New Books in Political Science
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Nathan Kalmoe and David Kinder, “Neither Libera...
Nathan Kalmoe and Donald Kinder are the authors of Neither Liberal or Conservative: Ideological Innocence in the American Public (University of Chicago Press, 2017). Kalmoe is an assistant professor of political communication at Louisiana State Univers...
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Nader Hashimi and Danny Postel, eds. “Sectarian...
The term ‘sectarianism’ has dominated much of the discourse on the Middle East and dictates that much of the unrest in the region is due to religious and cultural differences stemming back centuries. However,
26 min
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Max Krochmal, “Blue Texas: The Making of a Mult...
Blue Texas: The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era (University of North Carolina Press, 2016) is about the “other” Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community...
53 min
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Brexit, Trump, & Democracy with Thom Brooks
An interview with Thom Brooks
36 min
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Dana Mills, “Dance and Politics: Moving Beyond ...
Dance & Politics: Moving Beyond Boundaries (Manchester University Press, 2017) by Dana Mills, considers dance as a political expression from a number of perspectives, situating the analysis within a framework of contemporary political theory.
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William Davenport Mercer, “Diminishing the Bill...
William Davenport Mercer‘s Diminishing the Bill of Rights: Barron v. Baltimore and the Foundations of American Liberty (University of Oklahoma Press, 2017) argues that if we want to understand how Americans in the early Republic viewed the sources of t...
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David R. Mayhew, “The Imprint of Congress” (Yal...
This week on the podcast we have a true political science legend. David R. Mayhew is the author of such political science greats as Congress: The Electoral Connection, Divided We Govern, and Partisan Balance.
14 min
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Good & Bad Arguments with Trudy Govier
An interview with Trudy Govier
26 min
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Michael J. Hogan, “The Afterlife of John Fitzge...
As president John F. Kennedy enjoyed a remarkable degree of popularity, and in the decades since his assassination his standing has only grown in the public imagination. In The Afterlife of John Fitzgerald Kennedy: A Biography (Cambridge University Pre...
49 min
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Brittney C. Cooper, “Beyond Respectability: The...
Dr. Brittney C. Cooper, who is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies at Rutgers University, explores the intellectual genealogy and geography of the work of African-American women over the course of more than a century in her book,
51 min
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Josh Chafetz, “Congress’s Constitution: Legisla...
Josh Chafetz‘s new book, Congress’s Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers (Yale University Press, 2017), examines Congress as a branch and the powers of the legislature within the constitutional system.
47 min
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Identity and Democracy with Akeel Bilgrami
An interview with Akeel Bilgrami
30 min
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Jessie Daniels and Arlene Stein, “Going Public:...
Jessie Daniels and Arlene Stein have written Going Public: A Guide for Social Scientists (University of Chicago Press, 2017). How can political scientists and other social scientists speak beyond campus walls? Through blogs, social media,
16 min
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Peter John Chen, “Animal Welfare in Australia: ...
In Animal Welfare in Australia: Politics and Policy (Sydney University Press, 2016), Peter John Chen, a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Sydney, explores the issue of animal welfare in Australia through the lens of political sc...
16 min
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Peter Balint, “Respecting Toleration: Tradition...
The freedoms prized and secured in a modern liberal democratic societies give rise to significant forms of moral and social diversity. In many cases, these forms of diversity must be dealt with by the state and its citizens.
58 min
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Know-Nothing Politics with Ilya Somin
An interview with Ilya Somin
26 min
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Ryan Alford, “Permanent State of Emergency: Unc...
Ryan Alford is a law professor at Lakehead University and a specialist in constitutional law. His book Permanent State of Emergency: Unchecked Executive Power and the Demise of Rule of Law (McGill Queens University Press, 2017),
57 min
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Lee Trepanier, ed. “Why the Humanities Matter T...
Lee Trepanier, Professor of Political Science at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan, edited this important analysis of why the humanities matter, especially within higher education. Trepanier’s collection,
29 min
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John Bohrer, “The Revolution of Robert Kennedy:...
From the moment he entered politics as the manager of John F. Kennedy’s 1952 Senate campaign, Robert Kennedy’s political career was subsumed into that of his older brother. With President Kennedy’s assassination in November 1963 his grief-stricken youn...
62 min
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Different Medias with Eric Alterman
An interview with Eric Alterman
28 min
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David Garland, “The Welfare State: A Very Short...
What is a welfare state? What is it for? Does the U.S. have one? Does it work at cross-purposes to a free-market economy or is it, in fact, essential to the functioning of modern, post-industrial societies? Join us as we speak with David Garland,
50 min
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Paul Hollander, “From Benito Mussolini to Hugo ...
It’s true that Western “intellectuals” have not always been wrong about dictators fighting for a supposedly “brighter future,” usually (though not always) of the non-capitalist variety. Nonetheless, as Paul Hollander well shows in his readable,
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James Heinzen, “The Art of the Bribe: Corruptio...
The Soviet Union under Stalin was very repressive. You could get sent to a GULAG (if not shot) for casually telling an “anti-Soviet” joke or pilfering ubiquitous “state property.” But, as James Heinzen points out in his excellent book The Art of the Br...
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B. Harrison and M. Michelson, “Listen, We Need ...
Brian F. Harrison and Melissa R. Michelson‘s, Listen, We Need to Talk: How to Change Attitudes about LGBT Rights (Oxford University Press, 2017) is a broad interrogation of the way that public opinion is formed (or reformed) and activated,
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Democracy and Civility with Karen Stohr
An interview with Karen Stohr
29 min