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Political Science

Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy Politics and Law in the Early American Republic

Lomazoff Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226579450, ISBN: HB: 9780226579313, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

The Bank of the United States sparked several rounds of intense debate over the meaning of the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause, which authorizes the federal government to make laws that are "necessary" for exercising its other powers. Our...

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Asia

Communist Party of China and Marxism, 1921-1985 A Self-Portrait

Ladany Laszlo, Elegant Robert

ISBN: PB: 9781849049108, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
592 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Without an understanding of the Communist Party no one can understand the China in which the Party has dominated the country. This book follows the development of the Communist Party and of Marxism in China from the early years...

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Once and Future Liberal After Identity Politics

Lilla Mark

ISBN: PB: 9781849049955, Hurst Publishers, April 2018
160 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! For nearly forty years, Ronald Reagan's vision – small government, lower taxes, and self-reliant individualism – has remained America's dominant political ideology. The Democratic Party has offered no truly convincing competing...

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Africa

Political Science

Specter of Global China Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa

Lee Ching Kwan

ISBN: PB: 9780226340838, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 1 halftone, 2 tables

China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred...

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Political Science

Argument Open to All Reading the Federalist in the 21st Century

Levinson Sanford

ISBN: PB: 9780300230666, ISBN: HB: 9780300199598, Yale University Press, October 2017
368 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In "An Argument Open to All", renowned legal scholar Sanford Levinson takes a novel approach to what is perhaps America's most famous political tract. Rather than concern himself with the authors as historical figures, or how The Federalist helps us...

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Orban Europe's New Strongman

Lendvai Paul

ISBN: HB: 9781849048699, Hurst Publishers, October 2017
264 pp., 22.5x14.5 cm

For sale in CIS only! Through a masterly and cynical manipulation of ethnic nationalism, and deep-rooted corruption, Prime Minister Orban has exploited successive electoral victories to build a closely knit and super-rich oligarchy. More than any ot...

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Policy Debates as Dynamic Networks German Pension Politics and Privatization Discourse

Leifeld Philip

ISBN: PB: 9783593505701, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2016
360 pp., 21.6x14 cm, 100 tables

How do policy debates work? How can interest groups and legislators influence political processes through the media? This book introduces discourse network analysis as a methodological toolbox for the study of policy debates. With this set of methods...

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America

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Insurgent Democracy The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics

Lansing Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434773, ISBN: HB: 9780226283500, University of Chicago Press, October 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 30 halftones

In 1915, western farmers mounted one of the most significant challenges to party politics America has seen: the Nonpartisan League, which sought to empower citizens and restrain corporate influence. Before its collapse in the 1920s, the League counte...

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Political Science

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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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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