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Affective Intelligence and Political Judgmentby W. Russell Neuman, George E. Marcus, Michael MackuenISBN 0226504697 (0-226-50469-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Alternative Americas: A Reading of Antebellum Political Cultureby Anne NortonISBN 0226595102 (0-226-59510-2)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The American Supreme Courtby Robert G. McCloskey, Sanford LevinsonISBN 0226556786 (0-226-55678-6)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The American Supreme Court'Book summary:First published more than four decades ago, Robert McCloskey's classic work on the Supreme Court's role in constructing the U.S. Constitution has introduced generations of students to the workings of our nation's highest court. Sanford Levinson brings this new edition into the twenty-first century, revising the last two chapters, which cover the events of the past forty years, and updating the book's preface, coda, chronology, and bibliographical essay.[via]
As in the second edition, McCloskey's original text remains unchanged. In his historical interpretation, he argues that the strength of the Court has always been its sensitivity to the changing political scene, as well as its reluctance to stray too far from the main currents of public sentiments. In two new chapters, Levinson discusses the Court's more recent role, especially during the 1960s, as protector of the civil rights and liberties of minorities. He updates as well the Court's continuing role as monitor of the welfare state, looking at the litigation following the 1996 changes in welfare policy by Congress and the President. Also covered in this new edition are the recent Court decisions on federalism, which perhaps portend an enhanced role for the court as the "umpire" of the federal system; the clash between Congress and the Court over the scope of the required accommodation by government of religious conduct; and the Court's role in the impeachment of President Clinton.
Wonderfully readable and concisely written, McCloskey's book is an essential guide to the past, present, and future prospects of America's highest court.More editions of The American Supreme Court:
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The Anti-Federalistby Herbert StoringISBN 0226775658 (0-226-77565-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Anti-Federalist'Book summary:Herbert J. Storing's Complete Anti-Federalist, hailed as "a civic event of enduring importance" (Leonard W. Levy, New York Times Book Review), indisputably established the importance of the Anti-Federalists' writings for our understanding of the Constitution. As Storing wrote in his introduction, "If the foundation of the American polity was laid by the Federalists, the Anti-Federalist reservations echo through American history; and it is in the dialogue, not merely in the Federalist victory, that the country's principles are to be discovered."[via]
This one-volume edition presents the essence of the other side of that crucial dialogue. It can be read as a genuine counterpart to the Federalist Papers; as an original source companion to Storing's brilliant essay What the Anti-Federalists Were For (volume I of The Complete Anti-Federalist, available as a separate paperback); or as a guide to exploring the full range of Anti-Federalist writing. The Anti-Federalist makes a fundamental source of our political heritage accessible to everyone.More editions of The Anti-Federalist:
The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Socialby Hanna Fenichel PitkinISBN 0226669912 (0-226-66991-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Beyond Adversary Democracyby Jane J. MansbridgeISBN 0226503550 (0-226-50355-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Beyond Adversary Democracy'Book summary:"Beyond Adversary Democracy should be read by everyone concerned with democratic theory and practice."Carol Pateman, Politics[via]
"Sociologists recurrently complain about how seldom it is that we produce books that combine serious theorizing about important issues of public policy with original and sensitive field research. Several rounds of enthusiastic applause, then, are due Jane Mansbridge . . . for having produced a dense and well written book whose subject is nothing less ambitious than the theory of democracy and its problems of equality, solidarity, and consensus. Beyond Adversary Democracy, however, is not simply a work of political theory; Mansbridge explores her abstract subject matter by close studies (using ethnographic, documentary, and questionnaire methods) of two small actual democracies operating at their most elemental American levels (1) a New England town meeting ("Selby," Vermont) and (2) an urban crisis center ("Helpline"), whose 41 employees shared a New Left-Counterculture belief in participatory democracy and consensual decision-making. [Mansbridge] is a force to contend with. It is in our common interest that she be widely read."Bennett M. Berger, Contemporary SociologyMore editions of Beyond Adversary Democracy:
Capitalism and the Historiansby Friedrich August Von HayekISBN 0226320723 (0-226-32072-3)
