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Christian Joppke
Political Neoliberalism: Order and Rupture
In recent years, the concept of neoliberalism has been discarded as shrill and overspent. In Political Neoliberalism , Christian Joppke argues that it is a useful lens to make sense of a wide range of political phenomena--those pertaining to the order and governing of advanced Western societies, bu...
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Morten Høi Jensen
The Master of Contradictions: Thomas Mann and the Making of "The Magic Mountain"
The arresting story of how Thomas Mann wrote The Magic Mountain as a defeated Germany descended into political chaos “A lavish work of historical analysis that doubles as a kind of psychological thriller. Mann’s magnum opus is not just a novel, Jensen suggests, but a thinly veiled spiritual au...
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Gerard N. Magliocca
Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes
What happens when the political ideas and constitutional interpretations of one generation are replaced by those of another? This process has occurred throughout American history down to the present day as "we the people" change our minds about how we govern ourselves. Depicting a monumental clash o...
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Jeffrey R. Henig
Outside Money in School Board Elections: The Nationalization of Education Politics (Education Politics and Policy)
2020 Dennis Judd Best Book Award, American Political Science Association Outside Money in School Board Elections documents and analyzes the injection of external funding into local elections. Local school board contests have recently become flashpoints of national donor interest. Some observers ...
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Emma Saunders-Hastings
Private Virtues, Public Vices: Philanthropy and Democratic Equality
A thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more than we think. Philanthropy plays a huge role in supporting the provision of many public goods in contemporary societies. As a result, decisions that a...
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Kurt Weyland
Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings
Can Latin America’s “new left” stimulate economic development, enhance social equity, and deepen democracy in spite of the economic and political constraints it faces? This is the first book to systematically examine the policies and performance of the left-wing governments that have risen to ...
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Deborah J. Yashar
Homicidal Ecologies (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Why has violence spiked in Latin America's contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region's uneven homicide levels, this book maps out a theoretical agenda focusing on three intersecting factors: the changing geography of transnational illicit politi...
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Inga Atladóttir
Active Worlds, Possible Worlds: Moral Attention and the Renewal of Education After Collapse
In 2008, Iceland’s banking collapse shattered more than an economy. Savings disappeared, trust eroded, and a small nation famed for resilience was forced to confront uncomfortable truths about power, responsibility, and the stories it told itself. Out of this rupture emerged a rare collective insi...
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John G. Dale
Free Burma: Transnational Legal Action and Corporate Accountability
When the military’s ruling party violently quashed Burma’s pro-democracy movement, diplomatic condemnation quickly followed—to little effect. But when Burma’s activists began linking the movement to others around the world, the result was dramatically different. This book is the first to exp...
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Ann Hagedorn
Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America, 1919
Written with the sweep of an epic novel and grounded in extensive research into contemporary documents, Savage Peace is a striking portrait of American democracy under stress. It is the surprising story of America in the year 1919. Book Description Written with the sweep of an epic novel and ground...
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Namhee Lee
Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea
In Memory Construction and the Politics of Time in Neoliberal South Korea Namhee Lee explores memory construction and history writing in post-1987 South Korea. The massive neoliberal reconstruction of all aspects of society shifted public discourse from minjung (people) to simin (citizen), fro...
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Richard Rorty
Pragmatism as Anti-Authoritarianism
“Provocative and engaging…The array of urgent questions and crises facing our democracy makes one miss Richard Rorty’s voice: insistent, relentlessly questioning, and dedicated to the proposition that we can’t afford to let our democracy fail.” ―Chris Lehmann, New Republic “Richard ...
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Katherine Concord
The United States Constitution: Pocket-Sized Full Text of The Constitution, The Bill of Rights, and All Subsequent Amendments
Now, more than ever, it’s critical that every American to know their rights and understand the laws of our nation. The Constitution, the Bill of Rights, and the 17 subsequent amendments don’t just outline the framework of government—they safeguard our freedoms, protect our rule of law, and de...
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Anne E. E. Brodsky
With All Our Strength
With All Our Strength is the inside story of this women-led underground organization and their fight for the rights of Afghan women. Anne Brodsky, the first writer given in-depth access to visit and interview their members and operations in Afghanistan and Pakistan, shines light on the gruesome, of...
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Euripides
Ten Plays by Euripides
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life.  In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy.  For the f...
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Toyin Falola
Understanding Modern Nigeria
Since its independence from Britain in 1960, Nigeria has emerged as Africa's second largest economy and one of the biggest producers of oil in the world. Despite its economic success, however, there are deep divisions among its two hundred and fifty ethnic groups. Centered around three of the domina...
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Hayanan Thevaranjan
A NATION RUN BY ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: A Rise Of an AI President
A Nation Run by Artificial Intelligence : The Rise of an AI President What happens when democracy upgrades? In a world drowning in political corruption, misinformation, economic instability, and broken promises, one nation makes a radical decision: They elect an Artificial Intelligence as President...
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Stephen M. Feldman
Please Don't Wish Me a Merry Christmas: A Critical History of the Separation of Church and State (Critical America, 30)
Whether in the form of Christmas trees in town squares or prayer in school, fierce disputes over the separation of church and state have long bedeviled this country. Both decried and celebrated, this principle is considered by many, for right or wrong, a defining aspect of American national identity...
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Marjorie A. Beale
The Modernist Enterprise: French Elites and the Threat of Modernity, 1900-1940
For the tradition-bound French elites of pre-World War I and the interwar period, modernity presented itself as a series of questions about France’s place in a newly competitive industrial world and about their positions as the leaders and managers of a mass society. What was the optimal form of g...
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Russell J. Dalton
The Participation Gap: Social Status and Political Inequality
The dilemma of democracy arises from two contrasting trends. More people in the established democracies are participating in civil society activity, contacting government officials, protesting, and using online activism and other creative forms of participation. At the same time, the importance of s...
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