New Books in Political Science
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Lisa Levenstein, "They Didn’t See Us Coming: Th...
Levenstein shows how American feminists joined a global women’s movement for women’s rights as human rights....
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Julia Rose Kraut, "Threat of Dissent: A History...
How does the United States use immigration to suppress free speech?
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Roman David and Ian Holliday, "Liberalism and D...
Democracy is a popular topic among scholars of politics in Southeast Asia. Liberalism is not..
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Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, "The Good Drone: How S...
Choi-Fitzpatrick demonstrates that this technology – which is mostly associated with covert surveillance and remote warfare – has also served as a vital tool for activists, social movements...
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John W. Compton, "The End of Empathy: Why White...
81% of white evangelical voters supported Donald Trump in the 2016 presidential election....
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Duane Tananbaum, "Herbert H. Lehman: A Politica...
Over the course of three decades of public service, Herbert Lehman dedicated himself tirelessly to advances the causes in which he believed...
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Post Script: Kamala Harris as Vice President
Today’s podcast – recorded on Wednesday, August 12th (less than 24 hours after Democratic candidate Joe Biden announced Senator Kamala Harris as his Vice Presidential pick) – cuts through the hype of “veep stakes” by providing a deep dive....
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Andrea Benjamin, "Racial Coalition Building in ...
What explains voting behavior in local elections? More specifically, what explains how ethnic and racial blocs vote in local elections, especially when the candidate may be of a different race or ethnicity?
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Caron Gentry, "Disordered Violence: How Gender,...
Gentry argues that mainstream Terrorism Studies must contend with the growing misogynist and racialized violence against women...
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Post Script: A Deep Dive on China
How should we understand what's going on in China? Listen in....
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David Livingstone Smith, "On Inhumanity: Dehuma...
Smith analyzes what dehumanization is, why are we prone to dehumanize, and how we might resist dehumanizing others...
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W. J. Perry and T. Z. Collina, "The Button: The...
As we enter the third decade of the 21st century, American nuclear policy continues to be influenced by the legacies of the Cold War...
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Kathleen Klaus, "Political Violence in Kenya: L...
Klaus draws on 15 months of survey and interview methods to center the politics of elites in crafting land narratives that lead—or not—to electoral violence...
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Daniel P. Aldrich, "Black Wave: How Networks an...
Aldrich illuminates two critical factors that had a direct influence on why survival rates varied so much across the Tōhoku region...
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Michael A. Olivas, "Perchance to DREAM: A Legal...
Olivas provides a much needed legal and political history of the DREAM Act that spans over two decades from its introduction in Congress (2001) to the Trump Administration challenge of legality in the Supreme Court (2017)....
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Saqib Iqbal Qureshi, "The Broken Contract: Maki...
Can we make democracy work? Really work?
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Juan Pablo Scarfi, "The Hidden History of Inter...
Scarfi shows the central role of a coterie of elite Latin American jurists and intellectuals in constructing a Pan-American inflected conception of international law...
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Lindsay M. Chervinsky, "The Cabinet: George Was...
Chervinsky traces the origins of the President’s cabinet in American government...
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Amity Shlaes, "Great Society: A New History" (H...
Shlaes’ book is exquisitely well-timed. Now is the time to revisit the Great Society era and consider what worked and what ended up destroying poor neighborhoods and the lives of those in them...
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R. K. Jefferson and H. B. Johnson, "Shortlisted...
Before Ronald Reagan appointed Sandra Day O’Connor to the Supreme Court in 1981, nine highly qualified women were on the shortlist. What do the stories of these women tell us about the judiciary? Gender? Feminism? Race?
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Iraj Bashiri, "The History of the Civil War in ...
Iraj Bashiri provides an overview of the Civil War in Tajikistan that emerged amidst the collapse of the Soviet Union...
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Shahla Haeri, "The Unforgettable Queens of Isla...
Haeri offers a collection of captivating biographies of Muslim women rulers and political leaders...
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John B. Holbein, "Making Young Voters: Converti...
In the United States, each election cycle reminds us that younger voters vote at much lower rates than their older counterparts...
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Sigurd Neubauer, "The Gulf Region and Israel: O...
Shunned by Arab states for much of its existence, Israel has become in recent years a key factor in efforts by Gulf states to punch above their weigh...
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Thomas J. Donahue-Ochoa, "Unfreedom for All: Ho...
How should we understand and combat injustice? Is it only the responsibility of those who suffer the consequences or perpetrate the harm?
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