Political Science
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Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole PatemanFor nearly four decades, the writings of Carole Pateman have been regarded as major contributions to debates within political philosophy and feminist theory. She is the recipient of the 2012 Johan Skytte Prize in political science for "in a thought-provoking way challenging established ideas...
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Five Chapters on Rhetoric: Character, Action, Things, Nothing, and ArtMichael Kochin's radical exploration of rhetoric is built around five fundamental concepts that illuminate how rhetoric functions in the public sphere. To speak persuasively is to bring new things into existence--to create a political movement out of a crowd, or an army out of...
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Sandinistas: A Moral HistoryRobert J. Sierakowski's Sandinistas: A Moral History offers a bold new perspective on the liberation movement that brought the Sandinista National Liberation Front to power in Nicaragua in 1979, overthrowing the longest-running dictatorship in Latin America. Unique sources, from trial transcripts to archival collections...
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Legacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive CitizenshipLegacies of the Left Turn in Latin America: The Promise of Inclusive Citizenship contains original essays by a diverse group of leading and emerging scholars from North America, Europe, and Latin America. The book speaks to wide-ranging debates on democracy, the left, and citizenship...
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Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global AgeIn this first volume in the Contending Modernities series, Inclusive Populism: Creating Citizens in the Global Age, Angus Ritchie claims that our current political upheavals, exemplified by the far-right populism of billionaire Donald Trump, reveal fundamental flaws in secular liberalism. Ritchie maintains that both...
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The Limits of Liberalism: Tradition, Individualism, and the Crisis of FreedomIn The Limits of Liberalism, Mark T. Mitchell argues that a rejection of tradition is both philosophically incoherent and politically harmful. This false conception of tradition helps to facilitate both liberal cosmopolitanism and identity politics. The incoherencies are revealed through an investigation of the...
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The Coming of the Celts, Ad 1860: Celtic Nationalism in Ireland and WalesWho are the Celts, and what does it mean to be Celtic? In this book, Caoimhín De Barra focuses on nationalists in Ireland and Wales between 1860 and 1925, a time period when people in these countries came to identify themselves as Celts. De...
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Herman Dooyeweerd: Christian Philosopher of State and Civil SocietyThe twentieth-century Dutch philosopher Herman Dooyeweerd (1894-1977) left behind an impressive canon of philosophical works and has continued to influence a scholarly community in Europe and North America, which has extended, critiqued, and applied his thought in many academic fields. Jonathan Chaplin introduces Dooyeweerd...
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Edmund Burke: A Philosophical Enquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and BeautifulIn his Enquiry --which has been described as "certainly on of the most important aesthetic documents that eighteenth -century England produced" --the young Burke provided a systematic analysis of the 'sublime' and the 'beautiful, ' together with a distinctive terminology which served to express...
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Garbage Wars: The Struggle for Environmental Justice in ChicagoA study of the struggle for environmental justice, focusing on conflicts over solid waste and pollution in Chicago.In Garbage Wars, the sociologist David Pellow describes the politics of garbage in Chicago. He shows how garbage affects residents in vulnerable communities and poses health risks...
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Plagues and the Paradox of Progress: Why the World Is Getting Healthier in Worrisome WaysWhy the news about the global decline of infectious diseases is not all good.Plagues and parasites have played a central role in world affairs, shaping the evolution of the modern state, the growth of cities, and the disparate fortunes of national economies. This book...
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Progress and Confusion: The State of Macroeconomic PolicyLeading economists consider the shape of future economic policy: will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or contend with the post-crisis "new normal"? What will economic policy look like once the global financial crisis is finally over? Will it resume the pre-crisis consensus, or will...
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Sharing Cities: A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable CitiesHow cities can build on the "sharing economy" and smart technology to deliver a "sharing paradigm" that supports justice, solidarity, and sustainability.The future of humanity is urban, and the nature of urban space enables, and necessitates, sharing--of resources, goods and services, experiences. Yet traditional...
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Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite PlanetThe story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet.The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that "growth" is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has...
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Recycling Reconsidered: The Present Failure and Future Promise of Environmental Action in the United StatesHow the success and popularity of recycling has diverted attention from the steep environmental costs of manufacturing the goods we consume and discard.Recycling is widely celebrated as an environmental success story. The accomplishments of the recycling movement can be seen in municipal practice, a...
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American Environmental Policy, updated and expanded editionAn updated investigation of alternate pathways for American environmental policymaking made necessary by legislative gridlock. The "golden era" of American environmental lawmaking in the 1960s and 1970s saw twenty-two pieces of major environmental legislation (including the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and...
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Contending with Terrorism: Roots, Strategies, and ResponsesExperts explore the sources of contemporary terrorism, what terrorists want, and how the United States and other countries should respond.Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, scholars and policy analysts in national security have turned their attention to terrorism, considering not only how to...
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Rethinking Violence: States and Non-State Actors in ConflictAn original argument about the causes and consequences of political violence and the range of strategies employed.States, nationalist movements, and ethnic groups in conflict with one another often face a choice between violent and nonviolent strategies. Although major wars between sovereign states have become...
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Inventing Future CitiesHow we can invent--but not predict--the future of cities.We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics...
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Energy at the End of the World: An Orkney Islands SagaMaking local energy futures, from marine energy to hydrogen fuel, at the edge of the world.The islands of Orkney, off the northern coast of Scotland, are closer to the Arctic Circle than to London. Surrounded by fierce seas and shrouded by clouds and mist,...
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