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America

Myth of the Imperial Presidency How Public Opinion Checks the Unilateral Executive

Christenson Dino P., Kriner Douglas L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226704364, ISBN: HB: 9780226704227, University of Chicago Press, July 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 line drawings, 23 tables

Throughout the history of the United States, the nation's presidents have shown a startling power to act independently of Congress and the courts. Using such tools as executive orders and memoranda, presidents have taken the country to war, abolished...

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Race to the Bottom How Racial Appeals Work in American Politics

Stephens-Dougan LaFleur

ISBN: PB: 9780226698984, ISBN: HB: 9780226698847, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 14 line drawings, 12 tables

African American voters are a key demographic to the modern Democratic base, and conventional wisdom has it that there is political cost to racialized "dog whistles", especially for Democratic candidates. However, politicians from both parties and fr...

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Political Science

Herodotus in the Anthropocene

Alden Schlosser Joel

ISBN: PB: 9780226704845, ISBN: HB: 9780226704708, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
216 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

We are living in the age of the Anthropocene, in which human activities are recognized for effecting potentially catastrophic environmental change. In this book, Joel Alden Schlosser argues that our current state of affairs calls for a creative polit...

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Difference without Domination Pursuing Justice in Diverse Democracies

Allen Danielle, Somanathan Rohini

ISBN: PB: 9780226681221, ISBN: HB: 9780226681191, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
368 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 10 line drawings

Around the globe, democracy appears broken. With political and socioeconomic inequality on the rise, we are faced with the urgent question of how to better distribute power, opportunity, and wealth in diverse modern societies. This volume confronts t...

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Economic Other Inequality in the American Political Imagination

Condon Meghan, Wichowsky Amber

ISBN: PB: 9780226691879, ISBN: HB: 9780226691732, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
240 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 15 tables

Economic inequality is at a record high in the United States, but public demand for redistribution is not rising with it. Meghan Condon and Amber Wichowsky show that this paradox and other mysteries about class and US politics can be solved through a...

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Political Perversion Rhetorical Aberration in the Time of Trumpeteering

Gunn Joshua

ISBN: PB: 9780226713441, ISBN: HB: 9780226713304, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 9 halftones

When Trump became president, much of the country was repelled by what they saw as the vulgar spectacle of his ascent, a perversion of the highest office in the land. In his bold, innovative book, "Political Perversion", rhetorician Joshua Gunn argues...

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Campaign Finance and American Democracy What the Public Really Thinks and Why It Matters

Primo David M., Milyo Jeffrey D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226712949, ISBN: HB: 9780226712802, University of Chicago Press, June 2020
256 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 53 tables

In recent decades, and particularly since the Supreme court's controversial "Citizens United" decision, lawmakers and other elites have told Americans that stricter campaign finance laws are needed to improve people's faith in the election process, i...

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Political Science

Learning on the Left Political Profiles of Brandeis University

Whitfield Stephen

ISBN: HB: 9781684580118, University of Chicago Press, Brandeis University Press, May 2020
400 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Brandeis University is the United States' only Jewish-sponsored nonsectarian university, and while only being established after World War II, it has risen to become one of the most respected universities in the nation. The faculty and alumni of the u...

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Political Science

Making Social Welfare Policy in America Three Case Studies since 1950

Berkowitz Edward D.

ISBN: PB: 9780226692234, ISBN: HB: 9780226692067, University of Chicago Press, May 2020
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 6 line drawings

American social welfare policy has produced a health system with skyrocketing costs, a disability insurance program that consigns many otherwise productive people to lives of inactivity, and a welfare program that attracts wide criticism. "Making Soc...

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Philosophy

Torture and Dignity An Essay on Moral Injury

Bernstein J. M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226708874, ISBN: HB: 9780226266329, University of Chicago Press, April 2020
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

In this unflinching look at the experience of suffering and one of its greatest manifestations – torture – J. M. Bernstein critiques the repressions of traditional moral theory, showing that our morals are not immutable ideals but fragile constructio...

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