MU Libraries New Books: Political Science

About the new book list

5/15/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

Arts of the political : new openings for the left / Ash Amin and Nigel Thrift. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JA76 .A474 2013

Asian and Pacific regional cooperation : turning zones of conflict into arenas of peace / by Michael Haas. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Call #: JZ5584.A7 H33 2013

Coalition politics and democratic consolidation in Asia / edited by E. Sridharan. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JQ24 .C63 2012

Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages / edited by John M. Ganim and Shayne Aaron Legassie. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JZ1308 .C673 2013

Detect, dismantle, and disarm : IAEA verification, 1992-2005 / Christine Wing and Fiona Simpson. (5/15/2013)

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The important work of the IAEA in verifying dismantlement and disarmament has attracted surprisingly little attention—unit now. In this comprehensive study, Wing and Simpson fill that lacuna by collecting and analyzing a wealth of data about all the relevant cases. Developing machinery capable of effectively verifying the rollback of nuclear weapon programs, especially in a noncooperative setting, is a critical element of creating a rules-based nuclear order able to meet today's nuclear threat. This useful and interesting volume advances that vital goal.

Call #: JZ5645 .W56 2013

Dismantling public policy : preferences, strategies, and effects / edited by Michael W. Bauer ... [et al.]. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JF1525.P6 D57 2012

Getting primaried : the changing politics of congressional primary challenges / Robert G. Boatright. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JK1976 .B573 2013

Internationalism in the age of nationalism / Glenda Sluga. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JZ1318 .S5965 2013

Joy and international relations : a new methodology / Elina Penttinen. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JZ1251 .P46 2013

Public administration in the information age : revisited / edited by Ig Snellen, Marcel Thaens, and Wim van de Donk. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JF1525.A8 P83 2012

Regime change : from democratic peace theories to forcible regime change / by Rein Mullerson. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JC489 .M85 2013

Seeing suffrage : the Washington Suffrage Parade of 1913, its pictures, and its effect on the American political landscape / James Glen Stovall foreword by Edward Caudill. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JK1896 .S83 2013

The Arab Spring, democracy and security : domestic and international ramifications / edited by Efraim Inbar. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JQ1850.A91 A78 2013

The ivory tower and the marble citadel : essays on political philosophy in our modern era of interacting cultures / by Thomas A. Metzger. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

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Thomas A. Metzger is a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution and one of the world's preeminent sinologists.

Call #: JA71 .M48 2012

Transitional justice and displacement / edited by Roger Duthie. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JC571 .T6993 2012

World peace and other 4th-grade achievements / John Hunter. (5/15/2013)

5/15/2013

Call #: JZ5534 .H87 2013

Achieving ethical competence for public service leadership / Terry L. Cooper and Donald C. Menzel, editors. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JK468.E7 A62 2013

Ambition, competition, and electoral reform : the politics of congressional elections across time / Jamie L. Carson and Jason M. Roberts. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JK1976 .C37 2013

Aristotle's teaching in the Politics / Thomas L. Pangle. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Back in the game : political party campaigning in an era of reform / Brian J. Brox. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JK2281 .B78 2013

Being, time, bios : capitalism and ontology / A. Kiarina Kordela. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JA80 .K67 2013

Citizens without frontiers / Engin F. Isin. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JZ1320.4 .I85 2012

Civil disobedience : protest, justification and the law / Tony Milligan. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JC328.3 .M55 2013

Compendium of innovative e-government practices / Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (5/8/2013)

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Compendium of innovative e-government practices / Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Democracy's fourth wave? Digital media and the Arab Spring / Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Q&A with Phillip Howard, author of Democracy's Fourth Wave?

Q. What is democracy’s “fourth wave”?

A. It has been 15 years since the last “wave” of democratization. Between 1989 and 1995, many remnants of the Soviet Union and failed authoritarian regimes in other parts of the world turned themselves into variously functional electoral democracies. But as a region, North Africa and the Middle East were noticeably devoid of popular democracy movements—until the early months of 2011. Democratization movements had existed long before technologies such as mobile phones and the internet came to these countries. But with these technologies, people sharing an interest in democracy built extensive networks, created social capital, and organized political action. Whether or not this Arab Spring leads to long-term entrenchment of democratic institutions and cultures in the Arab state-system is a question-mark, but one which requires a critical examination of the tools and infrastructures being used to organize and mobilize political change in one of the world’s last remaining authoritarian strongholds.

