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Political Science

Rivalry and Reform Presidents, Social Movements, and the Transformation of American Politics

Milkis Sidney M., Tichenor Daniel J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226569390, ISBN: HB: 9780226569253, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 1 table

Few relationships have proved more pivotal in changing the course of American politics than those between presidents and social movements. For all their differences, both presidents and social movements are driven by a desire to recast the political...

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Political Science

Restraining Great Powers Soft Balancing from Empires to the Global Era

Paul T. V.

ISBN: HB: 9780300228489, Yale University Press, November 2018
256 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 4 black&white illus.

At the end of the Cold War, the United States emerged as the world's most powerful state, and then used that power to initiate wars against smaller countries in the Middle East and South Asia. According to balance-of-power theory – the bedrock of rea...

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Political Science

Reconstructing the National Bank Controversy Politics and Law in the Early American Republic

Lomazoff Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226579450, ISBN: HB: 9780226579313, University of Chicago Press, November 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 3 tables

The Bank of the United States sparked several rounds of intense debate over the meaning of the Constitution's Necessary and Proper Clause, which authorizes the federal government to make laws that are "necessary" for exercising its other powers. Our...

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Political Science

Reclaiming Accountability Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution

Kitrosser Heidi

ISBN: PB: 9780226565675, ISBN: HB: 9780226191638, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, esp...

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Political Science

Russian "Hybrid Warfare" Resurgence and Politicisation

Fridman Ofer

ISBN: HB: 9781849048811, Hurst Publishers, May 2018
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! During the last decade, "Hybrid Warfare" has become a novel yet controversial term in academic, political and professional military lexicons, intended to suggest some sort of mix between different military and non-military mean...

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Political Science

General

Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru

Jansen Robert S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226487441, ISBN: HB: 9780226487304, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit – they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new...

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Political Science

World

Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

Rinke Stefan, Wildt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783593507057, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet whi...

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Political Science

Rule Breaking and Political Imagination

Shepsle Kenneth A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226473215, ISBN: HB: 9780226473185, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
176 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing

"Imagination may be thought of as a 'work-around'. It is a resourceful tactic to 'undo' a rule by creating a path around it without necessarily defying it... Transgression, on the other hand, is rule breaking. There is no pretense of reinterpretation...

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Europe

Political Science

Rival Power Russia's Influence in Southeast Europe

Bechev Dimitar

ISBN: HB: 9780300219135, Yale University Press, August 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 maps, 11 figs

Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West say, "yes". With rising global anxiety over Russia's political policies...

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Political Science

Road to Somewhere The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics

Goodhart David

ISBN: HB: 9781849047999, Hurst Publishers, March 2017
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Several decades of greater economic and cultural openness in the West have not benefited all our citizens. Among those who have been left behind, a populist politics of culture and identity has successfully challenged the tradi...

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