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Old Patronage during the New Deal: Did Urban Machines Use Work Relief Programs to Benefit the National Democratic Party? 新政时期的旧赞助：城市机器是否利用工作救济计划为国家民主党谋利？

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x23000081

Stephanie Ternullo, Simon Y. Shachter

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Old Patronage during the New Deal: Did Urban Machines Use Work Relief Programs to Benefit the National Democratic Party? 新政时期的旧赞助：城市机器是否利用工作救济计划为国家民主党谋利？

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2024-02-14 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x23000081

Stephanie Ternullo, Simon Y. Shachter

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“100,000 Unarmed Men in Washington”: Public Opinion and the 1876 Election Compromise "华盛顿的十万手无寸铁者"：舆论与 1876 年选举妥协

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2024-01-25 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x2300007x

Michael J. Korzi

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The March on Washington Movement, the Fair Employment Practices Committee, and the Long Quest for Racial Justice 华盛顿大游行运动，公平就业实践委员会，以及对种族正义的长期追求

3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x23000044

Sidney Milkis, Katherine Rader

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Immigration Clashes, Party Polarization, and Republican Radicalization: Tracking Shifts in State and National Party Platforms since 1980 移民冲突、党派两极化和共和党激进化:追踪1980年以来各州和全国政党纲领的变化

3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2023-09-27 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x23000056

Kirsten Walters, Theda Skocpol

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SAP volume 37 issue 2 Front matter SAP第37卷第2期

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2023-09-07 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x23000068

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Capitalism and the Creation of the U.S. Constitution 资本主义与美国宪法的制定

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2023-06-13 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X23000032

J. Parisot

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The Strange Career of Federal Indian Policy: Rural Politics, Native Nations, and the Path Away from Assimilation 联邦印第安人政策的奇特历程：乡村政治、原住民和远离同化的道路

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2023-06-06 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X21000080

Laura E. Evans

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“The Spawn of Slavery”? Race, State Capacity, and the Development of Carceral Institutions in the Postbellum South “奴隶制的诞生”？种族、国家能力与南北战争后南方殡葬机构的发展

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2023-05-22 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000281

Susanne Schwarz

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Structural Racism, the USPS, and Voting by Mail On- and Off-Reservation in Arizona 亚利桑那州的结构性种族主义、美国邮政和邮寄投票

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2023-04-27 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X2200027X

J. Schroedel, Melissa Rogers, Joseph Dietrich

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