New Books in Political Science
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David Karol, "Red, Green, and Blue: The Partisa...
Karol examines the history of environmental policy within American political parties...
32 min
2827
David Milne, "Worldmaking: The Art and Science ...
An examination of the lives of foreign policy thinkers can therefore help explain why U.S. foreign policy took particular paths...
72 min
2828
Rachel Augustine Potter, "Bending the Rules: Pr...
Rule-making may rarely make headlines, but the significance of this largely hidden process cannot be underestimated...
21 min
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Ben Merriman, "Conservative Innovators: How Sta...
Merriman's book new book explores what he calls uncooperative federalism. He finds a deliberate conservative strategy to use the courts and state executive power to resist federal influence in state affairs...
21 min
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A. Nilsen, K. Nielsen, A. Vaidya, "Indian Democ...
More than 70 years after its founding, with Narendra Modi's authoritarian Hindu nationalists in government, is the dream of Indian democracy still alive and well?
48 min
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Joseph C. Sternberg, "The Theft of a Decade: Ho...
Melennials have experienced much trauma in the last decade, especially as a result of the Great Recession of 2008.
62 min
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Daniel HoSang and Joseph E. Lowndes, "Producers...
52 min
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Jennifer Dixon, "Dark Pasts: Changing the State...
Dixon investigates the Japanese and Turkish states’ narratives of their “dark pasts,” the Nanjing Massacre (1937-38) and Armenian Genocide (1915-17), respectively...
59 min
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Matt Guardino, "Framing Inequality: News Media,...
Matt Guardino focuses on the power of corporate news media in shaping how the public understands the key policy debates during this period...
24 min
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Abigail De Kosnik and Keith P. Feldman, "#Ident...
De Kosnik and Feldman bring together a broad array of chapters that dive into multiple perspectives on social media engagement, especially around hashtag activism and the ways that individuals think about and interact with others via Twitter in regard to social movements and political involvement...
58 min
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Demetra Kasimis, "The Perpetual Immigrant and t...
Kasimis focuses on three different presentations and discussions of the metics, in Euripides’ Ion, in Plato’s Republic, and in Demosthenes’ Against Euboulides. The metic, as Kasimis explores, is a classification of individuals within Athenian democracy for those who do not have Athenian blood—they are neither insiders nor outsiders...
49 min
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Christopher J. Galdieri, "Stranger in a Strange...
While the thrust of Stranger in a Strange State is on this topic of carpetbagging, our understanding of carpetbagging also brings forward considerations of representation, since the critique of the carpetbagger tends to be a disconnection from the citizens to be represented, especially for those running for the United States Senate...
47 min
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Christopher Childers, "The Webster-Hayne Debate...
No, not the Lincoln-Douglas debates. Perhaps even more important than that Illinois contest of 1858 was the Webster-Hayne debate of 1830.
65 min
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Norman Eisen, "The Last Palace: Europe's Turbul...
Eisen describes the cycles of democracy that occurred as public support waxed and waned over the years...
35 min
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James Miller, "Can Democracy Work?: A Short His...
James Miller encapsulates 2500 years of democracy history into about 250 pages — making the case that “people power” will always need to be at the heart of any successful democracy...
41 min
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Mark D. White, "Batman and Ethics" (Wiley Black...
White focuses on the comic book character Batman, particularly from the early 1970s through 2011, exploring Batman’s motivations, his mission, aspects of the mission that do not always work together, and how Batman implements and executes his mission...
44 min
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Jeremy Black, "War and its Causes" (Rowman and ...
Black argues for an important new typology of conflict between and within civilisations, cultures and states, and, while addressing the limitations of commentary and analysis, observes patterns across history that make sense of recent conflicts – and those that may be about to begin...
36 min
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Gwendoline M. Alphonso, "Polarized Families, Po...
Alphonso demonstrates how regional ideas about family in the 20th century shaped, not only Republican and Democratic policy and ideological positions concerning race and gender, but also their ideals concerning the economy and the state...
24 min
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Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt, "How Democr...
As How Democracies Die illustrates, it’s much easier to succumb to the power of an autocratic leader than it is to stand up and protect the institutions that serve as the guardrails of democracy...
32 min
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F. Grillo and R. Nanetti, "Democracy and Growth...
Is democracy still the best political regime for countries to adapt to economic and technological pressures and increase their level of prosperity?
38 min
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Matthew Green, "Legislative Hardball: The House...
Following the 2014 elections, a group of conservatives called the House Freedom Caucus regularly issued threats against its own party's leadership...
19 min
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J. Dyck and E. Lascher, "Initiatives without En...
Do Americans who vote on initiatives grow in political efficacy and participate more in the future?
22 min
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Peter B. Josephson and R. Ward Holder, "Reinhol...
Josephson and Holder note that their “focus is Niebuhr himself and what the encounter between his own theology and his practical political experience might reveal in our contemporary situation.”
56 min
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Aram Gousouzian, "The Men and the Moment: The E...
The endlessly fascinating 1968 presidential race transformed American politics in ways that are still being felt...
30 min
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Henry Kissinger and Winston Lord, "Kissinger on...
In a series of riveting and in depth interviews, America's senior statesman, former Secretary of State, Henry Kissinger, discusses the challenges of directing foreign policy during times of great global tension...
69 min