商品簡介
Presenting current political science insights and data on the impact of ideology on public life, the presidency, Congress, and the courts, Stephen E. Schier and Todd E. Eberly offer an up-to-minute guide to polarization in America and its impact of federal and state governance.
作者簡介
Steven E. Schier is Dorothy H. and Edward C. Congdon Professor of Political Science at Carleton College, where he has taught the last thirty years. He also directs the Carleton in Washington program, an off-campus term of study he founded in 1983. Schier is the author or co-author of seven books, including Panorama of a Presidency: How George W. Bush Acquired and Spent His Political Capital (2008) which won an “outstanding academic book” award from Choice magazine. He has edited six books, including The Postmodern President: Bill Clinton’s Legacy in U.S. Politics (2000) andHigh Risk and Big Ambition: The Presidency of George W. Bush (2004). Schier has written about Obama’s election in his recent bookThe American Elections of 2008 (2008), coedited with Janet Box-Steffensmeier. His most recent works are the edited volumesAmbition and Division: Legacies of the George W. Bush Presidency (2009),Transforming America: Barack Obama in the White House(2011) and the thirteenth edition of Presidential Elections: Strategies and Structures of American Politics, coauthored with Nelson W. Polsby, Aaron Wildavsky and David A. Hopkins (2011).
Todd E. Eberly is an assistant professor of political science, and coordinator of public policy studies at St. Mary's College of Maryland. Before joining the St. Mary's College, Eberly was a senior analyst with the Hilltop Institute, a health policy firm based at the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). He was recently named one the most influential voices in Maryland politics byCampaigns and Elections magazine.
