In this election year, look to the University Press of Kansas to keep you informed and engaged in American politics and political history. Below is a selection of our books dealing with all matters related to the upcoming elections: presidential and congressional elections, political parties, running mates, executive power, constitutional interpretation, and more.
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Books to Help Understand the 2024 Election
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Nationalist Populism and American Democracy
Inside Nancy Pelosi's Speakership, 2005–2010
The 1976 House Majority Leadership Contest
Stepping Stone in the Transition to Conditional Party Government
Presidents on Political Ground
Leaders in Action and What They Face
The Modern American Presidency
Second Edition, Revised and Updated
The Rise and Fall of a Party Entrepreneur
The Appointed and Elected Paths to Public Office for US Women
Why They Formed, How They Function, and Where They're Headed
The American Political Pattern
Stability and Change, 1932-2016
Minor Political Parties in Contemporary American Politics
Politics, Persuasion, and Issue-Based Advocacy
Partisanship, Nationalism, and the Reconstruction of Congressional War Powers
The Courts, the Ballot Box, and Gay Rights
How Our Governing Institutions Shape the Same-Sex Marriage Debate
The Politics of the Christian Conservative Legal Movement
The Influence of Vice Presidential Candidates in Presidential Elections
The Adoption and Performance of the U.S. Single-Member District Electoral System
Presidential Power, Secrecy, and Accountability
Fourth Edition, Revised and Updated
Presidents and the Politics of Campaign Cash
The Republican Party, Donald Trump, and the Rise of Authoritarianism
The Idea of Presidential Representation
An Intellectual and Political History
The Originalist Jurisprudence of Hugo Black, Antonin Scalia, and Clarence Thomas
How the GOP Enlisted Courts to Rig America's Election Rules
The Politics of Blame Avoidance
With a New Preface by the Author
The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building
The Making of a Democratic Jurisprudence from John Marshall to Stephen G. Breyer
Joe Biden's Rocky Transition to the Presidency
The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History
Third Updated Edition
Women Veterans in American Politics
The Shifting Twenty-First-Century Presidency
Assessing the Implications for America and the World
Supreme Court Expansion of Presidential Power
Unconstitutional Leanings
The White House Vice Presidency
The Path to Significance, Mondale to Biden
A Political History of the Postwar American Midwest
How the Republican Right Rose to Power in Modern America
Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
American Presidential Elections series
The First Presidential Contest
1796 and the Founding of American Democracy
The Deadlocked Election of 1800
Jefferson, Burr, and the Union in the Balance
America’s First Wartime Election
James Madison, DeWitt Clinton, and the War of 1812
The One-Party Presidential Contest
Adams, Jackson, and 1824's Five-Horse Race
The 1828 Election and the Rise of the Two-Party System
The 1840 Election and the Making of a Partisan Nation
The Presidential Election of 1844
The Rough and Ready Presidential Election of 1848
"A Campaign Fraught with Consequences"
The Disputed Presidential Election of 1876
The Presidential Election of 1880
Gilded Age Politics and the Front Porch Campaign of 1888
McKinley, Bryan, and the Remarkable Election of 1896
The 1912 Election and the Birth of Modern American Politics
The First Modern Clash over Federal Power
Wilson versus Hughes in the Presidential Election of 1916
The New Deal Campaign of 1932
The Election of 1940
The 1948 Election and the Making of Postwar America
The Presidential Election of 1952
The Real Making of the President
Kennedy, Nixon, and the 1960 Election
Lyndon Johnson, Barry Goldwater, and the 1964 Battle between Liberalism and Conservatism
Electing Nixon in 1968, Channeling Dissent, and Dividing Government
The Election of the Evangelical
Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, and the Presidential Contest of 1976
The Presidential Election of 1980 and the Rise of the Right
Bush, Dukakis, and the 1988 Election
1992, 1996, and the Birth of a New Era of Governance
