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Nathan J. Murphy
Liberalism That Wins: Scientific Liberalism: A New Foundation for Democratic Renewal
"An insightful and brilliant perspective" Professor Jean Decety — Dept. Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Chicago "This appeal to rethink how our politics work should be cherished regardless of where you sit on the great political divide." Professor Richard Wrangham — Professor of ...
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Morgan Marietta
SCOTUS 2023: Major Decisions and Developments of the US Supreme Court
Each year, the Supreme Court of the United States announces new rulings with deep consequences for our lives. This sixth volume in Palgrave’s SCOTUS series describes, explains, and contextualizes the landmark cases of the US Supreme Court in the term ending 2023. With a close look at cases involvi...
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Amy E. Black
Civil Religion and the Renewal of American Politics (Cambridge Studies in Religion, Philosophy, and Society)
American culture is evolving rapidly as a result of shifts in its religious landscape. American civil religion is robust enough to make room for new perspectives, as religious pluralism is foundational for democracy. Moreover, as Amy Black and Douglas L. Koopman argue, American religion and politic...
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Wendy Brown
Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and Politics
Edgework brings together seven of Wendy Brown's most provocative recent essays in political and cultural theory. They range from explorations of politics post-9/11 to critical reflections on the academic norms governing feminist studies and political theory. Edgework is also concerned with the in...
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John Dewey
Reconstruction in Philosophy
John Dewey (October 20, 1859 - June 1, 1952) was an American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer whose ideas have been influential in education and social reform. He is regarded as one of the most prominent American scholars in the first half of the twentieth century. The overriding ...
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Rodolfo D Torres
The Latino Question: Politics, Laboring Classes and the Next Left
In the United States, the number of Latinos struggling in pursuit of the American Dream has never been greater. Millions work towards this ideal each year, only to find themselves trapped in a cycle of debt and labor. The need for a vivid, empirically grounded study on Latino politics, culture, and ...
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Ronald E. Powaski
Lightning War: Blitzkrieg in the West, 1940
"So long as the English tongue survives, the word Dunkerque will be spoken with reverence. For in that harbor, in such a hell as never blazed on earth before, at the end of a lost battle, the rags and blemishes that have hidden the soul of democracy fell away. . . . This shining thing in the souls o...
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Laura Gamboa
Resisting Backsliding
In the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and balances, hinders free and fair elections, and undermines political rights and civil liberties. Using and abusing institution...
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Keith C. Barton
Teaching History for the Common Good
In Teaching History for the Common Good, Barton and Levstik present a clear overview of competing ideas among educators, historians, politicians, and the public about the nature and purpose of teaching history, and they evaluate these debates in light of current research on students' historical th...
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Russell J. Dalton
Citizen Politics: Public Opinion and Political Parties in Advanced Industrial Democracies
"The book’s combined focus on parties as institutions and systems, alongside political attitudes and behaviors, is why I use it…I have yet to find another text that accomplishes this."   ―Meredith Conroy, California State University, San Bernardino Now, more than ever, people drive the ...
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Daniela F. Melo
After the Carnations: Social Movements in Portugal Since the 25 April 1974 Revolution (The Portuguese-Speaking World)
The Portuguese revolution of April 25, 1974, has drawn much well-deserved scholarly attention: it offers an innovative example of a leftist military-led revolutionary process that unexpectedly resulted in the transition to a West European-style social democracy. Although much of the existing scholar...
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Amy Gutmann
Ethics and Politics: Cases and Comments
The third edition of this casebook helps students recognize and assess the strengths and weaknesses of moral arguments in the making of public policy. Part one considers the ethics of process: the morally questionable means--violence, deception, and corruption--that are most commonly used by public ...
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Martin Moore
Dictating Reality: The Global Battle to Control the News
From the United States to China and from Brazil to India, an authoritarian approach to news is spreading across the world. Increasingly, the media is no longer a check on power or a source of objective information but a means by which governments and leaders can propagate their versions of reality, ...
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Albert W. Dzur
Democratic Professionalism: Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice
Bringing expert knowledge to bear in an open and deliberative way to help solve pressing social problems is a major concern today, when technocratic and bureaucratic decision making often occurs with little or no input from the general public. Albert Dzur proposes an approach he calls “democratic ...
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Steven Feldstein
The Rise of Digital Repression: How Technology is Reshaping Power, Politics, and Resistance (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
The world is undergoing a profound set of digital disruptions that are changing the nature of how governments counter dissent and assert control over their countries. While increasing numbers of people rely primarily or exclusively on online platforms, authoritarian regimes have concurrently develop...
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Anne M. Kornhauser
Debating the American State: Liberal Anxieties and the New Leviathan, 1930-1970
The New Deal left a host of political, institutional, and economic legacies. Among them was the restructuring of the government into an administrative state with a powerful executive leader and a large class of unelected officials. This "leviathan" state was championed by the political left, and its...
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Fathali M. Moghaddam
Collective Irrationality (SpringerBriefs in Psychology)
The goal of this book is to provide, first, a critical discussion of collective irrationality from the perspectives of different research traditions in psychological science and, second, introduce a forward- looking theory of collective irrationality, one that will help stimulate greater attention t...
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Quraishi
The Population Myth: Islam, Family Planning and Politics in India
"The Population Myth reveals how the right-wing spin to population data has given rise to myths about the Muslim rate of growth , often used to stoke majoritarian fears of a demographic skew. The author, S.Y. Quraishi, uses facts to demolish these, and demonstrates how a planned population is in the...
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Cathy Collins
Teaching News Literacy in the Age of AI: A Cross-Curricular Approach
Get the tools and strategies you need to help students understand why news matters and how to navigate the journalism landscape in the age of AI, misinformation and conspiratorial thinking. News literacy is critical to understanding the role that information and a free press play in our lives, and t...
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Daniel Schlozman
The Hollow Parties: The Many Pasts and Disordered Present of American Party Politics (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
A major history from the Founding to our embittered present that “explains the void” ( Politico ) at the center of America’s political parties Featured on The Ezra Klein Show and The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart America’s political parties are hollow shells of what they could be, lock...
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