Politics by Any Other Name

Bureaucratic Struggle, Lawfare and Violence in American Politics
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-07390-1
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 132 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 353 g

This book critiques a modern U.S. political system characterized by the partisan weaponization of bureaucratic systems and institutions.

Competition for political power in the United States today is not just about winning elections. Competing political forces attempt to win at the polls, but they do not bet all their chips on electoral outcomes. Each party has built an institutional bastion within portions of the federal bureaucracy. Each party makes use of judicial and criminal proceedings for partisan purposes—a practice dubbed “lawfare” by the national media. And, acting through various surrogates, each party sponsors “violence by proxy,” to achieve its ends. To the extent that political struggles are fought outside the electoral arena, ordinary Americans have little or no voice in public affairs. And, unfortunately, in the United States today, a good deal of political struggle takes place outside the electoral arena.

This book will be used in undergraduate and graduate classes in political parties, electoral politics, and in general U.S. government classes.

Zielgruppe

AS/A2, Adult education, General, Postgraduate, Undergraduate Advanced, and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ginsberg, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Wahlen und Volksabstimmungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Korruption
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Öffentliche Meinung und Umfragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politische Propaganda & Kampagnen, Politik & Medien
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikation & Medien in der Politik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Interessengruppen, Lobbyismus und Protestbewegungen
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. A Combined Arms Strategy.  2. Bureaucratic Struggle. 3. Lawfare.  4. Violence By Proxy.  5. How the FBI and Other Security Agencies Interfere in American Politics.  6. Epilogue. The Future of American Politics.

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Ginsberg is David Bernstein Professor of Political Science, at Johns Hopkins University, with a PhD from the University of Chicago, 1973. Benjamin is an expert in political science and has written numerous books on the subject, including The Imperial Presidency and American Politics: Governance by Edicts and Coups and What Washington Gets Wrong: The Unelected Officials Who Actually Run the Government and Their Misconceptions About the American People (co-authored with Jennifer Bachner).