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After the Rubicon Congress, Presidents, and the Politics of Waging War
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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Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process
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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Cuban Cure Reason and Resistance in Global Science
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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Obama's Race The 2008 Election and the Dream of a Post-Racial America
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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Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty War, Religion, Commerce, Terrain, Technology, Uneasiness of Mind, the Spirit of Political Vigilance, and the Foundations of the Modern Republic
ISBN: PB: 9780300168082, Yale University Press, October 2010
400 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
This fresh examination of the works of Montesquieu seeks to understand the shortcomings of the modern democratic state in light of this great political thinker's insightful critique of commercial republicanism. The western democracies' muted response...
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First Strike America, Terrorism, and Moral Tradition
ISBN: HB: 9780300124484, Yale University Press, October 2010
240 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
Can the use of force first against a less-than-imminent threat be both morally acceptable and consistent with American values? In this timely book, Mark Totten offers the first in-depth, historical examination of the use of preemptive and preventive...
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Cruel and Unusual The Culture of Punishment in America
ISBN: PB: 9780300168013, ISBN: HB: 9780300111743, Yale University Press, October 2010
336 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm
The statistics are startling. Since 1973, America's imprisonment rate has multiplied over five times to become the highest in the world. More than two million inmates reside in state and federal prisons. What does this say about our attitudes toward...
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Fear of Barbarians Beyond the Clash of Civilizations
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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News that Matters Television and American Opinion, Updated Edition
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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Hyperpolitics An Interactive Dictionary of Political Science Concepts
ISBN: PB: 9780226091020, ISBN: HB: 9780226091013, University of Chicago Press, October 2010
264 pp., 25.4x17.7 cm
Fifteen years in the making, "Hyperpolitics" is an interactive dictionary offering a wholly original approach for understanding and working with the most central concepts in political science. Designed and authored by two of the discipline's most dis...
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