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Partisans and Partners The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society

Pacewicz Josh

ISBN: PB: 9780226402697, ISBN: HB: 9780226402550, University of Chicago Press, November 2016
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 line drawings, 14 tables

There's no question that Americans are bitterly divided by politics. But in "Partisans and Partners", Josh Pacewicz finds that our traditional understanding of red/blue, right/left, urban/rural division is too simplistic. Wheels-down in Iowa – that m...

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Plutocrats United Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections

Hasen Richard L.

ISBN: PB: 9780300223545, ISBN: HB: 9780300212457, Yale University Press, August 2016
256 pp., 23.3x14.6 cm, 2 black&white illus.

From a leading expert on election law, a compelling answer to the dilemmas of campaign finance reform. Campaign financing is one of today's most divisive political issues. The left asserts that the electoral process is rife with corruption. The right...

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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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Presidential Government

Ginsberg Benjamin

ISBN: PB: 9780300212068, Yale University Press, July 2016
488 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 108 black&white illus.

Noted political scientist Benjamin Ginsberg has written an essential text for courses on the United States presidency. An invaluable resource, Ginsberg's comprehensive analysis emphasizes the historical, constitutional, and legal dimensions of presid...

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Paradox of German Power

Kundnani Hans

ISBN: PB: 9781849047197, Hurst Publishers, July 2016
160 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! A "German Europe" seems to have emerged from the euro crisis. During the last few years, Chancellor Angela Merkel has been compared with Hitler in the European media and on the streets of European capitals. There has been much...

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America

Post-Racial or Most-Racial? Race and Politics in the Obama Era

Tesler Michael

ISBN: PB: 9780226353012, ISBN: HB: 9780226352961, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 halftones, 55 line drawings, 11 tables

When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly mor...

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Law

Politics of Islamic Law Local Elites, Colonial Authority, and the Making of the Muslim State

Hussin Iza R.

ISBN: PB: 9780226323343, ISBN: HB: 9780226323206, University of Chicago Press, April 2016
352 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 10 halftones, 1 table

In "The Politics of Islamic Law", Iza Hussin compares India, Malaya, and Egypt during the British colonial period in order to trace the making and transformation of the contemporary category of "Islamic law". She demonstrates that not only is Islamic...

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Poetry

Poetry and Politics in the Modern Arab World

Alshaer Atef

ISBN: HB: 9781849043199, Hurst Publishers, April 2016
240 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! The representation in poetic form of political events and ideas in the Arab world since the nineteenth century is this book's principal theme. Atef Alshaer demonstrates an integral connection between poetry and politics, reflec...

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America

Politics of Resentment Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker

Cramer Katherine J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226349114, University of Chicago Press, March 2016
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 2 maps, 13 figures, 1 table

Since the election of Scott Walker, Wisconsin has been seen as ground zero for debates about the appropriate role of government in the wake of the Great Recession. In a time of rising inequality, Walker not only survived a bitterly contested recall t...

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Africa

Political Science

Petro-Developmental State in Africa Making Oil Work in Angola, Nigeria and the Gulf of Guinea

Ovadia Jesse Salah

ISBN: HB: 9781849044769, Hurst Publishers, February 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Focusing on local content in the oil and oil service sectors and the changing accumulation strategies of the domestic elite, this book questions what kinds of development are possible through natural resource extraction and arg...

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