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==Further reading== * ''The Almanac of American Politics 2022'' (2022) details on members of Congress, and the governors: their records and election results; also state and district politics; revised every two years since 1975. [https://www.amazon.com/dp/195237409X/ details]; see ''[[The Almanac of American Politics]]'' * ''American National Biography'' (20 volumes, 1999) covers all politicians no longer alive; online at many academic libraries and at [https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/partners/84/ Wikipedia Library]. * Brewer, Mark D. and [[L. Sandy Maisel]]. ''Parties and Elections in America: The Electoral Process'' (9th ed. 2020) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1538136066/ excerpt] * Edwards, George C. Martin P. Wattenberg, and Robert L. Lineberry. ''Government in America: People, Politics, and Policy'' (16th Edition, 2013), textbook * Finkelman, Paul, and Peter Wallenstein, eds. ''The Encyclopedia of American Political History'' (2001), short essays by scholars * Greene, Jack P., ed. ''Encyclopedia of American Political History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Ideas'' (3 vol. 1984), long essays by scholars * Hershey, Marjorie R. ''Party Politics in America'' (18th Edition, 2021) [https://www.amazon.com/Politics-America-Marjorie-Randon-Hershey/dp/0367472570/ excerpt] * Hetherington, Marc J., and Bruce A. Larson. ''Parties, Politics, and Public Policy in America'' (11th edition, 2009), 301 pp; textbook * Kazin, Michael, Rebecca Edwards, and Adam Rothman, eds. ''The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History'' (2 vol 2009) * Kazin, Michael. ''What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party'' (2022) [https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0374200238/ excerpt] * Magleby, David B. et al. ''Government by the People: Structure, Action, and Impact'' (2020 Presidential Election Edition; Pearson, 27th Edition, 2022) [https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/program/Magleby-Revel-for-Government-By-the-People-2020-Presidential-Election-Edition-Access-Card-27th-Edition/PGM100003053994.html overview] * [[L. Sandy Maisel|Maisel, L. Sandy]], ed. ''Political Parties and Elections in the United States: An Encyclopedia'' 2 vol (Garland, 1991). ({{ISBN|0-8240-7975-2}}), short essays by scholars * [[L. Sandy Maisel|Maisel, L. Sandy]]. ''American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction'' (2007), 144 pp * O'Connor, Karen, Larry J. Sabato, and Alixandra B. Yanus. ''American Government: American Government: Roots and Reform'' (11th ed. 2011) * [[Evan Osnos|Osnos, Evan]], "Ruling-Class Rules: How to thrive in the power elite β while declaring it your enemy", ''[[The New Yorker]]'', 29 January 2024, pp. 18β23. "In the nineteen-twenties... American elites, some of whom feared a [[Bolshevik revolution]], consented to reform... Under [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]... the U.S. raised taxes, took steps to protect [[labor union|union]]s, and established a [[minimum wage]]. The costs, [[Peter Turchin|[Peter] Turchin]] writes, 'were borne by the American [[ruling class]].'... Between the nineteen-thirties and the nineteen-seventies, a period that scholars call the [[Great Compression]], economic equality narrowed, except among Black Americans... But by the nineteen-eighties the Great Compression was over. As the rich grew richer than ever, they sought to turn their money into [[political power]]; spending on politics soared." (p. 22.) "[N]o democracy can function well if people are unwilling to lose power β if a generation of leaders... becomes so entrenched that it ages into [[gerontocracy]]; if one of two major parties denies the arithmetic of elections; if a cohort of the ruling class loses status that it once enjoyed and sets out to salvage it." (p. 23.) * [[Fintan O'Toole|O'Toole, Fintan]], "Eldest Statesmen", ''[[The New York Review of Books]]'', vol. LXXI, no. 1 (18 January 2024), pp. 17β19. "[Joe] Biden's signature achievements as president [are] securing large-scale investment in infrastructure and in the transition to a carbon-free economy... [But t]here has been a relentless decline in absolute [economic] mobility from one generation to the next..." (p. 18.) "With the promised bridge to a new generation as yet unbuilt, time is not on Biden's side, or on the side of American democracy." (p. 19.) * Rosenfeld, Sam, "The Cracked Foundation: Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt explained ''How Democracies Die''. But the problems went deeper than they thought" (review of [[Steven Levitsky]] and [[Daniel Ziblatt]], ''Tyranny of the Minority: Why American Democracy Reached the Breaking Point'', Crown, 2023, 384 pp.), ''[[The New Republic]]'', December 2023, pp. 48β54. "In the name of jettisoning the system's [[counter-majoritarian]] vestiges, [the authors] advocate such modest reforms as the end of equal representation of states in the [[US Senate|Senate]]; abolition of the [[United States Electoral College|Electoral College]]; [[cloture]] reform to eliminate the [[Senate filibuster]]; sweeping new [[voting rights]] legislation under the aegis of a new [[constitutional amendment]] affirming a positive right to vote; and [[term limits]] and regularized appointment schedules for [[US Supreme Court|Supreme Court]] justices. Having documented the... difficulty of enacting constitutional change under the U.S. amendment process (the reform of which is ''also'' on their prescriptive wish list), [the authors] acknowledge the steep odds that such an undertaking faces." (p. 54.) * Wilson, James Q., et al. ''American Government: Institutions and Policies'' (16th ed. 2018) [https://www.amazon.com/dp/1337568392/ excerpt]
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