SPOTLIGHT
The Judicial Process: Law, Courts, and Judicial Politics
Christopher P. Banks and David M. O’Brien
Sage/CQ Press
From the Publisher: The Judicial Process: Law, Courts, and Judicial Politics is an all-new, concise yet comprehensive core text that introduces students to the nature and significance of the judicial process in the United States and across the globe. It is social scientific in its approach, situating the role of the courts and their impact on public policy within a strong foundation in legal theory, or political jurisprudence, as well as legal scholarship. Authors Christopher P. Banks and David M. O’Brien do not shy away from the politics of the judicial process, and offer unique insight into cutting-edge and highly relevant issues.
Christopher P. Banks, professor, Kent State University, combines his research and teaching interests by studying the political behavior of the judiciary, constitutional law, the courts, and civil rights and liberties.
David M. O’Brien, Leone Reaves and George W. Spicer Professor, University of Virginia, has published extensively on the courts and held multiple fellowships and visiting professorships.
SPOTLIGHT
Democracy Reinvented: Participatory Budgeting and Civic Innovation in America
Hollie Russon Gilman
Brookings Institution Press
From the Author: Millions of Americans feel distrust and anger toward government. Few seem to have realistic ideas for addressing the causes of that dissatisfaction. Participatory budgeting originated in Brazil in 1989, but arrived only recently in the United States. Today, a wave of participatory policy reform has emerged in several of America’s largest cities, including Chicago and New York. Capitalizing on new technology, these reform efforts engage policymakers, citizens, and civic organizations and have reenergized grassroots democracy. This book is the first comprehensive treatment of participatory budgeting in the United States, based on in-depth case studies and interviews. Participatory budgeting empowers citizens to identify community needs, work with elected officials to craft budget proposals, and vote on how to spend public funds.
Hollie Russon Gilman is a postdoctoral research scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She recently served as policy adviser on open government and innovation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
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SPOTLIGHT
As Ohio Goes: Life in the Post-Recession Nation
Rana B. Khoury
Kent State University Press
From the Publisher: As Ohio Goes is a journey through cities, suburbs, and remote rural towns in this quintessential American state, with bracing implications for American politics. From student debt and health care costs to female breadwinners and hydraulic fracturing, Rana B. Khoury situates each story in a context that relates it to wider trends in Ohio and across the United States. Where economic experts deal in the abstract, Khoury pumps life into otherwise cold facts and figures, putting a human face on economic issues. If the old adage “as Ohio goes, so goes the nation” is right, then these stories should tell us where the nation is headed.
Rana B. Khoury is pursuing a PhD in political science from Northwestern University. She earned an MA from Georgetown University and a BA from American University. She has received writing awards from Northwestern and Georgetown Universities and research support from the Social Science Research Council, the Mellon Foundation, and the Buffett Institute.
SPOTLIGHT
Why Don’t You Just Talk to Him? The Politics of Domestic Abuse
Kathleen R. Arnold
Oxford University Press
From the Publisher: Why Don’t You Just Talk to Him? looks at the broad political contexts in which violence, specifically domestic violence, occurs. Kathleen Arnold argues that liberal and Enlightenment notions of the social contract, rationality and egalitarianism—the ideas that constitute norms of good citizenship—have an inextricable relationship to violence. The book argues that a key to understanding how to prevent domestic violence is seeing it as a political rather than a personal issue, with political consequences. It seeks to challenge Enlightenment ideas about intimacy that conceive of personal relationships as mutual, equal, and contractual. Exposing major injustices from the point of view of domestic violence targets, this book promises to generate further debate, if not consensus.
Kathleen R. Arnold is visiting assistant professor of political science at DePaul University, and she teaches political theory, immigration law, and feminist theory.
