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Political Science

Media Studies

Levendusky Matthew

ISBN: PB: 9780226069012, ISBN: HB: 9780226068961, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 18 tables

Forty years ago, viewers who wanted to watch the news could only choose from among the major broadcast networks, all of which presented the same news without any particular point of view. Today we have a much broader array of choices, including cable...

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Political Science

Transition Scenarios China and the United States in the Twenty-First Century

Rapkin David P., Thompson William R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226040479, ISBN: HB: 9780226040332, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 line drawings, 21 tables

China's rising status in the global economy alongside recent economic stagnation in Europe and the United States has led to considerable speculation that we are in the early stages of a transition in power relations. Commentators have tended to treat...

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Political Science

Modernization and Its Political Consequences Weber, Mannheim, and Schumpeter

Blokland Hans, Smyth Van Weesep Nancy

ISBN: PB: 9780300204964, Yale University Press, August 2013
278 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

People's capacity to give meaning and direction to social life is an essential dimension of political freedom. Yet many citizens of Western democracies believe that this freedom has become quite restricted. They feel they are at the mercy of anonymou...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Making the News Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting

Boydstun Amber E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226065571, ISBN: HB: 9780226065434, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 line drawings, 14 tables

Media attention can play a profound role in whether or not officials act on a policy issue, but how policy issues make the news in the first place has remained a puzzle. Why do some issues go viral and then just as quickly fall off the radar? How is...

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Political Science

General

Politics of Belonging Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration

Masuoka Natalie, Junn Jane

ISBN: PB: 9780226057163, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 16 figures, 15 tables

The United States is once again experiencing a major influx of immigrants. Questions about who should be admitted and what benefits should be afforded to new members of the polity are among the most divisive and controversial contemporary political i...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Post-Ethical Society The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular

Porpora Douglas V., Nikolaev Alexander, Hagemann May Julia, Jenkins Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226062495, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 tables

We've all seen the images from Abu Ghraib: stress positions, US soldiers kneeling on the heads of prisoners, and dehumanizing pyramids formed from black-hooded bodies. We have watched officials elected to our highest offices defend enhanced interroga...

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Political Science

Health Care for Some Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930

Hoffman Beatrix

ISBN: PB: 9780226102191, ISBN: HB: 9780226348032, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 14 halftones

The 2010 Affordable Care Act is a sweeping reform to the US health care system. Despite the fact that nearly every other developed country in the world considers health care a right, the passage of the act in the United States was hard fought because...

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Philosophy

Political Science

On Tyranny Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojeve Correspondence

Strauss Leo

ISBN: PB: 9780226030135, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
360 pp., 23x15 cm, 2 halftones

"On Tyranny" is Leo Strauss's classic reading of Xenophon's dialogue "Hiero", or "Tyrannicus", in which the tyrant Hiero and the poet Simonides discuss the advantages and disadvantages of exercising tyranny. Included are a translation of the dialogue...

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Political Science

Wartime President Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat

Howell William G., Jackman Saul P., Rogowski Jon C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226048390, ISBN: HB: 9780226048253, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 line drawings, 31 tables

"It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority", wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American...

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Political Science

Changing Minds or Changing Channels? Partisan News in an Age of Choice

Arceneaux Kevin, Johnson Martin

ISBN: PB: 9780226047300, ISBN: HB: 9780226047270, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
244 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 figures, 31 tables

We live in an age of media saturation, where with a few clicks of the remote – or mouse – we can tune in to programming where the facts fit our ideological predispositions. But what are the political consequences of this vast landscape of media choic...

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