University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
The Politics of Expertise
Competing for Authority in Global Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Experts dominate all facets of global governance, from accounting practices and antitrust regulations to human rights law and environmental conservation. In this study, Ole Jacob Sending encourages a critical interrogation of the role and power of experts by unveiling the politics of the ongoing competition...
India China
Rethinking Borders and Security
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Challenging the Westphalian view of international relations, which focuses on the sovereignty of states and the inevitable potential for conflict, the authors from the Borderlands Study Group reconceive borders as capillaries enabling the flow of material, cultural, and social benefits through local...
Star Worlds
Freedom Versus Control in Online Gameworlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2016
Star Worlds explores the future-oriented universe of online virtual worlds connected with popular science fiction—specifically, with Star Wars and Star Trek—that have been inhabited for over a decade by computer gamers. The Star Wars and Star Trek franchises, both of which have shaped the dominant...
Memory, Meaning, and Resistance
Reflecting on Oral History and Women at the Margins
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Fran Leeper Buss, a former welfare recipient who earned a PhD in history and became a pioneer in the field of oral history, has for forty years dedicated herself to the goal of collecting the stories of marginal and working-class U.S. women. Memory, Meaning, and Resistance is based on over 100 oral...
by Keith Krehbiel
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
In this controversial book, Keith Krehbiel investigates and casts doubt upon a view of Congress held by many academics, journalists, and members of the lay public: that Congress is organized primarily to facilitate logrolling or "gains from trade" between legislators. The author puts forward...
From Property to Family
American Dog Rescue and the Discourse of Compassion
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
In the wake of the considerable cultural changes and social shifts that the United States and all advanced industrial democracies have experienced since the late 1960s and early 1970s, social discourse around the disempowered has changed in demonstrable ways. In From Property to Family: American...
Communicative Biocapitalism
The Voice of the Patient in Digital Health and the Health Humanities
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
The Precision Medicine Initiative, Apple’s HealthKit, the FitBit—the booming digital health industry asserts that digital networks, tools, and the scientific endeavors they support will usher in a new era of medicine centered around “the voice of the patient.” But whose “voices” do such...
Constructivism Reconsidered
Past, Present, and Future
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2018
In international relations (IR), the theory of constructivism argues that the complicated web of international relations is not the result of basic human nature or some other unchangeable aspect but has been built up over time and through shared assumptions.
Constructivism Reconsidered synthesizes...
Putting Inequality in Context
Class, Public Opinion, and Representation in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2017
Rising income inequality is highlighted as one of the largest challenges facing the United States, affecting civic participation and political representation. Although the wealthy often can and do exert more political influence, this is not always the case. To fix political inequality, it is important...
by Donnalee Dox
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Performance has become a paradigm for analyzing contemporary culture, a pattern that structures a particular view of human interaction and experience. Performance is also widely used to better understand how we express values and ideas, including religious beliefs. Reckoning with Spirit in the Paradigm...
by Bryon J Moraski, William M Reisinger
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
In The Regional Roots of Russia’s Political Regime, William M. Reisinger and Bryon J. Moraski examine Russian politics at the subnational level in order to discover why democracy failed to take root and how Putin’s authoritarian regime materialized. Since the national regime needed dominant victories...
From Noose to Needle
Capital Punishment and the Late Liberal State
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
From Noose to Needle contributes a new perspective on the controversial topic of capital punishment by asking how the conduct of state killing reveals broader contradictions in the contemporary liberal state, especially, but not exclusively, in the United States. Moving beyond more familiar legal...
The Many Faces of Strategic Voting
Tactical Behavior in Electoral Systems Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2018
Voters do not always choose their preferred candidate on election day. Often they cast their ballots to prevent a particular outcome, as when their own preferred candidate has no hope of winning and they want to prevent another, undesirable candidate’s victory; or, they vote to promote a single-party...
by Debra Spark
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
". . . a smart, sprightly, sex-drenched, and neatly plotted novel . . ."
---Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio and the Chicago Tribune
"Spark is at her sly, funny, and cutting best in her third novel, a clever and affecting variation on the biblical story of Esther."
---Booklist
"Spark's...