaints against --- United States. --- Management --- Evaluation. --- Republican National Convention --- Democratic National Convention

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Even today, when it is often viewed as an institution in decline, the national party convention retains a certain raw, emotional, populist fascination. Bifurcated Politics is a portrait of the postwar convention as a changing institution-a changing institution that still confirms the single most important decision in American politics. With the 1988 elections clearly in mind, Byron E. Shafer examines the status of the national party convention, which is created and dispersed within a handful of days but nevertheless becomes a self-contained world for participants, reporters, and observers alike. He analyzes such dramatic developments as the disappearance of the contest over the presidential nomination and its replacement by struggles over the publicizing of various campaigns, the decline of party officials and the rise of the organized interests, and the large and growing disjunction between what is happening at the convention hall and what the public sees-between the convention on site and the convention on screen. He argues that, despite its declining status, the postwar convention has attracted-and mirrored-most of the major developments in postwar politics: the nationalization of that politics and the spread of procedural reform, a changing connection between the general public and political institutions, even the coming of a new and different sort of American politics. Bifurcated Politics tells the story of most of the postwar conventions, along with the nominating campaigns that preceded them. But it also develops a picture of the changing American politics around those stories. It will become the definitive study of the national party convention.

Congrès politiques. --- Parteitag. --- Political conventions. --- Politik. --- Democratic National Convention. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- Political conventions -- United States. --- Republican National Convention.

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How political protests and activism have a direct influence on voter and candidate behavior The “silent majority”—a phrase coined by Richard Nixon in 1969 in response to Vietnam War protests and later used by Donald Trump as a campaign slogan—refers to the supposed wedge that exists between protestors in the street and the voters at home. The Loud Minority upends this view by demonstrating that voters are in fact directly informed and influenced by protest activism. Consequently, as protests grow in America, every facet of the electoral process is touched by this loud minority, benefitting the political party perceived to be the most supportive of the protestors’ messaging.Relying on historical evidence, statistical data, and detailed interviews that consider protest activity since the 1960s, Daniel Gillion shows that electoral districts with protest activity are more likely to see increased voter turnout at the polls. Surprisingly, protest activities are also moneymaking endeavors for electoral politics, as voters donate more to political candidates who share the ideological leanings of activists. Finally, protests are a signal of political problems, encouraging experienced political challengers to run for office and hurting incumbents’ chances of winning reelection. The silent majority may not speak with protest actions themselves, but clearly gesture for social change with their vote.An exploration of how protests affect voter behavior and warn of future electoral changes, The Loud Minority looks at the many ways that activism can shape democracy.

Protest movements --- Democracy --- United States --- Politics and government. --- 2020 elections. --- American National Election Study. --- American politics. --- Angela Davis. --- Black Lives Matter. --- Civil Rights Act. --- Discrimination, Jobs, Politics. --- Faithful and Fearless. --- Federal Election Committee. --- Freedom is a Constant Struggle. --- From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation. --- Keeanga Yamahtta Taylor. --- Kenneth Andrews. --- LGBT community. --- Martin Luther King. --- Mary Fainsod Katzenstein. --- Mobilizing Public Opinion. --- Paul Burstein. --- Political Process and the Development of the Black Insurgency. --- Taeku Lee. --- Tea Party activists. --- U.S. elections. --- Vietnam War. --- Voting Rights Act. --- a change is gonna come. --- campaign contributions. --- civil rights movement. --- congressional elections. --- countermobilization. --- democratic national convention. --- electoral opportunity. --- electorate influence. --- free-riding. --- ideological protest. --- liberal and conservative protests. --- partisanship. --- polarization. --- political backlash. --- political behavior. --- political campaigns. --- political communication. --- political primaries. --- protest narrative. --- race and ethnic politics. --- republican national convention. --- sit-ins. --- social movements. --- women’s rights. --- Political participation

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How an obscure Puritan sermon came to be seen as a founding document of American identity and exceptionalism "For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill," John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England's founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthrop's long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? In As a City on a Hill, leading American intellectual historian Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea. In doing so, he brings to life the ideas Winthrop's text carried in its own time and the sharply different yearnings that have been attributed to it since. As a City on a Hill shows how much more malleable, more saturated with vulnerability, and less distinctly American Winthrop's "Model of Christian Charity" was than the document that twentieth-century Americans invented. Across almost four centuries, Rodgers traces striking shifts in the meaning of Winthrop's words-from Winthrop's own anxious reckoning with the scrutiny of the world, through Abraham Lincoln's haunting reference to this "almost chosen people," to the "city on a hill" that African Americans hoped to construct in Liberia, to the era of Donald Trump. As a City on a Hill reveals the circuitous, unexpected ways Winthrop's words came to lodge in American consciousness. At the same time, the book offers a probing reflection on how nationalism encourages the invention of "timeless" texts to straighten out the crooked realities of the past.

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