Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea
Celeste L. Arrington
Cornell University Press
Achieving Regulatory Excellence
Cary Coglianese
Brookings Institution Press
Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy
Ryan Patrick Hanley, ed.
Princeton University Press
Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
Martin Gilens
Princeton University Press
American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction
Adam Seth Levine
Princeton University Press
Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins
Mark Mattern
State University of New York Press
Below the Radar: How Silence Can Save Civil Rights
Alison Gash
Oxford University Press
Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion
Elizabeth Hurd
Princeton University Press
Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust
Darrell M. West
Brookings Institution Press
The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter
Melissa Lane
Princeton University Press
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
Marie Gottschalk
Princeton University Press
Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America
Eduardo Moncada
Stanford University Press
Confronting Political Islam: Six Lessons from the West’s Past
John M. Owen IV
Princeton University Press
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
Daniel A. Bell
Princeton University Press
Cinema, Democracy and Perfectionism: Joshua Foa Dienstag in Dialogue
Joshua Foa Dienstag
Manchester University Press
Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry
Benjamin J. Cohen
Princeton University Press
Democratization through Migration? Political Remittances and Participation of Philippine Return Migrants
Christl Kessler and Stefan Rother
Lexington Books
Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans
Sangay K. Mishra
University of Minnesota Press
Economic Interdependence and War
Dale C. Copeland
Princeton University Press
Electing the Senate: Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth Amendment
Wendy J. Schiller and Charles Stewart
Princeton University Press
Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence
Donald F. Kettl
Brookings Institution Press
European Competition Policy and Globalization
Terrence Guay
Palgrave Macmillan
Freedom without Violence: Resisting the Western Political Tradition
Dustin Ells Howes
Oxford University Press
Gender Quotas and Democratic Participation: Recruiting Candidates for Elective Offices in Germany
Louisa K. Davidson-Schmich
University of Michigan Press
I Found My Niche: A Lifetime Journey of Lobbying and Association Leadership
Lowell Beck
The Peppertree Press
The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communications, Representation, and Democratic Accountability
Justin Grimmer, Sean J. Westwood, and Solomon Messing
Princeton University Press
Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction
Yanna Krupnikov and Samara Klar
Cambridge University Press
The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How They Weaken Democracy
Seth E. Masket
Oxford University Press
Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change
Charles T. Lee
Duke University Press
Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations
Keren Yarhi-Milo
Princeton University Press
Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima
Edward D. Blandford and Scott D. Sagan, eds.
Stanford University Press
Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present
Gary Gerstle
Princeton University Press
Making Human Rights a Reality
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
Princeton University Press
Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy
Anna Grzymala-Busse
Princeton University Press
NATO in Afghanistan: Fighting Together, Fighting Alone
David P. Auerswald and Stephen M. Saideman
Princeton University Press
New Order and Progress: Development and Democracy in Brazil
Ben Ross Schneider, ed.
Oxford University Press
The New States of Abortion Politics
Joshua C. Wilson
Stanford University Press
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict
Vipin Narang
Princeton University Press
Party Brands in Crisis: Partisanship, Brand Dilution, and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America
Noam Lupu
Cambridge University Press
Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University
Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn, Sr.
Oxford University Press
Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in American Deep South, 1944–1972
Robert Mickey
Princeton University Press
Pet Politics: The Political and Legal Lives of Cats, Dogs, and Horses in Canada and the United States
Susan Hunter, Richard A. Brisbin, Jr.
Purdue University Press
Political Negotiation: A Handbook
Jane Mansbridge and Cathie Jo Martin, eds.
Brookings Institution Press
Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action
Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale, and Taha Yasseri
Princeton University Press
The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance
Deva R. Woodly
Oxford University Press
The Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being
David Walsh
University of Notre Dame Press
Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability
Wenfang Tang
Oxford University Press
Power and International Relations: A Conceptual Approach
David A. Baldwin
Princeton University Press
The Puzzle of Peace: The Evolution of Peace in the International System
Gary Goertz, Paul F. Diehl, and Alexadru Balas
Oxford University Press
Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency
William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe
Basic Books
The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert
University of Oklahoma Press
Robert A. Dahl: A Quest Unended
Jennifer Hochschild, David R. Mayhew, Bruce Stinebrickner, Nannerl O. Keohane, Catherine A. MacKinnon, and Steven Lukes
Routledge
Scandalous Economics: Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises
Aida A. Hozić and Jacqui True
Oxford University Press
The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions
Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg
Princeton University Press
Social Democratic America
Lane Kenworthy
Oxford University Press
The Supply Side of Security: A Market Theory of Military Alliances
Tongfi Kim
Stanford University Press
Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy
Syaru Shirley Lin
Stanford University Press
The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
Jacob N. Shapiro
Princeton University Press
These Estimable Courts: Understanding Public Perceptions of State Judicial Institutions and Legal Policy-Making
Damon M. Cann and Jeff Yates
Oxford University Press
Watchdogs on the Hill: The Decline of Congressional Oversight of US Foreign Relations
Linda L. Fowler
Princeton University Press
What Happened to the Republican Party?
