New Books in Political Science
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Farhat Haq, "Shariʿa and the State in Pakistan:...
Few doctrinal and political issues are more controversial in Pakistan today than that of blasphemy...
60 min
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Matthew Hitt, "Inconsistency and Indecision in ...
Hitt demonstrates that over time, institutional changes have substantially reduced unreasoned judgments in the Court’s output,..
22 min
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C. Strachan and L. Poloni-Staudinger, "Why Don′...
"Why Don′t Women Rule the World?" is a comprehensive and useful addition to the established literature on women and politics...
37 min
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Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, "Revolution and It...
Sadeghi-Boroujerdi traces the rise and evolution of reformist political thought in Iran...
57 min
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Andrew Sidman, "Pork Barrel Politics: How Gover...
Sidman offers a systematic explanation for how political polarization relates to the electoral influence of federal spending...
20 min
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Robert M. Alexander, "Representation and the El...
Alexander frames the book with the theoretical conundrum of representation...
48 min
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Kyle A. Jaros, "China's Urban Champions: The Po...
65 min
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Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society...
How have memes changed politics?
32 min
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Bryan Jones, "The Great Broadening: How the Vas...
The authors argue that there are dimensions to the broadening of the US federal government into new areas of public life largely overlooked by previous scholars...
22 min
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Tammy R. Vigil, "Moms in Chief: The Rhetoric of...
Vigil’s analysis is particularly interesting and informative in how we think about the role of public women in our country, especially in relation to the White House and their unelected roles within the political sphere...
43 min
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Alexandra Minna Stern, "White Ethnostate: How t...
Our conversation examines the intersections of gender and sexuality, and is they relate to her her research on eugenics, white nationalists, the alt-right, and the alt-lite...
64 min
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Mubbashir A. Rizvi, "The Ethics of Staying: Soc...
Rizvi presents an original framework for understanding this major social movement, called the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP)...
51 min
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Anne M. Kornhauser, "Debating the American Stat...
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies...
48 min
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Niambi Michele Carter, "American While Black: A...
In American While Black, Carter argues that immigration, both historically and in the contemporary moment,
31 min
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Suzanne Scott, "Fake Geek Girls: Fandom, Gender...
Scott provides an overview of the convergence culture industry and the world of fandom while examining the role that gender and misogyny has played in understanding who is and is not considered an “authentic” fan...
37 min
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Evgeny Finkel, "Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survi...
Can there be a political science of the Holocaust?
57 min
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Darren E. Tromblay, "Spying: Assessing US Domes...
Initiated in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, have the reforms of the US intelligence enterprise served their purpose?
45 min
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Peregrine Schwartz-Shea and Dvora Yanow, "Inter...
This episode is the first in a new series, New Books in Interpretive Social Science...
53 min
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Joshua D. Farrington, "Black Republicans and th...
Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight."
74 min
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Maureen S. Hiebert, "Constructing Genocide and ...
How can this happen? If there's any question that people interested in genocide ask, it's this one.
66 min
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Kevin M. Baron, "Presidential Privilege and the...
Baron dives into the history of information and the role that access to information plays in supporting democracy...
54 min
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Nazia Kazi, "Islamophobia, Race, and Global Pol...
Kazi's book is a brilliant and powerful meditation on the intersection and interaction of Islamophobia, racism, and U.S. imperial state power...
43 min
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Cyril Ghosh, "De-Moralizing Gay Rights: Some Qu...
Ghosh interrogates three arenas of debate over LGBT+ rights in the contemporary American landscape...
35 min
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Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will R...
Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?
45 min
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Tsega Etefa, "The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in...
Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds?
49 min