New Books in Public Policy
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Gary J. Adler, Jr., "Empathy Beyond US Borders:...
Do immersion trips really transform those who participate and how so?
54 min
1477
Steven White, "World War II and American Racial...
Intriguingly, White shows that the white public's racial policy opinions largely DID NOT liberalize during the war against Nazi Germany
20 min
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Melanie Simms, "What Do We Know and What Should...
What is the future of work?
29 min
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David Farber, "Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capi...
A shattering account of the crack cocaine years from award-winning American historian David Farber...
20 min
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Elizabeth F. Cohen and Cyril Ghosh, "Citizenshi...
"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...
41 min
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T. L. Bunyasi and C. W. Smith, "Stay Woke: A Pe...
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...
58 min
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Wendy Brown, "In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: Th...
Neoliberalism is one of those fuzzy words that can mean something different to everyone...
40 min
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Lucas Richert, “Strange Trips: Science, Culture...
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...
48 min
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Andrew Sidman, "Pork Barrel Politics: How Gover...
Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization relates to the electoral influence of federal spending...
20 min
1485
Bryan Jones, "The Great Broadening: How the Vas...
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...
22 min
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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
1493
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
1494
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...
32 min
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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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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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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