Q. What role does new information technology play in the modern day democratic struggles?

A. In many parts of the world, mobile phones and the Internet have provided civil society actors with new avenues for collective action. Since the commercialization of digital media, information infrastructure has become a formative space for nurturing and organizing social action. And since 2007, social media have added the additional dimension of allowing individuals to manage their own social networks and to push and filter political information along these links to family and friends. Prior to the Arab Spring, past cascades did not have the benefit of commercialized communication networks and technologies, such as social media and mobile telephony, to draw in the wisdom of the crowd and smart mob mobilization. In contrast, the Arab Spring is one of the most impressive examples where laterally organized collective action projects combated vertically organized state bureaucracies.

Q. Are these uses of technology more successful in some countries over others?

A. Perhaps the best evidence that digital media were an important causal factor in the Arab Spring is that dictators treated them as such. The months during which the Arab Spring took place had the most national blackouts, network shutdowns, and tool blockages to date. Yet authoritarian regimes have come to value digital media, too. Security services in Bahrain, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Syria observed how democracy advocates were using social media in Egypt and Tunisia and developed counterinsurgency strategies that allowed for them to surveil, mislead, and entrap protesters. Over the last 15 years, states (both authoritarian and democratic) have become increasingly willing to interfere with the links between nodes of digital infrastructure, but our examination finds that the existence of long-term online civil society with connections to transnational observers, including international news media and transnational diaspora networks helped outmaneuver many authoritarian regimes, this time. These days authoritarian regimes around the world take their Facebook and Twitter strategies seriously.

Call #: JQ1850.A91 H68 2012

Democratization in the Global South : the importance of transformative politics / edited by Kristian Stokke and Olle Törnquist. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JF60 .D472 2013

Diplomatic sites : a critical enquiry / Iver B. Neumann. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JZ1305 .N44 2013

Global corruption : money, power and ethics in the modern world / Laurence Cockcroft. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JF1081 .C635 2012

How a century of war changed the lives of women / Lindsey German. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Lindsey German links two major forms of women's involvement in war: as activists opposing conflict and as workers during it. Seen through the prism of women's experience, German tells a fascinating and important story. -- Nina Power, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Roehampton University and the author of One-Dimensional Woman.

Call #: JZ6405.W66 G48 2013

Hybrid governance in European cities : neighbourhood, migration and democracy / Chris Skelcher, Helen Sullivan and Stephen Jeffares. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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To come.

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Intimate politics : publicity, privacy and the personal lives of politicians in media-saturated democracies / James Stanyer. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JC596 .S736 2013

Kenneth W. Thompson, the prophet of norms : thought and practice / Farhang Rajaee. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JC251.T56 R35 2013

Latin American state building in comparative perspective : social foundations of institutional order / Marcus J. Kurtz. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JL966 .K87 2013

On politics : a history of political thought from Herodotus to the present / Alan Ryan. (5/8/2013)

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“With an unmatched magisterial command, Alan Ryan powerfully reminds and teaches us how the leading thinkers since classic times can and must inform our debates over how to envision the better world we must build.” (Anthony W. Marx, President, New York Public Library )

“Alan Ryan has created a vision of the entire surge of Western political thought which is equal to the heroic venture of George Sabine, which I studied in my youth. Ryan demonstrates throughout vivacity, and a tenacious grasp of the human meaning of everything that has transpired in political speculation from the ancients on through the threshhold of our own dark age. I commend particularly his terse eloquence, his capacious erudition, and the verve and judicious intensity with which he somehow allows his whole being to inform his vast scope and deep concern of our human limitations.” (Harold Bloom )

