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Democratic Constitution Experimentalism and Interpretation

Butler Brian E.

ISBN: HB: 9780226474502, University of Chicago Press, August 2017
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

The Supreme Court is seen today as the ultimate arbiter of the Constitution. Once the Court has spoken, it is the duty of the citizens and their elected officials to abide by its decisions. But the conception of the Supreme Court as the final interpr...

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Political Science

Law

Democratic Theory of Judgment

Zerilli Linda M. G.

ISBN: PB: 9780226397986, ISBN: HB: 9780226397849, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this sweeping look at political and philosophical history, Linda M. G. Zerilli unpacks the tightly woven core of Hannah Arendt's unfinished work on a tenacious modern problem: how to judge critically in the wake of the collapse of inherited criter...

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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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Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State

DeCanio Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780300198782, Yale University Press, December 2015
320 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how political elites used high levels of voter ignorance to create a new type of regulatory state with lasting implications for American politics. Focusing on the expansion of bureaucratic authority in late...

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America

Political Science

Democratic Surround Multimedia and American Liberalism from World War II to the Psychedelic Sixties

Turner Fred

ISBN: PB: 9780226325897, ISBN: HB: 9780226817460, University of Chicago Press, September 2015
376 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 39 halftones

We commonly think of the psychedelic sixties as an explosion of creative energy and freedom that arose in direct revolt against the social restraint and authoritarian hierarchy of the early Cold War years. Yet, as Fred Turner reveals in "The Democrat...

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Political Science

Divided We Govern Coalition Politics in Modern India

Ruparelia Sanjay

ISBN: HB: 9781849042123, Hurst Publishers, September 2015
350 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Divided We Govern" investigates the rise and fall of the broader parliamentary left in modern Indian democracy, and the dynamics of national coalition governments. Since the 1970s, socialist, communist and regional parties in...

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Political Science

America

Different Democracy American Government in a 31-Country Perspective

Taylor Steven L., Shugart Matthew Soberg, Lijphart Arend, Grofman Bernard

ISBN: PB: 9780300198089, Yale University Press, December 2014
320 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 17 black&white illus.

Four distinguished scholars in political science analyze American democracy from a comparative point of view, exploring how the U.S. political system differs from that of thirty other democracies and what those differences ultimately mean for democra...

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Political Science

Democracy in Retreat The Revolt of the Middle Class and the Worldwide Decline of Representative Government

Kurlantzick Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780300205800, Yale University Press, April 2014
296 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Since the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic – especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansi...

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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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Political Science

Diplomatic Sites A Critical Enquiry

Neumann Iver B.

ISBN: HB: 9781849042406, Hurst Publishers, May 2013
176 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Although diplomacy increasingly takes place in non-traditional settings that are increasingly non-Western, our debates about diplomacy still focus on traditional points of contact such as the conference table, the ministerial o...

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