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Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau The Two Discourses and the Social Contract

Rousseau Jean-Jacques

ISBN: PB: 9780226151311, ISBN: HB: 9780226921860, University of Chicago Press, April 2014
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones

Individualist and communitarian. Anarchist and totalitarian. Classicist and romanticist. Progressive and reactionary. Since the eighteenth century, Jean-Jacques Rousseau has been said to be all of these things. Few philosophers have been the subject...

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Mixed Emotions Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict

Ross Andrew A. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226077420, ISBN: HB: 9780226077390, University of Chicago Press, December 2013
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In recent years, it's become increasingly clear that emotion plays a central role in global politics. For example, people readily care about acts of terrorism and humanitarian crises because they appeal to our compassion for human suffering. These st...

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Manifestos for the 21st Century

Multiculturalism and its Discontents Rethinking Diversity after 9/11

Malik Kenan

ISBN: PB: 9780857421142, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm

Our contemporary celebration of difference, respect for pluralism, and avowal of identity politics have come to be regarded as the hallmarks of a progressive, modern democracy. Yet despite embracing many of its values, we have at the same time become...

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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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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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Moral Foundations of Politics

Shapiro Ian

ISBN: PB: 9780300185454, Yale University Press, September 2012
302 pp., 23.8x16.2 cm, 8 graphs

When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates...

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Mobilizing Inclusion Transforming the Electorate Through Get-out-the-vote Campaigns

Bedolla Lisa Garcia, Michelson Melissa R.

ISBN: PB: 9780300166781, Yale University Press, September 2012
312 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 5 black&white illus.

Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in ethnoracial communities – and why? Analyzing the results from hundreds of original experiments, the authors of this book offer a persuasive new theory to explain why some methods work while others do...

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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Moshe Dayan Plow and Sword

Bar-On Mordechai

ISBN: HB: 9780300149418, Yale University Press, July 2012
224 pp., 21x14.6 cm

Instantly recognizable with his iconic eye patch, Moshe Dayan (1915-1981) was a powerful yet controversial figure in Israel from the 1950s through 70s. A fearless warrior and a strong-headed, charismatic politician, he was admired for his leadership...

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Literary Criticism

Mosaic Constitution Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton

Hammill Graham

ISBN: HB: 9780226315423, University of Chicago Press, May 2012
344 pp., 23x15 cm, 3 halftones

It is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. Graham Hammill challenges this notion in "The Mosaic Constitution", arguing that Moses's constitution of Israel, which created people bound by the rule of law, was central...

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General

Political Science

Migrant Labor in the Persian Gulf

Kamrava Mehran, Babar Zahra

ISBN: PB: 9781849042109, Hurst Publishers, May 2012
276 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In some countries of the Persian Gulf as much as 85 to 90 per cent of the population is made-up of expatriate workers.Unsurprisingly, all of the concerned states spend inordinate amounts of their political energies managing the...

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