“In a work of astonishing scope and ambition, Alan Ryan, surveying the whole vast field, concisely charts the welter of conflicting positions and tracks the sometimes thrilling, sometimes catastrophic consequences of political thought.” (Stephen Greenblatt, author of The Swerve: How the World Became Modern )

“If you want to understand why we think as we do, go back to the ancient Greeks. Alan Ryan brilliantly explains why that is true—and why it matters.” (Mary Beard, author of The Roman Triumph )

“Alan Ryan has taken a vast range of challenging material written over twenty five centuries in the West and engaged with it in prose of stunning clarity. He displays the intrinsic interest of reflection on writers from Herodotus to yesterday, while showing how it can be a powerful resource for dealing with politics today. It is an amazing achievement to combine so much learning with such lucidity.” (Anthony Appiah, author of Cosmopolitanism )

“In an age of specialization, we have lost much of the sense of the sweep of the story of Western thinking about politics. In his new book, Alan Ryan has recovered the greatness and deficiencies of that experience. ...Written with an exceptional clarity and presence of voice, Ryan’s book is the best comprehensive statement of the achievements and failures of the Western liberal tradition.” (Tracy B. Strong, UCSD Distinguished Professor, Political Science Department, University of California, San Diego )

“In lucid, precise and accessible prose, Alan Ryan has written an unparalleled guide for our times to the Western tradition of political thought. From Herodotus through the Christian world and the rise of modernity to our own time, readers will be stimulated to reflect on historical, contemporary and perennial questions.” (Steven Lukes, author of Power: A Radical View )

“Alan Ryan’s marvelous survey brings the major thinkers to the table, orchestrating a provocative and enlightening conversation across the centuries that offers fresh and illuminating perspectives on perennial political problems. Scholars and engaged citizens will delight in partaking of Ryan’s intellectual feast.” (Peter Onuf, author of Jefferson’s Empire )

“Magisterial… In more than a thousand pages, Alan Ryan, a longtime Oxford professor who now teaches at Princeton, undertakes to introduce the reader to most of the major political thinkers in Western history…The tensions of modern liberal democratic societies are the intellectual motor of the book… Lively and intellectually engaging… On Politics, like the great works of philosophy it examines, constitutes a powerful brief against the unexamined life.” (Adam Kirsch - New Yorker )

“Monumental… At the heart of the project is a belief that this stuff matters, that the thinkers it revolves around—Plato, Aristotle, Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, Karl Marx—remain relevant and fresh… The book is a distillation of [Alan Ryan’s] thinking, both intellectual and practical, and although it can be daunting, the triumph is how, as Ryan takes us through the material, he makes it so much more.” (David Ulin - Los Angeles Times )

“Starting with Herodotus and concluding with current debates over the environment and humanitarian intervention, Alan Ryan covers an extraordinary range of material with fluency and wisdom… As an accessible introduction to the nature of political thought as well as a guide to what is greatest exponents have argued, On Politics could scarcely be bettered. …On Politics is an outstanding and original work.” (Oliver Kamm - Times of London )

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On politics : a history of political thought from Herodotus to the present / Alan Ryan. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JA71 .R93 2012

Peace operations and restorative justice : groundwork for post-conflict regeneration / by Peter Reddy. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JZ5538 .R445 2012

Politics of origin in Africa : autochthony, citizenship and conflict / Morten Bøås and Kevin Dunn. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Morten Bøås is Head of Research at Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies in Oslo, Norway.

Kevin C. Dunn is Associate Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY, USA.

Call #: JQ1879.A2 B63 2013

Restricting freedoms : limitations on the individual in contemporary America / Vladimir Shlapentokh, Eric Beasley. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JC599.U5 S496 2013

The Chicago companion to Tocqueville's Democracy in America / James T. Schleifer. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JK216.T648 S34 2012

The essential writings of Rousseau / Jean-Jacques Rousseau translated by Peter Constantine edited by Leo Damrosch. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Call #: JC179 .R7 2013

The sacredness of the person : a new genealogy of human rights / Hans Joas Alex Skinner, translator. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JC571 .J5613 2013

Without power or glory : the Green Party in government in Ireland, 2007-2011 / Dan Boyle. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Call #: JN1571.5.G74 B695 2012

