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No Longer Outsiders Black and Latino Interest Group Advocacy on Capitol Hill

Minta Michael D.

ISBN: HB: 9780226765273, University of Chicago Press, April 2021
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 9 tables

With the rise of Black Lives Matter and immigrant rights protests, critics have questioned whether mainstream black and Latino civil rights organizations such as the NAACP and UnidosUS are in touch with the needs of minorities – especially from young...

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Not in Our Lifetimes The Future of Black Politics

Dawson Michael C.

ISBN: PB: 9780226705347, ISBN: HB: 9780226138626, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 23x15 cm, 16 tables, 1 halftone, 4 line illus.

In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, polls revealed that only 20 percent of African Americans believed that racial equality for blacks would be achieved in their lifetime. But following the election of Barack Obama, that number leaped to more than...

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Narrowing the Channel The Politics of Regulatory Protection in International Trade

Gulotty Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226669366, ISBN: HB: 9780226669229, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 figures, 21 tables

While large, multinational corporations have supported the removal of tariffs, behind the scenes these firms have fought for protection in the form of product regulations, including testing, labeling, and registration requirements. Unlike tariffs, th...

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Literary Criticism

Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature

Kennedy Liam, Shapiro Stephen

ISBN: PB: 9781512603613, ISBN: HB: 9781512603606, University of Chicago Press, Dartmouth College Press, September 2019
252 pp., 23.4x15.8 cm

Neoliberalism is the rare buzzword that has fully crossed over from academic theorizing into mainstream discussion. "Neoliberalism and Contemporary American Literature" is the first book to examine the ways that US literature has responded to the dom...

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Neither Liberal nor Conservative Ideological Innocence in the American Public

Kinder Donald R., Kalmoe Nathan P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226452456, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 37 line drawings, 41 tables

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and governmen...

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National Identity Politics and Postcolonial Sovereignty Games Greenland, Denmark, and the European Union

Pram Gad Ulrik

ISBN: PB: 9788763545020, University of Chicago Press, Museum Tusculanum Press, January 2017
148 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 colour plates, 3 halftones, 5 figures

Though it's many miles away from tiny Denmark, Greenland is administered as an autonomous country within the Danish Realm. It's a relationship that at first glance appears unusual, and, as Ulrik Pram Gad shows, that relationship is quietly predicated...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News The Politics of Illusion (Tenth Edition)

Bennett W. Lance

ISBN: PB: 9780226344867, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

For over thirty years, "News: The Politics of Illusion" has not simply reflected the political communication field – it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting a...

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Political Science

Natural Goodness of Man On the System of Rousseau's Thought

Melzer Arthur M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226519791, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The true key to all the perplexities of the human condition, Rousseau boldly claims, is the "natural goodness of man". It is also the key to his own notoriously contradictory writings, which, he insists, are actually the disassembled parts of a rigor...

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Political Science

Nationalism and the Multination State

Dieckhoff Alain

ISBN: PB: 9781849046572, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Published in English for the first time, this book defends the idea that nationhood remains a central aspect of modernity. After the breakup of the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the following decade confirmed this h...

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New Turkey' and its Discontents

Waldman Simon A., Caliskan Emre

ISBN: PB: 9781849045667, ISBN: HB: 9781849045650, Hurst Publishers, May 2016
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The Turkey of today little resembles that of recent decades. Its economy has expanded hugely, new political elites have emerged, and the once powerful Kemalist military is no longer a potent and dominant political player. Meanw...

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