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Moral Politics How Liberals and Conservatives Think (Third Edition)

Lakoff George

ISBN: PB: 9780226411293, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
512 pp., 21.6x14 cm

When "Moral Politics" was first published two decades ago, it redefined how Americans think and talk about politics through the lens of cognitive political psychology. Today, George Lakoff's classic text has become all the more relevant, as liberals...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News The Politics of Illusion (Tenth Edition)

Bennett W. Lance

ISBN: PB: 9780226344867, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

For over thirty years, "News: The Politics of Illusion" has not simply reflected the political communication field – it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting a...

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Political Science

Plutocrats United Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections

Hasen Richard L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223545, ISBN: HB: 9780300212457, Yale University Press, August 2016
256 pp., 23.3x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

From a leading expert on election law, a compelling answer to the dilemmas of campaign finance reform. Campaign financing is one of today's most divisive political issues. The left asserts that the electoral process is rife with corruption. The right...

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Political Science

Undoing Impunity Speech After Sexual Violence

Geetha V.

ISBN: HB: 9789384757779, University of Chicago Press, Zubaan Books, August 2016
200 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Acts of sexual violence are often committed with impunity – perpetrators do not consider their actions consequential. Yet throughout history, impunity for sexual violence has been challenged by fearless, just, and compassionate speech – both in court...

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America

Insecure Majorities Congress and the Perpetual Campaign

Lee Frances E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226409047, ISBN: HB: 9780226408996, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 23 line drawings, 18 tables

As Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing i...

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Political Science

Natural Goodness of Man On the System of Rousseau's Thought

Melzer Arthur M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226519791, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The true key to all the perplexities of the human condition, Rousseau boldly claims, is the "natural goodness of man". It is also the key to his own notoriously contradictory writings, which, he insists, are actually the disassembled parts of a rigor...

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Political Science

Philanthropy in Democratic Societies History, Institutions, Values

Reich Rob, Cordelli Chiara, Bernholz Lucy

ISBN: PB: 9780226335643, ISBN: HB: 9780226335506, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables

Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as...

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America

Alaska Politics and Public Policy The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232891, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
750 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 maps

Politics in Alaska have changed significantly since the last major book on the subject was published more than twenty years ago, with the rise and fall of Sarah Palin and the rise and fall of oil prices being but two of the many developments to alter...

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Political Science

Presidential Government

Ginsberg Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300212068, Yale University Press, July 2016
488 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 black&white illus.

Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg's comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presid...

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Political Science

Beyond Crimea The New Russian Empire

Grigas Agnia

ISBN: HB: 9780300214505, Yale University Press, July 2016
352 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

How will Russia redraw post-Soviet borders? In the wake of recent Russian expansionism, political risk expert Agnia Grigas illustrates how-for more than two decades-Moscow has consistently used its compatriots in bordering nations for its territorial...

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