New Books in Political Science
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Robert M. Alexander, "Representation and the El...
Alexander frames the book with the theoretical conundrum of representation...
48 min
2802
Kyle A. Jaros, "China's Urban Champions: The Po...
65 min
2803
Anastasia Denisova, "Internet Memes and Society...
How have memes changed politics?
32 min
2804
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
2807
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
2808
Anne M. Kornhauser, "Debating the American Stat...
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies...
48 min
2809
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
2811
Evgeny Finkel, "Ordinary Jews: Choice and Survi...
Can there be a political science of the Holocaust?
57 min
2812
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
2813
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
2819
Michael Beckley, "Unrivaled: Why America Will R...
Is the era of American hegemony over? Is America finished as a superpower?
45 min
2820
Tsega Etefa, "The Origins of Ethnic Conflict in...
Are ethnic conflicts in Africa the product of age-old ancient hatreds?
49 min
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Julilly Kohler-Hausmann, "Getting Tough: Welfar...
In 1970s America, politicians began "getting tough" on drugs, crime, and welfare...
79 min
2822
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
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Quassim Cassam, "Vices of the Mind: From the In...
Sometimes people are blameworthy or otherwise not admirable because of what they believe....
68 min
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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
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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