John Kenneth White
Routledge
When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History
Daniel Schlozman
Princeton University Press
When Norms Collide: Local Responses to Activism against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage
Karisa Cloward
Oxford University Press
White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics
Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan L. Hajnal
Princeton University Press
Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again
Elaine C. Kamarck
Brookings Institution Press
SPOTLIGHT
Adversity & Justice: A History of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan
Kevin M. Ball
Wayne State University Press
From the Publisher: Bankruptcy law is a major part of the American legal landscape. More than a million individuals and thousands of businesses sought relief in the United States’ 93 bankruptcy courts in 2014, more than 27,000 of them in the Eastern District of Michigan. Important business of great consequence takes place in the courts, yet they ordinarily draw little public attention. In Adversity and Justice, Kevin Ball takes a closer look at the history and evolution of this court. Using a variety of sources from newspaper accounts and interviews to personal documentation from key people throughout the court’s history, Ball explores not only the history of the court from its beginning in the late nineteenth century but also two major courthouse scandals and their significant and long-lasting effects on the court. Anyone with an interest in bankruptcy, legal history, or the city of Detroit’s bankruptcy case will be attracted to this thorough case study of this court.
Kevin M. Ball, director, paralegal and business programs, Baker College, received both his law degree and his PhD from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Before beginning his career in higher education, he was a longtime bankruptcy attorney.
SPOTLIGHT
Retreat and Its Consequences: American Foreign Policy and the Problem of World Order
Robert J. Lieber
Cambridge University Press
From the Publisher: Retreat and Its Consequences: American Foreign Policy and the Problem of World Order makes the case that a foreign policy strategy of retrenchment and inaction has alienated allies, emboldened adversaries, contributed to growing instability abroad, and has been detrimental to America’s own national security. Despite frequent arguments to the contrary during the current presidential campaign America retains the capacity to lead, but unless it resumes a more engaged and robust role, the world is likely to become a more dangerous place, with mounting threats not only to regional stability and international order, but to the national interests of America itself.
Robert J. Lieber, professor of government and international affairs, Georgetown University, is the author or editor of 17 books on international relations and US foreign policy.
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SPOTLIGHT
Ideologies of Experience: Trauma, Failure, Deprivation, and the Abandonment of the Self
Matthew H. Bowker
Routledge
From the Author: While it is difficult to find a branch of modern thought, science, industry, or art that has not relied in some way on the notion of “experience” in defining its assumptions or aims, no study has yet applied a politically-conscious and psychologically-sensitive critique to the construct of experience. Doing so reveals that most of the qualities that have been attributed to experience over the centuries are part of unlikely fantasies or ideologies. By analyzing a series of related cases, the book builds a convincing case that ideologies of experience are invoked not to keep us close to lived realities and “things-in-themselves,” but, rather, to distort and destroy true knowledge of ourselves and others. In spite of enduring admiration for those who may be called champions of experience, such as Michel de Montaigne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others treated throughout the work, the ideologies of experience ultimately discourage individuals and groups from creating, resisting, and changing our experience, urging us instead to embrace trauma, failure, deprivation, and self-abandonment.
Matthew H. Bowker, visiting assistant professor, Medaille College, researches political theory with psychoanalytic and literary approaches.
SPOTLIGHT
Elder Care Journey: A View From the Front Lines
Laura Katz Olson
State University of New York Press
From the Author: Elder Care Journey: A View from the Front Lines offers a personal frame of reference for understanding the US long-term care system. In it, Olson finds her studies of elder care inconveniently interrupted by a real person with ever-increasing needs—her own mother. Thrust into a caregiving role, she discovers her previous notions about assisting a frail parent at variance with the actual experience. Countless Aha! moments reveal aspects of situations that shatter earlier convictions and expose the irrationality of many government policies. The book also is a window into commercial long-term care industries that consume a significant percentage of taxpayer dollars but often fail to deliver quality care.
Laura Katz Olson, professor of political science at Lehigh University since 1974, studies aging, health care, and social welfare. To date, she has published eight books, mainly in the area of long-term care of the elderly.
