Politics and government

A groundbreaking new history of how the Vietnam War thwarted U.

Americans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment.

Corporate Governance Lessons from Transition Economy Reforms explores a timely topic at the intersection of economics, law, and policy reform.

A generation ago, scholars saw interest groups as the single most important element in the American political system.

What is black culture?

What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations?

Advocates of school vouchers and other choice proposals couch their arguments in the fashionable language of economic theory.

Should the Supreme Court have the last word when it comes to interpreting the Constitution?

Many prominent critics regard the international financial system as the dark side of globalization, threatening disadvantaged nations near and far.

The modern state, however we conceive of it today, is based on a pattern that emerged in Europe in the period from 1100 to 1600.

True Faith and Allegiance is a provocative account of nationalism and the politics of turning immigrants into citizens and Americans.

What did the founders of America think about religion?

Political analyst Mark Smith offers the most original and compelling explanation yet of why America has swung to the right in recent decades.

A compelling case for why it's time for socialismIs socialism desirable?

Was George W.

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states.

Germany's and Italy's belated national unifications continue to loom large in contemporary debates.

Conventional wisdom holds that the American military is overwhelmingly conservative and Republican, and extremely political.

A political history of the most famous desegregation crisis in AmericaThe desegregation crisis in Little Rock is a landmark of American history: on September 4, 1957, after the Supreme Court struck down racial segregation in public schools, Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus called up the National Guard to surround Little Rock Central High School, preventing black students from going in.

After the collapse of communism, some thirty countries scrambled to craft democratic constitutions.

During the tumultuous closing decades of the nineteenth century, as the prospect of democracy loomed and as intensified global economic and strategic competition reshaped the political imagination, British thinkers grappled with the question of how best to organize the empire.

Terrorism is the most clear and present danger we confront today, yet no phenomenon is more poorly understood by policymakers, the media, and the general public.

Examining the social and political upheavals that characterized the collapse of public judgment in early modern Europe, Liberating Judgment offers a unique account of the achievement of liberal democracy and self-government.

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The contemporary American political landscape has been marked by two paradoxical transformations: the emergence after 1960 of an increasingly activist state, and the rise of an assertive and politically powerful conservatism that strongly opposes activist government.

Political moderation is the touchstone of democracy, which could not function without compromise and bargaining, yet it is one of the most understudied concepts in political theory.

Why so many of America's public university students are not graduating-and what to do about itThe United States has long been a model for accessible, affordable education, as exemplified by the country's public universities.

Where did affirmative action in employment come from?

Power in the Portrayal unveils a fresh and vital perspective on power relations in eleventh- and twelfth-century Muslim Spain as reflected in historical and literary texts of the period.

In this powerfully argued book, Ian Shapiro shows that the idea of containment offers the best hope for protecting Americans and their democracy into the future.

Perhaps no other Western writer has more deeply probed the bitter struggle in the Muslim world between the forces of religion and law and those of violence and lawlessness as Noah Feldman.

Jewish legal and political thought developed in conditions of exile, where Jews had neither a state of their own nor citizenship in any other.

Some in the social sciences argue that the same logic applies to both qualitative and quantitative methods.

Why has shame recently displaced guilt as a dominant emotional reference in the West?

Constitutional democracy is at once a flourishing idea filled with optimism and promise--and an enterprise fraught with limitations.

This comprehensive and in-depth look at southern politics in the United States challenges conventional notions about the rise of the Republican Party in the South.

This innovative study shows that multilateral sanctions are coercive in their pressure on their target and in their origin: the sanctions themselves frequently result from coercive policies, with one state attempting to coerce others through persuasion, threats, and promises.

Why compromise is essential for effective government and why it is missing in politics todayTo govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise.

The Promise of American Life is part of the bedrock of American liberalism, a classic that had a spectacular impact on national politics when it was first published in 1909 and that has been recognized ever since as a defining text of liberal reform.

Citizenship under Fire examines the relationship among civic education, the culture of war, and the quest for peace.

Focusing on the new theories of human motivation that emerged during the transition from feudalism to the modern period, this is the first book of new essays on the relationship between politics and the passions from Machiavelli to Bentham.

Established in 221 BCE, the Chinese empire lasted for 2,132 years before being replaced by the Republic of China in 1912.

An in-depth look at the historic and strategic deployment of rights in political conflicts throughout the worldRights are usually viewed as defensive concepts representing mankind's highest aspirations to protect the vulnerable and uplift the downtrodden.

How the executive branch-not the president alone-formulates executive orders, and how this process constrains the chief executive's ability to act unilaterallyThe president of the United States is commonly thought to wield extraordinary personal power through the issuance of executive orders.

An authoritative guide to federal democracy from two respected experts in the fieldAround the world, federalism has emerged as the system of choice for nascent republics and established nations alike.

A groundbreaking look at how group expectations unify Black Americans in their support of the Democratic partyBlack Americans are by far the most unified racial group in American electoral politics, with 80 to 90 percent identifying as Democrats-a surprising figure given that nearly a third now also identify as ideologically conservative, up from less than 10 percent in the 1970s.

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In Hitler's Shadow War, World War II scholar Donald M.

Our One Common Country explores the most critical meeting of the Civil War.

New perspectives on the role of collective responsibility in modern politicsStates are commonly blamed for wars, called on to apologize, held liable for debts and reparations, bound by treaties, and punished with sanctions.