New Books in Political Science
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Magnus Nordenman, "The New Battle for the Atlan...
With Vladimir Putin’s Russia threatening the peace in Europe following the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the North Atlantic and other maritime domains around Europe are once again vitally important...
42 min
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Elizabeth Economy, "The Third Revolution: Xi Ji...
Elizabeth Economy explains the background to recent dramatic changes inside China...
27 min
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Stephen Benedict Dyson, "Imagining Politics: In...
Dyson is not only analyzing the tropes and themes of these series, but he is braiding them together with broader disciplinary frameworks and concepts from political science...
42 min
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Joseph Blocher and Darrell A.H. Miller, "The Po...
Blocher and Miller insist that the Second Amendment is widely recognized but fundamentally misunderstood by the public and public officials. Misconceptions about what the amendment allows, forbids, and how it function as law distort American debates and public policy.
46 min
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Marlene Laruelle, "The Nazarbayev Generation: Y...
52 min
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Lori Cox Han, "Advising Nixon: The White House ...
Cox Han lays out the role that Buchanan played in the Nixon White House as a strategic thinker in terms of the shifting political dimensions, especially in the Republican Party at the time and the growing conservative movement...
33 min
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Jenna Jordan, "Leadership Decapitation: Strateg...
One of the central pillars of US counterterrorism policy is that capturing or killing a terrorist group's leader is effective. Yet this pillar rests more on a foundation of faith than facts...
48 min
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New Books in Political Science Year in Review, ...
To wrap up the year and look ahead to 2020, we talked about the books we loved and the podcasts that we enjoyed recording...
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H. Suzanne Woods and L. A. Hahner, "Make Americ...
Woods and Hahner explore memes as a communication phenomenon with cultural effects with a specific focus on how memes circulated toward the end of the Trump campaign...
58 min
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Benjamin Francis-Fallon, "The Rise of the Latin...
Francis-Fallon historicizes how Latinos were imagined into a national electoral constituency...
50 min
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Matt Grossmann, "Red State Blues: How the Conse...
Grossmann finds that, overall, the size of state governments was not reduced under conservative leadership...
32 min
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David Pettinicchio, "Politics of Empowerment: D...
Pettinicchio offers a history of the political development of disability rights in the United States...
22 min
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Beth Fischer, "The Myth of Triumphalism: Rethin...
Fischer argues that the military buildup was actually deeply counterproductive, frightening the Soviet leadership and delaying meaningful negotiations for several years...
40 min
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Davin Phoenix, "The Anger Gap: How Race Shapes ...
We know from this book that anger is animating politics, but the ways that anger is expressed and translated into political participation, varies greatly by race, gender, and age...
23 min
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William Westermeyer, "Back to America: Identity...
Westermeyer explores the once-powerful Tea Party Movement and the changing nature of political culture in the contemporary United States...
73 min
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Narges Bajoghli, "Iran Reframed: Anxieties of P...
Bajoghli takes an inside look at what it means to be pro-regime in Iran, and the debates around the future of the Islamic Republic...
51 min
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G. Edward White, "Law in American History, Volu...
White surveys the many developments in American law from the middle of the 20th century to the case of Bush v. Gore...
60 min
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Stephen F. Knott, "The Lost Soul of the America...
Knott guides the reader through more than 200 years of presidents and the changes that these individuals have brought to the office itself...
43 min
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Katherine Rye Jewell, "Dollars for Dixie: Busin...
Jewell discusses the evolution of political and economic conservatism in the twentieth-century South...
40 min
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Michael Krona and Rosemary Pennington, "The Med...
Krona and Pennington explore the characteristics, mission, and tactics of the ISIS's use of media and propaganda...
33 min
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Joshua Simon, "The Ideology of the Creole Revol...
Simon compares the political thought of three Creole revolutionary leaders: Alexander Hamilton, Simón Bolívar and Lucas Alamán...
65 min
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Audrey Kurth Cronin, "Power to the People: How ...
Never have so many possessed the means to be so lethal..
45 min
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Philip M. Napoli, "Social Media and the Public ...
"Social Media and the Public Interest" approaches this complex and multi-layered issue from a host of perspectives, leading the reader into the broader discussion through a history of social media,..
44 min
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Julia Maskivker, "The Duty to Vote" (Oxford UP,...
When asked what democracy is, many of us instantly think of elections, and thus voting...
62 min
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Daniel T. Kirsch, "Sold My Soul for a Student L...
American colleges and universities boasts an impressive legacy, but the price of admission for many is now endless debt....
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