University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
The Strategy of Campaigning
Lessons from Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
The Strategy of Campaigning explores the political careers of Ronald Reagan and Boris Yeltsin, two of the most galvanizing and often controversial political figures of our time. Both men overcame defeat early in their political careers and rose to the highest elected offices in their respective countries.
The...
The Windward Shore
A Winter on the Great Lakes
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2011
"Our country is lucky to have Jerry Dennis. A conservationist with the soul of a poet whose beat is Wild Michigan, Dennis is a kindred spirit of Aldo Leopold and Sigurd Olson. The Windward Shore---his newest effort---is a beautifully written and elegiac memoir of outdoor discovery. Highly recommended!"
---Douglas...
When Courts and Congress Collide
The Struggle for Control of America's Judicial System
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
"This is quite simply the best study of judicial independence that I have ever read; it is erudite, historically aware, and politically astute."
---Malcolm M. Feeley, Claire Sanders Clements Dean's Professor, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California at Berkeley
"Professor...
by Dagmar Reese
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
Growing Up Female in Nazi Germany explores the world of the Bund Deutscher Mädel (BDM), the female section within the Hitler Youth that included almost all German girls aged 10 to 14. The BDM is often enveloped in myths; German girls were brought up to be the compliant handmaidens of National Socialism,...
by Carol Poore
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
"Comprehensively researched, abundantly illustrated and written in accessible and engaging prose . . . With great skill, Poore weaves diverse types of evidence, including historical sources, art, literature, journalism, film, philosophy, and personal narratives into a tapestry which illuminates...
It's Legal but It Ain't Right
Harmful Social Consequences of Legal Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Many U.S. corporations and the goods they produce negatively impact our society without breaking any laws. We are all too familiar with the tobacco industry's effect on public health and health care costs for smokers and nonsmokers, as well as the role of profit in the pharmaceutical industry's research...
The Best of Bacon
Select Cuts
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2018
From the Preface:
“I wrote these stories between 1992 and 2018. They cover a dozen different sports for a dozen different media outlets, from the Ann Arbor News to National Public Radio, and they stretch from a couple pages to a dozen. But they have one thing in common: they all meant a lot to me...
Institutions and Economic Theory
The Contribution of the New Institutional Economics
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2010
This second edition assesses some of the major refinements, extensions, and useful applications that have developed in neoinstitutionalist thought in recent years. More attention is given to the overlap between the New Institutional Economics and developments in economic history and political science....
The White Welfare State
The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
The White Welfare State challenges common misconceptions of the development of U.S. welfare policy. Arguing that race has always been central to welfare policy-making in the United States, Deborah Ward breaks new ground by showing that the Mothers' Pensions--the Progressive-Era precursors to modern...
The Politics of Rights
Lawyers, Public Policy, and Political Change
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Stuart A. Scheingold's landmark work introduced a new understanding of the contribution of rights to progressive social movements, and thirty years later it still stands as a pioneering and provocative work, bridging political science and sociolegal studies. In the preface to this new edition, the...
Markets and Medicine
The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Are advanced industrialized countries converging on a market response to reform their systems of social protection? By comparing the health care reform experiences of Britain, Germany, and the United States in the 1990s, Susan Giaimo explores how countries pursue diverse policy responses and how such...
by Scott Abernathy
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2008
“A powerful, detailed, and exceptionally balanced critique of NCLB. It offers some hope for how we might overcome its faults. No legislator or educational expert should be allowed to get away with not reading it—whether to agree or disagree. It’s a must learning experience.”
—Deborah...
The President Electric
Ronald Reagan and the Politics of Performance
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
"In this illuminating, multi-pronged cultural and performance history of such phenomena as Chautauqua and radio, movies, and electrical technology, Timothy Raphael puts together a compelling and sometimes revelatory narrative of how commandingly Reagan mastered the matrix of performance, technology,...
No Safe Spaces
Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011
"No Safe Spaces opens up a conversation beyond narrow polemics . . . Although cross-racial casting has been the topic of heated discussion, little sustained scholarship addresses both the historical precedents and theoretical dimensions. Pao illustrates the tensions and contradictions inherent...