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State As Parent Locke, Rousseau, and the Transformation of the Family
ISBN: PB: 9781589662032, University of Chicago Press, University of Scranton Press, January 2021
300 pp., 23x15 cm
Much of modern political and social thought tends to take for granted the fact that traditional conceptions of the family – with their accompanying duties and privileges – are an inherent imposition on individual freedom. With "The State As Parent",...
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Sovereignty, RIP
ISBN: HB: 9780300247725, Yale University Press, June 2020
320 pp., 20.9x13.9 cm
Social order requires a sovereign: an actor with unlimited, undivided, and unaccountable authority. Or so the classic theory says. But without noticing, we've gutted the theory. Constitutionalism limits state authority. Federalism divides it. The rul...
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Seeing Like a State How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
ISBN: PB: 9780300246759, Yale University Press, May 2020
480 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm, 36 black&white illus.
Hailed as "a magisterial critique of top-down social planning" by the New York Times, this essential work analyzes disasters from Russia to Tanzania to uncover why states so often fail – sometimes catastrophically – in grand efforts to engineer their...
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Scots and Catalans Union and Disunion
ISBN: PB: 9780300253382, Yale University Press, March 2020
360 pp., 19.7x12.7 cm, 3 maps, 2 black&white figures
A distinguished historian of Spain and Europe provides an enlightening account of the development of nationalist and separatist movements in contemporary Catalonia and Scotland. This first sustained comparative study uncovers the similarities and the...
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Sovereignty, Inc. Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment
ISBN: PB: 9780226668413, ISBN: HB: 9780226668383, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm
What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the co-authors of "Sovereignty, Inc." argue, then Trump assumes the status of a master brand whose primary activity is the compulsive work of self-branding – s...
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Social Democracy in the Making Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism
ISBN: HB: 9780300236026, Yale University Press, June 2019
600 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm
The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism – a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citiz...
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Stalin's Master Narrative A Critical Edition of the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks), Short Course
ISBN: HB: 9780300155365, Yale University Press, April 2019
760 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 21 black&white illus.
"The Short Course on the History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)" defined Stalinist ideology both at home and abroad. It was quite literally the the master narrative of the USSR – a hegemonic statement on history, politics, an...
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Sites of Pluralism Community Politics in the Middle East
ISBN: PB: 9781787380226, Hurst Publishers, April 2019
224 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm
For sale in CIS only! Scholars and policymakers, struggling to make sense of the ongoing chaos in the Middle East, have focused on the possible causes of the escalation in both inter-state and intra-state conflict. But the Arab Spring has shown the...
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Shaped by the State Toward a New Political History of the Twentieth Century
ISBN: PB: 9780226596327, ISBN: HB: 9780226596297, University of Chicago Press, March 2019
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
American political history has been built around narratives of crisis, in which what "counts" are the moments when seemingly stable political orders collapse and new ones rise from the ashes. No doubt the history of American politics is filled with s...
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State Constitutional Politics Governing by Amendment in the American States
ISBN: PB: 9780226532813, ISBN: HB: 9780226532783, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables
Since the US Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended just twenty-seven times, with ten of those amendments coming in the first two years following ratification. By contrast, state constitutions have been completely rewritten on a re...
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