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The City and Manby Leo StraussISBN 0226777014 (0-226-77701-4)
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City Trenches: Urban Politics and the Patterning of Class in the United Statesby Ira KatznelsonISBN 0226426734 (0-226-42673-4)
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Collective Action and the Civil Rights Movementby Dennis ChongISBN 0226104419 (0-226-10441-9)
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Courts: A Comparative and Political Analysisby Martin ShapiroISBN 0226750434 (0-226-75043-4)
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Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaignby Ann N. Crigler, Montague Kern, Darrell M. West, Timothy E. Cook, Dean E. Alger, Marion R. JustISBN 0226420213 (0-226-42021-3)
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Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policyby Peter TrubowitzISBN 0226813037 (0-226-81303-7)
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A Democracy Of Distinction: Aristotle And The Work Of Politicsby Jill FrankISBN 0226260194 (0-226-26019-4)
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The Derrida-Habermas Readerby Jacques Derrida, Jurgen HabermasISBN 0226796841 (0-226-79684-1)
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The Descent of Political Theory: The Genealogy of an American Vocationby John G. GunnellISBN 0226310817 (0-226-31081-7)
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The Difference Women Make: The Policy Impact of Women in Congressby Michele L. SwersISBN 0226786498 (0-226-78649-8)
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The Fallacy of Campaign Finance Reformby John SamplesISBN 0226734501 (0-226-73450-1)
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Fear of Diversity: The Birth of Political Science in Ancient Greek Thoughtby Arlene W. SaxonhouseISBN 0226735540 (0-226-73554-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Fear of Diversity: The Birth of Political Science in Ancient Greek Thought'Book summary:This wide-ranging book locates the origin of political science in the everyday world of ancient Greek life, thought, and culture. Arlene Saxonhouse contends that the Greeks, confronted by the puzzling diversity of the physical world, sought a force that would unify, constrain, and explain it. This drive toward unity did more than value the mind over the senses: it led the Greeks to play down the very real complexitiesparticularly regarding women, the family, and sexualityin both their political and personal lives.[via]
Saxonhouse opens up fresh understandings of such issues as the Greeks' fear of the feminine and their attempts to ignore the demands that gender, reproduction, and the family inevitably make on the individual.More editions of Fear of Diversity: The Birth of Political Science in Ancient Greek Thought:
Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movementsby Francesca PollettaISBN 0226674495 (0-226-67449-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements'Book summary:Freedom Is an Endless Meeting offers vivid portraits of American experiments in participatory democracy throughout the twentieth century. Drawing on meticulous research and more than one hundred interviews with activists, Francesca Polletta challenges the conventional wisdom that participatory democracy is worthy in purpose but unworkable in practice. Instead, she shows that social movements have often used bottom-up decision making as a powerful tool for political change.[via]
Polletta traces the history of democracy in early labor struggles and pre-World War II pacifism, in the civil rights, new left, and women's liberation movements of the sixties and seventies, and in today's faith-based organizing and anti-corporate globalization campaigns. In the process, she uncovers neglected sources of democratic inspirationDepression-era labor educators and Mississippi voting registration workers, among themas well as practical strategies of social protest. But Freedom Is an Endless Meeting also highlights the obstacles that arise when activists model their democracies after familiar nonpolitical relationships such as friendship, tutelage, and religious fellowship. Doing so has brought into their deliberations the trust, respect, and caring typical of those relationships. But it has also fostered values that run counter to democracy, such as exclusivity and an aversion to rules, and these have been the fault lines around which participatory democracies have often splintered. Indeed, Polletta attributes the fragility of the form less to its basic inefficiency or inequity than to the gaps between activists' democratic commitments and the cultural models on which they have depended to enact those commitments. The challenge, she concludes, is to forge new kinds of democratic relationships, ones that balance trust with accountability, respect with openness to disagreement, and caring with inclusiveness.
For anyone concerned about the prospects for democracy in America, Freedom Is an Endless Meeting will offer abundant historical, theoretical, and practical insights.
