University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
On Parliamentary War
Partisan Conflict and Procedural Change in the U.S. Senate
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Dysfunction in the contemporary Senate is driven by the deteriorating relationship between the majority and minority parties in the institution. In this environment, regular order is virtually nonexistent and unorthodox parliamentary procedures are frequently needed to pass important legislation....
by Seth K Jolly
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Rather than weakening the forces of nationalism among member states, the expanding power of the European Union actually fosters conditions favorable to regionalist movements within traditional nation-states. Using a cross-national, quantitative study of the advent of regionalist political parties...
Selma and the Liuzzo Murder Trials
The First Modern Civil Rights Convictions
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
In 1965 the drive for black voting rights in the south culminated in the epic Selma to Montgomery Freedom March. After brutal state police beatings stunned the nation on “Bloody Sunday,” troops under federal court order lined the route as the march finally made its way to the State Capitol and...
Why They Die
Civilian Devastation in Violent Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Why do civilians suffer most during times of violent conflict? Why are civilian fatalities as much as eight times higher, calculated globally for current conflicts, than military fatalities? In Why They Die, Daniel Rothbart and Karina V. Korostelina address these questions through a systematic study...
Japan and China as Charm Rivals
Soft Power in Regional Diplomacy
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2012
In international relations today, influence is as essential as military and economic might. Consequently, leaders promote favorable images of the state in order to attract allies and win support for their policies. Jing Sun, an expert on international relations and a former journalist, refers to such...
Strung Together
The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2013
In Strung Together: The Cultural Currency of String Theory as a Scientific Imaginary, Sean Miller examines the cultural currency of string theory, both as part of scientific discourse and beyond it. He demonstrates that the imaginative component of string theory is both integral and indispensable...
Risk Criticism
Precautionary Reading in an Age of Environmental Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2016
Risk Criticism is a study of literary and cultural responses to global environmental risk in an age of unfolding ecological catastrophe. In 2015, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists reset its iconic Doomsday Clock to three minutes to midnight, as close to the apocalypse as it has been since 1953....
American Lobotomy
A Rhetorical History
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
American Lobotomy studies a wide variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine. The development of lobotomy in 1935 was heralded as a “miracle cure” that would empty the nation’s perennially blighted asylums....
Oral Arguments and Coalition Formation on the U.S. Supreme Court
A Deliberate Dialogue
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012
The U.S. Supreme Court, with its controlled, highly institutionalized decision-making practices, provides an ideal environment for studying coalition formation. The process begins during the oral argument stage, which provides the justices with their first opportunity to hear one another's attitudes...
Anonymous Connections
The Body and Narratives of the Social in Victorian Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2016
Anonymous Connections asks how the Victorians understood the ethical, epistemological, and biological implications of social belonging and participation. Specifically, Tina Choi considers the ways nineteenth-century journalists, novelists, medical writers, and social reformers took advantage of spatial...
The Chief Justice
Appointment and Influence
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
The Chief Justice brings together leading scholars of the courts who employ social science theory and research to explain the role of the Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court. They consider the chief justice’s appointment, office, powers, and influence both within the Court and in the American...
The First Global Prosecutor
Promise and Constraints
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The establishment of the International Criminal Court (ICC) gave rise to the first permanent Office of the Prosecutor (OTP), with independent powers of investigation and prosecution. Elected in 2003 for a nine-year term as the ICC’s first Prosecutor, Luis Moreno Ocampo established policies and practices...
A Tale of Two Capitalisms
Sacred Economics in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
No questions are more pressing today than the ethical dimensions of global capitalism in relation to an unevenly secularized modernity. A Tale of Two Capitalisms offers a timely response to these questions by reexamining the intellectual history of capitalist economics during the nineteenth century....
Strangers to the Law
Gay People on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
In 1992, the voters of Colorado passed a ballot initiative amending the state constitution to prevent the state or any local government from adopting any law or policy that protected a person with a homosexual, lesbian, or bisexual orientation from discrimination. This amendment was immediately challenged...