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Political Science

Narrowing the Channel The Politics of Regulatory Protection in International Trade

Gulotty Robert

ISBN: PB: 9780226669366, ISBN: HB: 9780226669229, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 32 figures, 21 tables

While large, multinational corporations have supported the removal of tariffs, behind the scenes these firms have fought for protection in the form of product regulations, including testing, labeling, and registration requirements. Unlike tariffs, th...

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Political Science

Racial Stasis The Millennial Generation and the Stagnation of Racial Attitudes in American Politics

DeSante Christopher D., Watts Smith Candis

ISBN: PB: 9780226643625, ISBN: HB: 9780226643595, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 40 line drawings

Racial progress in the United States has hit a wall, and the rise of white nationalism is but one manifestation of this. Most Americans continue to hope that the younger generation, which many believe manifests less racism and more acceptance of a mu...

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Philosophy

Sovereignty, Inc. Three Inquiries in Politics and Enjoyment

Mazzarella William, Santner Eric L., Schuster Aaron

ISBN: PB: 9780226668413, ISBN: HB: 9780226668383, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

What does the name Trump stand for? If branding now rules over the production of value, as the co-authors of "Sovereignty, Inc." argue, then Trump assumes the status of a master brand whose primary activity is the compulsive work of self-branding – s...

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America

Political Science

America's Inequality Trap

Kelly Nathan J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226665504, ISBN: HB: 9780226665474, University of Chicago Press, December 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 34 line drawings, 11 tables

The gap between the rich and the poor has grown dramatically in the United States and is now at its widest since at least the early 1900s. While by most measures the economy has been improving, soaring cost of living and stagnant wages have done litt...

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Political Science

ISIS Reader Milestone Texts of the Islamic State Movement

Ingram Haroro J., Whiteside Craig, Winter Charlie

ISBN: HB: 9781787381971, Hurst Publishers, December 2019
288 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

For sale in CIS only! In the wake of its "Caliphate" declaration in 2014, the self-described Islamic State has been the focus of countless academic papers, government studies, media commentaries and documentaries. Despite all this attention, persist...

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Political Science

Great Delusion Liberal Dreams and International Realities

Mearsheimer John J.

ISBN: PB: 9780300248562, Yale University Press, November 2019
328 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

In this major statement, the renowned international-relations scholar John Mearsheimer argues that liberal hegemony, the foreign policy pursued by the United States since the Cold War ended, is doomed to fail. It makes far more sense, he maintains, f...

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Political Science

Whistleblowers Honesty in America from Washington to Trump

Stanger Allison

ISBN: HB: 9780300186888, Yale University Press, November 2019
304 pp., 23.5x15.6 cm

Misconduct by those in high places is always dangerous to reveal. Whistleblowers thus face conflicting impulses: by challenging and exposing transgressions by the powerful, they perform a vital public service – yet they always suffer for it. This epi...

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Business & Economics

Political Science

Contours of the Illiberal State Governing Circulation in the Smart Economy

Vormann Boris, Lammert Christian

ISBN: PB: 9783593510170, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, November 2019
292 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm, 7 halftones

The post-Cold War era was marked by the emergence of unprecedented new networks of international private trade, cooperation, and circulation of goods that promised to render the state nearly obsolete – at least in theory. The essays collected in this...

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Philosophy

Conventional Realism and Political Inquiry Channeling Wittgenstein

Gunnell John G.

ISBN: HB: 9780226661278, University of Chicago Press, November 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

When social scientists and social theorists turn to the work of philosophers for intellectual and practical authority, they typically assume that truth, reality, and meaning are to be found outside rather than within our conventional discursive pract...

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Law

Political Science

How to Lobby Alaska State Government

Thomas Clive S.

ISBN: PB: 9781602233959, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, November 2019
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Lobbying is about getting the right message to the right people in the right form at the right time. Even the most persuasive arguments or most influential groups will come up short if they aren't combined with personal connections and an understandi...

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