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Politics of Corporate Social Responsibility The Rise of a Global Business Norm

Muhle Ursula

ISBN: PB: 9783593392639, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
390 pp., 21.2x14 cm

Bringing together the fields of sociology, political science, and management and organization studies, Ursula Muhle offers in this unique volume an authoritative overview of corporate social responsibility (CSR). Muhle first considers the origins of...

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Political Science

Intervention as Indirect Rule Civil War and Statebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Veit Alex

ISBN: PB: 9783593393117, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2011
300 pp., 21.4x14 cm

One of the largest peace-keeping missions currently being undertaken by the United Nations is in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the UN is attempting to deal with the civil wars and other conflicts that have plagued the country since 1996. In...

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America

Politics and Partnerships The Role of Voluntary Associations in America's Political Past and Present

Clemens Elisabeth S., Guthrie Doug

ISBN: PB: 9780226109978, ISBN: HB: 9780226109961, University of Chicago Press, February 2011
352 pp., 22.6x15.2 cm, 13 tables, 3 halftones, 17 line illus.

Exhorting people to volunteer is part of the everyday vocabulary of American politics. Routinely, members of both major parties call for partnerships between government and nonprofit organizations. These entreaties increase dramatically during times...

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Political Science

General

Cloning Terror The War of Images, 9/11 to the Present

Mitchell W. J. T.

ISBN: PB: 9780226532608, University of Chicago Press, January 2011
240 pp., 21.5x14 cm, 38 halftones, 8 colour illus.

The phrase "War on Terror" has quietly been retired from official usage, but it persists in the American psyche, and our understanding of it is hardly complete. Nor will it be, W. J. T Mitchell argues, without a grasp of the images that it spawned, a...

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Political Science

After the Rubicon Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War

Kriner Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226453569, ISBN: HB: 9780226453552, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 line drawings, 16 tables, 2 halftones

When the United States goes to war, the nation's attention focuses on the president. As commander in chief, a president reaches the zenith of power, while Congress is supposedly shunted to the sidelines once troops have been deployed abroad. Because...

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Political Science

Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process

Redlawsk David P., Tolbert Caroline J., Donovan Todd

ISBN: PB: 9780226706962, ISBN: HB: 9780226706955, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
296 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 40 tables, 53 line illus.

If Barack Obama had not won in Iowa, most commentators believe that he would not have been able to go on to capture the Democratic nomination for president".Why Iowa?" offers the definitive account of those early weeks of the campaign season: from ho...

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Political Science

Cuban Cure Reason and Resistance in Global Science

Reid-Henry Simon

ISBN: HB: 9780226709178, University of Chicago Press, December 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

After Fidel Castro came to power in 1959, his second declaration, after socialism, was that Cuba would become a leader in international science. In biotechnology he would be proven right and, today, Cuba counts a meningitis B vaccine and cutting-edge...

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Political Science

Obama's Race The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America

Tesler Michael, Sears David O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226793832, ISBN: HB: 9780226793825, University of Chicago Press, November 2010
224 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 7 tables, 37 line illus.

Barack Obama's presidential victory naturally led people to believe that the United States might finally be moving into a post-racial era".Obama's Race" – and its eye-opening account of the role played by race in the election – paints a dramatically...

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Islam

Fear of Barbarians Beyond the Clash of Civilizations

Todorov Tzvetan

ISBN: HB: 9780226805757, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The relationship between Western democracies and Islam, rarely entirely comfortable, has in recent years become increasingly tense. A growing immigrant population and worries about cultural and political assimilation – exacerbated by terrorist attack...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News that Matters Television and American Opinion, Updated Edition

Iyengar Shanto, Kinder Donald R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226388588, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Almost twenty-five years ago, Shanto Iyengar and Donald R. Kinder first documented a series of sophisticated and innovative experiments that unobtrusively altered the order and emphasis of news stories in selected television broadcasts. Their resulti...

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