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Great Broadening How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics
ISBN: PB: 9780226625942, ISBN: HB: 9780226625805, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
326 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 line drawings, 4 tables
Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society...
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£25,00
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£74,00
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Presidents and Parties in the Public Mind
ISBN: PB: 9780226589343, ISBN: HB: 9780226589206, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 92 line drawings, 54 tables
How is Donald Trump's presidency likely to affect the reputation and popular standing of the Republican Party? Profoundly, according to Gary C. Jacobson. From Harry S. Truman to Barack Obama, every postwar president has powerfully shaped Americans' f...
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£23,00
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£68,00
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Emotions of Protest
ISBN: PB: 9780226561783, ISBN: HB: 9780226561646, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables
In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popu...
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£23,00
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Ekklesia Three Inquiries in Church and State
ISBN: PB: 9780226545585, ISBN: HB: 9780226545448, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones
"Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State" offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has no...
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£67,50
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Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru
ISBN: PB: 9780226487441, ISBN: HB: 9780226487304, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 4 tables
Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit – they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new...
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£28,00
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£84,50
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Pan-Islamic Connections Transnational Networks Between South Asia and the Gulf
ISBN: PB: 9781849048187, Hurst Publishers, August 2017
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! South Asia is today the region inhabited by the largest number of Muslims – roughly 500 million. In the course of its Islamisation process, which began in the eighth century, it developed a distinct Indo-Islamic civilisation th...
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Taliban Narratives The Use and Power of Stories in the Afghanistan Conflict
ISBN: PB: 9781849048439, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Why has the Taliban been so much more effective in presenting messages that resonate with the Afghan population than the United States, the Afghan government and their allies? This book, based on years of field research and the...
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Supersizing Urban America How Inner Cities Got Fast Food with Government Help
ISBN: HB: 9780226921921, University of Chicago Press, March 2017
248 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 2 tables
More than one-third of adults in the United States are obese. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that there are over 112,000 obesity-related deaths annually, and for many years, the government has waged a very public war on the...
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Fragile Empire How Russia Fell in and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin
ISBN: PB: 9780300205220, Yale University Press, February 2014
352 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 20 illus.
From Kaliningrad on the Baltic to the Russian Far East, journalist Ben Judah has travelled throughout Russia and the former Soviet republics, conducting extensive interviews with President Vladimir Putin's friends, foes, and colleagues, government of...
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Spartakus The Symbology of Revolt
ISBN: HB: 9780857421739, Seagull Books, December 2013
180 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm
On December 29, 1918, the Spartakus League, a Marxist revolutionary movement, rose up in Germany calling for an end to class rule by the bourgeoisie. Massive demonstrations followed and more than 500,000 Berliners took to the streets in January – onl...
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