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Political Science

Changing Their Minds? Donald Trump and Presidential Leadership

Edwards III George C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226775814, ISBN: HB: 9780226775500, University of Chicago Press, May 2021
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 74 tables

Despite popular perceptions, presidents rarely succeed in persuading either the public or members of Congress to change their minds and move from opposition to particular policies to support of them. As a result, the White House is not able to alter...

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Congress The First Branch (Companion Readings)

Ginsberg Benjamin, Wagner Hill Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9780300220636, Yale University Press, September 2020
264 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 27 black&white illus.

This reader offers an examination of such topics as congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legislative process, Congress and the president, and Congress and the courts. It is designed to accompany the course text "Congress:...

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Congress in Reverse Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present

Ragusa Jordan M., Birkhead Nathaniel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226717470, ISBN: HB: 9780226717333, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 17 tables

After years of divided government, countless Republicans campaigned on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Yet when they took control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2017 – after six years that...

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Campaign Finance and American Democracy What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters

Primo David M., Milyo Jeffrey D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226712949, ISBN: HB: 9780226712802, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 53 tables

In recent decades, and particularly since the Supreme court's controversial "Citizens United" decision, lawmakers and other elites have told Americans that stricter campaign finance laws are needed to improve people's faith in the election process, i...

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Challenges of Multilateralism

Lavelle Kathryn C.

ISBN: PB: 9780300230451, Yale University Press, May 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Multilateral initiatives have brought about striking, yet diverging, results. International organizations often struggle with the nationalist impulses of member states, different and shifting goals, and a lack of enforcement methods. Here, Kathryn La...

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Ecology

Climate Change from the Streets How Conflict and Collaboration Strengthen the Environmental Justice Movement

Mendez Michael

ISBN: HB: 9780300232158, Yale University Press, February 2020
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 20 black&white illus.

Although the science of climate change is clear, policy decisions about how to respond to its effects remain contentious. Even when such decisions claim to be guided by objective knowledge, they are made and implemented through political institutions...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Contours of the Illiberal State Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy

Vormann Boris, Lammert Christian

ISBN: PB: 9783593510170, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2019
292 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 halftones

The post-Cold War era was marked by the emergence of unprecedented new networks of international private trade, cooperation, and circulation of goods that promised to render the state nearly obsolete – at least in theory. The essays collected in this...

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Philosophy

Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry Channeling Wittgenstein

Gunnell John G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226661278, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive pract...

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Congress The First Branch

Ginsberg Benjamin, Wagner Hill Kathryn

ISBN: PB: 9780300220537, Yale University Press, October 2019
376 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 3 black&white illus.

In this accessible overview of the United States Congress's past and present, Ginsberg and Hill introduce students to the country's most democratic institution. This text surveys Congressional elections, the internal structure of Congress, the legisl...

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Asia

Political Science

Costliest Pearl China's Struggle for India's Ocean

Lintner Bertil

ISBN: HB: 9781849049962, Hurst Publishers, October 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Indian Ocean's strategic importance to China cannot be underestimated, given the oil, African minerals and container traffic that pass through it. Yet, until now, China has been absent from the region since Admiral Zheng He...

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