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This is the first full history of voting in Wisconsin from statehood in 1848 to the present. Fowler both tells the story of voting in key elections across the years and investigates electoral trends and patterns over the course of Wisconsin s history. He explores the ways that ethnic and religious groups in the state have voted historically and how they vote today, and he looks at the successes and failures of the two major parties over the ye...

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this book focuses on religion and politics and the dynamic interactions between them. It helps to understand the politics of religion in the United States and to appreciate the strategic choices that politicians and religious participants make when they participate in politics.

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This in-depth introduction to theoretical topics, such as liberty and democracy, covers basic terminology and summarizes the perspectives of the major political thinkers and philosophers throughout Western history. Examples drawn from current political events illustrate the material.

?This well-written study will be useful to all seeking a thumbnail sketch, albeit a sophisticated one, of the position taken by American intellectuals discussing the political process in the 20 years following World War II.?-Choice

This text traces the increasing influence of environmentalism on American Protestantism since the first Earth Day in 1970. It explores the extent to which ecological concerns permeate Protestant thought and examines Protestant controversies over the Bible's teachings about the environment.

Surveys more than 100 theories of community, taken from political, sociological, philosophical and theological thought, and backed by a bibliography of over 300 entries. Fowler proposes the idea of existential community as an alternative to liberalism and the standard communitarian ideal.

From the author's preface: "One part of my story describes how the consensus view in post-World War II American political thought collapsed among public intellectuals in the tumult of the 1960s....Another part is my claim that the general public continues to be largely consensual in its political values". He asserts that "American cultural practices provide plentiful evidence of an accelerating triumph of liberal values" -- a controversial vie...

This is the first full history of voting in Wisconsin from statehood in 1848 to the present. Fowler both tells the story of voting in key elections across the years and investigates electoral trends and patterns over the course of Wisconsin's history. He explores the ways that ethnic and religious groups in the state have voted historically and how they vote today, and he looks at the successes and failures of the two major parties over the ye...