Political Science
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The Troublemaker: How Jimmy Lai Became a Billionaire, Hong Kong's Greatest Dissident, and China's Most Feared CriticThe astonishing story of the billionaire businessman Jimmy Lai who became one of Hong Kong's leading activists for democracy and is today China's most famous political prisoner. Jimmy Lai escaped mainland China when he was twelve years old, at the height of a famine...
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The Titans of the Twentieth Century: How They Made History and the History They MadeAuthor: Michael MandelbaumPublisher: Oxford University PressPublished: 09/03/2024Pages: 352Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 1.45lbsSize: 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.20dISBN: 9780197782477Review Citation(s): Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2024About the AuthorMichael Mandelbaum is the Christian A. Herter Professor Emeritus of American Foreign Policy at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies....
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The Supreme CourtIn The Supreme Court, Lawrence Baum provides a brief yet comprehensive introduction to the U.S. Supreme Court, one that is balanced and illuminating. In successive chapters, the book examines each major aspect of the Court: the selection, backgrounds, and departures of justices; the creation...
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The Security Abolition ManifestoAs the supreme concept of bourgeois society, security underpins all existing structures of power.Security is the monstrous idea that we are alone and locked into competition over scarce resources, that private property is a natural right, that we need to protect our island of...
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The Second Bill of Rights: Fdr's Unfinished Revolution -- And Why We Need It More Than EverIn 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a State of the Union Address that was arguably the greatest political speech of the twentieth century. In it, Roosevelt grappled with the definition of security in a democracy, concluding that "unless there is security here at home,...
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The Rise of Blueanon: How the Democrats Became a Party of Conspiracy TheoristsRepublicans are often derided as a party of conspiracy theorists. But what if the Left's conspiratorial thinking is even more unhinged?A recent poll found nearly twice as many Democrats as Republicans believed "the Holocaust is a myth." Meanwhile, 69 percent of the Americans who...
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The Right to Suburbia: Combating Gentrification on the Urban EdgeIn recent decades, American suburbs have undergone a so-called renaissance as multiple forces have transformed them into denser urban landscapes. Yet at the same time, suburban racial diversity, immigration, and poverty rates have surged. The Right to Suburbia investigates how marginalized communities in the...
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The Responsible AdministratorPraise for the Fifth Edition of The Responsible Administrator "Cooper's fifth edition is the definitive text for students and practitioners who want to have a successful administrative career. Moral reasoning, as Cooper so adeptly points out, is essential in today's rapidly changing and complex...
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The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition BuildingThe Radical Mind is a groundbreaking analysis of the origins of the Christian Right, whose political victories are radically reshaping the landscape of American society. Scholars and the public alike have traditionally regarded the New Right and the Christian Right as separate movements. The...
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The Process Is the Punishment: Handling Cases in a Lower Criminal CourtIt is conventional wisdom that there is a grave crisis in our criminal courts: the widespread reliance on plea-bargaining and the settlement of most cases with just a few seconds before the judge endanger the rights of defendants. Not so, says Malcolm Feeley in...
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The Politics of Platform Regulation: How Governments Shape Online Content ModerationThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Leading multinational technology companies like...
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The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our DemocracyProgressive activism today is increasingly spearheaded by the nation's youngest voters. Gen Z--those born between 1997 and 2012--has come of age in a decade of upheavals. They have witnessed the election of Donald Trump, the murder of George Floyd, and the Dobbs Supreme Court...
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The Politics of Gen Z: How the Youngest Voters Will Shape Our DemocracyProgressive activism today is increasingly spearheaded by the nation's youngest voters. Gen Z--those born between 1997 and 2012--has come of age in a decade of upheavals. They have witnessed the election of Donald Trump, the murder of George Floyd, and the Dobbs Supreme Court...
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The Politics of Coercion: State and Regime Making in CambodiaIn The Politics of Coercion, Neil Loughlin explains the persistence of Cambodia's authoritarian regime for more than four decades. It provides a historically grounded investigation of the country's ruling coalition: political elites, many drawn from within the state's coercive apparatus, who, in coordination with...
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The Political Writings of St. AugustineAnyone with a better than cursory knowledge of politics knows that a people's deepest values - their religious values - are what determine whether a society will prosper or fail. And anyone with a more than cursory knowledge of history knows that there was...
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The Political Economy of Deindustrialization: Causes, Consequences, ImplicationsIt is often assumed that deindustrialization is a bad thing, confined to the Global North, and caused by cheap imports from the Global South. Although not entirely incorrect, the truth is far more complicated. Ray Kiely argues that the current economic debate assumes too...
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The Political Development of American Debt ReliefA political history of the rise and fall of American debt relief. Americans have a long history with debt. They also have a long history of mobilizing for debt relief. Throughout the nineteenth century, indebted citizens demanded government protection from their financial burdens, challenging...
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The Political Clinic: Psychoanalysis and Social Change in the Twentieth CenturyFor decades, psychoanalysis has provided essential concepts and methodologies for critical theory and the humanities and social sciences. But it is also, inseparably, a clinical practice and technique for treatment. In what ways is clinical practice significant for critical thought? What conceptual resources does...
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The Poisoning of the American MindAuthor: Lawrence M. EppardPublisher: George Mason UniversityPublished: 07/31/2024Pages: 442Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.61lbsSize: 9.01h x 6.08w x 1.06dISBN: 9781942695424
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The Picnic: A Rush for Freedom and the Collapse of CommunismIn August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic--it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known as the Iron Curtain. Tacit permission from the highest state authorities...
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