"This is an excellent study of activist politics in the United States over the past century. . . . Assiduously researched, impressively informed by a great number of thoughtful interviews with key members of American social movements, and deeply engaged with its subject matter, the book is likely to become a key text in the study of grass-roots democracy in America."Kate Fullbrook, Times Literary Supplement
"Polletta's portrayal challenges the common assumption that morality and strategy are incompatible, that those who aim at winning must compromise principle while those who insist on morality are destined to be ineffective. . . . Rather than dwell on trying to explain the decline of 60s movements, Polletta shows how participatory democracy has become the guiding framework for many of today's activists."Richard Flacks, Los Angeles Times Book Review
"In Freedom Is an Endless Meeting, Francesca Polletta has produced a remarkable work of historical sociology. . . . She provides the fullest theoretical work of historical sociology. . . . She provides the fullest theoretical picture of participatory democracy, rich with nuance, ambiguity, and irony, that this reviewer has yet seen. . . . This wise book should be studied closely by both academics and by social change activists."Stewart Burns, Journal of American HistoryMore editions of Freedom Is an Endless Meeting: Democracy in American Social Movements:
The Gatt: Law and International Economic Organizationby Kenneth W. DamISBN 0226134962 (0-226-13496-2)
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Going Home: Black Representatives and Their Constituentsby Richard F. FennoISBN 0226241319 (0-226-24131-9)
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Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political Systemsby Thomas FergusonISBN 0226243176 (0-226-24317-6)
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Happy Slaves: A Critique of Consent Theoryby Don HerzogISBN 0226329259 (0-226-32925-9)
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In Defence of Politicsby Bernard R. CrickISBN 0226120678 (0-226-12067-8)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In Defence of Politics'Book summary:In this illuminating celebration of the political world, Bernard Crick asserts that politics, with[via]
its compromises and power struggles, remains the only tested alternative to government by
coercion, making both freedom and order possible in heterogeneous societies. For Crick,
politics is messy and complex, and his book defends it against those who would identify it with (and reduce it to) ideology, democracy, nationalism, or technology.
This Fourth edition has been updated to include an assessment of the revolutions in 1989 in
Eastern Europe. It also examines current situations in Northern Ireland, Israel and Palestine,
and South Africa.
A short book written with verve and brilliance. . . . He has written an exceedingly clever and
disturbing book on important issues, all that he writes is alive and much of what he says, even when it seems perversely provocative, turns out to be penetrating and serious.
Isaiah Berlin, 20th Century
One of the most thoughtful products of the political dialogues of the London School of
Economics since the great days of Tawney, Dalton, Wallas and Hobhouse. Its sobriety,
liberal spirit and toughness of mind are rare qualities in any political work.
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Individualism and Economic Orderby Friedrich A. JayekISBN 0226320936 (0-226-32093-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Individualism and Economic Order'Book summary:In this collection of writings, Nobel laureate Friedrich A. Hayek discusses topics from moral philosophy and the methods of the social sciences to economic theory as different aspects of the same central issue: free markets versus socialist planned economies. First published in the 1930s and 40s, these essays continue to illuminate the problems faced by developing and formerly socialist countries.[via]
F. A. Hayek, recipient of the Medal of Freedom in 1991 and winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics in 1974, taught at the University of Chicago, the University of London, and the University of Freiburg. Among his other works published by the University of Chicago Press is The Road to Serfdom, now available in a special fiftieth anniversary edition.More editions of Individualism and Economic Order:
Individualism and Economic Orderby Friedrich August Von HayekISBN 0226320898 (0-226-32089-8)
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Is Anyone Responsible?: How Television Frames Political Issuesby Shanto IyengarISBN 0226388557 (0-226-38855-7)
