Houston’s finds three major social values--social justice, sustainability, and creativity—pervade policy creation in the city and condition privileges and oppressions...

What do university presses do, and how do they do it?

Eileen Boris illuminates the ILO's transformation in the context of the long fight for social justice...

How should we understand work?

Hajnal finds that race more than class or any other demographic factor shapes not only how Americans vote but also who wins and who loses...

Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?

What is the future of work?

Intriguingly, White shows that the white public's racial policy opinions largely DID NOT liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany

A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber...

"Citizenship" takes the reader through our own approaches to this concept and begins by highlighting how it is not always or often consistently applied and understood...

Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...

Bunyasi and Smith compile social science research and data to explain the current situation for white citizens, African-American citizens, Latinx citizens, and citizens of other races in the United States...

Richert investigates the myths, meanings, and boundaries of recreational drugs, palliative care drugs, and pharmaceuticals, as well as struggles over product innovation, consumer protection, and freedom of choice in the medical marketplace...

Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization relates to the electoral influence of federal spending...

The authors argue that there are dimensions to the broadening of the US federal government into new areas of public life largely overlooked by previous scholars...

Winne shares there is a synergistic interaction between food and community...

Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...

In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare...

How do women -- especially poor and low-income women with histories of childhood sexual trauma and drug addiction -- respond to and deal with an HIV/AIDS diagnosis?

Does a person’s well-being go well beyond how much money they have in their bank account?

Small is beautiful, right? Isn't that what we've all been taught?

Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs...

Red State Revolt explains the emergence and development of the historic wave of teacher strikes in Arizona, West Virginia, and Oklahoma.

Where in the world do working moms have it best?

Lee demonstrates the importance of South Korea is both an example in comparative cultural policy, and as a fascinating case study in its own right...