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The Welfare State: A Very Short IntroductionWelfare states vary across nations and change over time. And the balance between markets and government; free enterprise and social protection is perennially in question. But all developed societies have welfare states of one kind or another - they are a fundamental dimension of...
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The Concept of LawFifty years on from its original publication, HLA Hart's The Concept of Law is widely recognized as the most important work of legal philosophy published in the twentieth century. It is a classic book in the field of legal scholarship and remains the starting...
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Low Wage in High Tech: An Ethnography of Service Workers in Global IndiaIndia's multinational call centers and software firms are housed in gleaming corporate towers within lavish economic zones; spaces that have become symbolic of new, sanitized, technology-driven development regimes. However, little is known about the workers who are responsible for the daily maintenance of these...
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Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial LiberalismLiberalism is the political philosophy of equal persons - yet liberalism has refused equality to those it saw as sub-persons. Liberalism is the creed of fairness - yet liberalism has been complicit with European imperialism and African slavery. Liberalism is the classic ideology of...
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A People's History of the Supreme Court: The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions Have Shaped Our Constitution: Revised EditionA comprehensive history of the people and cases that have changed history, this is the definitive account of the nation's highest court featuring a forward by Howard Zinn Recent changes in the Supreme Court have placed the venerable institution at the forefront of current...
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Revel for Politics in America, 2018 Elections and Updates Edition -- Access CardFor courses in American Government See who gets what, when and how, in American politics Revel(TM) Politics in America introduces students to the political struggles that drive democracy, examining the participants, the stakes, the processes, and the institutional arenas that comprise the power game...
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The Making of the President, 1960: The Landmark Political SeriesA Harper Perennial Political Classic, The Making of the President 1960 is the groundbreaking national bestseller and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of the 1960 presidential campaign and the election of John F. Kennedy.The Making of the President: 1960 revolutionized the way modern presidential campaigns are...
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History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust DenierNow a major motion picture starring Rachel Weisz, Timothy Spall and Tom Wilkinson. "A compelling book: memoir and courtroom drama, a work of historical and legal import. " -- Jewish WeekDeborah Lipstadt, author of the groundbreaking Denying the Holocaust, chronicles her six-year legal battle...
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Arid Empire: The Entangled Fates of Arizona and ArabiaA revelatory new history of the colonization of the American West The iconic deserts of the American southwest could not have been colonized and settled without the help of desert experts from the Middle East. For example: In 1856, a caravan of thirty-three camels...
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Phantoms of a Beleaguered Republic: The Deep State and the Unitary ExecutiveA powerful dissection of one of the fundamental problems in American governance today: the clash between presidents determined to redirect the nation through ever-tighter control of administration and an executive branch still organized to promote shared interests in steady hands, due deliberation, and expertise....
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Global Jihad: Wahabism, Salafism, the ISIS-K, Taliban, PKK, Kurdish Hezbollah, TTP and Tablighi JamaatArmed governance as a mood of rule, violent competition, and control has characterized the modern history of Afghanistan. The majority of actors participating in determining such a process of governance are militias supported by neighbouring states. The dynamics of Taliban legitimacy, and their disputed...
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Has Populism Won?: The War on Liberal DemocracyIn the shadow of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, two experts show us how and why global populism has taken root and what it will take to turn the tide From Trumpian America to Putin's nationalist Russia, and from Poland to the Philippines, rapid...
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Battle for the Heart of Texas: Political Change in the ElectorateTexas is a solid red state. Or trending purple. Or soon to be blue. One thing is certain: as Texas looms ever larger in national politics, the makeup of its electorate increasingly matters. At a critical moment, as migration, immigration, and a maturing populace...
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Election Day: How We Vote and What It Means for DemocracyAn original defense of the unique value of voting in a democracy Voting is only one of the many ways that citizens can participate in public decision making, so why does it occupy such a central place in the democratic imagination? In Election Day,...
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Imagining Global FuturesA collection of post-colonial visions for a more just world. What does a just world look like? This volume begins with a planet beset by accumulating crises--environmental, social, and political--and imagines how we can move beyond them. Drawing on the legacy of post-colonial struggles...
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Undermining the Idea of IndiaA searing manifesto for troubled times in India. "India is improbable. By any measure of logic or reason, it should not be. Not in this form. And yet it is." With this provocation, Justice Gautam Patel of the Bombay High Court sketches the exoskeleton...
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Navy Staff Officer's Guide: Leading with Impact from Squadron to OpnavContinuing the tradition of Naval Institute Blue and Gold series classics such as Command at Sea and the Watch Officer's Guide, the Navy Staff Officer's Guide will equip naval leaders for success in the challenging professional environment of a Navy staff. Navy staffs build...
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Organizing Women: Home, Work, and the Institutional Infrastructure of Print in Twentieth-Century AmericaIn the first decades of the twentieth century, print-centered organizations spread rapidly across the United States, providing more women than ever before with opportunities to participate in public life. While most organizations at the time were run by and for white men, women--both Black...
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Undue Process: Persecution and Punishment in Autocratic CourtsWhy do autocrats hold political trials when outcomes are presumed known from the start? Undue Process examines how autocrats weaponize the judiciary to stay in control. Contrary to conventional wisdom that courts constrain arbitrary power, Shen-Bayh argues that judicial processes can instead be used...
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Resisting BackslidingIn the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and balances, hinders free and fair elections, and undermines political rights and civil liberties. Using and abusing institutions...
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