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Authority Construction and Corrosion

Lincoln Bruce

ISBN: PB: 9780226481982, University of Chicago Press, August 2019
235 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 tables

What is authority? How is it constituted? How ought one understand the subtle (and sometimes not-so-subtle) relations between authority and coercion? Between authorized and subversive speech? In this fascinating and intricate analysis, Bruce Lincoln...

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Political Science

Black Wave How Networks and Governance Shaped Japan's 3/11 Disasters

Aldrich Daniel P.

ISBN: PB: 9780226638430, ISBN: HB: 9780226638263, University of Chicago Press, July 2019
272 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 12 line drawings, 12 tables

Despite the devastation caused by the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and 60-foot tsunami that struck Japan in 2011, some 96% of those living and working in the most disaster-stricken region of Tohoku made it through. Smaller earthquakes and tsunamis have k...

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Good Enough for Government Work The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It)

Lerman Amy E.

ISBN: PB: 9780226630205, ISBN: HB: 9780226630175, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
304 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 26 line drawings, 8 tables

American government is in the midst of a reputation crisis. An overwhelming majority of citizens – Republicans and Democrats alike – hold negative perceptions of the government and believe it is wasteful, inefficient, and doing a generally poor job m...

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Great Broadening How the Vast Expansion of the Policymaking Agenda Transformed American Politics

Jones Bryan D., Theriault Sean M., Whyman Michelle

ISBN: PB: 9780226625942, ISBN: HB: 9780226625805, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
326 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 90 line drawings, 4 tables

Beginning in the late 1950s and continuing through the 1970s, the United States experienced a vast expansion in national policy making. During this period, the federal government extended its scope into policy arenas previously left to civil society...

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Prohibition, the Constitution, and States' Rights

Beienburg Sean

ISBN: PB: 9780226632131, ISBN: HB: 9780226631943, University of Chicago Press, June 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 1 table

Colorado's legalization of marijuana spurred intense debate about the extent to which the Constitution preempts state-enacted laws and statutes. Colorado's legal cannabis program generated a strange scenario in which many politicians, including many...

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Political Science

Limits of Transnationalism

Green Nancy L.

ISBN: PB: 9780226608280, ISBN: HB: 9780226608143, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
208 pp., 21.5x13.9 cm

Transnationalism means many things to many people, from crossing physical borders to crossing intellectual ones".The Limits of Transnationalism" reassesses the overly optimistic narratives often associated with this malleable term, revealing both the...

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Conservative Innovators How States Are Challenging Federal Power

Merriman Ben

ISBN: PB: 9780226620312, ISBN: HB: 9780226620282, University of Chicago Press, May 2019
232 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 3 line drawings, 8 tables

As American politics has become increasingly polarized, gridlock at the federal level has led to a greater reliance on state governments to get things done. But this arrangement depends a great deal on state cooperation, and not all state officials h...

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America

Democracy and Dysfunction

Levinson Sanford, Balkin Jack M.

ISBN: PB: 9780226612041, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
208 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

It is no longer controversial that the American political system has become deeply dysfunctional. Today, only slightly more than a quarter of Americans believe the country is heading in the right direction, while sixty-three percent believe we are on...

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Law

Federal Impeachment Process A Constitutional and Historical Analysis (Third Edition)

Gerhardt Michael J.

ISBN: PB: 9780226554839, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm

Twenty years after President Clinton's impeachment proceedings, talk of impeachment is again in the air. But what are the grounds for impeaching a sitting president? Who is subject to impeachment? Is impeachment effective as a safeguard against presi...

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America

How States Shaped Postwar America State Government and Urban Power

Dagen Bloom Nicholas

ISBN: HB: 9780226498317, University of Chicago Press, April 2019
392 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 47 halftones, 2 line drawings

The history of public policy in postwar America tends to fixate on developments at the national level, overlooking the crucial work done by individual states in the 1960s and '70s. In this book, Nicholas Dagen Bloom demonstrates the significant and e...

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