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Political Science

Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice

Arceneaux Kevin, Johnson Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226047300, ISBN: HB: 9780226047270, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
244 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 figures, 31 tables

We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote – or mouse – we can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are the political consequences of this vast landscape of media choic...

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Education

Political Science

Education, Justice, and Democracy

Allen Danielle S., Reich Rob

ISBN: PB: 9780226012766, ISBN: HB: 9780226012629, University of Chicago Press, March 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 6 line illus.

Education is a contested topic, and not just politically. For years scholars have approached it from two different points of view: one empirical, focused on explanations for student and school success and failure, and the other philosophical, focused...

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Islam

Demystifying the Caliphate

Al-Rasheed Madawi, Kersten Carool, Shterin Marat

ISBN: PB: 9781849042284, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
356 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In Western popular imagination, the Caliphate often conjures up an array of negative images, while rallies organised in support of resurrecting the Caliphate are treated with a mixture of apprehension and disdain, as if they we...

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Islam

Questioning Secularism Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt

Ali Agrama Hussein

ISBN: PB: 9780226010694, University of Chicago Press, November 2012
288 pp., 25x15 cm

The central question of the Arab Spring – what democracies should look like in the deeply religious countries of the Middle East – has developed into a vigorous debate over these nations' secular identities. But what, exactly, is secularism? What has...

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General

Building Resilience Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery

Aldrich Daniel P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012889, ISBN: HB: 9780226012872, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
248 pp., 23x15 cm, 18 tables, 20 line illus.

Each year, natural disasters threaten the strength and stability of communities worldwide. Yet responses to the challenges of recovery vary greatly and in ways that aren't explained by the magnitude of the catastrophe or the amount of aid provided by...

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Political Science

Before the Convention Strategies and Choices in Presidential Nomination Campaigns

Aldrich John H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226012704, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
272 pp., 23x15 cm

Campaigns to win the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations are longer, more complex, and more confusing to the observer than the general election itself. The maze of delegate-selection procedures includes state primaries and caucuses as...

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Political Science

From the Far Right to the Mainstream Islamophobia in Party Politics and the Media

Ansari Humayun, Hafez Farid

ISBN: PB: 9783593396484, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2012
210 pp., 21.6x14 cm

This volume focuses on how the far right's views of Islam have been increasingly co-opted by both liberal and conservative parties and woven into the policies of Western governments over the past two decades. The unprecedented influence of xenophobic...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries

Arrunada Benito

ISBN: HB: 9780226028323, University of Chicago Press, August 2012
320 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 tables, 10 line illus.

Governments and development agencies spend considerable resources building property and company registries to protect property rights. When these efforts succeed, owners feel secure enough to invest in their property and banks are able use it as coll...

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EU and Africa From Eurafrique to Afro-Europa

Adebajo Adekeye, Whiteman Kaye

ISBN: PB: 9781849041713, Hurst Publishers, August 2012
536 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! This book offers a holistic and comprehensive assessment of the European Union's relations with Africa, focusing on their historical, political, socio-economic, and cultural dimensions. In the high imperial period from the nine...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Social Choice and Individual Values

Arrow Kenneth J., Maskin Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300179316, Yale University Press, July 2012
192 pp., 21x14 cm

Originally published in 1951, "Social Choice and Individual Values" introduced "Arrow's Impossibility Theorem" and founded the field of social choice theory in economics and political science. This new edition, including a new preface by the author a...

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