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Contract and Domination

Following along the crisscrossing paths of their previous books, Sexual Contract (Pateman – 1988) and The Racial Contract(Mills – 1997) — the co-authors have together prepared an interdisciplinary offering that looks further into the shortcomings of “white male contract theory” performance in the current age.  Contract and Domination thus brings together overlapping and conflicting aspects of political theory, race relations […]

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Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action

Winner of a Luebbert Prize for Best Book in Comparative Politics, “Coethnicity” uses as its microcosm of study one highly ethnically-diverse neighborhood in Kampala, Uganda – a community which was also known for low levels of public goods provision, and applies to its citizens experimental behavioral games in an effort to connect, or disprove cause […]

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The Burdens of Empire: 1539 to the Present

Before, during, and even since the rise of nation-states – there were empires, though defined differently at different times.  In The Burdens of Empire, Prof. Anthony Pagden also suggests they have been more widespread and of greater influence to the development of modern states than many past studies have realized.  Even amidst a rising interest in […]

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Strengthening International Courts: The Hidden Costs of Legalization

In Strengthening International Courts, Prof. Leslie Johns investigates the ways in which the strength of international courts affects dispute settlement, compliance, and the stability of the international economic and political system. By examining detailed case studies of the International Court of Justice and the transition from the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade to the […]

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Crisis of Conservatism? The Republican Party, the Conservative Movement, and American Politics after Bush

In Crisis of Conservatism? co-editors Joel Aberbach and Gilian Peele assemble a wide array of authors and scholars studying the “American Right” in order to gain perspective on the internal stresses of a movement that many trace from the 1980 emergence of President Ronald Reagan, to a re-assertion of neoconservatism within the presidency of George W. Bush, […]

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Jane Austen, Game Theorist

Game theory—the study of how people make choices while interacting with others—is one of the most popular technical approaches in social science today. But as Michael Chwe reveals in Jane Austen, Game Theorist, Jane Austen explored game theory’s core ideas in her six novels roughly two hundred years ago. Chwe finds that game theory has early […]

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Latino America: How America’s Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation

Some months before this book reached shelves in late 2014 — co-authors Barreto and Seguro note — a Latino child in California “tipped the demographic scales” to the point where Latinos displaced non-Hispanic whites as the largest racial/ethnic group in the state for the first time since it was Mexican territory, in the mid-19th century.  In […]