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The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix ItDespite howls for reform, the only thing separating us from another election disaster of the kind that hit Florida in 2000, and that almost struck again in Ohio in 2004, may simply be another close vote. In this lucid and lively book, Heather Gerken...
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The Great Brain Race: How Global Universities Are Reshaping the WorldHow global competition for the brightest minds is changing higher education In The Great Brain Race, former U.S. News & World Report education editor Ben Wildavsky presents the first popular account of how international competition for the brightest minds is transforming the world of...
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The Tyranny of Guilt: An Essay on Western MasochismWhy the West must overcome its guilty conscience to foster a better global future Fascism, communism, genocide, slavery, racism, imperialism--the West has no shortage of reasons for guilt. And, indeed, since the Holocaust and the end of World War II, Europeans in particular have...
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Racial Realignment: The Transformation of American Liberalism, 1932-1965Few transformations in American politics have been as important as the integration of African Americans into the Democratic Party and the Republican embrace of racial policy conservatism. The story of this partisan realignment on race is often told as one in which political elites--such...
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The Presidency of George W. Bush: A First Historical AssessmentAn in-depth look at Bush's presidency by some of America's top historians The Presidency of George W. Bush brings together some of today's top American historians to offer the first in-depth look at one of the most controversial U.S. presidencies. Emotions surrounding the Bush...
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The Age of Social Democracy: Norway and Sweden in the Twentieth CenturyA history of how Norway and Sweden became the envy of the modern world This is the history of how two countries on the northern edge of Europe built societies in the twentieth century that became objects of inspiration and envy around the world....
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Who Owns Antiquity?: Museums and the Battle Over Our Ancient HeritageWhether antiquities should be returned to the countries where they were found is one of the most urgent and controversial issues in the art world today, and it has pitted museums, private collectors, and dealers against source countries, archaeologists, and academics. Maintaining that the...
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The Economics of Enough: How to Run the Economy as If the Future MattersWhy our economy is cheating the future--and what we can do about it The world's leading economies are facing not just one but many crises. The financial meltdown may not be over, climate change threatens major global disruption, economic inequality has reached extremes not...
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Red State, Blue State, Rich State, Poor State: Why Americans Vote the Way They Do - Expanded EditionOn the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become symbolic of a culture war that thrives on stereotypes--pickup-driving red-state Republicans who vote...
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The Diffusion of Military Power: Causes and Consequences for International PoliticsThe Diffusion of Military Power examines how the financial and organizational challenges of adopting new methods of fighting wars can influence the international balance of power. Michael Horowitz argues that a state or actor wishing to adopt a military innovation must possess both the...
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Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global CapitalismFrom acclaimed economists George Akerlof and Robert Shiller, the case for why government is needed to restore confidence in the economy The global financial crisis has made it painfully clear that powerful psychological forces are imperiling the wealth of nations today. From blind faith...
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The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist WorldA decade after the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China established their formidable alliance in 1950, escalating public disagreements between them broke the international communist movement apart. In The Sino-Soviet Split, Lorenz L thi tells the story of this rupture, which became...
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One Economics, Many Recipes: Globalization, Institutions, and Economic GrowthIn One Economics, Many Recipes, leading economist Dani Rodrik argues that neither globalizers nor antiglobalizers have got it right. While economic globalization can be a boon for countries that are trying to dig out of poverty, success usually requires following policies that are tailored...
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Power, Interdependence, and Nonstate Actors in World PoliticsSince they were pioneered in the 1970s by Robert Keohane and others, the broad range of neoliberal institutionalist theories of international relations have grown in importance. In an increasingly globalized world, the realist and neorealist focus on states, military power, conflict, and anarchy has...
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The Politics of Global RegulationRegulation by public and private organizations can be hijacked by special interests or small groups of powerful firms, and nowhere is this easier than at the global level. In whose interest is the global economy being regulated? Under what conditions can global regulation be...
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Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are EnactedReforms at Risk is the first book to closely examine what happens to sweeping and seemingly successful policy reforms after they are passed. Most books focus on the politics of reform adoption, yet as Eric Patashnik shows here, the political struggle does not end...
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The Invisible Safety Net: Protecting the Nation's Poor Children and FamiliesIn one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack. Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for...
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Does Peacekeeping Work?: Shaping Belligerents' Choices After Civil WarIn the last fifteen years, the number, size, and scope of peacekeeping missions deployed in the aftermath of civil wars have increased exponentially. From Croatia and Cambodia, to Nicaragua and Namibia, international personnel have been sent to maintain peace around the world. But does...
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Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global AssemblagesWhere does the nation-state end and globalization begin? In Territory, Authority, Rights, one of the world's leading authorities on globalization shows how the national state made today's global era possible. Saskia Sassen argues that even while globalization is best understood as "denationalization," it continues...
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Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century AmericaIn 1937, Mexican workers were among the strikers and supporters beaten, arrested, and murdered by Chicago policemen in the now infamous Republic Steel Mill Strike. Using this event as a springboard, Zaragosa Vargas embarks on the first full-scale history of the Mexican-American labor movement...
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