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Product Description: Natives who change residence do not settle in the same places as immigrants. Separate Destinations argues that these distinct mobility patterns, coupled with record levels of immigration from impoverished third world nations, are balkanizing the American electorate...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: The most comprehensive and up-to-date account of immigration policymaking available, this book presents a detailed account of the move from consensus to controversy regarding immigration policy between the mid-1960's to the late 1990's...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Using the theory of candidate-centred politics, this book explains why party factionalism has persisted in many regions of the US in spite of fierce two-party competition. It contends that upheavals in the two-party balance of presidential voting may leave lower offices untouched...read more

Product Description: Traditional theories of party organization have emphasized two-party electoral competition as the force behind party unity in state politics. V. O. Key first advanced this theory in Southern Politics, where he concluded that party factionalism in the South was mainly attributable to the one-party character of the region...read more

Traces the origin and development of the Republicans' 'Contract with America'

Product Description: The 1994 Mid-Term elections, the “Republican revolution” that returned control of both Houses of Congress to the Republicans for the first time in over 40 years, was set in motion by the remarkable “Contract With America...read more