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Political Science
Leo Strauss on Political Philosophy Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism
Strauss Leo
ISBN: HB: 9780226566825, University of Chicago Press, July 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Leo Strauss is known primarily for reviving classical political philosophy through careful analyses of works by ancient thinkers. As with his published writings, Strauss's seminars devoted to specific philosophers were notoriously dense, accessible o...
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Reclaiming Accountability Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution
Kitrosser Heidi
ISBN: PB: 9780226565675, ISBN: HB: 9780226191638, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Americans tend to believe in government that is transparent and accountable. Those who govern us work for us, and therefore they must also answer to us. But how do we reconcile calls for greater accountability with the competing need for secrecy, esp...
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General
Emotions of Protest
Jasper James M.
ISBN: PB: 9780226561783, ISBN: HB: 9780226561646, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 4 tables
In Donald Trump's America, protesting has roared back into fashion. The Women's March, held the day after Trump's inauguration, may have been the largest in American history, and resonated around the world. Between Trump's tweets and the march's popu...
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Government of Desire A Genealogy of the Liberal Subject
de Beistegui Miguel
ISBN: HB: 9780226547374, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in "The Government of Desire", is best described as a technique of government directed towards the self, with desire as its central mechanism. Whether as economic interest, sexual drive, or the basic longing for...
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Political Science
Increasingly United States How and Why American Political Behavior Nationalized
Hopkins Daniel J.
ISBN: PB: 9780226530376, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 69 line drawings, 9 tables
In a campaign for state or local office these days, you're as likely today to hear accusations that an opponent advanced Obamacare or supported Donald Trump as you are to hear about issues affecting the state or local community. This is because Ameri...
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Political Science
Core Europe and Greater Eurasia A Roadmap for the Future
Schulze Peter W.
ISBN: PB: 9783593507842, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, May 2018
226 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 2 tables, 2 figures
In today's world, interstate wars are fairly rare – but when they happen, they tend to be more complicated than in the past, combining regional causes with the involvement of external actors as well. This book looks at that problem in the wake of the...
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Political Science
Public Good and the Brazilian State Municipal Finance and Public Services in Sao Paulo, 1822-1930
Hanley Anne G.
ISBN: HB: 9780226535074, University of Chicago Press, May 2018
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 32 tables
Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national and local. When public revenues pay for high-quality infrastructure and social services, cit...
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Political Science
Demos Assembled Democracy and the International Origins of the Modern State, 1840-1880
Sawyer Stephen W.
ISBN: HB: 9780226544465, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
Previous studies have covered in great detail how the modern state slowly emerged from the early Renaissance through the seventeenth century, but we know relatively little about the next great act: the birth and transformation of the modern democrati...
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Political Science
State Constitutional Politics Governing by Amendment in the American States
Dinan John
ISBN: PB: 9780226532813, ISBN: HB: 9780226532783, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 tables
Since the US Constitution came into force in 1789, it has been amended just twenty-seven times, with ten of those amendments coming in the first two years following ratification. By contrast, state constitutions have been completely rewritten on a re...
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Structure of Policy Change
Epp Derek A.
ISBN: PB: 9780226529721, ISBN: HB: 9780226529691, University of Chicago Press, April 2018
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 line drawings, 10 tables
When the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the Red Scare seized the American public. While President Eisenhower cautioned restraint, his hand was forced, and NASA's budget had increased five thousand percent over its pre-Sputnik levels by the time Presi...
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