Youth peacebuilding : music, gender, and change / Lesley J. Pruitt. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

Call #: JZ5579 .P78 2013

A letter on the principles of justness and decency : containing a defence of the treatise De cive of the learned Mr. Hobbes / Lambert van Velthuysen edited and translated by Malcolm de Mowbray with an introduction by Catherine Secretan. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: JC165 .V45 2013

American politics : a very short introduction / Richard M. Valelly. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: JK275 .V36 2013

Congress : a performance appraisal / Andrew J. Taylor. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: JK1041 .T395 2013

Congress and the politics of problem solving / E. Scott Adler, John D. Wilkerson. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: JK1021 .A45 2012

Engines of democracy : politics & policymaking in state legislatures / Alan Rosenthal. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: JK2488 .R665 2009

Governors and legislatures : contending powers / Alan Rosenthal. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: JK2494 .R67 1990

Independents rising : outsider movements, third parties, and the struggle for post-partisan America / by Jacqueline Salit. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: JK2271 .S25 2012

Informal institutions and democracy : lessons from Latin America / edited by Gretchen Helmke, Steven Levitsky. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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One of the most interesting and illuminating works on Latin American politics to appear in recent years.

(Joe Foweraker Journal of Latin American Studies 2007)

Rich in empirical material and in provoking theoretical questions.

(Julian Durazo Herrmann European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 2007)

Call #: JL966 .I55 2006

Linking environment, democracy and gender / edited by Barbara Wejnert, University at Buffalo, NY, USA. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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Modern pluralism : Anglo-American debates since 1880 / [edited by] Mark Bevir. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: JC574 .M63 2012

Rescaling the state : devolution and the geographies of economic governance / Mark Goodwin, Martin Jones and Rhys Jones. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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Call #: JN329.D43 G66 2012

The future as cultural fact : essays on the global condition / Arjun Appadurai. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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"A sobered visionary of cultural globalization. " - Red Pepper "An influential thinker of our times. " - Partha Chatterjee, Columbia University, New York "Arjun Appadurai is already known as the author of striking new formulations which have greatly illuminated contemporary global developments. " - Charles Taylor, author of 'Modern Social Imaginaries'

Call #: JZ1318 .A67 2013

Transitions to democracy : a comparative perspective / edited by Kathryn Stoner and Michael McFauland. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: JC489 .T72 2013

Transnational dynamics of civil war / edited by Jeffrey T. Checkel, Simon Fraser University, Peace Research Institute, Oslo. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: JC328.5 .T73 2013

What you should know about politics-- but don't : a nonpartisan guide to the issues that matter / Jessamyn Conrad. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

Call #: JK275 .C66 2012

Civil society and electoral accountability in Latin America / Sharon F. Lean. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JL968 .L43 2012

Civil society in Putin's Russia / Elena Chebankova. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JN6699.A15 C44 2013

Critical theory and democracy : civil society, dictatorship, and constitutionalism in Andrew Arato's democratic theory / edited by Enrique Peruzzotti and Martín Plot. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JC423 .C748 2013

Democratization and civilian control in Asia / Aurel Croissant, David Kuehn, Philip Lorenz, and Paul W. Chambers. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JC423 .C749 2013

Edmund Burke in America : the contested career of the father of modern conservatism / Drew Maciag. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JC573.2.U6 M335 2013

E-governance, a global journey / edited by Matthias Finger, É́cole Polytechnique Féderale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and Fouzia Nasreen Sultana, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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Electoral dysfunction : a survival manual for American voters / Victoria Bassetti with a foreword by Mo Rocca and an afterword by Heather Smith. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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“Crisply written, irreverent yet engaged…A lively, witty survey of the numerous ailments that afflict the American electoral system.” —Alexander Keyssar, Stirling Professor of History and Social Policy at Harvard, author of The Right to Vote

“People are dying to vote—but not in the U.S. where only five in 10 exercise the privilege in presidential elections. What’s standing in the way? Electoral Dysfunction begins the national conversation we need to have.” —Mark McKinnon, co-founder of No Labels

