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Difference without Domination Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies
ISBN: PB: 9780226681221, ISBN: HB: 9780226681191, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 10 line drawings
Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts t...
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£28,00
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£84,00
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Economic Other Inequality in the American Political Imagination
ISBN: PB: 9780226691879, ISBN: HB: 9780226691732, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables
Economic inequality is at a record high in the United States, but public demand for redistribution is not rising with it. Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky show that this paradox and other mysteries about class and US politics can be solved through a...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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Political Perversion Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering
ISBN: PB: 9780226713441, ISBN: HB: 9780226713304, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones
When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, a perversion of the highest office in the land. In his bold, innovative book, "Political Perversion", rhetorician Joshua Gunn argues...
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£22,00
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£66,00
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Campaign Finance and American Democracy What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters
ISBN: PB: 9780226712949, ISBN: HB: 9780226712802, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 53 tables
In recent decades, and particularly since the Supreme court's controversial "Citizens United" decision, lawmakers and other elites have told Americans that stricter campaign finance laws are needed to improve people's faith in the election process, i...
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£24,00
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£72,00
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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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£14,99
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Arms and Influence
ISBN: PB: 9780300246742, Yale University Press, May 2020
352 pp., 19.6x12.7 cm
Originally published more than fifty years ago, this landmark book explores the ways in which military capabilities – real or imagined – are used, skillfully or clumsily, as bargaining power. Anne-Marie Slaughter's new introduction to the work shows...
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£14,99
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Challenges of Multilateralism
ISBN: PB: 9780300230451, Yale University Press, May 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 17 black&white illus.
Multilateral initiatives have brought about striking, yet diverging, results. International organizations often struggle with the nationalist impulses of member states, different and shifting goals, and a lack of enforcement methods. Here, Kathryn La...
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£30,00
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Dragonomics How Latin America Is Maximizing (or Missing Out on) China's International Development Strategy
ISBN: HB: 9780300224092, Yale University Press, May 2020
328 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 3 black&white illus.
This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Roughly twenty years ago, Chinese entrepreneurs headed to the Western Hemisphere in search of profits and commodities, specifically those that China lacked and th...
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Responsible Parties Saving Democracy from Itself
ISBN: PB: 9780300251944, ISBN: HB: 9780300232752, Yale University Press, May 2020
336 pp., 21x14 cm, 12 black&white illus.
In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to...
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Learning on the Left Political Profiles of Brandeis University
ISBN: HB: 9781684580118, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Brandeis University is the United States' only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it has risen to become one of the most respected universities in the nation. The faculty and alumni of the u...
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