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Political Science

White-Collar Government The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making

Carnes Nicholas

ISBN: PB: 9780226087146, ISBN: HB: 9780226087009, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 61 line drawings, 8 tables

Eight of the last twelve presidents were millionaires when they took office. Millionaires have a majority on the Supreme Court, and they also make up majorities in Congress, where a background in business or law is the norm and the average member has...

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Law

Political Science

Cloaking of Power Montesquieu, Blackstone, and the Rise of Judicial Activism

Carrese Paul O.

ISBN: PB: 9780226100609, ISBN: HB: 9780226094823, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
349 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

How did the US judiciary become so powerful – powerful enough that state and federal judges once vied to decide a presidential election? What does this prominence mean for the law, constitutionalism, and liberal democracy? In "The Cloaking of Power",...

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Political Science

Negotiating in Civil Conflict Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq

Ala Hamoudi Haider

ISBN: PB: 9780226068824, ISBN: HB: 9780226315348, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In 2005, Iraq drafted its first constitution and held the country's first democratic election in more than fifty years. Even under ideal conditions, drafting a constitution can be a prolonged process marked by contentious debate, and conditions in Ir...

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Political Science

Democracy against Development Lower Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India

Witsoe Jeffrey

ISBN: PB: 9780226063478, ISBN: HB: 9780226063164, University of Chicago Press, November 2013
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing, 8 tables

Hidden behind the much-touted success story of India's emergence as an economic superpower is another, far more complex narrative of the nation's recent history, one in which economic development is frequently countered by profoundly unsettling, and...

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Africa

Ancestors and Antiretrovirals The Bio-Politics of HIV/AIDS in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Laurier Decoteau Claire

ISBN: PB: 9780226064598, ISBN: HB: 9780226064451, University of Chicago Press, October 2013
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 27 halftones, 7 tables

In the years since the end of apartheid, South Africans have enjoyed a progressive constitution, considerable access to social services for the poor and sick, and a booming economy that has made their nation into one of the wealthiest on the continen...

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Political Science

Current Affairs

Tocqueville in Arabia Dilemmas in a Democratic Age

Mitchell Joshua

ISBN: HB: 9780226087313, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
208 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm

The Arab Spring, with its calls for sweeping political change, marked the most profound popular uprising in the Middle East for generations. But if the nascent democracies born of these protests are to succeed in the absence of a strong democratic tr...

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Political Science

Power in Concert The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Global Governance

Mitzen Jennifer

ISBN: PB: 9780226060118, ISBN: HB: 9780226060088, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
280 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 line drawing

How states cooperate in the absence of a sovereign power is a perennial question in international relations. With "Power in Concert", Jennifer Mitzen argues that global governance is more than just the cooperation of states under anarchy: it is the f...

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Political Science

Birth of Territory

Elden Stuart

ISBN: PB: 9780226202570, ISBN: HB: 9780226202563, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
512 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones, 6 line drawings

Territory is one of the central political concepts of the modern world and, indeed, functions as the primary way the world is divided and controlled politically. Yet territory has not received the critical attention afforded to other crucial concepts...

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Political Science

Media Studies

Political Tone How Leaders Talk and Why

Hart Roderick P., Childers Jay P., Lind Colene J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226023151, ISBN: HB: 9780226023014, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
304 pp., 23x15 cm, 7 tables, 53 line illus.

It's not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician's career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusiv...

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America

Business & Economics

Rise of the Public Authority Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America

Radford Gail

ISBN: PB: 9780226037721, ISBN: HB: 9780226037691, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
232 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 table, 5 halftones, 3 line illus.

In the late nineteenth century, public officials throughout the United States began to experiment with new methods of managing their local economies and meeting the infrastructure needs of a newly urban, industrial nation. Stymied by legal barriers,...

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