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Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thoughtby Jonathan RauchISBN 0226705765 (0-226-70576-5)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought'Book summary:Tracing attacks on free speech from Plato's Republic to America's campuses and newsrooms, Jonathan Rauch provides an engaging and provocative attack on those who would limit free thought by restricting free speech. Rauch explores how the system for producing knowledge works in a liberal society, and why it has now become the object of a powerful ideological attack. Moving beyond the First Amendment, he defends the morality, rather than the legality, of an intellectual regime that relies on unfettered and often hurtful criticism. Kindly Inquisitors is a refreshing and vibrant essay, casting a provocative light on the raging debates over political correctness and multiculturalism.[via]
"Fiercely argued. . . . What sets his study apart is his attempt to situate recent developments in a long-range historical perspective and to defend the system of free intellectual inquiry as a socially productive method of channeling prejudice."Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"Like no other, this book restates the core of our freedom and demonstrates how great, and disregarded, the peril to that freedom has become."Joseph Coates, Chicago Tribune
"The philosophical defense of free speech and free thought that seems to have been forgotten. . . . A powerful argument."Diane Ravitch, Wall Street JournalMore editions of Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought:
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Liberalism Ancient and Modernby Leo StraussISBN 0226776891 (0-226-77689-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Liberalism Ancient and Modern'Book summary:Revered and reviled, Leo Strauss has left a rich legacy of work that continues to spark discussion and controversy. This volume of essays ranges over critical themes that define Strauss's thought: the tension between reason and revelation in the Western tradition, the philsophical roots of liberal democracy, and especially the conflicting yet complementary relationship between ancient and modern liberalism. For those seeking to become acquainted with this provocative thinker, one need look no further.[via]More editions of Liberalism Ancient and Modern:
Liberalism Without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklarby Judith N. Shklar, Bernard YackISBN 0226944700 (0-226-94470-0)
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Limits of Citizenship: Migrants and Postnational Membership in Europeby Yasemin Nuhoglu SoysalISBN 0226768422 (0-226-76842-2)
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Locke's Education for Libertyby Nathan TarcovISBN 0226789748 (0-226-78974-8)
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Logics Of History: Social Theory And Social Transformationby William H. SewellISBN 0226749185 (0-226-74918-5)
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Machiavelli to Marx: Modern Western Political Thoughtby Dante GerminoISBN 0226288501 (0-226-28850-1)
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The Macroeconomics of Populism in Latin Americaby Rudiger Dornbusch, Sebastian EdwardsISBN 0226158446 (0-226-15844-6)
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Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda for Social Problemsby Barbara NelsonISBN 0226572013 (0-226-57201-3)
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Making an Issue of Child Abuse: Political Agenda Setting for Social Problemsby Barbara J. NelsonISBN 0226572005 (0-226-57200-5)
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More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Lawsby John R. LottISBN 0226493644 (0-226-49364-4)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'More Guns, Less Crime: Understanding Crime and Gun-Control Laws'Book summary:Multiple regression analyses are rarely the subject of heated public debate or 225-page books for laypeople. But John R. Lott, Jr.'s study in the January 1997 Journal of Legal Studies showing that concealed-carry weapons permits reduced the crime rate set off a firestorm. The updated study, together with illustrative anecdotes and a short description of the political and academic response to the study, as well as responses to the responses, makes up Lott's informative More Guns, Less Crime.
In retrospect, it perhaps should not have been surprising that increasing the number of civilians with guns would reduce crime rates. The possibility of armed victims reduces the expected benefits and increases the expected costs of criminal activity. And, at the margin at least, people respond to changes in costs, even for crime, as Nobel-Prize winning economist [TAG]Gary Becker showed long ago. Allusions to the preferences of criminals for unarmed victims have seeped into popular culture; Ringo, a British thug in Pulp Fiction, noted off-handedly why he avoided certain targets: "Bars, liquor stores, gas stations, you get your head blown off stickin' up one of them."
But Lott's actual quantification of this, in the largest and most comprehensive study of the effects of gun control to date, a study well-detailed in the book, provoked a number of attacks, ranging from the amateurish to the subtly misleading, desperate to discredit him. Lott takes the time to refute each argument; it's almost touching the way he footnotes each time he telephones an attacker who eventually hangs up on him without substantiating any of their claims.
