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Wrecked: Deinstitutionalization and Partial Defenses in State Higher Education PolicyHigher education is a central institution in U.S. democracy. In the 2010s, however, many states that spent previous decades building up their higher education systems began to tear them down. Growing hostility toward higher education reflected changing social forces that remade the politics of...
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The Politics of Bad Governance in Contemporary RussiaIn this book, Vladimir Gel'man considers bad governance as a distinctive politico-economic order that is based on a set of formal and informal rules, norms, and practices quite different from those of good governance. Some countries are governed badly intentionally because the political leaders...
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In the Shadow of Auschwitz: German Massacres Against Polish Civilians, 1939-1945The Nazi invasion of Poland was the first step in an unremittingly brutal occupation, one most infamously represented by the network of death camps constructed on Polish soil. The systematic murder of Jews in the camps has understandably been the focus of much historical...
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Beethoven in Russia: Music and PoliticsHow did Ludwig van Beethoven help overthrow a tsarist regime? With the establishment of the Russian Musical Society and its affiliated branches throughout the empire, Beethoven's music reached substantially larger audiences at a time of increasing political instability. In addition, leading music critics of...
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The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic WorldThe future of politics after the pandemic COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. In contrast, many Asian countries were...
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Our Veterans: Winners, Losers, Friends, and Enemies on the New Terrain of Veterans AffairsIn Our Veterans, Suzanne Gordon, Steve Early, and Jasper Craven explore the physical, emotional, social, economic, and psychological impact of military service and the problems that veterans face when they return to civilian life. The authors critically examine the role of advocacy organizations, philanthropies,...
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The Opportunity Trap: High-Skilled Workers, Indian Families, and the Failures of the Dependent Visa ProgramHonorable Mention, 2022 Betty and McClung Lee Book Award, given by the Association for Humanist SociologyUnravels how US visa laws fail Indian professional workers and their legally dependent spouses and families The Opportunity Trap is the first book to look at the impact of...
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Democracy's Chief Executive: Interpreting the Constitution and Defining the Future of the PresidencyLegal scholar Peter M. Shane confronts U.S. presidential entitlement and offers a more reasonable way of conceptualizing our constitutional presidency in the twenty-first century. In the eyes of modern-day presidentialists, the United States Constitution's vesting of "executive power" means today what it meant in...
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The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn't WorkAuthor: Donald F. KettlPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 03/15/2022Pages: 248Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.70dISBN: 9780691234175
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Blackgirl on MarsBlackgirl on Mars is a radical memoir that chronicles author, educator and activist Lesley-Ann Brown's two years' worth of travel searching for home. As she travels across the US during the Black Lives Matter protests and Covid-19 pandemic and then to Trinidad and Tobago...
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The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey: How Social Movements and Elite Competition Created a Welfare StateIn The Politics of the Welfare State in Turkey, author Erdem Yörük provides a politics-based explanation for the post-1980 transformation of the Turkish welfare system, in which poor relief policies have replaced employment-based social security. This book is one of the results of Yörük's...
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Red List: Mi5 and British Intellectuals in the Twentieth CenturyA gripping history of the Security Service and its covert surveillance on British writers and intellectuals in the twentieth century. In the popular imagination MI5, or the Security Service, is know chiefly as the branch of the British state responsible for chasing down those...
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The Split: From Treaty to Civil War, 1921-23The Treaty, Civil War, and partition profoundly shaped the Ireland in which we live. To make the centenary of the Treaty and Civil War, History Ireland has produced a special supplement featuring historians and writers. The Split introduces ground-breaking articles on women and the...
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Democracy Under Fire: The Rise of Extremists and the Hostile Takeover of the Republican PartyDonald Trump's presidency offered Americans a dire warning regarding the vulnerabilities in their democracy, but the threat is broader and deeper-and looms still. January 6th was a disgrace, Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell solemnly intoned at the end of Donald Trump's second impeachment trial...
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Teenage Dreams: Girlhood Sexualities in the U.S. Culture WarsUtilizing a breadth of archival sources from activists, artists, and policymakers, Teenage Dreams examines the race- and class-inflected battles over adolescent women's sexual and reproductive lives in the late twentieth and early twenty-first century United States. Charlie Jeffries finds that most adults in this...
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Women Unsilenced: Our Refusal to Let Torturer-Traffickers WinWomen Unsilenced explores the impact of unthinkable violence committed against women and girls through multiple perspectives-women's recall of life-threatening ordeals of torture, human trafficking, and organized crime, society's failure to recognize and address such crimes, and close examinations of how justice, health, political, and...
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Work Requirements: Race, Disability, and the Print Culture of Social WelfareThroughout the history of the United States, work-based social welfare practices have served to affirm the moral value of work. In the late nineteenth century this representational project came to be mediated by the printed word with the emergence of industrial print technologies, the...
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Fixing Social Security: The Politics of Reform in a Polarized AgeHow Social Security has shaped American politics--and why it faces insolvency Since its establishment, Social Security has become the financial linchpin of American retirement. Yet demographic trends--longer lifespans and declining birthrates--mean that this popular program now pays more in benefits than it collects in...
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Dreamworlds of Race: Empire and the Utopian Destiny of Anglo-AmericaAuthor: Duncan BellPublisher: Princeton University PressPublished: 06/07/2022Pages: 488Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 6.14h x 8.98w x 1.18dISBN: 9780691235110
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America, America!: A Letter to the Nation Written as a Collection of Poetry"America, America!" is a penned open letter to our nation that speaks to the current social justice movement in America. Written from an African American lens, the work centers around cultural awareness and cultural responsibility as avenues for positive change in America and around...
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