“This is a well-written, enlightening look at how, when it comes to access to the ballot box and other voter rights, the world’s second oldest democracy still has a long way to go.” —Publishers Weekly

"Delightfully provocative… A well-organized, important tool that will remain useful beyond the present electoral cycle." —Kirkus Reviews

Call #: JK1976 .B33 2012

Making human rights a reality / Emilie M. Hafner-Burton. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JC571 .H25 2013

Marsilius of Padua at the intersection of ancient and medieval traditions of political thought / Vasileios Syros. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JC111 .S97 2012

Political parties in multi-level polities : the Nordic countries compared / Nicholas Aylott, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Södertörn University, Sweden, Magnus Blomgren, Lecturer in Political Science, Umea University, Sweden and Torbjorn Bergman, (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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The democratic leader : how democracy defines, empowers, and limits its leaders / John Kane and Haig Patapan. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

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The myth of universal human rights : its origin, history, and explanation, along with a more humane way / David N. Stamos. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JC571 .S7775 2013

Tuairim, intellectual debate and policy formulation : rethinking Ireland, 1954-75 / Tomás Finn. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JN1490 .F56 2012

Twilight's last gleaming : American hegemony and dominance in the modern world / Edmund Clingan. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JZ1312 .C56 2013

Whatever happened to the music teacher? : how government decides and why / Donald J. Savoie. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JL86.D42 S29 2013

Boundary control : subnational authoritarianism in federal democracies / Edward L. Gibson, Northwestern University. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JC355 .G53 2012

Colorado politics and policy : governing a purple state / Thomas E. Cronin and Robert D. Loevy. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JK7816 .C77 2012

Communication ethics in dark times : Hannah Arendt's rhetoric of warning and hope / Ronald C. Arnett. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JC251.A74 A84 2013

Compendium of ICT applications on electronic government / Department of Economic and Social Affairs. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JF1525.A8 C6493 2010

Deliberation, the media and political talk / Rousiley C. M. Maia. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JC423 .M178 2012

Democracy in transition : political participation in the European Union / Kyriakos N. Demetriou, editor. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Democratic futures : revisioning democracy promotion / Milja Kurki. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JC423 .K855 2013

Holding the center : in defense of political trimming / Eugene Goodheart. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JK1726 .G655 2013

Immigration wars : forging an American solution / Jeb Bush, Clint Bolick. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JV6483 .B84 2013

Justice for earthlings : essays in political philosophy / David Miller. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JA71 .M4565 2012

Migrants and the host society : partnerships for success / International Organization for Migration. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JV6035 .M53 2008

Nations : the long history and deep roots of political ethnicity and nationalism / Azar Gat with Alexander Yakobson. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JC311 .G44 2013

Overpromising and underperforming? : understanding and evaluating new intergovernmental accountability regimes / edited by Peter Graefe, Julie M. Simmons, and Linda A. White. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JL65 .O94 2013

Political self-sacrifice : agency, body and emotion in international relations / K.M. Fierke. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JZ1253 .F54 2013

Pragmatic liberal approach to world order : the scholarship of Inis L. Claude, Jr. / Nejat Dogan. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JZ1305 .D643 2012

Public information management and e-government : policy and issues / by Mary Maureen Brown and G. David Garson. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JF1525.A8 B76 2013

Social organizations and the authoritarian state in China / Timothy Hildebrandt. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JQ1516 .H55 2013

Stand together or fall apart : professionals working with immigrant families / Judith K. Bernhard. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JV6342 .B47 2012

Symbolism and regime change in Russia / Graeme Gill. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JN6531 .G469 2013

The logic and limits of political reform in China / Joseph Fewsmith. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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"Fewsmith's superb new book is a warning against optimistic hopes that China will gradually evolve into a democracy. This warning emerges from the book's telling case studies of failed attempts at local political reforms that had aimed to make officials more accountable to the public. In each case, promising reforms were thwarted by a combination of bureaucratic interests; established organizational principles - it is the Party, not the public, that controls cadres; and entrenched practices such as regular transfers of Party secretaries, which removes reform-minded officials from the scene. Even the most promising experiment in promoting 'consultative democracy' turned into 'consultative authoritarianism' as elite interests and preferences prevailed. Liberalizing political reform is on the agenda of China's top leaders, but even if they decide to enact such reforms, implementation faces the kinds of impediments illustrated so well in this important study." - Thomas P. Bernstein, Professor Emeritus, Columbia University

