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Rethinking Private Authority
Agents and Entrepreneurs in Global Environmental Governance
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2013
Rethinking Private Authority examines the role of non-state actors in global environmental politics, arguing that a fuller understanding of their role requires a new way of conceptualizing private authority. Jessica Green identifies two distinct forms of private authority--one in which states delegate...
We, the People of Europe?
Reflections on Transnational Citizenship
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
étienne Balibar has been one of Europe's most important philosophical and political thinkers since the 1960s. His work has been vastly influential on both sides of the Atlantic throughout the humanities and the social sciences. In We, the People of Europe?, he expands on themes raised in his previous...
Righteous Transgressions
Women's Activism on the Israeli and Palestinian Religious Right
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
How do women in conservative religious movements expand spaces for political activism in ways that go beyond their movements' strict ideas about male and female roles? How and why does this activism happen in some movements but not in others? Righteous Transgressions examines these questions by comparatively...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
In the last decade, behavioral economics, borrowing from psychology and sociology to explain decisions inconsistent with traditional economics, has revolutionized the way economists view the world. But despite this general success, behavioral thinking has fundamentally transformed only one field of...
by Roy L. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
With the election of Barack Obama as the first black president of the United States, the issue of racial justice in America occupies center stage. Have black Americans finally achieved racial justice? Is government intervention no longer required? Racial Justice in the Age of Obama considers contemporary...
When Movements Anchor Parties
Electoral Alignments in American History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Throughout American history, some social movements, such as organized labor and the Christian Right, have forged influential alliances with political parties, while others, such as the antiwar movement, have not. When Movements Anchor Parties provides a bold new interpretation of American electoral...
Return of the "L" Word
A Liberal Vision for the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Somewhere in the 1970s liberals in the United States lost their way. After successes like the New Deal, they became arrogant. So argues Douglas Massey in Return of the "L" Word. Faced with the difficult politics of race and class, liberals used the heavy hand of government to impose policies...
The Great American Mission
Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2011
The Great American Mission traces how America's global modernization efforts during the twentieth century were a means to remake the world in its own image. David Ekbladh shows that the emerging concept of modernization combined existing development ideas from the Depression. He describes how ambitious...
Dividing Lines
The Politics of Immigration Control in America
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Immigration is perhaps the most enduring and elemental leitmotif of America. This book is the most powerful study to date of the politics and policies it has inspired, from the founders' earliest efforts to shape American identity to today's revealing struggles over Third World immigration, noncitizen...
The Democratic Experiment
New Directions in American Political History
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In a series of fascinating essays that explore topics in American politics from the nation's founding to the present day , The Democratic Experiment opens up exciting new avenues for historical research while offering bold claims about the tensions that have animated American public life. Revealing...
More Equal Than Others
America from Nixon to the New Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
During the past quarter century, free-market capitalism was recognized not merely as a successful system of wealth creation, but as the key determinant of the health of political and cultural democracy. Now, renowned British journalist and historian Godfrey Hodgson takes aim at this popular view in...
Black and Blue
African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2011
In the 1930s, fewer than one in one hundred U.S. labor union members were African American. By 1980, the figure was more than one in five. Black and Blue explores the politics and history that led to this dramatic integration of organized labor. In the process, the book tells a broader story about...
Complexity and the Art of Public Policy
Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
Complexity science—made possible by modern analytical and computational advances—is changing the way we think about social systems and social theory. Unfortunately, economists' policy models have not kept up and are stuck in either a market fundamentalist or government control narrative. While...
Connections
An Introduction to the Economics of Networks
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2012
Networks pervade social and economic life, and they play a prominent role in explaining a huge variety of social and economic phenomena. Standard economic theory did not give much credit to the role of networks until the early 1990s, but since then the study of the theory of networks has blossomed....