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Political Science

Azerbaijan's Geopolitical Landscape Contemporary Issues, 1991–2018

Shafiyev Farid

ISBN: PB: 9788024643915, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Being located between the Black and Caspian seas, Azerbaijan has always been the juncture of Eurasia – with a traditional reputation as a crossroads between the north-south and east-west t...

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Political Science

Limits of Party Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

Curry James M., Lee Frances E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226716350, ISBN: HB: 9780226716213, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 line drawings, 15 tables

To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced...

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That Is Not Who We Are! Populism and Peoplehood

Smith Rogers M.

ISBN: HB: 9780300229394, Yale University Press, August 2020
176 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 4 black&white illus.

Rogers Smith has long argued for the importance of "stories of peoplehood" in constituting political communities. By enabling a people to tell others and themselves who they are, such stories establish the people's identity and values and guide its a...

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Overcoming Necessity Emergency, Constraint, and the Meanings of American Constitutionalism

Crocker Thomas P.

ISBN: HB: 9780300181616, Yale University Press, August 2020
320 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm

Using emergency as a cause for action ultimately leads to an almost unnoticed evolution in the political understanding of presidential powers. The Constitution, however, was designed to function under "states of exception", most notably through the s...

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Congress in Reverse Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present

Ragusa Jordan M., Birkhead Nathaniel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226717470, ISBN: HB: 9780226717333, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 17 tables

After years of divided government, countless Republicans campaigned on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Yet when they took control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2017 – after six years that...

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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

Howell William G., Moe Terry M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226763170, ISBN: HB: 9780226728797, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-gove...

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Political Science

Trade Wars Are Class Wars How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace

Klein Matthew C., Pettis Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300244175, Yale University Press, July 2020
256 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 29 black&white illus.

Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael Pettis show in this book, they are often the unexpected result of domestic political choices to serve the inte...

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Democracy Declined The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection

SoRelle Mallory E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226711799, ISBN: HB: 9780226711652, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 line drawings, 19 tables

As Elizabeth Warren memorably wrote, "It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to refinance an existing home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five...

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America

Myth of the Imperial Presidency How Public Opinion Checks the Unilateral Executive

Christenson Dino P., Kriner Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226704364, ISBN: HB: 9780226704227, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 line drawings, 23 tables

Throughout the history of the United States, the nation's presidents have shown a startling power to act independently of Congress and the courts. Using such tools as executive orders and memoranda, presidents have taken the country to war, abolished...

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Sovereignty, RIP

Herzog Don

ISBN: HB: 9780300247725, Yale University Press, June 2020
320 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm

Social order requires a sovereign: an actor with unlimited, undivided, and unaccountable authority. Or so the classic theory says. But without noticing, we've gutted the theory. Constitutionalism limits state authority. Federalism divides it. The rul...

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