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Political Science

Congress's Constitution Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers

Chafetz Josh

ISBN: PB: 9780300248333, Yale University Press, September 2019
448 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

A leading scholar of Congress and the Constitution analyzes Congress's surprisingly potent set of tools in the system of checks and balances Congress is widely supposed to be the least effective branch of the federal government. But as Josh Chafetz...

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America

Clear and Present Safety The World Has Never Been Better and Why That Matters to Americans

Cohen Michael A., Zenko Micah

ISBN: HB: 9780300222555, Yale University Press, May 2019
272 pp., 21x14 cm

What most frightens the average American? Terrorism. North Korea. Iran. But what if none of these are probable or consequential threats to America? What if the world today is safer, freer, wealthier, healthier, and better educated than ever before? W...

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Conservative Innovators How States Are Challenging Federal Power

Merriman Ben

ISBN: PB: 9780226620312, ISBN: HB: 9780226620282, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 8 tables

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done. But this arrangement depends a great deal on state cooperation, and not all state officials h...

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Choosing the Leader Leadership Elections in the U.S. House of Representatives

Green Matthew N., Harris Douglas B.

ISBN: PB: 9780300222579, Yale University Press, March 2019
320 pp., 21x14 cm

How are congressional party leaders chosen? In the first comprehensive study since Robert Peabody's classic "Leadership in Congress", political scientists Matthew Green and Douglas Harris draw on newly collected data about U.S. House members who have...

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Creating Political Presence The New Politics of Democratic Representation

Castiglione Dario, Pollak Johannes

ISBN: PB: 9780226588537, ISBN: HB: 9780226588360, University of Chicago Press, January 2019
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

For at least two centuries, democratic representation has been at the center of debate. Should elected representatives express the views of the majority, or do they have the discretion to interpret their constituents' interests? How can representativ...

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Asia

China Imagined From European Fantasy to Spectacular Power

Lee Gregory B.

ISBN: HB: 9781787380165, Hurst Publishers, December 2018
232 pp., 19.8x13 cm

For sale in CIS only! How did China become China? And where is it leading us? We talk as if it had always existed: eternal China with its 5,000 years of uninterrupted history. But the name "China" was first used by sixteenth-century Europeans, and i...

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Africa

Political Science

Critical Terms for the Study of Africa

Desai Gaurav, Masquelier Adeline

ISBN: PB: 9780226548975, ISBN: HB: 9780226548838, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
432 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

For far too long, the Western world viewed Africa as a seemingly unmappable region and a repository for outsiders' wildest imaginings. This problematic notion has had lingering effects not only on popular impressions of the region but also on the dev...

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America

Congressional Endgame Interchamber Bargaining and Compromise

Ryan Josh M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226582238, ISBN: HB: 9780226582061, University of Chicago Press, October 2018
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 11 line drawings, 28 tables

Congress is a bicameral legislature in which both the House and Senate must pass a bill before it can be enacted into law. The US bicameral system also differs from most democracies in that the two chambers have relatively equal power to legislate an...

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Media Studies

Ctrl Alt Delete How Politics and the Media Crashed Our Democracy

Baldwin Tom

ISBN: HB: 9781787380066, Hurst Publishers, July 2018
320 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Something has gone badly wrong: people loathe politicians, distrust the press and increasingly fear each other. It's easy to blame Russian trolls, Facebook news feeds, or the sinister manipulation of "big data" – but these are...

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Charter of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Together with Scholarly Commentaries and Essential Historical Documents

Shapiro Ian, Tooze Adam

ISBN: PB: 9780300228526, Yale University Press, June 2018
376 pp., 21x14 cm

The most powerful military alliance in history, NATO shaped the geopolitical contours of the Cold War and continues to structure the contemporary international system. The NATO agreement is reprinted here with speeches and essential historical docume...

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