UNCERTAINTY IN AMERICAN POLITICS by Barry C. Burden (Editor) ( 9780521012126 )

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Title:

UNCERTAINTY IN AMERICAN POLITICS

By:

Barry C. Burden (Editor)

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0521012120

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9780521012126

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

7 July, 2003

Pages:

268

Description:

This 2003 book represents an intellectual meeting of researchers to analyze how and why uncertainty affects American politics.

Synopsis:

This 2003 book represents an exciting intellectual meeting of researchers from diverse subfields to analyze how and why uncertainty affects American politics. It seeks to reconnect research traditions that have seldom spoken to one another. Though used by formal theorists, empiricists, and historians in a parallel fashion for a number of years, the notion of uncertainty has often been introduced only to explain away anomalies, provide backing for a larger argument, or justify a particular methodology. Uncertainty has rarely been considered in its own right or as a concept that might connect researchers from different subfields. The authors demonstrate some of the many substantive effects that uncertainty has on the bureaucracy, voters, and elected officials. They also reveal the origins and consequences of uncertainty to remind researchers across the discipline how central the idea should be to any serious study of US politics.

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17 b/w illus. 20 tables

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Cambridge University Press

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