Lott loses a little focus when he leaves his firm quantitative base; as an economist, he should know that the low number of rejected background checks under the Brady Bill doesn't demonstrate anything by itself, because some people may have been deterred from even undergoing the background check in the first place, but he attacks the bill on this ground anyway. But the conclusions that are backed by evidence--that concealed-weapons permits reduce crime, and do so at a lower cost to society than increasing the number of police or prisons--are important ones that should be considered by policymakers. --Ted Frank [via]
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The New Science of Politicsby Eric VoegelinISBN 0226861147 (0-226-86114-7)
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Numbered Voices: How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politicsby Susan HerbstISBN 0226327434 (0-226-32743-4)
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The Paranoid Style in American Politics and Other Essaysby Richard HofstadterISBN 0226348172 (0-226-34817-2)
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Participation in America: Political Democracy and Social Equalityby Sidney Verba, Norman NieISBN 0226852962 (0-226-85296-2)
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Parties and Leaders in the Postreform Houseby David W. RohdeISBN 0226724077 (0-226-72407-7)
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Party Coalitions: Realignment and the Decline of the New Deal Party Systemby John R. PetrocikISBN 0226663787 (0-226-66378-7)
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Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracyby Stephen HolmesISBN 0226349691 (0-226-34969-1)
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The Peloponnesian War: Thucydidesby Thomas Hobbes, Thucydides, David GreneISBN 0226801063 (0-226-80106-3)
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Plato's Statesmanby Plato, Seth Benardete, Seth BernardeteISBN 0226670333 (0-226-67033-3)
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Political Theology: Four Chapters on the Concept of Sovereigntyby Carl Schmitt, Tracy B. Strong, George SchwabISBN 0226738892 (0-226-73889-2)
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The Politics of Gay Rightsby Kenneth D. Wald, Clyde Wilcox, Craig A. RimmermanISBN 0226719995 (0-226-71999-5)
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Projections of Power: Framing News, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policyby Robert M. EntmanISBN 0226210723 (0-226-21072-3)
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Property Rules: Political Economy in Chicago, 1833-1872by Robin Leigh EinhornISBN 0226194868 (0-226-19486-8)
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The Pursuit of Power: Technology, Armed Force and Society Since A.D. 1000by William H. McNeillISBN 0226561585 (0-226-56158-5)
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Racialized Politics: The Debate About Racism in Americaby David O. Sears, Lawrence Bobo, Jim SidaniusISBN 0226744078 (0-226-74407-8)
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Radicals Reformers and Reactionaries: The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Collapse of Democracy in Latin Americaby Youssef CohenISBN 0226112721 (0-226-11272-1)
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Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Societyby Dennis ChongISBN 0226104397 (0-226-10439-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society'Book summary:Those who study value conflicts have resisted rational choice approaches in the social sciences, contending that political conflict over cultural values is best explained by group loyalties, symbolic motives, and other "nonrational" factors. However, Chong shows that a single model can explain how people make decisions across both social and economic realms. He argues that our preferences result from a combination of psychological dispositions, which are shaped by social influences and developed over the life span.[via]
Chong's book yields insights about the circumstances under which preferences, beliefs, values, norms and group identifications are formed. It offers a provocative explanation of how ingrained social norms and values can change over time despite the forces maintaining the status quo.
"Going beyond the tired polemics on both sides, [Chong] constructs a new interpretation of human behavior in which culture and individual rationality both matter. The synthesis is a more comprehensive and powerful explanatory framework than either side could have produced, and Chong's creativity should influence subsequent interpretations of our social life in fundamental ways."Christopher H. Achen, University of MichiganMore editions of Rational Lives: Norms and Values in Politics and Society:
Reading Leo Strauss: Politics, Philosophy, Judaismby Steven B. SmithISBN 0226764028 (0-226-76402-8)
Hardcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Reading Public Opinion: How Political Actors View the Democratic Processby Susan HerbstISBN 0226327477 (0-226-32747-7)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaignsby Samuel L. PopkinISBN 0226675459 (0-226-67545-9)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Reconceiving Decision-Making in Democratic Politics: Attention, Choice, and Public Policyby Bryan D. JonesISBN 0226406512 (0-226-40651-2)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Recovered Roots: Collective Memory & the Making of Israeli National Traditionby Yael ZerubavelISBN 0226981584 (0-226-98158-4)
Softcover, Univ of Chicago Pr
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Representative Democracy: Principles And Genealogyby Nadia UrbinatiISBN 0226842789 (0-226-84278-9)
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Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Cultureby Anne NortonISBN 0226595137 (0-226-59513-7)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture'Book summary:Norton examines the enactment of liberal ideas in popular culture; in the possessions of ordinary people and the habits of everyday life. She sees liberalism as the common sense of the American people: a set of conventions unconsciously adhered to, a set of principles silently taken for granted.[via]
The author ranges over a wide expanse of popular activities (e.g. wrestling, roller derby, lotteries, shopping sprees, and dining out), as well as conventional political topics (e.g., the Constitution, presidency, news media, and centrality of law). Yet the argument is pointed and probling, never shallow or superficial. Fred and Wilma Flintstone are as vital to the republic as Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt.
