New Books in Political Science
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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
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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
2903
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
2904
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
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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
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Ashley Jardina, "White Identity Politics" (Camb...
One of the themes of the era of Donald Trump is whiteness and white identity...
22 min
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George Lakey, "How We Win: A Guide to Nonviolen...
One-off” protests don’t change the world; sustained direct action campaigns do...
43 min
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Jessica Trounstine, "Segregation by Design: Loc...
Segregation by Design draws on a century of data from thousands of American cities to explore how local governments design policies that create race and class segregation...
22 min
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Patricia O'Toole, "The Moralist: Woodrow Wilson...
Whether you love him or hate him, it is indisputable that few, if any, other 20th-century American presidents were as historically consequential as Woodrow Wilson...
36 min
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McKenzie Wark, "General Intellects: Twenty-One ...
McKenzie Wark’s new book offers 21 focused studies of thinkers working in a wide range of fields who are worth your attention...
61 min
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Rob Reich, "Just Giving: Why Philanthropy is Fa...
How political are private foundations? Are they good or bad for democracy?
22 min
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John Sides, Michael Tesler, Lynn Vavreck, "Iden...
In Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America (Princeton University Press, 2018), co-authors John Sides, Michael Tesler, and Lynn Vavreck explore the underlying question of American identity as a key component within the political landscape that was used during the 2016 primary and general election...
42 min
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Amanda H. Lynch and Siri Veland, "Urgency in th...
Amanda Lynch and Siri Veland’s Urgency in the Anthropocene (MIT Press, 2018) is a fascinating and trenchant analysis of the core beliefs and ideas that motivate current political responses to global warming...
53 min
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Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, “The Politics of Common Se...
Aasim Sajjad Akhtar’s The Politics of Common Sense: State, Society and Culture in Pakistan (Cambridge University Press, 2018) is an incisive study of continuity as well as change in Pakistan that has moved the country towards religious conservatism and...
56 min
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Sumantra Bose, “Secular States, Religious Polit...
Sumantra Bose‘s new book Secular States, Religious Politics: India, Turkey and the Future of Secularism (Cambridge University Press, 2018) is a fascinating comparison of the rise of religious parties in the non-Western world’s two major attempts to est...
55 min
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Julie L. Rose, “Free Time” (Princeton UP, 2018)
Though early American labor organizers agitated for the eight-hour workday on the grounds that they were entitled to “eight hours for work, eight hours for rest, and eight hours for what we will,” free time as a political good has received little atten...
55 min
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Brian Frederick, “American Presidential Candida...
Laurel Elder, Brian Frederick, and Barbara Burrell are the authors of American Presidential Candidate Spouses: The Public’s Perspective (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018). Elder is professor of political science at Hartwick College; Frederick is associate prof...
21 min
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Bernard Fraga, “The Turnout Gap: Race, Ethnicit...
Following a historic election, we return again to the question of turnout. Who turned out in large numbers to shift power in the House back to the Democrats? What we know about the past is that there are substantial gaps in turnout between different gr...
19 min
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Kristina C. Miler, “Poor Representation: Congre...
It’s been an article of faith among scholars and activists alike that poor Americans are ignored in national politics. But what if that conventional wisdom is wrong, and poor people, at least rhetorically, are in fact as commonly referred to by Preside...
41 min
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Paul Djupe and Ryan L. Claassen, eds., “The Eva...
In 2016, despite only mixed support from evangelical leaders, Donald Trump won an enormous share of the white evangelical vote. How did Trump manage to overcome the seeming mix-match between his record on social and moral issues and the longstanding vi...
21 min
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David Rondel, “Pragmatist Egalitarianism” (Oxfo...
Pragmatism is a longstanding philosophical idiom that advocates public-facing philosophy – philosophy that abandons merely academic puzzles and addresses itself to the social and political problems of the day.
65 min
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J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood, “Enchanted A...
Magical thinking lies at the heart of J. Eric Oliver and Thomas J. Wood’s new book, Enchanted America: How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2018). Oliver is professor of political science at the University of Chica...
23 min
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Robert Kagan, “The Jungle Grows Back: America a...
Robert Kagan is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a columnist for The Washington Post. He is also the author of The Return of History and the End of Dreams, Dangerous Nation, Of Paradise and Power, and A Twilight Struggle.
46 min
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Chloe Thurston, “At the Boundaries of Homeowner...
Earlier this year, we heard from Suzanne Mettler and her book on the politics of policies hidden from view. Mettler explained that most Americans are benefiting from numerous public policies, but often fail to notice it because participation is hidden ...
20 min
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Stella M. Rouse and Ashley D. Ross, “The Politi...
The Millenial generation, those born between the early 1980s and late 1990s, are the most racially and ethnically diverse generation in US history. They also grew up during the birth of the digital revolution and two cataclysmic events: September 11th ...
16 min