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American politics is typically a story about winners. The fading away of defeated politicians and political movements is a feature of American politics that ensures political stability and a peaceful transition of power. But American history has also been built on defeated candidates, failed presidents, and social movements that at pivotal moments did not dissipate as expected but instead persisted and eventually achieved success for the loser's ideas and preferred policies. With Legacies of Losing in American Politics, Jeffrey K. Tulis and Nicole Mellow rethink three pivotal moments in American political history: the founding, when anti-Federalists failed to stop the ratification of the Constitution; the aftermath of the Civil War, when President Andrew Johnson's plan for restoring the South to the Union was defeated; and the 1964 presidential campaign, when Barry Goldwater's challenge to the New Deal order was soundly defeated by Lyndon B. Johnson. In each of these cases, the very mechanisms that caused the initial failures facilitated their eventual success. After the dust of the immediate political defeat settled, these seemingly discredited ideas and programs disrupted political convention by prevailing, often subverting, and occasionally enhancing constitutional fidelity. Tulis and Mellow present a nuanced story of winning and losing and offer a new understanding of American political development as the interweaving of opposing ideas.

Federal government --- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) --- Johnson, Andrew, --- Goldwater, Barry M. --- United States --- Politics and government. --- American political development. --- Andrew Johnson. --- Anti-Federalists. --- Barry Goldwater. --- Founding. --- New Deal. --- Reconstruction. --- constitutional moments. --- liberal tradition. --- multiple traditions.

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The Bank of the United States sparked several rounds of intense debate over the meaning of the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause, which authorizes the federal government to make laws that are "necessary" for exercising its other powers. Our standard account of the national bank controversy, however, is incomplete. The controversy was much more dynamic than a two-sided debate over a single constitutional provision and was shaped as much by politics as by law. With Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy, Eric Lomazoff offers a far more robust account of the constitutional politics of national banking between 1791 and 1832. During that time, three forces-changes within the Bank itself, growing tension over federal power within the Republican coalition, and the endurance of monetary turmoil beyond the War of 1812 -drove the development of our first major debate over the scope of federal power at least as much as the formal dimensions of the Constitution or the absence of a shared legal definition for the word "necessary." These three forces-sometimes alone, sometimes in combination-repeatedly reshaped the terms on which the Bank's constitutionality was contested. Lomazoff documents how these three dimensions of the polity changed over time and traces the manner in which they periodically led federal officials to adjust their claims about the Bank's constitutionality. This includes the emergence of the Coinage Clause-which gives Congress power to "coin money, regulate the value thereof"-as a novel justification for the institution. He concludes the book by explaining why a more robust account of the national bank controversy can help us understand the constitutional basis for modern American monetary politics.

Constitutional history --- Law --- Banking law --- Political aspects --- History --- Bank of the United States (1791-1811) --- Bank of the United States (1816-1836) --- History. --- American political development. --- Bank of the United States. --- Coinage Clause. --- Democratic-Republican Party. --- Early American Republic. --- McCulloch v. Maryland (1819). --- Necessary and Proper Clause. --- constitutional history. --- national bank. --- public law.

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Lawmaking is crucial to American democracy because it completely defines and regulates the public life of the nation. Yet despite its importance, political scientists spend very little time studying the direct impact that the politics surrounding a particular issue has on lawmaking. The Substance of Representation draws on a vast range of historical and empirical data to better understand how lawmaking works across different policy areas. Specifically, John Lapinski introduces a theoretically grounded method for parsing policy issues into categories, and he shows how policymaking varies in predictable ways based on the specific issue area being addressed. Lapinski examines the ways in which key factors that influence policymaking matter for certain types of policy issues, and he includes an exhaustive look at how elite political polarization shifts across these areas. He considers how Congress behaves according to the policy issue at hand, and how particular areas--such as war, sovereignty issues, and immigration reform--change legislative performance. Relying on records of all Congressional votes since Reconstruction and analyzing voting patterns across policy areas from the late nineteenth to late twentieth centuries, Lapinski provides a comprehensive historical perspective on lawmaking in order to shed light on current practices. Giving a clear picture of Congressional behavior in the policymaking process over time, The Substance of Representation provides insights into the critical role of American lawmaking.

Legislation --- United States. --- United States --- Politics and government. --- 95th Congress. --- American democracy. --- American lawmaking. --- American political development. --- American politics. --- Congress. --- Congressional behaviour. --- House of Representatives. --- Theodore Lowi. --- U.S. Comgress. --- U.S. Congress. --- U.S. lawmakers. --- U.S. senators. --- congressional studies. --- contemporary lawmaking. --- deductive theory. --- elite polarization. --- elite political polarization. --- lawmaking. --- legislation. --- legislative accomplishment. --- legislative behavior. --- legislative output. --- legislative productivity. --- normal science. --- policy classification schemas. --- policy issue area. --- policy issue substance. --- policy substance. --- policy-coding schema. --- policymaking process. --- policymaking. --- political behavior. --- political polarization. --- political preferences. --- politics. --- roll call votes. --- roll call voting. --- substance-oriented research.

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The transformation of the American South--from authoritarian to democratic rule--is the most important political development since World War II. It has re-sorted voters into parties, remapped presidential elections, and helped polarize Congress. Most important, it is the final step in America's democratization. Paths Out of Dixie illuminates this sea change by analyzing the democratization experiences of Georgia, Mississippi, and South Carolina. Robert Mickey argues that Southern states, from the 1890's until the early 1970's, constituted pockets of authoritarian rule trapped within and sustained by a federal democracy. These enclaves--devoted to cheap agricultural labor and white supremacy--were established by conservative Democrats to protect their careers and clients. From the abolition of the whites-only Democratic primary in 1944 until the national party reforms of the early 1970's, enclaves were battered and destroyed by a series of democratization pressures from inside and outside their borders. Drawing on archival research, Mickey traces how Deep South rulers--dissimilar in their internal conflict and political institutions--varied in their responses to these challenges. Ultimately, enclaves differed in their degree of violence, incorporation of African Americans, and reconciliation of Democrats with the national party. These diverse paths generated political and economic legacies that continue to reverberate today. Focusing on enclave rulers, their governance challenges, and the monumental achievements of their adversaries, Paths Out of Dixie shows how the struggles of the recent past have reshaped the South and, in so doing, America's political development.

Democratization --- Since 1865 --- Southern States --- Politics and government --- African Americans. --- American political development. --- Brown v. Board of Education. --- Civil Rights Act 1964. --- Clemson College. --- Deep South. --- Dixiecrats. --- Georgia. --- Harry S. Truman. --- Herman Talmadge. --- James Meredith. --- Mississippi. --- National Democratic Party. --- Reconstruction. --- Republicans. --- Smith v. Allwright. --- South Carolina. --- South. --- States' Rights Party. --- U.S. Supreme Court. --- University of Georgia. --- University of Mississippi. --- Voting Rights Act 1965. --- White Citizens' Council. --- authoritarian enclaves. --- authoritarian rule. --- black education. --- black insurgency. --- black politics. --- black protest. --- democracy. --- democratic rule. --- democratization. --- desegregation. --- economic development. --- elites. --- factional conflict. --- harnessed revolution. --- intraparty conflict. --- massive resistance. --- one-party rule. --- party factionalism. --- party reforms. --- party-state capacity. --- partyгtate institutions. --- political authority. --- political culture. --- political development. --- political geography. --- presidential elections. --- racial equality. --- regime change. --- subnational authoritarianism. --- subnational democratization. --- suffrage. --- voting rights. --- white primary. --- white supremacy.

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