New Books in Political Science
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2901
Global Oil and Social Change with Leif Wenar
An interview with Leif Wenar
27 min
2902
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
2903
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
2904
Jocelyn M. Boryczka, "Suspect Citizens: Women, ...
Boryczka explores the fraught position that women find themselves in as citizens of the United States...
48 min
2905
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
2906
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
2907
Religious and Political Identities with Michele...
An interview with Michele F. Margolis
30 min
2908
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
2909
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
2910
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
2911
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
2912
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
2913
The Constitution as a Public Ethos with Corey B...
An interview with Corey Brettschneider
26 min
2914
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
2915
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
2916
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
2917
Is Social Media Killing Democracy? with Regina ...
An interview with Regina Rini
33 min
2918
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
2919
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
2920
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
2921
Pamela Herd and Donald Moynihan, "Administrativ...
In Administrative Burden, Herd and Moynihan show that the administrative burdens citizens regularly encounter in their interactions with government are not accidental, but the result of deliberate policy choices...
21 min
2922
Andrea Micocci and Flavia Di Mario, "The Fascis...
In their words, they claim that capitalism is based on a false logic in which all facts and ideas are reduced to a consideration of their ‘feasibility’ within the capitalist system...
38 min
2923
Helena Rosenblatt, "The Lost History of Liberal...
How is it that “liberalism” is a word so ubiquitous and yet we can hardly seem to agree on its meaning?
49 min
2924
New Books in Political Science Year in Review: ...
To wrap up the year and look ahead to 2019, we talked about the books we loved...
18 min
2925
Jonathan Fulton and Li-Chen Sim, "External Powe...
The newly found assertiveness of the Gulf states, despite the fact that they remain largely dependent for their security on the United States, have forged closer ties with a host of external powers...
57 min