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Political Tone

How Leaders Talk and Why

by Roderick P. Hart, Jay P. Childers, Colene J. Lind
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013

It’s not what you say, but how you say it. Solving problems with words is the essence of politics, and finding the right words for the moment can make or break a politician’s career. Yet very little has been said in political science about the elusive element of tone. In Political Tone,...

To Be a Man Is Not a One-Day Job

Masculinity, Money, and Intimacy in Nigeria

by Daniel Jordan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2017

Refrains about financial hardship are ubiquitous in contemporary Nigeria, frequently expressed through the idiom “to be a man is not a one-day job.” But while men talk constantly about money, underlying their economic worries are broader concerns about the shifting meanings of masculinity, amid...

Down and Out in America

The Origins of Homelessness

by Peter H. Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2013

The most accurate and comprehensive picture of homelessness to date, this study offers a powerful explanation of its causes, proposes short- and long-term solutions, and documents the striking contrasts between the homeless of the 1950s and 1960s and the contemporary homeless population, which is younger and contains more women, children, and blacks.

Mehinaku

The Drama of Daily Life in a Brazilian Indian Village

by Thomas Gregor
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2009

Thomas Gregor sees the Mehinaku Indians of central Brazil as performers of roles, engaged in an ongoing improvisational drama of community life. The layout of the village and the architecture of the houses make the community a natural theater in the round, rendering the villagers' actions highly visible...

The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict

Making America's Middle East Policy, from Truman to Reagan

by Steven L. Spiegel
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2014

The Other Arab-Israeli Conflict illuminates the controversial course of America's Middle East relations from the birth of Israel to the Reagan administration. Skillfully separating actual policymaking from the myths that have come to surround it, Spiegel challenges the belief that American policy...

Partisans and Partners

The Politics of the Post-Keynesian Society

by Josh Pacewicz
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2016

There’s no question that Americans are bitterly divided by politics. But in Partisans and Partners, Josh Pacewicz finds that our traditional understanding of red/blue, right/left, urban/rural division is too simplistic. Wheels-down in Iowa—that most important of primary states—Pacewicz...

Who Freed the Slaves?

The Fight over the Thirteenth Amendment

by Leonard L. Richards
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2015

In the popular imagination, slavery in the United States ended with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The Proclamation may have been limited—freeing only slaves within Confederate states who were able to make their way to Union lines—but it is nonetheless generally seen as the key...

Science and Relativism

Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science

by Larry Laudan
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012

In recent years, many members of the intellectual community have embraced a radical relativism regarding knowledge in general and scientific knowledge in particular, holding that Kuhn, Quine, and Feyerabend have knocked the traditional picture of scientific knowledge into a cocked hat. Is philosophy...

Eclipse of Action

Tragedy and Political Economy

by Richard Halpern
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2017

According to traditional accounts, the history of tragedy is itself tragic: following a miraculous birth in fifth-century Athens and a brilliant resurgence in the early modern period, tragic drama then falls into a marked decline. While disputing the notion that tragedy has died, this wide-ranging...

Distinguishing Disability

Parents, Privilege, and Special Education

by Colin Ong-Dean
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009

Students in special education programs can have widely divergent experiences. For some, special education amounts to a dumping ground where schools unload their problem students, while for others, it provides access to services and accommodations that drastically improve chances of succeeding in school...

The Wartime President

Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat

by William G. Howell, Saul P. Jackman, Jon C. Rogowski
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2013

“It is the nature of war to increase the executive at the expense of the legislative authority,” wrote Alexander Hamilton in the Federalist Papers. The balance of power between Congress and the president has been a powerful thread throughout American political thought since the time of the Founding...

Reclaiming Accountability

Transparency, Executive Power, and the U.S. Constitution

by Heidi Kitrosser
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015

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, especially in matters of national security? Those two...

The Public Good and the Brazilian State

Municipal Finance and Public Services in São Paulo, 1822–1930

by Anne G. Hanley
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018

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, citizens thrive and crises are averted. When public...

Enchanted America

How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics

by J. Eric Oliver, Thomas J. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018

America is in civic chaos, its politics rife with conspiracy theories and false information.  Nationalism and authoritarianism are on the rise, while scientists, universities, and news organizations are viewed with increasing mistrust. Its citizens reject scientific evidence on climate change and...
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