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Political Science

House of Mirrors Justin Trudeau's Foreign Policy

Engler Yves

ISBN: PB: 9781551647494, ISBN: HB: 9781551647517, University of Chicago Press, Black Rose Books, October 2020
204 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau presents himself as progressive on foreign affairs. According to Trudeau, he and his Liberals have brought Canada back after the disastrous Conservative government under Stephen Harper. In House of Mirrors, Yves...

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Inventing the Ties That Bind Imagined Relationships in Moral and Political Life

Polletta Francesca

ISBN: PB: 9780226734200, ISBN: HB: 9780226734170, University of Chicago Press, October 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

From deciding to hold the door for the person behind you, to resolving for whom you will cast your vote, every day we find ourselves charged with making moral decisions. What steers our choices? And how do we weigh competing priorities and moral conv...

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Probable Justice Risk, Insurance, and the Welfare State

Friedman Rachel Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226730936, ISBN: HB: 9780226730769, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Decades into its existence as a foundational aspect of modern political and economic life, the welfare state has become a political cudgel, used to assign blame for ballooning national debt and tout the need for personal responsibility. At the same t...

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How the Tea Party Captured the GOP Insurgent Factions in American Politics

Blum Rachel M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226687520, ISBN: HB: 9780226687490, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
176 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 35 line drawings, 3 tables

The rise of the Tea Party redefined both the Republican Party and how we think about intraparty conflict. What initially appeared to be an anti-Obama protest movement of fiscal conservatives matured into a faction that sought to increase its influenc...

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Political Science

How to Save a Constitutional Democracy

Ginsburg Tom, Huq Aziz Z.

ISBN: PB: 9780226755076, ISBN: HB: 9780226564388, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
320 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 line drawings, 3 tables

Democracies are in danger. Around the world, a rising wave of populist leaders threatens to erode the core structures of democratic self rule. In the United States, the election of Donald Trump marked a decisive turning point for many. What kind of p...

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Azerbaijan's Geopolitical Landscape Contemporary Issues, 1991–2018

Shafiyev Farid

ISBN: PB: 9788024643915, University of Chicago Press, Karolinum Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 5 maps

Not for sale in the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic! Being located between the Black and Caspian seas, Azerbaijan has always been the juncture of Eurasia – with a traditional reputation as a crossroads between the north-south and east-west t...

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Political Science

Limits of Party Congress and Lawmaking in a Polarized Era

Curry James M., Lee Frances E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226716350, ISBN: HB: 9780226716213, University of Chicago Press, September 2020
200 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 46 line drawings, 15 tables

To many observers, Congress has become a deeply partisan institution where ideologically-distinct political parties do little more than engage in legislative trench warfare. A zero-sum, winner-take-all approach to congressional politics has replaced...

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Political Science

Congress in Reverse Repeals from Reconstruction to the Present

Ragusa Jordan M., Birkhead Nathaniel A.

ISBN: PB: 9780226717470, ISBN: HB: 9780226717333, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
184 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 22 line drawings, 17 tables

After years of divided government, countless Republicans campaigned on a promise to repeal the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare. Yet when they took control of both chambers of Congress and the White House in 2017 – after six years that...

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Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy

Howell William G., Moe Terry M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226763170, ISBN: HB: 9780226728797, University of Chicago Press, August 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Has American democracy's long, ambitious run come to an end? Possibly yes. As William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe argue in this trenchant new analysis of modern politics, the United States faces a historic crisis that threatens our system of self-gove...

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Political Science

Democracy Declined The Failed Politics of Consumer Financial Protection

SoRelle Mallory E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226711799, ISBN: HB: 9780226711652, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
248 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 72 line drawings, 19 tables

As Elizabeth Warren memorably wrote, "It is impossible to buy a toaster that has a one-in-five chance of bursting into flames and burning down your house. But it is possible to refinance an existing home with a mortgage that has the same one-in-five...

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