"In discussions that range from the Constitution and the presidency to money and shopping, voting, lotteries, and survey research, Norton discerns and imaginatively invents possibilities that exceed recognized actualities and already approved opportunities."Richard E. Flathman, American Political Science Review
"[S]timulating and stylish exploration of political theory, language, culture, and shopping at the mall . . . popular culture at its best, informed by history and theory, serious in purpose, yet witty and modest in tone."Bernard Mergen, American Studies InternationalMore editions of Republic of Signs: Liberal Theory and American Popular Culture:
School Politics, Chicago Styleby Paul E. PetersonISBN 0226662888 (0-226-66288-8)
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Science, Money, and Politics: Political Triumph and Ethical Erosionby Daniel S. GreenbergISBN 0226306356 (0-226-30635-6)
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The Soviet System of Governmentby John N. HazardISBN 0226321940 (0-226-32194-0)
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The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion - Our Social Skinby Elisabeth Noelle-NeumannISBN 0226589366 (0-226-58936-6)
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Thoughts on Machiavelliby Leo StraussISBN 0226777022 (0-226-77702-2)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Thoughts on Machiavelli'Book summary:Leo Strauss argued that the most visible fact about Machiavelli's doctrine is also the most useful one: Machiavelli seems to be a teacher of wickedness. Strauss sought to incorporate this idea in his interpretation without permitting it to overwhelm or exhaust his exegesis of The Prince and the Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy. "We are in sympathy," he writes, "with the simple opinion about Machiavelli [namely, the wickedness of his teaching], not only because it is wholesome, but above all because a failure to take that opinion seriously prevents one from doing justice to what is truly admirable in Machiavelli: the intrepidity of his thought, the grandeur of his vision, and the graceful subtlety of his speech." This critique of the founder of modern political philosophy by this prominent twentieth-century scholar is an essential text for students of both authors.[via]More editions of Thoughts on Machiavelli:
The Three Worldsby Peter WorsleyISBN 0226907554 (0-226-90755-4)
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The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policyby William Julius WilsonISBN 0226901319 (0-226-90131-9)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy'Book summary:"The Truly Disadvantaged should spur critical thinking in many quarters about the causes and possible remedies for inner city poverty. As policy makers grapple with the problems of an enlarged underclass they--as well as community leaders and all concerned Americans of all races--would be advised to examine Mr. Wilson's incisive analysis."--Robert Greenstein, New York Times Book Review[via]
"'Must reading' for civil-rights leaders, leaders of advocacy organizations for the poor, and for elected officials in our major urban centers."--Bernard C. Watson, Journal of Negro Education
"Required reading for anyone, presidential candidate or private citizen, who really wants to address the growing plight of the black urban underclass."--David J. Garrow, Washington Post Book World
Selected by the editors of the New York Times Book Review as one of the sixteen best books of 1987.
Winner of the 1988 C. Wright Mills Award of the Society for the Study of Social Problems.More editions of The Truly Disadvantaged: The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy:
The Truth About Leo Strauss: Political Philosophy And American Democracyby Catherine H. Zuckert, Michael ZuckertISBN 0226993329 (0-226-99332-9)
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Turf Wars: How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdictionby David C. KingISBN 0226436241 (0-226-43624-1)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Turf Wars: How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction'Book summary:For most bills in American legislatures, the issue of turfor which committee has jurisdiction over a billcan make all the difference. Turf governs the flow and fate of all legislation. In this innovative study, David C. King explains how jurisdictional areas for committees are created and changed in Congress.[via]
Political scientists have long maintained that jurisdictions are relatively static, changing only at times of dramatic reforms. Not so, says King. Combining quantitative evidence with interviews and case studies, he shows how on-going turf wars make jurisdictions fluid.
According to King, jurisdictional change stems both from legislators seeking electoral advantage and from nonpartisan House parliamentarians referring ambiguous bills to committees with the expertise to handle the issues. King brilliantly dissects the politics of turf grabbing and at the same time shows how parliamentarians have become institutional guardians of the legislative process.
Original and insightful, Turf Wars will be valuable to those interested in congressional studies and American politics more generally.More editions of Turf Wars: How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction:
The Two Reconstructions: The Struggle For Black Enfranchisementby Richard M. ValellyISBN 0226845303 (0-226-84530-3)
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The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941-1947by John Lewis GaddisISBN 0231032897 (0-231-03289-7)
Hardcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraftby Virginia SapiroISBN 0226734919 (0-226-73491-9)
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What Government Can Do: Dealing With Poverty and Inequalityby Benjamin I. Page, James R. SimmonsISBN 0226644820 (0-226-64482-0)
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