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American Political Development and the Recovery of a Human Science 美国政治发展与人文科学的复兴

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2022-08-26 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x22000074

Bartholomew H. Sparrow

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American Political Development in Dark Times 黑暗时期的美国政治发展

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2022-08-26 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x22000141

J. Peck

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“To Render Prompt Justice”: The Origins and Construction of the U.S. Court of Claims “迅速伸张正义”：美国索赔法院的起源与构建

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2022-08-04 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000177

M. Dichio, Logan Strother, Ryan J. Williams

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Backlash Politics in America's Disunited and Polarized State 美国分裂和两极分化州的反弹政治

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2022-08-04 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000116

E. Patashnik

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Assessing Exceptionalism: More but Different Cross-National Comparisons 评估例外主义:更多但不同的跨国比较

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2022-07-29 DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x22000104

G. Dodds

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The Opening Dilemma: Why Democracies Cannot Found Themselves 开放的困境：为什么民主国家找不到自己

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2022-07-18 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000128

R. Bensel

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American Political Development as a Problem-Driven Enterprise 作为问题驱动型企业的美国政治发展

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2022-07-14 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000098

Daniel J. Galvin, Chloe N. Thurston

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Social Justice Campaigns and Democratic Party Gains: How Georgia's Partisan Reformers Overtook North Carolina's Moral Advocates 社会正义运动与民主党的胜利：佐治亚州的党派改革者如何推翻北卡罗来纳州的道德倡导者

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2022-06-30 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000050

T. Skocpol, Caroline Tervo, Kirsten Walters

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Judicial Power and the Shifting Purpose of Article V 司法权与第五条宗旨的变迁

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2022-06-07 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000037

Stephan Stohler, David Bateman, Robinson Woodward-Burns

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The Populist Challenge to U.S. Democracy: Renewing American Political Development's Comparative Perspective 民粹主义对美国民主的挑战：更新美国政治发展的比较视角

IF 0.8 3区社会学

Studies in American Political Development Pub Date : 2022-05-31 DOI: 10.1017/S0898588X22000049

Kurt Weyland

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