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Modern Italy: A Political HistoryThis history of modern Italy began in March 1861 when Count Camillo Cavour proclaimed a united Italian kingdom with the goal of creating a prosperous, liberal new power in Europe. For a country whose ancient heritage had placed it at the center of western...
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Positive Political Theory I: Collective PreferencePositive Political Theory I is concerned with the formal theory of preference aggregation for collective choice. The theory is developed as generally as possible, covering classes of aggregation methods that include such well-known examples as majority and unanimity rule and focusing in particular on...
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The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative AnalysisWinner of the American Political Science Association's 1996 Woodrow Wilson Foundation Award.The rise of new political competitors on the radical right is a central feature of many contemporary European party systems. The first study of its kind based on a wide array of comparative...
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The Logic of Democracy: Reconciling Equality, Deliberation, and Minority ProtectionThe Logic of Democracy examines some of the broadest questions in political science--what is democracy and how does it work--and provides a unified theory to explain them. McGann brings together the often antagonistic literature on normative political philosophy, social choice, and the empirical study...
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Economics and Elections: The Major Western DemocraciesDoes a government's fate at the ballot box hinge on the state of the economy? Is it inflation, unemployment, or income that makes the difference? What triggers economic voting for or against the incumbent - do voters look at their pocketbooks, or at the...
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Liberating Economics: Feminist Perspectives on Families, Work, and GlobalizationLiberating Economics draws on central concepts from women's studies scholarship to construct a feminist understanding of the economic roles of families, caring labor, motherhood, paid and unpaid labor, poverty, the feminization of labor, and the consequences of globalization. Barker and Feiner consistently recognize the...
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Sex, Race, and Merit: Debating Affirmative Action in Education and EmploymentSince its inception, affirmative action has been a controversial policy, and on all sides of the issue passions run high. Sometimes commentators have looked with clarity at the deep and complex issues surrounding affirmative action, but too often facts have been in shorter supply...
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Formal Modeling in Social ScienceA formal model in the social sciences builds explanations when it structures the reasoning underlying a theoretical argument, opens venues for controlled experimentation, and can lead to hypotheses. Yet more importantly, models evaluate theory, build theory, and enhance conjectures. Formal Modeling in Social Science...
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Performance Constellations: Networks of Protest and Activism in Latin AmericaPerformance Constellations maps transnational protest movements and the dynamics of networked expressive behavior in the streets and online, as people struggle to be heard and effect long-term social justice. Its case studies explore collective political action in Latin America, including the Zapatistas in the...
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Minority Parties in U.S. Legislatures: Conditions of InfluenceThis study of the influence minority parties wield is both a major work of political science scholarship and a timely examination of an issue with real consequences for the functioning of democratic legislatures and the creation of legislation. Challenging conventional assumptions that the majority...
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Capital, the State, and War: Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years' Crisis, 1914-1945The history of the modern social sciences can be seen as a series of attempts to confront the challenges of social disorder and revolution wrought by the international expansion of capitalist social relations. In Capital, the State, and War, Alexander Anievas focuses on one...
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Right in Michigan's Grassroots: From the KKK to the Michigan Militia"A real contribution to Michigan history that gets to the root of the movements in 20th-century American history that upon reflection can bring a certain discomfort and unease."--Francis X. Blouin, Director of the Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan Throughout the 20th century, Michigan...
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Spectacles of Reform: Theater and Activism in Nineteenth-Century AmericaIn the nineteenth century, long before film and television brought us explosions, car chases, and narrow escapes, it was America's theaters that thrilled audiences, with "sensation scenes" of speeding trains, burning buildings, and endangered bodies, often in melodramas extolling the virtues of temperance, abolition,...
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The Evolution of American Legislatures: Colonies, Territories, and States, 1619-2009The institutional development of American legislatures, beginning with the first colonial assembly of 1619, has been marked by continuity as well as change. Peverill Squire draws upon a wealth of primary sources to document this institutional history. Beginning with the ways in which colonial...
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Generals and Politicians: Conflict Between France's High Command, Parliament and Government, 1914-1918This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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The Decline of Agrarian DemocracyThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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The Advice and Consent of the Senate: A Study of the Confirmation of Appointments by the United States SenateThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Rise of the Labor Movement in Los AngelesThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Frank Roney, Irish Rebel and California Labor Leader: An AutobiographyThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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Russia Under Two Tsars, 1682-1689: The Regency of Sophia AlekseevnaThis title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...
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