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Political Science

Against the Profit Motive The Salary Revolution in American Government, 1780-1940

Parrillo Nicholas R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300194753, Yale University Press, November 2013
576 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

<p>In America today, a public official's lawful income consists of a salary. But until a century ago, the law frequently authorized officials to make money on a profit-seeking basis. Prosecutors won a fee for each defendant convicted. Tax collect...

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Political Science

White-Collar Government The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making

Carnes Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780226087146, ISBN: HB: 9780226087009, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 61 line drawings, 8 tables

Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has...

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Law

Political Science

Cloaking of Power Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism

Carrese Paul O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226100609, ISBN: HB: 9780226094823, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How did the US judiciary become so powerful – powerful enough that state and federal judges once vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy? In "The Cloaking of Power",...

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Political Science

Negotiating in Civil Conflict Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq

Ala Hamoudi Haider

ISBN: PB: 9780226068824, ISBN: HB: 9780226315348, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country's first democratic election in more than fifty years. Even under ideal conditions, drafting a constitution can be a prolonged process marked by contentious debate, and conditions in Ir...

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Political Science

Democracy against Development Lower Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

Witsoe Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226063478, ISBN: HB: 9780226063164, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 8 tables

Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India's emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation's recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and...

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Military

Political Science

Putin's New Order in the Middle East

Nizameddin Talal

ISBN: HB: 9781849042598, Hurst Publishers, November 2013
358 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Vladimir Putin has almost by stealth transformed himself into an historic Russian figure. His undeniable political dominance was reflected in his return to presidential control after the March 2012 elections, having placed an o...

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Political Science

Nation of Devils Democracy and the Problem of Obedience

Ringen Stein

ISBN: HB: 9780300193190, Yale University Press, October 2013
224 pp., 21x14 cm, 1 black&white illus.

Oxford University political theorist Stein Ringen offers a thought-provoking meditation on the art of democratic rule: how does a government persuade the people to accept its authority? Every government must make unpopular demands of its citizens, fr...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

America the Possible Roadmap for a New Economy

Speth James Gustave

ISBN: PB: 9780300198348, Yale University Press, October 2013
272 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

In this third volume of his award-winning "American Crisis" series, James Gustave Speth makes his boldest and most ambitious contribution yet. He looks unsparingly at the sea of troubles in which the United States now finds itself, charts a course th...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Leon Trotsky A Revolutionary's Life

Rubenstein Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780300198324, ISBN: HB: 9780300137248, Yale University Press, October 2013
240 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of th...

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Political Science

Voting Wars From Florida 2000 to the Next Election Meltdown

Hasen Richard L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300198249, ISBN: HB: 9780300182033, Yale University Press, October 2013
256 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 9 black&white illus.

In terms of the administration of elections, the 2000 presidential race was a watershed event. The dispute over the vote count in Florida, ultimately decided along with the presidency by the U. S. Supreme Court, revealed that our electoral processes...

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