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Hyperpolitics An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts

Calise Mauro, Lowi Theodore J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226091020, ISBN: HB: 9780226091013, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm

Fifteen years in the making, "Hyperpolitics" is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline's most dis...

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Political Science

World Rule Accountability, Legitimacy, and the Design of Global Governance

Koppell Jonathan G. S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226450995, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 tables, 3 illus.

Dilemmas from climate change to financial meltdowns make it clear that global interconnectedness is the norm in the twenty-first century. As a result, global governance organizations (GGOs) – from the World Trade Organization to the Forest Stewardshi...

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Political Science

Strengthening Peace in Post-Civil War States Transforming Spoilers into Stakeholders

Hoddie Matthew, Hartzell Caroline A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226351254, ISBN: HB: 9780226351247, University of Chicago Press, September 2010
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables, 1 map, 1 line illus.

Among the more frequent and most devastating of conflicts, civil wars – from Yugoslavia to Congo – frequently reignite and even spill over into the international sphere. Given the inherent fragility of civil war peace agreements, innovative approache...

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Political Science

Globalization and the Circumpolar North

Heininen Lassi, Southcott Chris

ISBN: PB: 9781602230781, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, July 2010
320 pp., 23x15 cm

The circumpolar north has long been the subject of conflicting national aspirations and border disputes, and with the end of the cold war and the coming era of potential resource scarcity, its importance will only grow over the next several decades....

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Political Science

Community and Autonomy Institutions, Policies and Legitimacy in Multilevel Europe

Scharpf Fritz W.

ISBN: PB: 9783593391885, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, July 2010
391 pp., 21.2x13.9 cm

Since the mid-1980s, Fritz W. Scharpf has been investigating the evolution of the multilevel European polity and its impact on the effectiveness and legitimacy of democratic government in Europe".Community and Autonomy" collects in one volume Scharpf...

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Anthropology

Political Science

Neoliberal Frontiers An Ethnography of Sovereignty in West Africa

Chalfin Brenda

ISBN: PB: 9780226100616, ISBN: HB: 9780226100593, University of Chicago Press, July 2010
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 maps, 1 figure, 3 tables, 24 halftones

In "Neoliberal Frontiers", Brenda Chalfin presents an ethnographic examination of the day-to-day practices of the officials of Ghana's Customs Service, exploring the impact of neoliberal restructuring and integration into the global economy on Ghanai...

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America

Political Science

Filibustering A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate

Koger Gregory

ISBN: PB: 9780226449654, ISBN: HB: 9780226449647, University of Chicago Press, June 2010
272 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 tables, 51 line illus.

In the modern Congress, one of the highest hurdles for major bills or nominations is gaining the sixty votes necessary to shut off a filibuster in the Senate. But this wasn't always the case. Both citizens and scholars tend to think of the legislativ...

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Philosophy

Theological Basis of Liberal Modernity in Montesquieu's "Spirit of the Laws"

Pangle Thomas L.

ISBN: HB: 9780226645490, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
208 pp., 23x15 cm

The "Spirit of the Laws" – Montesquieu's huge, complex, and enormously influential work – is considered one of the central texts of the Enlightenment, laying the foundation for the liberally democratic political regimes that were to embody its values...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Atlas of World Hunger

Bassett Thomas J., Winter-Nelson Alex

ISBN: HB: 9780226039077, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
216 pp., 28x21.5 cm, 35 tables, 47 halftones, 3 line drawings, 103 colour illus.

Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be "making sure that people are able to get enough to eat". The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domes...

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Political Science

Paradoxes of Integration Race, Neighborhood, and Civic Life in Multiethnic America

Oliver J. Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226626635, ISBN: HB: 9780226626628, University of Chicago Press, May 2010
216 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 maps, 43 line illus.

The United States is rapidly changing from a country monochromatically divided between black and white into a multiethnic society".The Paradoxes of Integration" helps us to understand America's racial future by revealing the complex relationships amo...

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