"In this marvelous new book, Fewsmith highlights one of the key puzzles of Chinese politics: why do so few local officials experiment with political reforms when so many have experimented with all kinds of economic reforms? He draws on his extensive knowledge of local politics to show how the interplay of the political structure and individual personalities shapes the potential for political reform. He convincingly shows the importance of looking at grassroots dynamics - not just politics in Beijing - to understand the future of China." - Bruce J. Dickson, The Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University

"Why have Chinese local governance reforms failed to curb the arbitrary power of local bosses? Fewsmith's fine survey convincingly shows how the Communist Party's fears of losing control have hamstrung the reforms, and thereby lost the Party the opportunity to put its authority on a more solid footing. Let's hope the book is translated into Chinese and its lessons learned by future Party leaders." - Susan L. Shirk, School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego

"Joseph Fewsmith, one of America's best-informed China watchers, reads widely in Chinese. Over the past six years, he has traveled around many regions of China to see how badly needed reforms are proceeding. He has found that they have not succeeded, and here he tells us why." - Ezra Vogel, Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University

Call #: JQ1516 .F49 2013

The machine : a field guide to the resurgent Right / Lee Fang. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JC573.2.U6 F33 2013

The new member states and the European Union : foreign policy and Europeanization / edited by Michael Baun and Dan Marek. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JN30 .N4756 2013

The politics of nation-building : making co-nationals, refugees, and minorities / Harris Mylonas. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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"Mylonas highlights a hitherto understudied aspect of minority policy making in the Balkans: Whether newly nationalizing states tolerated, assimilated, or forcibly removed ethnic minorities from their territories crucially depended on whether or not these minorities were supported by other states and whether these other states were allies or enemies. Combining broad statistical analysis with detailed archival research, the book puts the international aspects of domestic nation-building into sharp relief." - Andreas Wimmer, Princeton University

"Harris Mylonas is one of the rare scholars who combines sophisticated knowledge of political science techniques with in-depth historical expertise. This book will be of great interest to political scientists, international relations scholars, and historians, and it will also be a valuable resource for policy makers. Most of the events it discusses happened a century or more ago, but the repercussions from those events are still very much in evidence in the Balkans today." - Mark Kramer, Harvard University

"Through thorough analysis of archival records and integration of theory from both international relations and comparative politics, Harris Mylonas argues that external factors often override internal factors in the formation of nationality policy. In contrast to more common approaches, Mylonas concentrates on the processes underlying nationality policy formation. He persuasively shows how elite perceptions of international threats shape such decisions." - Roger D. Petersen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"This book makes an important, original argument about the international factors that exert substantial influence on a state's decision to assimilate, accommodate, or exclude its ethnic minorities. Based mainly on analytic comparisons of case histories of Balkan nation building, Mylonas shows that states are much more likely to exclude, expel, or exterminate such groups when they receive backing from foreign enemy states and when the host state is a dissatisfied power harboring a grievance over lost territory. Many readers will find Mylonas's insights to be of great interest." - Jack Snyder, Columbia University

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The power and the people : paths of resistance in the Middle East / Charles Tripp. (4/17/2013)

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The state of economic and social human rights : a global overview / [edited by] Lanse Minkler, University of Connecticut. (4/17/2013)

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Deconstructing international politics / Michael Dillon. (4/10/2013)

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Democratic transition in the Middle East : unmaking power / edited by Larbi Sadiki, Heiko Wimmen & Layla Al-Zubaidi. (4/10/2013)

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Ethics and management in the public sector / Alan Lawton, Julie Rayner and Karin Lasthuizen. (4/10/2013)

