Political Life In Washington

Author : Gerry Alexander
Publisher : Washington State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0874223849
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing the Evergreen State written by Gerry Alexander and published by Washington State University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington State is a place of political mavericks. Split tickets are a source of pride and independent voters outnumber Democrats and Republicans. Washington was first to have a voter-approved state Equal Rights Amendment, first to elect a woman as governor, and first to elect a Chinese-American to the position. Today, Washington’s open primary election system and voter registration process demonstrate it has not drifted far from its populist roots. Governing the Evergreen State provides an absorbing look at an ever-evolving state political and judicial system and presents intriguing case studies. With chapters on interest groups, the constitution, the environment, media coverage, the court system, the legislature, political parties, changing demographics, and more, this volume updates the popular Governing Washington. Fresh discussions and analysis written by academics from universities across the state, a senator, a pollster, a newspaper reporter/blogger, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court, and a court administrator offer a springboard for further examination and discussion.

Author : Rachel A. Shelden
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469610868
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washington Brotherhood written by Rachel A. Shelden and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-12-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of angry debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the building animosity throughout the country. Yet, in Washington Brotherhood, Rachel Shelden paints a more nuanced portrait of Washington as a less fractious city with a vibrant social and cultural life. Politicians from different parties and sections of the country interacted in a variety of day-to-day activities outside traditional political spaces and came to know one another on a personal level. Shelden shows that this engagement by figures such as Stephen Douglas, John Crittenden, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Stephens had important consequences for how lawmakers dealt with the sectional disputes that bedeviled the country during the 1840s and 1850s--particularly disputes involving slavery in the territories. Shelden uses primary documents--from housing records to personal diaries--to reveal the ways in which this political sociability influenced how laws were made in the antebellum era. Ultimately, this Washington "bubble" explains why so many of these men were unprepared for secession and war when the winter of 1860-61 arrived.

Author : Thor Swanson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Life in Washington written by Thor Swanson and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Cornell W. Clayton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Governing Washington written by Cornell W. Clayton and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American states have recently reemerged as powerful centers of legislative change and policy innovation, and Washington is no exception. Governing Washington presents contemporary research and updated analysis from prominent regional authorities and commentators to provide a seasoned perspective on the state's ever-changing political landscape.

Author : Mary Williamson Avery
Publisher : Seattle : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book History and Government of the State of Washington written by Mary Williamson Avery and published by Seattle : University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1961 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Washington
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washington's Farewell Address to the People of the United States, 1796 written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jeffry H. Morrison
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 0801891094
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Philosophy of George Washington written by Jeffry H. Morrison and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2009-04-15 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A political life of Washington -- Classical republican political culture and philosophy -- British liberalism, revolution, union, and foreign affairs -- Protestant Christianity, providence, and the republic.

Author : Cornell W. Clayton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Washington State Government and Politics written by Cornell W. Clayton and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Washington's rich, sometimes quirky, and utterly fascinating experiment with self-government often takes unexpected twists and turns as the ingenious and dynamic people of the Evergreen State continue to institute change. Washington State Government and Politics provides snapshots of this "work in progress" that will interest both the student of government and the more casual reader. Here is an absorbing look at both the "big picture" of an evolving state political system as well as intriguing case studies, such as the emerging use of the initiative process, and alternative approaches for managing environmental conflicts. Washington State Government and Politics follows in the footsteps of three predecessors: Government and Politics in the Evergreen State (1992), Political Life in Washington: Governing the Evergreen State (1985), and The Government and Politics of Washington State (1978). This newest volume provides fresh discussions and analysis from top political authorities throughout the state.

Author : Marc J. Hetherington
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022629935X
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Washington Won't Work written by Marc J. Hetherington and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-14 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Polarization is at an all-time high in the United States. But contrary to popular belief, Americans are polarized not so much in their policy preferences as in their feelings toward their political opponents: To an unprecedented degree, Republicans and Democrats simply do not like one another. No surprise that these deeply held negative feelings are central to the recent (also unprecedented) plunge in congressional productivity. The past three Congresses have gotten less done than any since scholars began measuring congressional productivity. In Why Washington Won’t Work, Marc J. Hetherington and Thomas J. Rudolph argue that a contemporary crisis of trust—people whose party is out of power have almost no trust in a government run by the other side—has deadlocked Congress. On most issues, party leaders can convince their own party to support their positions. In order to pass legislation, however, they must also create consensus by persuading some portion of the opposing party to trust in their vision for the future. Without trust, consensus fails to develop and compromise does not occur. Up until recently, such trust could still usually be found among the opposition, but not anymore. Political trust, the authors show, is far from a stable characteristic. It’s actually highly variable and contingent on a variety of factors, including whether one’s party is in control, which part of the government one is dealing with, and which policies or events are most salient at the moment. Political trust increases, for example, when the public is concerned with foreign policy—as in times of war—and it decreases in periods of weak economic performance. Hetherington and Rudolph do offer some suggestions about steps politicians and the public might take to increase political trust. Ultimately, however, they conclude that it is unlikely levels of political trust will significantly increase unless foreign concerns come to dominate and the economy is consistently strong.

Author : Marjorie Williams
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586485415
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Woman at the Washington Zoo written by Marjorie Williams and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2007-03-31 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marjorie Williams knew Washington from top to bottom. Beloved for her sharp analysis, elegant prose and exceptional ability to intuit character, Williams wrote political profiles for the Washington Post and Vanity Fair that came to be considered the final word on the capital's most powerful figures. Her accounts of playing ping-pong with Richard Darman, of Barbara Bush's stepmother quaking with fear at the mere thought of angering the First Lady, and of Bill Clinton angrily telling Al Gore why he failed to win the presidency -- to name just three treasures collected here -- open a window on a seldom-glimpsed human reality behind Washington's determinedly blank façe. Williams also penned a weekly column for the Post's op-ed page and epistolary book reviews for the online magazine Slate. Her essays for these and other publications tackled subjects ranging from politics to parenthood. During the last years of her life, she wrote about her own mortality as she battled liver cancer, using this harrowing experience to illuminate larger points about the nature of power and the randomness of life. Marjorie Williams was a woman in a man's town, an outsider reporting on the political elite. She was, like the narrator in Randall Jarrell's classic poem, "The Woman at the Washington Zoo," an observer of a strange and exotic culture. This splendid collection -- at once insightful, funny and sad -- digs into the psyche of the nation's capital, revealing not only the hidden selves of the people that run it, but the messy lives that the rest of us lead.