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Law

Legislative Style

Bernhard William, Sulkin Tracy

ISBN: PB: 9780226510286, ISBN: HB: 9780226510149, University of Chicago Press, February 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 line drawings, 26 tables

Once elected, members of Congress face difficult decisions about how to allocate their time and effort. On which issues should they focus? What is the right balance between working in one's district and on Capitol Hill? How much should they engage wi...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Moral Economy Why Good Incentives are No Substitute for Good Citizens

Bowles Samuel

ISBN: PB: 9780300230512, Yale University Press, October 2017
288 pp., 21x14 cm, 18 black&white illus.

Should the idea of economic man-the amoral and self-interested Homo economicus-determine how we expect people to respond to monetary rewards, punishments, and other incentives? Samuel Bowles answers with a resounding "no". Policies that follow from t...

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Europe

Political Science

Rival Power Russia's Influence in Southeast Europe

Bechev Dimitar

ISBN: HB: 9780300219135, Yale University Press, August 2017
320 pp., 21x14 cm, 6 maps, 11 figs

Is Russia threatening to disrupt more than two decades' of E.U. and U.S. efforts to promote stability in post-communist Southeast Europe? Politicians and commentators in the West say, "yes". With rising global anxiety over Russia's political policies...

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Law

Political Science

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

Military

Tribes and Politics in Yemen A History of the Houthi Conflict

Brandt Marieke

ISBN: HB: 9781849046466, Hurst Publishers, June 2017
256 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! "Tribes and Politics in Yemen" tells the story of the Houthi conflict in Sa'dah Province, Yemen, as seen through the eyes of the local tribes. In the West the Houthi conflict, which erupted in 2004, is often defined through the...

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Military

Political Science

Police in Africa The Street Level View

Beek Jan, Gopfert Micro, Owen Olly, Steinberg Jonny

ISBN: PB: 9781849045773, Hurst Publishers, May 2017
336 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! State police forces in Africa are a curiously neglected subject of study, even within the framework of security issues and African states. This book brings together criminologists, anthropologists, sociologists, historians, pol...

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Political Science

Bigot Why Prejudice Persists

Bronner Stephen Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780300223842, Yale University Press, November 2016
248 pp., 20.2x12.8 cm

<p>Stephen Eric Bronner is a prolific author, activist, and one of America's leading political thinkers. His new book presents bigotry as a systematic, all-encompassing mindset that has a special affinity for right-wing movements. In what will su...

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Media Studies

Political Science

News The Politics of Illusion (Tenth Edition)

Bennett W. Lance

ISBN: PB: 9780226344867, University of Chicago Press, September 2016
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings

For over thirty years, "News: The Politics of Illusion" has not simply reflected the political communication field – it has played a major role in shaping it. Today, the familiar news organizations of the legacy press are operating in a fragmenting a...

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Political Science

Military

Bosnia's Paralysed Peace

Bennett Christopher

ISBN: PB: 9781849040549, ISBN: HB: 9781849040532, Hurst Publishers, June 2016
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! Two decades after the Dayton Peace Agreement came into force, Bosnia is not at war. However, the absence of war is not peace. Bosnia has failed to move on from conflict. Political processes are deadlocked. The country is in a s...

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Political Science

Europe

Southern Europe? Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece from the 1950s Until the Present Day

Baumeister Martin, Sala Roberto

ISBN: PB: 9783593504827, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, March 2016
280 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

According to mainstream discourse of the Cold War, post-1945 Western Europe was essentially a homogeneous historical space fully integrated into modern industrial society. But as "Southern Europe?" makes clear, Western European societies were in fact...

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