New Books in Political Science
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Emily C. Nacol, “An Age of Risk: Politics and E...
Emily C. Nacol has written a fascinating interrogation of the idea of risk, the concept of vulnerability, and the evolution of probabilistic thinking as conceived of and explored by four of the preeminent British thinkers of the seventeenth and eightee...
39 min
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Public Debate and Respectful Engagement with Jo...
An interview with John Corvino
26 min
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Chris Zepeda-Millan, “Latino Mass Mobilization:...
Prior to the wave of protests in 2017 supporting immigrants in the US, there were the protests of 2006. That spring, millions of Latinos and other immigrants across the country opposed Congressional action hostile to immigrants.
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Mark S. Hamm and Ramon Spaaij, “The Age of Lone...
The Age of Lone Wolf Terrorism (Columbia University Press, 2017), by Mark S. Hamm and Ramon Spaaij, identifies patterns among individuals that commit acts of terror outside of a group or network. Hamm and Spaaij follow these individuals,
43 min
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Gregory Laski, “Untimely Democracy: The Politic...
Gregory Laski approaches the concept of democracy in his text, Untimely Democracy: The Politics of Progress after Slavery (Oxford University Press, 2018) from a variety of dimensions and perspectives, integrating the concept of temporality to considera...
48 min
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Constitutional Reform in Iceland with Jon Olafsson
An interview with Jon Olafsson
32 min
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Stewart Patrick, “The Sovereignty Wars: Reconci...
The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World (Brookings Institution Press, 2017) is an important and in depth study of American interaction with the intricate concept of Sovereignty, from the Founding Fathers to Donald Trump.
64 min
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Mark Rozell and Clyde Wilcox, “God at the Grass...
In the wake of the Alabama Senate election in December, 2017, attention has been drawn to the intersection of religion and politics. This is the subject of God at the Grassroots 2016: The Christian Right in American Politics (Rowman and Littlefield,
18 min
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Elizabeth McRae, “Mothers of Massive Resistance...
Much attention has been drawn to the role of white women in the recent Alabama senate election and the earlier election of Donald J. Trump as president. Today’s racial and gender politics have long historic roots, according to Elizabeth McRae,
22 min
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Mark Fenster, “The Transparency Fix: Secrets, L...
The Transparency Fix: Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Government Information (Stanford University Press, 2017) dispels the myth that transparency of information will result in a perfect government. Dr. Mark Fenster discusses the motivations of trans...
43 min
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Testimony and Anonymity with Sandy Goldberg
An interview with Sandy Goldberg
27 min
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New Books in Political Science Year-End Round U...
We end the year by remembering our favorite authors, books, and some of the titles. There were so many great books written this year that we had the fun of reading and talking to a few of the authors. Weve both been doing a lot of grading, so left out...
20 min
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Corey D. Fields, “Black Elephants in the Room: ...
What is it about Black Republicans that makes them fodder for comedy? How do Black Republicans view their participation in their political group? Corey D. Fields answers these questions and more in his new book,
53 min
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Frank Baumgartner, et al., “Deadly Justice: A S...
In 1976, the US Supreme Court ruled in Gregg v. Georgia that the death penalty was constitutional if it complied with certain provisions designed to ensure that it was reserved for the ‘worst of the worst.’ The 1976 decision ushered in the ‘modern’ per...
18 min
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Scott Kaufman, “Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party...
Catapulted into the Oval Office by an unusual set of circumstances, Gerald Ford remains a unique figure in American presidential history. In Ambition, Pragmatism, and Party: A Political Biography of Gerald R. Ford (University Press of Kansas, 2017),
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Melanee Thomas and Amanda Bittner, eds. “Mother...
Melanee Thomas and Amanda Bittner have assembled a fascinating and important exploration of the role, understanding, and perceptions of mothers and motherhood within the realm of politics. Mothers and Others: The Role of Parenthood in Politics (Univers...
57 min
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Jack Jacobs, ed. “Jews and Leftist Politics: Ju...
In Jews and Leftist Politics: Judaism, Israel, Antisemitism and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Jack Jacobs, Professor of Political Science at John Jay College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York,
35 min
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Hilary Matfess, “Women and the War on Boko Hara...
Today we talked with Hilary Matfess about her new book Women and the War on Boko Haram: Wives, Weapons, Witnesses, just recently published by Zed Books in 2017. Drawn from her extensive research and interviews from 2015 to 2017,
42 min
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Misogyny and Politics with Kate Manne
An interview with Kate Manne
36 min
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Forrest Nabors, “From Oligarchy to Republicanis...
In From Oligarchy to Republicanism: The Great Task of Reconstruction (University of Missouri Press, 2017) , Forrest Nabors sets out to show that congressional Republicans regarded the work of Reconstruction in the same way they regarded the work of the...
33 min
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Kevan Harris, “A Social Revolution: Politics an...
Kevan Harris is the author of A Social Revolution: Politics and the Welfare State in Iran (University of California Press, 2017). Harris is assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles.
22 min
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Colleen Murphy, “The Conceptual Foundations of ...
Colleen Murphy’s new book, The Conceptual Foundations of Transitional Justice (Cambridge University Press, 2017), argues that attaining some degree of justice is possible in nations transitioning to democratic states.
53 min
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Padraic Kenney, “Dance in Chains: Political Imp...
The idea of being a “political prisoner” may seem timeless. If someone was imprisoned for his or her political beliefs, then that person is in some sense a “political prisoner.” Think of the Tower of London and its various occupants. But,
66 min
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Catherine Zuckert, “Machiavelli’s Politics” (U....
Catherine Zuckert‘s new book, Machiavelli’s Politics (University of Chicago Press, 2017), systematically analyzes all the texts that Machiavelli wrote, exploring each text individually, but also as part of Machiavelli’s more expansive teaching as a phi...
62 min
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Inequality and Democracy with Tommie Shelby
An interview with Tommie Shelby
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