New Books in Political Science
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Begüm Adalet, "Hotels and Highways: The Constru...
Turkey was both a model case of elite-led modernization and a laboratory for development projects that could then be exported to other societies....
73 min
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Gilda R. Daniels, "Uncounted: The Crisis of Vot...
Are we asleep at the (common)wheel?
46 min
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S. E. Schier and T. E. Eberly, "How Trump Happe...
How did Donald Trump’s leveraging of emotions get him to The White House?
37 min
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Brian Greene, "Until the End of Time: Mind, Mat...
Greene offers the the reader a theory of everything...
117 min
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Ilya Somin, "Free to Move: Foot Voting, Migrati...
Somin defends the idea that foot voting is an essential element of political freedom and democratic governance...
61 min
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Mary-Kate Lizotte, "Gender Differences in Publi...
LIzotte helps us to understand the concept of the gender gap in American politics and how this gap looks across a host of different policy areas....
47 min
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Jane Gordon, "Statelessness and Contemporary En...
Gordon weaves together the complexities of statelessness, emphasizing that those who are often stateless are so within the nation in which they live, and contemporary enslavement,...
52 min
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Simon Bowmaker, "When the President Calls: Conv...
What is it like to sit in the Oval Office and discuss policy with the president?
21 min
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Diana Fu, "Mobilizing Without the Masses: Contr...
When advocacy organizations are forbidden from rallying people to take to the streets, what do they do?
41 min
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Jennifer Mercieca, "Demagogue for President: Th...
Mercieca describes the Trump campaign’s expert use of the common demagogic rhetorical techniques...
51 min
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Vanessa Cook, "Spiritual Socialists: Religion a...
Cook shows that there is a deep religious strain within the American Left despite contrary common perceptions...
50 min
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Richard Lachmann, "First Class Passengers on a ...
Lachmann argues that while imperial expansion can deliver more resources to their centers, they can also create dynamics of elite conflict...
68 min
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Kevin Duong, "The Virtues of Violence: Democrac...
Duong offers a fascinating analysis of the way that violence has been used, in a sense, to create or promote solidarity during the course of the “long nineteenth century” in France...
54 min
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Co-Authored: COVID, Collaboration, and Loss
The COVID-19 pandemic has shuttered colleges and universities across the globe. With that, collaboration has been stalled, frustrated, or interrupted...
34 min
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Dana El Kurd, "Polarized and Demobilized: Legac...
Kurd’s rich case study illustrates how certain authoritarian strategies used by the PA increased societal polarizing...
50 min
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James Bernard Murphy, "How to Think Politically...
What is truly at stake in politics?
58 min
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom, "Vigil: Hong Kong on the B...
Wasserstrom provides a nuanced yet accessible overview of the struggle between Hong Kong and China over self-governance and civil liberties...
50 min
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James M. Jasper, "Public Characters: The Politi...
Did Donald Trump win the U.S. presidency in 2016 because he was a master of character work – able to sum up opponents in pithy epithets that encourage the public to see them as weak or immoral?
41 min
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Noëlle McAfee, "Fear of Breakdown: Psychoanalys...
In his classic essay on the fear of breakdown, Donald Winnicott famously conveys to a patient that the disaster powerfully feared has, in fact, already happened...
54 min
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Massimo Modonesi, "The Antagonistic Principle: ...
What does it mean to be a political subject?
40 min
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T. Skocpol and C. Tervo, "Upending American Pol...
How can we make sense of the elections of Barack Obama and Donald Trump?
65 min
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Julia C. Strauss, "State Formation in China and...
Strauss offers a comparative study of regime consolidation in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (Taiwan) after 1949...
95 min
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Courtney J. Fung, "China and Intervention at th...
Fung finds that social constructions by way of public discourse of regime change matter when embedded in wider material conditions. She argues that anxieties about loss of status help explain China’s choices...
49 min
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Nusrat S. Chowdhury, "Paradoxes of the Popular:...
Chowdhury offers insight into what she calls "the paradoxes of the popular," or the constitutive contradictions of popular politics...
51 min
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Pasha Mahdavi, "Power Grab: Political Survival ...
Why did Muammar Qaddafi and Hugo Chavez nationalize the oil industries in Libya and Venezuela?
45 min