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Michael Menser, "We Decide!: Theories and Cases...
Menser a comprehensive treatment of participatory democracy, in which he delves into the history of democracy and offers an optimistic vision of the future of democratic participation in various forms and at different scales...
48 min
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Leah Stokes, "Short Circuiting Policy: Interest...
44 min
1428
Daniel Denvir, "All-American Nativism: How the ...
The profound forces of all-American nativism have, in fact, been pushing politics so far to the right over the last forty years that, for many people,..
40 min
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Nancy D. Campbell, "OD: Naloxone and the Politi...
Over the last several years, overdose prevention has become the unlikely object of a social movement, powered by the miracle drug naloxone...
37 min
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Ian Wray, "No Little Plans: How Government Buil...
Wray’s book goes in search of an America shaped by government, plans and bureaucrats, not by businesses, bankers and shareholders. He demonstrates that government plans did not damage American wealth. On the contrary, they built it, and in the most profound ways...
51 min
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Nicci Gerrard, "The Last Ocean: A Journey Throu...
Dementia provokes profound moral questions about our society and the meaning of life itself...
33 min
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Ben Green, "The Smart Enough City: Putting Tech...
The “smart city,” presented as the ideal, efficient, and effective for meting out services, has capture the imaginations of policymakers, scholars, and urban-dweller. But what are the possible drawbacks of living in an environment that is constantly collecting data?
31 min
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Wendy Bottero, "A Sense of Inequality" (Roman a...
Bottero offers a detailed and challenging new approach to how we conceive of, how we study, and how we might challenge, social inequality...
37 min
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Maria Dimova-Cookson, "Rethinking Positive and ...
Dimova-Cookson offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and negative freedom building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin...
38 min
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Rachel Louise Moran, "Governing Bodies: America...
How did the modern, American body come into being?
47 min
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Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller, "The Po...
Blocher and Miller insist that the Second Amendment is widely recognized but fundamentally misunderstood by the public and public officials. Misconceptions about what the amendment allows, forbids, and how it function as law distort American debates and public policy.
46 min
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Alice Hill, "Building a Resilient Tomorrow: How...
Hill and Martinez-Diaz draw on their personal experiences as senior officials in the Obama Administration to tell behind-the-scenes stories of what it really takes to advance progress on climate change issues...
41 min
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Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia, "Banned: Immigration E...
Immigration is one of the most complex issues of our time in the United States...
40 min
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Matt Grossmann, "Red State Blues: How the Conse...
Grossmann finds that, overall, the size of state governments was not reduced under conservative leadership...
32 min
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David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: D...
Pettinicchio offers a history of the political development of disability rights in the United States...
22 min
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Darius Sollohub, "Millennials in Architecture: ...
Much has been written about Millennials, but until now their growing presence in the field of architecture has not been examined in depth...
48 min
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Taylor Pendergrass, "Six by Ten: Stories from S...
Long-term solitary confinement meets the legal definition of torture, and yet solitary confinement is used in every state in the United States...
74 min
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David Brooks, "The Second Mountain: The Quest f...
There is a growing mismatch between the culture of many campuses, and the challenges young people will face in their careers, politics and personal live...
29 min
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Louis Hyman, "Temp: How American Work, American...
Jobs are less secure today not because the market demanded it but because, starting as early as the 1950s, executives, consultants, and policy makers decided to make them that way...
71 min
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Chris Arnade, "Dignity: Seeking Respect in Back...
A lot of politicians like to say that there are “two Americas,” but do any of them know what life is really like for the marginalized poor?
24 min
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A. R. Ruis, "Learning to Eat: The Origins of Sc...
Ruis narrates the development of school lunch programs from the late 19th century to the present,..
69 min
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Vicky Pryce, "Women vs. Capitalism: Why We Can'...
Free market capitalism has failed women...
27 min
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Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public ...
"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..
44 min
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William D. Lopez, "Separated: Family & Communit...
What happens to families and communities after immigration raids?
25 min
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Michael R. Boswell, "Climate Action Planning: A...
"Climate Action Planning" is designed to help planners, municipal staff and officials, citizens and others working at local levels to develop and implement plans to mitigate a community's greenhouse gas emissions...
47 min