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Ex-combatants, religion and peace in Northern Ireland : the role of religion in transitional justice / John Brewer, Sixth-Century Professor of Sociology, University of Aberdeen, David Mitchell, Research Associate, School of Communication, University of Ul (4/10/2013)

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Leadership in global institution building : Minerva's rule / edited by Yves Tiberghien, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia, Canada. (4/10/2013)

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Routledge handbook of Indian politics / edited by Atul Kohli and Prerna Singh (4/10/2013)

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Spying for the people : Mao's secret agents, 1949-1967 / Michael Schoenhals. (4/10/2013)

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The Arthaśāstra : selections from the classic Indian work on statecraft / edited and translated, with an introduction, by Mark McClish and Patrick Olivelle. (4/10/2013)

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Capital of the world : the race to host the United Nations / Charlene Mires. (4/3/2013)

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Changing norms through actions : the evolution of sovereignty / Jennifer M. Ramos. (4/3/2013)

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Democracy in the age of globalization and mediatization / Hanspeter Kriesi, Chair in Comparative Politics, European University Institute Florence Daniel Bochsler Associate Professor of Democratisation, NCCR Democracy, University of Zurich Jörg Matthes (4/3/2013)

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Europe and the Eastern other : comparative perspectives on politics, religion and culture before the Enlightenment / Hassan Bashir. (4/3/2013)

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Human-centered system design for electronic governance / Saqib Saeed, Christopher G. Reddick, Editors. (4/3/2013)

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Kant's political theory : interpretations and applications / edited by Elisabeth Ellis. (4/3/2013)

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Perspectives on South Asian security / editors Shanthie Mariet D'Souza, Rajshree Jetly. (4/3/2013)

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Principles and practice of American politics : classic and contemporary readings / edited by Samuel Kernell, Steven S. Smith. (4/3/2013)

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Public policymaking in Hong Kong : civic engagement and state-society relations in a semi-democracy / Eliza W.Y. Lee, Elaine Y.M. Chan, Joseph C.W. Chan, Peter T.Y. Cheung, Wai Fung Lam and Wai-man Lam. (4/3/2013)

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Secessionism and separatism in Europe and Asia : to have a state of one's own / edited by Jean-Pierre Cabestan and Aleksandar Pavkovic. (4/3/2013)

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The EU and multilateral security governance / edited by Sonia Lucarelli, Luk van Langenhove and Jan Wouters. (4/3/2013)

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The EU as a global security actor : a comprehensive analysis across CFSP and JHA / Christian Kaunert, lecturer in EU Politics and International Relations, University of Salford, UK, and Kamil Zwolski, lecturer in EU Politics and Security, University of Sa (4/3/2013)

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The lessons of Rancière / Samuel A. Chambers. (4/3/2013)

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The original compromise : what the Constitution's framers were really thinking / David Brian Robertson. (4/3/2013)

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The race for the White House from Reagan to Clinton : reforming old systems, building new coalitions / Anthony J. Bennett. (4/3/2013)

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Understanding research : coping with the quantitative - qualitative divide / M. I. Franklin. (4/3/2013)

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A companion to ancient Greek government / edited by Hans Beck. (3/27/2013)

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Accidental immigrants and the search for home : women, cultural identity, and community / Carol E. Kelley. (3/27/2013)

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Mary Catherine Bateson, author of Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom

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Africa and the European Union : a strategic partnership / edited by Jack Mangala. (3/27/2013)

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Democracy in retreat : the revolt of the middle class and the worldwide decline of representative government / Joshua Kurlantzick. (3/27/2013)

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Democracy in the making : the Open Forum lecture movement / Arthur S. Meyers. (3/27/2013)

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Review

Meyers’ original and exciting investigation [and] deft, nuanced analysis....thoroughly explores the movement’s strengths and weaknesses, providing insights that will be valuable to historians—and to all who seek to develop inclusive solutions to social problems. (Nancy C. Unger, associate professor of history, Santa Clara University; author, Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer )

…[A] clearly-drawn narrative….connect[ing] this non-sectarian, semi-secular movement to the Chautauqua and Lyceum movements of earlier generations. (Richard D. Brown, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of History, emeritus, University of Connecticut )

