New Books in Public Policy
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Mark Winne, "Food Town USA: Seven Unlikely Citi...
Winne shares there is a synergistic interaction between food and community...
46 min
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Harriet Washington, "A Terrible Thing to Waste:...
Environmental racism is visible not only as cancer clusters or the location of grocery stores...
45 min
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Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, "Getting Tough: Welfar...
In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare...
79 min
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Celeste Watkins-Hayes, "Remaking a Life: How Wo...
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?
25 min
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Sarah Halpern-Meekin, "Social Poverty: Low-Inco...
Does a person’s well-being go well beyond how much money they have in their bank account?
41 min
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Robert Atkinson and Michael Lind, "Big is Beaut...
Small is beautiful, right? Isn't that what we've all been taught?
43 min
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Anthony Ryan Hatch, "Silent Cells: The Secret D...
Over the past forty years, U.S. prisons and jails have used various psychotropic drugs...
46 min
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Eric Blanc, "Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ St...
Red State Revolt explains the emergence and development of the historic wave of teacher strikes in Arizona, West Virginia, and Oklahoma.
20 min
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Caitlyn Collins, "Making Motherhood Work: How W...
Where in the world do working moms have it best?
45 min
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Hye-Kyung Lee, "Cultural Policy in South Korea:...
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...
39 min
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David Karol, "Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisa...
Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...
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Marisol LeBrón, "Policing Life and Death: Race,...
LeBrón examines the rise of and resistance to punitive governance (tough on crime policing policies) in Puerto Rico from the 1990s to the present...
61 min
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Ben Merriman, "Conservative Innovators: How Sta...
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...
21 min
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Joseph C. Sternberg, "The Theft of a Decade: Ho...
Melennials have experienced much trauma in the last decade, especially as a result of the Great Recession of 2008.
62 min
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Clare Daniel, "Mediating Morality: The Politics...
"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...
59 min
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Alexander Garvin, "The Heart of the City: Creat...
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...
45 min
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Matt Guardino, "Framing Inequality: News Media,...
Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the key policy debates during this period...
24 min
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Annalee Good, "Teachers at the Table: Voice, Ag...
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...
49 min
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Brian A. Jackson, "Practical Terrorism Preventi...
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...
54 min
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A. Harkins and M. McCarroll, "Appalachian Recko...
"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.
49 min
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David Bissell, "Transit Life: How Commuting Is ...
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?
61 min
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J. Dyck and E. Lascher, "Initiatives without En...
Do Americans who vote on initiatives grow in political efficacy and participate more in the future?
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Diane Tober, "Romancing the Sperm: Shifting Bio...
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...
50 min
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David Courtwright, "The Age of Addiction: How B...
We are living in an age of addiction, from compulsive gaming and binge eating to pornography and opioid abuse...
41 min
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Carrie Baker, "Fighting the US Youth Sex Trade:...
Campaigns against prostitution of young people in the United States have surged and ebbed multiple times over the last fifty years...
61 min