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...

Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...

LeBrón examines the rise of and resistance to punitive governance (tough on crime policing policies) in Puerto Rico from the 1990s to the present...

Merriman's book new book explores what he calls uncooperative federalism. He finds a deliberate conservative strategy to use the courts and state executive power to resist federal influence in state affairs...

Melennials have experienced much trauma in the last decade, especially as a result of the Great Recession of 2008.

"Mediating Morality" is a contemporary exploration of the construction of teen pregnancy in legal events, activism, media campaigns, television, film, and across many domains of popular-political culture since the dismantling of the welfare state, which Daniel definitively places in the year 1996...

Downtowns are more than economic engines: they are repositories of knowledge and culture and generators of new ideas, technology, and ventures. They are the heart of the city that drives its future...

Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the key policy debates during this period...

Annalee’s book is a systematic inquiry into the institutional forces that make it hard for teachers to engage in policymaking, and she contrasts these barriers with the ways they are do have a voice and agency...

The authors examine past countering-violent-extremism (CVE) efforts, evaluate Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and interagency efforts to respond to ideological radicalization to violence...

"Appalachian Reckoning" is a retort, at turn rigorous, critical, angry, and hopeful, to the long shadow J.D. Vance’s "Hillbilly Elegy" has cast over the region and its imagining.

What kind of time do we endure on our daily commutes? What kind of space do we occupy? What new sorts of urbanites do we thereby become?

Do Americans who vote on initiatives grow in political efficacy and participate more in the future?

The development of a whole suite of new reproductive technologies in recent decades has contributed to broad cultural conversations and controversies over the meaning of family in the United States...

We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse...

Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years...

Kingston interrogates the idea of citizenship itself, what it means, how it works, how it is applied and understood, and where there are clear gaps in that application...

The book looks at the history of institutionalized racism around the U.S., showing that laws, policies, and entitlements in every region of the country...

Rich's book is a fascinating and important examination of civil-state relations, social movements, and bureaucracies all centering around AIDS/HIV policy as the nexus of analysis.

We are fed a steady stream of doom and gloom—terrorist attacks, erosion of democracy, robots taking our jobs...

Moral and political theorists have paid a healthy amount of attention to states’ rights to determine who may reside within their territory...