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Political Science

America

Insecure Majorities Congress and the Perpetual Campaign

Lee Frances E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226409047, ISBN: HB: 9780226408996, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 halftones, 23 line drawings, 18 tables

As Democrats and Republicans continue to vie for political advantage, Congress remains paralyzed by partisan conflict. That the last two decades have seen some of the least productive Congresses in recent history is usually explained by the growing i...

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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

Philanthropy in Democratic Societies History, Institutions, Values

Reich Rob, Cordelli Chiara, Bernholz Lucy

ISBN: PB: 9780226335643, ISBN: HB: 9780226335506, University of Chicago Press, August 2016
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 6 line drawings, 3 tables

Philanthropy is everywhere. In 2013, in the United States alone, some $330 billion was recorded in giving, from large donations by the wealthy all the way down to informal giving circles. We tend to think of philanthropy as unequivocally good, but as...

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Political Science

America

Alaska Politics and Public Policy The Dynamics of Beliefs, Institutions, Personalities, and Power

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: HB: 9781602232891, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, August 2016
750 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 8 maps

Politics in Alaska have changed significantly since the last major book on the subject was published more than twenty years ago, with the rise and fall of Sarah Palin and the rise and fall of oil prices being but two of the many developments to alter...

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Political Science

America

Inside the Presidential Debates Their Improbable Past and Promising Future

Minow Newton N., LaMay Craig L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226434322, University of Chicago Press, July 2016
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 31 tables

Newton Minow's long engagement with the world of television began nearly fifty years ago when President Kennedy appointed him chairman of the Federal Communications Commission. As its head, Minow would famously dub TV a "vast wasteland", thus inaugur...

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Jewish Studies

Political Science

Home for All Jews Citizenship, Rights, and National Identity in the New Israeli State

Rozin Orit

ISBN: PB: 9781611689501, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2016
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Orit Rozin's inspired scholarship focuses on the construction and negotiation of citizenship in Israel during the state's first decade. Positioning itself both within and against much of the critical sociological literature on the period, this work r...

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Political Science

Democracy and Trade Policy in Developing Countries

Mukherjee Bumba

ISBN: PB: 9780226358819, ISBN: HB: 9780226358789, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 halftones, 36 line drawings, 27 tables

Since the 1970s, two major trends have emerged among developing countries: the rise of new democracies and the rush to free trade. For some, the confluence of these events suggests that a free-market economy complements a fledgling democracy. Others...

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America

Madison's Nightmare How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy

Shane Peter M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226380704, ISBN: HB: 9780226749396, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
255 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The George W. Bush administration's ambitious – even breathtaking – claims of unilateral executive authority raised deep concerns among constitutional scholars, civil libertarians, and ordinary citizens alike. But Bush's attempts to assert his power...

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Islam

Political Science

Muslims Talking Politics Framing Islam, Democracy, and Law in Northern Nigeria

Kendhammer Brandon

ISBN: PB: 9780226369037, ISBN: HB: 9780226368986, University of Chicago Press, June 2016
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 5 tables

For generations Islamic and Western intellectuals and policymakers have debated Islam's compatibility with democratic government, usually with few solid conclusions. But where – Brandon Kendhammer asks in this book – have the voices of ordinary, work...

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Political Science

Future of Illusion Political Theology and Early Modern Texts

Kahn Victoria

ISBN: PB: 9780226379371, ISBN: HB: 9780226083872, University of Chicago Press, May 2016
264 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In recent years, the rise of fundamentalism and a related turn to religion in the humanities have led to a powerful resurgence of interest in the problem of political theology. In a critique of this contemporary fascination with the theological under...

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