New Books in Political Science
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Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, "Getting Tough: Welfar...
In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare...
79 min
2802
Sarah L. Quinn, "American Bonds: How Credit Mar...
From the 1780s, when national land credit policy was established, to the postwar foundations of our current housing finance system, Quinn examines the evolution of securitization and federal credit programs...
23 min
2803
Quassim Cassam, "Vices of the Mind: From the In...
Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....
68 min
2804
Andrius Gališanka, "John Rawls: The Path to a T...
It is hard to overestimate the influence of John Rawls on political philosophy and theory over the last half-century...
70 min
2805
Nolan McCarty, "Polarization: What Everyone Nee...
McCarty synthesizes what scholars know and don't know about the origins, development, and implications of rising political conflicts in the United States...
20 min
2806
Sam Erman, "Almost Citizens: Puerto Rico, the U...
"Almost Citizens" recounts the story of how Puerto Rico came to be part of the United States empire at the turn of the 20th Century...
53 min
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Jamie Aroosi, "The Dialectical Self: Kierkegaar...
Aroosi has written an important book that brings together the theoretical work of Karl Marx and Soren Kierkegaard in a kind of intellectual encounter...
38 min
2808
Susan Ellison, "Domesticating Democracy: The Po...
Ellison explores the world of foreign-funded alternate dispute resolution (ADR) organizations working in El Alto, Bolivia...
59 min
2809
Daniel Vukovich, "Illiberal China: The Ideologi...
Vukovich analyzes the 'intellectual political culture' of post-Tiananmen China in comparison to and in conflict with liberalism inside and outside the P.R.C...
70 min
2810
Martin Edwards, "The IMF, the WTO and the Polit...
Both the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) practice periodic surveillance of member states to ensure they are adopting effective economic policies...
21 min
2811
James W. Pardew, "Peacemakers: American Leaders...
Pardew describes the role of the U.S. involvement in ending the wars and genocide in the Balkans...
41 min
2812
Benjamin Meiches, "The Politics of Annihilation...
At the center of this analysis is what Meiches refers to throughout his text as the hegemonic understanding of genocide...
54 min
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Jonathan Gienapp, "The Second Creation: Fixing ...
Gienapp revisits the Founding Era to retell the story of America’s favorite document...
60 min
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Eric Blanc, "Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ St...
Red State Revolt explains the emergence and development of the historic wave of teacher strikes in Arizona, West Virginia, and Oklahoma.
20 min
2815
Emily S. Johnson, "This Is Our Message: Women's...
Johnson examines the lives and work of four well-known women-evangelical marriage advice author Marabel Morgan, singer and anti-gay-rights activist Anita Bryant, author and political lobbyist Beverly LaHaye, and televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker...
47 min
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Bhakti Shringarpure, "Cold War Assemblages: Dec...
Shringarpure integrates a variety of disciplinary perspectives while also weaving together the encounters and reverberations between the Cold War and decolonization and the post-colonial experience...
43 min
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Jeffrey Lantis, "Foreign Policy Advocacy and En...
With the US in the midst of on-going negotiations with Iran, North Korea, and China, how is Congress playing a part?
22 min
2818
Yuen Yuen Ang, "How China Escaped the Poverty T...
Her book explains what went right in China and how other developing countries could follow a similar approach to reform and institutional transition...
38 min
2819
Susanna P. Campbell, "Global Governance and Loc...
Why do international peacebuilding organizations sometimes succeed and sometimes fail, even within the same country?
50 min
2820
Jeremy F. Walton, "Muslim Civil Society and the...
Walton explores how members of three contemporary Muslim groups, the Nur community, the Gülen movement, and Alevis, articulate religiosity within the Turkish public sphere...
63 min
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Jonathan D. T. Ward, "China's Vision of Victory...
Ward brings the reader to a new understanding of China's planning, strategy, and ambitions...
49 min
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Morgan Marietta, "One Nation, Two Realities: Du...
They introduce the concept of ‘dueling fact perceptions’ based on years of research, and for our interview, Morgan Marietta explains how they arrived at such conclusions and their implications for our country’s future...
44 min
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Hye-Kyung Lee, "Cultural Policy in South Korea:...
Lee demonstrates the importance of South Korea is both an example in comparative cultural policy, and as a fascinating case study in its own right...
39 min
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Jennifer Hubbert, "China in the World: An Anthr...
In recent years, Confucius Institutes—cultural and language programs funded by the Chinese government—have garnered attention in the United States due to a debate over whether they threaten free speech and academic freedom...
56 min
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Anthony J. Badger, "Albert Gore, Sr.: A Politic...
In 1956 Albert Gore, Sr. received national attention as one of only three senators from the states of the former Confederacy who refused to sign the infamous “Southern Manifesto” opposing the racial integration of public spaces...
58 min