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Pat Garofalo, "The Billionaire Boondoggle: How ...
Politicians love to woo entertainment corporations to their states and cities through subsidies and tax cities. But...
29 min
2877
Democratic Faith and Social Change with Eddie G...
An interview with Eddie Glaude, Jr.
32 min
2878
Martha S. Jones, "Birthright Citizens: A Histor...
Jones weaves together the legal and constitutional dimensions of citizenship...
51 min
2879
Reece Peck, "Fox Populism: Branding Conservatis...
Peck traces the history of Fox's counter-elite brand from Murdoch to O’Reilly to Hannity...
21 min
2880
Darren Barany, "The New Welfare Consensus: Ideo...
The 1996 repeal of Aid to Families with Dependent Children -- the New Deal-era relief program for poor women with children -- was a seminal moment in the modern history of the US welfare state...
33 min
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Global Oil and Social Change with Leif Wenar
An interview with Leif Wenar
27 min
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Greg Sargent, "An Uncivil War: Taking Back Our ...
Sargent, a writer and columnist at The Washington Post, takes seriously this broad question about democratic health...
30 min
2883
Matthew Bowman, "Christian: The Politics of a W...
The intersection of religion and politics in the United States is one of the nation's most enduring conversations...
58 min
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Jocelyn M. Boryczka, "Suspect Citizens: Women, ...
Boryczka explores the fraught position that women find themselves in as citizens of the United States...
48 min
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B. I. Page, J. Seawright, and M. J. Lacombe, "B...
With at least one new billionaire in the 2020 presidential race, the politics of the one percent are with us again...
23 min
2886
Susan Thomson, "Rwanda: From Genocide to Precar...
Thomson examines the postwar history of Rwanda to consider the ways the Rwandan genocide shaped governance, policy and memory in that country...
57 min
2887
Religious and Political Identities with Michele...
An interview with Michele F. Margolis
30 min
2888
Alexander Hertel-Fernandez, "State Capture: How...
In State Capture, Hertel-Fernandez focuses on the development and political power of three inter-locking interest groups...
21 min
2889
Debra Thompson, "The Schematic State: Race, Tra...
This book, which unpacks the census itself, leads the reader to consider how this mundane tool actually translates the abstraction of the state into a concrete entity...
50 min
2890
Jieun Baek, "North Korea's Hidden Revolution: H...
Based on interviews with North Koreans who have settled in the South, Baek shows how everything from television programs to foreign affairs coverage and fashion has made its way into the country from the outside world....
60 min
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Jessica Trisko Darden, Alexis Henshaw, and Ora ...
Darden, Henshaw, and Szekley investigate the mobilization of female fighters, women’s roles in combat, and what happens to women when conflicts end...
51 min
2892
Danyel Reiche, "Success and Failure of Countrie...
In Success and Failure, Reiche provides a playbook for National Committees that want to win more medals...
59 min
2893
The Constitution as a Public Ethos with Corey B...
An interview with Corey Brettschneider
26 min
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Matthew Longo, "The Politics of Borders: Sovere...
The Politics of Borders: Sovereignty, Security, and the Citizen after 9/11 (Cambridge University Press, 2017) is not simply about the border because, as the book makes clear, borders are in no way simple...
52 min
2895
Gary Metcalf, "Social Systems and Design" (Spri...
Gary Metcalf asks if it is possible to establish ethical “first principles” for the design of social systems...
61 min
2896
George R. Boyer, "The Winding Road to the Welfa...
The creation of the postwar welfare state in Great Britain did not represent the logical progression of governmental policy over a period of generations...
63 min
2897
Is Social Media Killing Democracy? with Regina ...
An interview with Regina Rini
33 min
2898
Jonathan Fulton, "China's Relations with the Gu...
Fulton’s book is a timely contribution to discussion of the changing global balance of power as Gulf states
62 min
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Judith Eve Lipton and David P. Barash, "Strengt...
Costa Rica is the only full-fledged and totally independent country to be entirely demilitarized...
60 min
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Onur Ulas Ince, "Colonial Capitalism and the Di...
This text brings together a number of lenses through which to consider the writings and ideas of British liberal thinkers, especially John Locke, Edmund Burke, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield...
59 min