New Books in Political Science
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Kevin Escudero, "Organizing While Undocumented:...
Undocumented youth activists are at the forefront of the present-day immigrant rights movement....
67 min
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Andreas Fulda, "The Struggle for Democracy in M...
The key question Fulda poses is to what extent political activists in these three domiciles have made progress in their quest to liberalize and democratize their respective polities...
73 min
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Luke Messac, "No More to Spend: Neglect and the...
Messac challenges the inevitability of inadequate social services in twentieth-century Africa, focusing on the political history of Malawi...
59 min
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Brian F. Harrison, "A Change is Gonna Come: How...
Harrison critiques many of the current methods of communicating and explores the growing divide within political discourse...
51 min
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Recording Global Diplomacy: Contextualizing Per...
An interview with Sam De Schutter
28 min
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Kregg Hetherington, "The Government of Beans: R...
Hetherington dives into the fate of Paraguay’s Pink Tide regime...
60 min
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Matto Mildenberger, "Carbon Captured: How Busin...
Why do some countries pass legislation regulating carbon or protecting the environment while others do not?
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Jennifer L. Holland, "Tiny You: A Western Histo...
Holland tells the story of one of the most successful political movements of the twentieth century in the United States: the grassroots campaign against legalized abortion...
59 min
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Melissa K. Merry, "Warped Narratives: Distortio...
If gun violence kills so many Americans, why don’t we see more effective solutions?
58 min
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Nancy Beck Young, "Two Suns of the Southwest" (...
What does the 1964 presidential election have to teach us about party dynamics, civil rights and polarization?
66 min
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Peniel E. Joseph, "The Sword and the Shield: Th...
Joseph unpacks the false binaries to reveal the many ways they influenced and persuaded one another. For Joseph, they shared a revolutionary path in search of black dignity, citizenship, and human rights...
53 min
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Richard Gergel, "Unexampled Courage" (Sarah Cri...
Gergel connects the stories of Isaac Woodard, Harry Truman, and J. Waties Waring to illustrate how one incident fits into the larger history of civil rights...
88 min
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Gina Anne Tam, "Dialect and Nationalism in Chin...
Tam takes us through the ways that people in China have navigated the country’s complex linguistic landscape while also negotiating profound questions over the meanings of modern Chinese identity itself...
66 min
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Kara Moskowitz, "Seeing Like A Citizen" (Ohio U...
Kara’s book is rigorously researched and beautifully written. She draws on both archival and life history methods to center rural Kenyans,...
50 min
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J-B. Tchouta Mougoué, "Gender, Separatist Polit...
Tchouta Mougoue illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon...
64 min
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Nicole Myers Turner, "Soul Liberty: The Evoluti...
Turner challenges assumptions regarding the intersection between black religion and politics in this “signal moment of political and cultural transformation in the African-American experience.”
54 min
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Peter J. Boettke, "Public Governance and the Cl...
In our conversation we defined the disciplines of Public Choice and Public Administration and we named the key actors of a very long intellectual debate...
46 min
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David Shimer, "Rigged: America, Russia, and One...
Shimer narrates in meticulous but page-turning detail a century of covert electoral interference, by both the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War, and continuing to this day...
52 min
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S. Moskalenko and C. McCauley, "Radicalization ...
The authors propose twelve mechanisms that can move individuals, groups, and mass publics from political indifference to sympathy and support for terrorist violence...
56 min
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Nicole Maurantonio, "Confederate Exceptionalism...
Maurantonio’s interdisciplinary book treats the state of Virginia as a confederate museum to be analyzed....
51 min
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Co-Authored: Frances Fox Piven and Richard Cloward
When you ask people about academic collaborations, Piven and Cloward is almost always the first one they mention...
28 min
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Archie Brown, "The Human Factor: Gorbachev, Rea...
What brought about an end to the Cold War has long been a subject of speculation and mythology...
49 min
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Justin Tosi and Brandon Warmke, "Grandstanding:...
We are all familiar with the ways in which the acts associated with upholding morality can go wrong....
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Kennan Ferguson, "Cookbooks Politics" (U Penn P...
Ferguson argues that there is more going on in cookbooks than just recipes...
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Katherine Stewart, "The Power Worshippers: Insi...
For too long the Religious Right has masqueraded as a social movement preoccupied with a number of cultural issues, such as abortion and same-sex marriage....
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