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Political Science

Uncivil Agreement How Politics Became Our Identity

Mason Lilliana

ISBN: PB: 9780226524542, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
192 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 43 line drawings, 15 tables

Political polarization in America is at an all-time high, and the conflict has moved beyond disagreements about matters of policy. For the first time in more than twenty years, research has shown that members of both parties hold strongly unfavorable...

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Political Science

Organizing Democracy How International Organizations Assist New Democracies

Poast Paul, Urpelainen Johannes

ISBN: PB: 9780226543482, ISBN: HB: 9780226543345, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 21 tables

In the past twenty-five years, a number of countries have made the transition to democracy. The support of international organizations is essential to success on this difficult path. Yet, despite extensive research into the relationship between democ...

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Christianity

Political Science

Ekklesia Three Inquiries in Church and State

Johnson Paul Christopher, Klassen Pamela E., Fallers Sullivan Winnifred

ISBN: PB: 9780226545585, ISBN: HB: 9780226545448, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 9 halftones

"Ekklesia: Three Inquiries in Church and State" offers a New World rejoinder to the largely Europe-centered academic discourse on church and state. In contrast to what is often assumed, in the Americas the relationship between church and state has no...

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Political Science

Price of Prestige Conspicuous Consumption in International Relations

Gilady Lilach

ISBN: HB: 9780226433202, University of Chicago Press, March 2018
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

If wars are costly and risky to both sides, why do they occur? Why engage in an arms race when it's clear that increasing one's own defense expenditures will only trigger a similar reaction by the other side, leaving both countries just as insecure –...

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Political Science

Public Policy A Comprehensive Introduction

Potucek Martin

ISBN: PB: 9788024635569, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, March 2018
300 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! This book provides an up-to-date, comprehensive, synoptic, and easy-to-grasp account of the state of public policy as a field. Both a scholar and a Czech policy maker, Martin Potucek draws...

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Political Science

Legacies of Losing in American Politics

Tulis Jeffrey K., Mellow Nicole

ISBN: PB: 9780226515328, ISBN: HB: 9780226515298, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
224 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

American politics is typically a story about winners. The fading away of defeated politicians and political movements is a feature of American politics that ensures political stability and a peaceful transition of power. But American history has also...

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Africa

Political Science

Specter of Global China Politics, Labor, and Foreign Investment in Africa

Lee Ching Kwan

ISBN: PB: 9780226340838, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 20 colour plates, 1 halftone, 2 tables

China has recently emerged as one of Africa's top business partners, aggressively pursuing its raw materials and establishing a mighty presence in the continent's booming construction market. Among major foreign investors in Africa, China has stirred...

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Political Science

Law

Defence of Constitutionalism Or the Czech Question in Post-National Europe

Priban Jiri

ISBN: PB: 9788024634234, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, February 2018
280 pp., 20.3x15.2 cm

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! More than a century after the publication of Czech politician Tomaš Garrigue Masaryk's study "The Czech Question", Czech politics – instead of the nation's historical struggle for s...

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Political Science

Law

Legislative Style

Bernhard William, Sulkin Tracy

ISBN: PB: 9780226510286, ISBN: HB: 9780226510149, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 line drawings, 26 tables

Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one's district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage wi...

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Political Science

Why Parties Matter Political Competition and Democracy in the American South

Aldrich John H., Griffin John D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226495378, ISBN: HB: 9780226495231, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 halftones, 17 line drawings, 20 tables

Since the founding of the American Republic, the North and South have followed remarkably different paths of political development. Among the factors that have led to their divergence throughout much of history are differences in the levels of compet...

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