I recommend this book highly for students of adult education and for public officials and civic leaders who want a model of public discourse for civil conversation in a time of polarization. (Harold W. Stubblefield, professor emeritus, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University )

…A valuable resource…useful not only because it revives this history but also because it illustrates how the past can help to inform the present. The National Issues Forums are certainly a close descendant of this important movement. (David Mathews, president, Kettering Foundation )

…Meyers does more than simply reintroduce an important piece of our civic past; he also presents us with a model for rejuvenating contemporary public life. (James J. Connolly, director, Center for Middletown Studies; professor of history, Ball State University; author, An Elusive Unity: Urban Democracy and Machine Politics in Industrializing America )

This vivid new window brings forward Mary Caroline Crawford, a woman who shaped progressive public discourse. (Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History, State University of New York, Binghamton; author, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work )

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Dialogues with contemporary political theorists / edited by Gary Browning, Raia Prokhovnik and Maria Dimova-Cookson. (3/27/2013)

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Digital democracy and the impact of technology on governance and politics : new globalized practices / Christina Akrivopoulou and Nicolaos Garipidis, editors. (3/27/2013)

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Human rights and transnational solidarity in Cold War Latin America / edited by Jessica Stites Mor. (3/27/2013)

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Japan and reconciliation in post-war Asia : the Murayama statement and its implications / edited by Kazuhiko Togo. (3/27/2013)

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Postcolonial theory and international relations : a critical introduction / edited by Sanjay Seth. (3/27/2013)

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About the Author

Sanjay Seth is Professor of Politics and co-Director of the Centre for Postcolonial Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London. He has published extensively on social and political theory, postcolonialism, and modern Indian history. He is the author of Subject Lessons: The Western Education of Colonial India (Duke UP 2007) and a founding co-editor of the journal, Postcolonial Studies (1998-).

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Rwanda and the moral obligation of humanitarian intervention / Joshua James Kassner. (3/27/2013)

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Three worlds of relief : race, immigration, and the American welfare state from the Progressive Era to the New Deal / Cybelle Fox. (3/27/2013)

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Whatever happened to Tory Scotland? / edited by David Torrance. (3/27/2013)

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Women and wars / edited by Carol Cohn [with a foreword by Cynthia Enloe]. (3/27/2013)

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J. Ann Tickner, School of International Relations, University of Southern California

"With its diverse, thoughtful, and theoretically rich perspectives on gender, conflict and violence this book stands out from the crowd as an exceptional and interdisciplinary contribution to the field. This will be a valuable resource for scholars and practitioners and should be treated as a 'go to' resource giving an exciting perspective on the state of the field in gender and war."
Megan Mackenzie, University of Sydney

"The book provides a comprehensive picture of the current scholarship on women and war as well as detailed and disturbing accounts of the lives of women during and after many recent wars. It would be an ideal text for a variety of courses on international and human security."
Craig Murphy, Wellesley College

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Chinese complaint systems : natural resistance / Qiang Fang. (3/20/2013)

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Critical approaches to security : an introduction to theories and methods / edited by Laura J Shepherd. (3/20/2013)

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Isaiah Berlin and the politics of freedom : "Two concepts of liberty" 50 years later / edited by Bruce Baum, Robert Nichols. (3/20/2013)

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Plato's Laws : force and truth in politics / edited by Gregory Recco and Eric Sanday. (3/20/2013)

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Review

"A diverse set of intelligent and original essays on the Laws featuring some of the best names in American scholarship." —Marina McCoy, Boston College

(Marina McCoy, Boston College )

"An outstanding collection... that will inspire others... to begin to take the Laws as seriously as they should." —Drew A. Hyland, Trinity College

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Political parties in Palestine : leadership and thought / Michael Bröning in association with the research group including Christoph Dinkelaker ... [et al.]. (3/20/2013)

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The great convergence : Asia, the West, and the logic of one world / Kishore Mahbubani. (3/20/2013)

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The right in France from the Third Republic to Vichy / Kevin Passmore. (3/20/2013)

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