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Beyond the World Bank Agenda An Institutional Approach to Development

Stein Howard

ISBN: PB: 9780226214771, ISBN: HB: 9780226771670, University of Chicago Press, October 2014
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 2 line drawings, 13 tables

Despite massive investment of money and research aimed at ameliorating third-world poverty, the development strategies of the international financial institutions over the past few decades have been a profound failure. Under the tutelage of the World...

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Breaking Democracy's Spell

Dunn John

ISBN: HB: 9780300179910, Yale University Press, September 2014
160 pp., 21x14 cm

Eminent political theorist John Dunn argues that democracy is not synonymous with good government in this timely and important work. The author explores the labyrinthine reality behind the basic concept of democracy, demonstrating how the political s...

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Lies, Passions, and Illusions The Democratic Imagination in the Twentieth Century

Furet Francois

ISBN: HB: 9780226114491, University of Chicago Press, September 2014
128 pp., 17.7x12.7 cm, 1 halftone

Francois Furet needs little introduction. Widely considered one of the leading historians of the French Revolution, he was a maverick for his time, shining a critical light on the entrenched Marxist interpretations that prevailed during the mid-twent...

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Mere Machine The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy

Harvey Anna L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300205770, ISBN: HB: 9780300171112, Yale University Press, August 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 19 black&white illus.

Introductory textbooks on American government tell us that the Supreme Court is independent from the elected branches, and that independent courts better protect rights than their more deferential counterparts. But are these facts, or myths? In this...

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If Mayors Ruled the World Dysfunctional Nations, Rising Cities

Barber Benjamin R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300209327, Yale University Press, August 2014
256 pp., 21x14 cm

In the face of the most perilous challenges of our time – climate change, terrorism, poverty, and trafficking of drugs, guns and people – the nations of the world seem paralyzed. The problems are too big, too interdependent, too divisive for the nati...

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Political Science

Hizbullah Phenomenon Politics and Communication

Khatib Lina, Matar Dina, Alshaer Atef

ISBN: PB: 9781849043359, Hurst Publishers, August 2014
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Hizbullah is not only a leading political actor in Lebanon and a dynamic force in the Middle East, but it is also distinguished by a sophisticated communication strategy. From relatively humble beginnings in the 1980s, Hizbulla...

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Criminology

Trading Democracy for Justice Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation

Burch Traci

ISBN: PB: 9780226064932, University of Chicago Press, July 2014
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 halftones, 50 line drawings, 22 tables

The United States imprisons far more people, total and per capita, and at a higher rate than any other country in the world. Among the more than 1. 5 million Americans currently incarcerated, minorities and the poor are disproportionately represented...

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Terror Courts America's Experiment with Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay

Bravin Jess

ISBN: PB: 9780300205596, ISBN: HB: 9780300189209, Yale University Press, June 2014
384 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Within weeks of the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States had captured hundreds of suspected al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, and by the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. Navy's detention camp in Guantana...

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Charter of the United Nations Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents

Shapiro Ian, Lampert Joseph

ISBN: PB: 9780300180435, Yale University Press, June 2014
288 pp., 21x14 cm

An essential addition to the Basic Documents of World Politics series, this volume presents the full text of the United Nations Charter and the Statute of the International Court of Justice, as well as other related historic documents and essays on t...

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Europe

Political Descent Malthus, Mutualism, and the Politics of Evolution in Victorian England

Hale Piers J.

ISBN: HB: 9780226108490, University of Chicago Press, June 2014
464 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 17 halftones

Historians of science have long noted the influence of the nineteenth-century political economist Thomas Robert Malthus on Charles Darwin. In a bold move, Piers J. Hale contends that this focus on Malthus and his effect on Darwin's evolutionary thoug...

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