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...

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?