New Books in Political Science
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Meg Heckman, "Political Godmother: Nackey Scrip...
Despite her nearly two decades as the publisher of the largest newspaper in a politically pivotal state, the role of Nackey Scripps Loeb in American political and media history has been unjustly forgotten...
54 min
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B. Heersink and J. A. Jenkins, "Republican Part...
Heersink and Jenkins describe how Southern Republicans, despite their unpopularity in the South, remained nationally important through their regular participation at the Republican national conventions....
52 min
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Learning from Rwanda: How 100 Days of Mass Kill...
An interview with Philip Drew
16 min
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Co-Authored: A Discussion of "The Party Decides"
'The Party Decides' is the most (only?) meme'd book in the history of political science....
34 min
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Jessica Whyte, "Morals of the Market: Human Rig...
Whyte uncovers the place of human rights in neoliberal attempts to develop a moral framework for a market society....
68 min
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Jacob Mundy, "Libya" (Polity Press, 2018)
Mundy's book is part-history, part-political science to guide readers through the intricate maze of foreign and Libyan actors and institutions that define modern day Libya...
62 min
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Postscript: Shirley Chisholm as Principled Poli...
What is the political and intellectual legacy of Shirley Chisholm?
54 min
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James Zogby, "The Tumultuous Decade: Arab Publi...
Zogby takes the reader on a decade-long tour of the Middle East as the region reverberates from popular revolts that toppled long-standing dictators, civil and proxy wars that sparked some of the world’s worst humanitarian crises, foreign interventions and seemingly intractable power struggles...
68 min
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James C. Pearce, "The Use of History in Putin's...
History matters in Russia. It really matters, so much so that the state has a "historical policy" to help legitimize itself and support its policy agenda...
32 min
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Nathan J. Kelly, "America's Inequality Trap" (U...
Kelly argues that the increasing concentration of economic power effects political power, thus allowing the gap between the rich and everyone else to become more acute and more rigid...
38 min
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Adam Hanieh, "Money, Markets, and Monarchies: T...
Hanieh shows that the economies of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain, and Kuwait are about more than just the “black gold.”
72 min
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Philip Nash, "Breaking Protocol: America's Firs...
Nash examines the history of the "Big Six" and how they carved out their rightful place in history..
64 min
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Matthew D. Wright, "A Vindication of Politics: ...
Rancor reigns in American politics. It is possible these days to regard politics as an arena that enriches and ennobles?
100 min
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Charisse Burden-Stelly, "W.E.B. Du Bois: A Life...
Why is the scholarship and advocacy work of W.E.B. Du Bois so relevant for 21st century politics?
65 min
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J. E. Zelizer, "Burning Down the House: Newt Gi...
Trump is not the first Republican to rise to power by pushing incendiary policies and destroying opponents...
44 min
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Oumar Ba, "States of Justice: The Politics of t...
Ba theorizes the ways in which states that are presumed to be weaker in the international system use the International Criminal Court (ICC) to advance their security and political interests....
54 min
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Thomas A. Schwartz, "Henry Kissinger and Americ...
Over the past six decades, Henry Kissinger has been America's most consistently praised--and reviled--public figure...
42 min
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Robert G. Boatright and Valerie Sperling, "Trum...
How did the Trump and Hillary Clinton campaigns affect other elections in 2016? How did the use of gender stereotypes and insulting references to women in the presidential campaign influence the way House and Senate candidates campaigned?
61 min
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Jennie C. Ikuta, "Contesting Conformity: Democr...
It's good to buck the trend, right? Well, maybe...
55 min
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John R. Hibbing, "The Securitarian Personality:...
What are the policy implications due to a fundamental distrust and dislike of “outsiders”?
43 min
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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....
58 min
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Julia Rose Kraut, "Threat of Dissent: A History...
How does the United States use immigration to suppress free speech?
53 min
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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..
46 min
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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...
40 min
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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....
32 min