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Michael Lewis
Who is Government?

Who works for the government and why does their work matter? Michael Lewis, bestselling author of The Big Short and The Fifth Risk , along with an all-star team of writers and storytellers, takes us on a …

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Michelle D. Deardorff
Race and the Law in the United States

This text explores how the legal history and judicial decisions of the United States contribute to the dynamic societal debates Americans are having around race today. It pairs historical cases and primar…

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Nathan Munier
Zimbabwe's Diamond Trade

What happens when states experience a rapid increase in resource wealth? This book examines the significant diamond find in eastern Zimbabwe in 2006, possibly the largest in over 100 years, and its influe…

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Raúl L. Madrid
The Birth of Democracy in South America

"Explores how democracy first emerged in South America and explains why it arose in some countries and not others. It shows that the first countries to democratize in the region continue to have the …

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Jaimie Bleck, Nicolas van de Walle
Electoral Politics in Africa since 1990

First comprehensive analysis of electoral politics in Sub-Saharan Africa since the democratic transitions of the early 1990s.

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Robert D. Alvarez, Jason P. Casellas
Shifting Allegiances

This Element examines the growing influence of Latino Republicans in Congress and state legislatures and reveals their diverse nature. Factors contributing to their success include demographics, conservat…

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Michael Stasik
Bus Station Hustle

Bus stations are among the most prominent sites of social and economic activity in Africa. Integral to transport, trade, and exchange over distance, they provide livelihoods for large numbers of people. T…

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Nicholas Barnes
Inside Criminalized Governance

For over four decades, drug trafficking gangs have monopolized violence and engaged in various forms of governance across hundreds of informal neighborhoods known as favelas in Rio de Janeiro. Drawing on …

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Eric R. Schmidt, Edward G. Carmines, Paul M. Sniderman
The Political Dynamics of Partisan Polarization

This Element has three objectives: to identify and explain why some Republicans and Democrats have polarized, particularly over the last twenty years; to demonstrate that they have done so not on this or …

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Jennifer L. Lawless, Richard L. Fox
It Takes More Than a Candidate

It Takes More Than a Candidate remains the only systematic account of the gender gap in political ambition. Based on national surveys of more than 10,000 potential candidates in 2001, 2011, and 2021, the …

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Matthew Pinsker
Boss Lincoln

We know Abraham Lincoln as the eloquent, compassionate leader of a nation torn by civil war. But he had another, less visible side, central to his character and leadership: he was a master of party politi…

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Danny Goldberg
Liberals with Attitude

LIBERALS WITH ATTITUDE DOCUMENTS THE SIXTEEN MONTHS IN 1991-92 between the brutal beating of Rodney King by four police officers that was captured on a home video camera and the resignation of LAPD chief …

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Jack B. Greenberg, John A. Dearborn
Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint

This Element explores how Congress has designed laws reliant on an assumption of presidential self-restraint, an expectation that presidents would respect statutory goals by declining to use their formal …

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Robert D. Alvarez, Jason P. Casellas
Shifting Allegiances

This Element examines the growing influence of Latino Republicans in Congress and state legislatures and reveals their diverse nature. Factors contributing to their success include demographics, conservat…

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Robert G. Boatright, Lane Cuthbert, Adam Eichen
Money, Partisanship and Power in Local Politics

This Element presents an analysis of campaign finance in city council elections in four midsize Massachusetts cities. It shows that while money does not determine local election outcomes it plays a gateke…

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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain

This book thoroughly examines the neoliberal state and its era in Latin America and Spain. It explores neoliberal public policies, power strategies, institutional resources, popular support, and social pr…

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Oguzhan Dincer, Michael Johnston
Corruption in America

This book explores the reality of corruption in America, analyzing its presence across policy areas in all fifty states. The authors also address issues of political trust and provide a thought-provoking …

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Jack B. Greenberg, John A. Dearborn
Congressional Expectations of Presidential Self-Restraint

This Element explores how Congress has designed laws reliant on an assumption of presidential self-restraint, an expectation that presidents would respect statutory goals by declining to use their formal …

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Jake Tapper, Alex Thompson
Original Sin

Diversified Publishing

An explosive inside reckoning with one of the most fateful conspiracies inAmerican political history---the concerted effort by the President's team to hidehis mental decline.In Greek tragedy, the protagon…

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Brando Simeo Starkey
Their Accomplices Wore Robes

"Their Accomplices Wore Robes takes readers from the Civil War era to the present and describes how the Supreme Court--even more than the presidency or Congress--aligned with the enemies of Black pro…

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