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Political Science

Social Citizen Peer Networks and Political Behavior

Sinclair Betsy

ISBN: PB: 9780226922829, ISBN: HB: 9780226922812, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
216 pp., 25x15 cm, 24 tables, 20 line illus.

Human beings are social animals. Yet despite vast amounts of research into political decision making, very little attention has been devoted to its social dimensions. In political science, social relationships are generally thought of as mere sources...

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Political Science

Learning While Governing Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch

Gailmard Sean, Patty John W.

ISBN: PB: 9780226924410, ISBN: HB: 9780226924403, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
336 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 tables, 4 line illus.

Although their leaders and staff are not elected, bureaucratic agencies have the power to make policy decisions that carry the full force of the law. In this groundbreaking book, Sean Gailmard and John W. Patty explore an issue central to political s...

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America

Political Science

Sympathetic State Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State

Landis Dauber Michele

ISBN: PB: 9780226923499, University of Chicago Press, January 2013
378 pp., 23x15 cm, 13 tables, 23 halftones, 1 line illus.

Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR's relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. In response, New Dealers pointed to...

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Islam

Demystifying the Caliphate

Al-Rasheed Madawi, Kersten Carool, Shterin Marat

ISBN: PB: 9781849042284, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
356 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In Western popular imagination, the Caliphate often conjures up an array of negative images, while rallies organised in support of resurrecting the Caliphate are treated with a mixture of apprehension and disdain, as if they we...

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Political Science

Rumor of Globalization Desecrating the Global from Vernacular Margins

Mukhopadhyay Bhaskar

ISBN: PB: 9781849041416, Hurst Publishers, January 2013
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Drawing on recent theories of virtuality, performativity, and governmentality, and on post-colonial activist scholarship, this book presents a series of ethnographic and archival studies of what Mukhopadhyay terms 'vernacular g...

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