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Political Science

Wartime President Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat

Howell William G., Jackman Saul P., Rogowski Jon C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226048390, ISBN: HB: 9780226048253, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 31 tables

"It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority", wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American...

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Business Politics in the Middle East

Hertog Steffen, Luciani Giacomo, Valeri Marc

ISBN: PB: 9781849042352, Hurst Publishers, April 2013
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Although most Arab countries remain authoritarian, many have undergone a restructuring of state-society relations in which lower- and middle-class interest groups have lost ground while big business has benefited in terms of it...

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Pastoral in Palestine

Hertz Neil

ISBN: PB: 9780984201037, University of Chicago Press, Prickly Paradigm Press, February 2013
122 pp., 17.8x11.4 cm, 78 colour illus.

For decades, Israel and Palestine have been locked in ongoing conflict over land that each claims as its own. The conflict is often considered a calculated landgrab, but this characterization does little to take into account the myriad motivations th...

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Democracy and the Left Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America

Huber Evelyne, Stephens John D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226356532, ISBN: HB: 9780226356525, University of Chicago Press, October 2012
368 pp., 23x15 cm, 12 figures, 36 tables

Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage. In...

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Middle East

Iraq's Democratic Moment

Hadid Foulath

ISBN: HB: 9781849042185, Hurst Publishers, October 2012
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In 1920, a massive uprising took place against British occupation of Mesopotamia. This initiated a struggle for democracy that pitted nationalist leaders against the British, their local political allies and a newly-installed m...

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America

Political Science

State and the Stork The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

Hoff Derek S.

ISBN: HB: 9780226347622, University of Chicago Press, September 2012
392 pp., 23x15 cm

From the colonial era to the present, the ever-shifting debate about America's prodigious population growth has exerted a profound influence on the evolution of politics, public policy, and economic thinking in the United States. In a remarkable shif...

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Political Science

Crossing Borders, Shifting Boundaries National and Transnational Identities in Europe and Beyond

Hollinger Franz, Hadler Markus

ISBN: PB: 9783593396125, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, August 2012
355 pp., 21.6x14 cm

The articles in this volume investigate the topic of ethnic, national, and transnational identities. Using a wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches, the impact of cross-national migration, changes in political borders, collective mem...

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Political Science

Literary Criticism

Mosaic Constitution Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton

Hammill Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780226315423, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones

It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in "The Mosaic Constitution", arguing that Moses's constitution of Israel, which created people bound by the rule of law, was central...

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General

Doctors and Demonstrators How Political Institutions Shape Abortion Law in the United States, Britain, and Canada

Halfmann Drew

ISBN: PB: 9780226313436, ISBN: HB: 9780226313429, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 halftones

Since "Roe v. Wade", abortion has continued to be a divisive political issue in the United States. In contrast, it has remained primarily a medical issue in Britain and Canada despite the countries' shared heritage".Doctors and Demonstrators" looks b...

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Evolution

Political Science

Man Is by Nature a Political Animal Evolution, Biology, and Politics

Hatemi Peter K., McDermott Rose

ISBN: PB: 9780226319100, ISBN: HB: 9780226319094, University of Chicago Press, October 2011
352 pp., 23x15 cm, 27 tables, 20 line illus.

In "Man Is by Nature a Political Animal", Peter K. Hatemi and Rose McDermott bring together a diverse group of contributors to examine the ways in which evolutionary theory and biological research are increasingly informing analyses of political beha...

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