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Revolutionizing Repertoires The Rise of Populist Mobilization in Peru

Jansen Robert S.

ISBN: PB: 9780226487441, ISBN: HB: 9780226487304, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
288 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones, 1 map, 2 line drawings, 4 tables

Politicians and political parties are for the most part limited by habit – they recycle tried-and-true strategies, draw on models from the past, and mimic others in the present. But in rare moments politicians break with routine and try something new...

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Political Science

China's Hidden Children Abandonment, Adoption, and the Human Costs of the One-Child Policy

Kay Ann Johnson

ISBN: PB: 9780226529073, ISBN: HB: 9780226352510, University of Chicago Press, October 2017
224 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children – mostly girls – have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. It's generally assumed that this diaspora is the result of...

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Political Science

World

Revolutions and Counter-Revolutions 1917 and Its Aftermath from a Global Perspective

Rinke Stefan, Wildt Michael

ISBN: HB: 9783593507057, University of Chicago Press, Campus Verlag, September 2017
400 pp., 21.6x13.8 cm

Unquestionably a watershed year in world history, 1917 not only saw the Russian Revolution and the US entry into World War I, it also marked a foundational moment in determining global political structures for the remaining twentieth century. Yet whi...

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Political Science

Rule Breaking and Political Imagination

Shepsle Kenneth A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226473215, ISBN: HB: 9780226473185, University of Chicago Press, September 2017
176 pp., 21.6x13.9 cm, 1 line drawing

"Imagination may be thought of as a 'work-around'. It is a resourceful tactic to 'undo' a rule by creating a path around it without necessarily defying it... Transgression, on the other hand, is rule breaking. There is no pretense of reinterpretation...

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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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Biography & Memoires

Political Science

Toward Nationalism's End An Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn

Gordon Adi

ISBN: PB: 9781512600872, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, July 2017
344 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

This intellectual biography of Hans Kohn (1891-1971) looks at theories of nationalism in the twentieth century as articulated through the life and work of its leading scholar and activist. Hans Kohn was born in late nineteenth-century Prague, but his...

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Political Science

Africa

Socialist Peace? Explaining the Absence of War in an African Country

McGovern Mike

ISBN: PB: 9780226453606, ISBN: HB: 9780226453576, University of Chicago Press, June 2017
240 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 13 halftones, 1 table

For the last twenty years, the West African nation of Guinea has exhibited all the characteristics that have correlated with civil wars in other countries, and Guineans themselves regularly talk about the inevitability of war tearing their country ap...

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Political Science

Neither Liberal nor Conservative Ideological Innocence in the American Public

Kinder Donald R., Kalmoe Nathan P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226452456, University of Chicago Press, May 2017
224 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 37 line drawings, 41 tables

Congress is crippled by ideological conflict. The political parties are more polarized today than at any time since the Civil War. Americans disagree, fiercely, about just about everything, from terrorism and national security, to taxes and governmen...

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Political Science

More Than a Feeling Personality, Polarization, and the Transformation of the US Congress

Ramey Adam J., Klingler Jonathan D., Hollibaugh Jr. Gary E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226455983, ISBN: HB: 9780226455846, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
256 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 24 halftones, 23 tables

Whatever you think about the widening divide between Democrats and Republicans, ideological differences do not explain why politicians from the same parties, who share the same goals and policy preferences, often argue fiercely about how best to atta...

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Philosophy

Political Science

We Reviving Social Hope

Aronson Ronald

ISBN: HB: 9780226334660, University of Chicago Press, April 2017
208 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm

The election of Donald Trump has exposed American society's profound crisis of hope. By 2016 a generation of shrinking employment, rising inequality, the attack on public education, and the shredding of the social safety net, had set the stage for st...

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