Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea

Celeste L. Arrington

Cornell University Press

Achieving Regulatory Excellence

Cary Coglianese

Brookings Institution Press

Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy

Ryan Patrick Hanley, ed.

Princeton University Press

Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America

Martin Gilens

Princeton University Press

American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction

Adam Seth Levine

Princeton University Press

Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins

Mark Mattern

State University of New York Press

Below the Radar: How Silence Can Save Civil Rights

Alison Gash

Oxford University Press

Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion

Elizabeth Hurd

Princeton University Press

Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust

Darrell M. West

Brookings Institution Press

The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter

Melissa Lane

Princeton University Press

Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics

Marie Gottschalk

Princeton University Press

Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America

Eduardo Moncada

Stanford University Press

Confronting Political Islam: Six Lessons from the West’s Past

John M. Owen IV

Princeton University Press

The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy

Daniel A. Bell

Princeton University Press

Cinema, Democracy and Perfectionism: Joshua Foa Dienstag in Dialogue

Joshua Foa Dienstag

Manchester University Press

Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry

Benjamin J. Cohen

Princeton University Press

Democratization through Migration? Political Remittances and Participation of Philippine Return Migrants

Christl Kessler and Stefan Rother

Lexington Books

Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans

Sangay K. Mishra

University of Minnesota Press

Economic Interdependence and War

Dale C. Copeland

Princeton University Press

Electing the Senate: Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth Amendment

Wendy J. Schiller and Charles Stewart

Princeton University Press

Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence

Donald F. Kettl

Brookings Institution Press

European Competition Policy and Globalization

Terrence Guay

Palgrave Macmillan

Freedom without Violence: Resisting the Western Political Tradition

Dustin Ells Howes

Oxford University Press

Gender Quotas and Democratic Participation: Recruiting Candidates for Elective Offices in Germany

Louisa K. Davidson-Schmich

University of Michigan Press

I Found My Niche: A Lifetime Journey of Lobbying and Association Leadership

Lowell Beck

The Peppertree Press

The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communications, Representation, and Democratic Accountability

Justin Grimmer, Sean J. Westwood, and Solomon Messing

Princeton University Press

Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction

Yanna Krupnikov and Samara Klar

Cambridge University Press

The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How They Weaken Democracy

Seth E. Masket

Oxford University Press

Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change

Charles T. Lee

Duke University Press

Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations

Keren Yarhi-Milo

Princeton University Press

Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima

Edward D. Blandford and Scott D. Sagan, eds.

Stanford University Press

Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present

Gary Gerstle

Princeton University Press

Making Human Rights a Reality

Emilie M. Hafner-Burton

Princeton University Press

Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy

Anna Grzymala-Busse

Princeton University Press

NATO in Afghanistan: Fighting Together, Fighting Alone

David P. Auerswald and Stephen M. Saideman

Princeton University Press

New Order and Progress: Development and Democracy in Brazil

Ben Ross Schneider, ed.

Oxford University Press

The New States of Abortion Politics

Joshua C. Wilson

Stanford University Press

Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict

Vipin Narang

Princeton University Press

Party Brands in Crisis: Partisanship, Brand Dilution, and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America

Noam Lupu

Cambridge University Press

Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University

Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn, Sr.

Oxford University Press

Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in American Deep South, 1944–1972

Robert Mickey

Princeton University Press

Pet Politics: The Political and Legal Lives of Cats, Dogs, and Horses in Canada and the United States

Susan Hunter, Richard A. Brisbin, Jr.

Purdue University Press

Political Negotiation: A Handbook

Jane Mansbridge and Cathie Jo Martin, eds.

Brookings Institution Press

Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action

Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale, and Taha Yasseri

Princeton University Press

The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance

Deva R. Woodly

Oxford University Press

The Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being

David Walsh

University of Notre Dame Press

Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability

Wenfang Tang

Oxford University Press

Power and International Relations: A Conceptual Approach

David A. Baldwin

Princeton University Press

The Puzzle of Peace: The Evolution of Peace in the International System

Gary Goertz, Paul F. Diehl, and Alexadru Balas

Oxford University Press

Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency

William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe

Basic Books

The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act

Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert

University of Oklahoma Press

Robert A. Dahl: A Quest Unended

Jennifer Hochschild, David R. Mayhew, Bruce Stinebrickner, Nannerl O. Keohane, Catherine A. MacKinnon, and Steven Lukes

Routledge

Scandalous Economics: Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises

Aida A. Hozić and Jacqui True

Oxford University Press

The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions

Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg

Princeton University Press

Social Democratic America

Lane Kenworthy

Oxford University Press

The Supply Side of Security: A Market Theory of Military Alliances

Tongfi Kim

Stanford University Press

Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy

Syaru Shirley Lin

Stanford University Press

The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations

Jacob N. Shapiro

Princeton University Press

These Estimable Courts: Understanding Public Perceptions of State Judicial Institutions and Legal Policy-Making

Damon M. Cann and Jeff Yates

Oxford University Press

Watchdogs on the Hill: The Decline of Congressional Oversight of US Foreign Relations

Linda L. Fowler

Princeton University Press

What Happened to the Republican Party?

John Kenneth White

Routledge

When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History

Daniel Schlozman

Princeton University Press

When Norms Collide: Local Responses to Activism against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage

Karisa Cloward

Oxford University Press

White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics

Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan L. Hajnal

Princeton University Press

Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again

Elaine C. Kamarck

Brookings Institution Press

SPOTLIGHT

Adversity & Justice: A History of the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Michigan

Kevin M. Ball

Wayne State University Press

From the Publisher: Bankruptcy law is a major part of the American legal landscape. More than a million individuals and thousands of businesses sought relief in the United States’ 93 bankruptcy courts in 2014, more than 27,000 of them in the Eastern District of Michigan. Important business of great consequence takes place in the courts, yet they ordinarily draw little public attention. In Adversity and Justice, Kevin Ball takes a closer look at the history and evolution of this court. Using a variety of sources from newspaper accounts and interviews to personal documentation from key people throughout the court’s history, Ball explores not only the history of the court from its beginning in the late nineteenth century but also two major courthouse scandals and their significant and long-lasting effects on the court. Anyone with an interest in bankruptcy, legal history, or the city of Detroit’s bankruptcy case will be attracted to this thorough case study of this court.

Kevin M. Ball, director, paralegal and business programs, Baker College, received both his law degree and his PhD from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Before beginning his career in higher education, he was a longtime bankruptcy attorney.

SPOTLIGHT

Retreat and Its Consequences: American Foreign Policy and the Problem of World Order

Robert J. Lieber

Cambridge University Press

From the Publisher: Retreat and Its Consequences: American Foreign Policy and the Problem of World Order makes the case that a foreign policy strategy of retrenchment and inaction has alienated allies, emboldened adversaries, contributed to growing instability abroad, and has been detrimental to America’s own national security. Despite frequent arguments to the contrary during the current presidential campaign America retains the capacity to lead, but unless it resumes a more engaged and robust role, the world is likely to become a more dangerous place, with mounting threats not only to regional stability and international order, but to the national interests of America itself.

Robert J. Lieber, professor of government and international affairs, Georgetown University, is the author or editor of 17 books on international relations and US foreign policy.

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SPOTLIGHT

Ideologies of Experience: Trauma, Failure, Deprivation, and the Abandonment of the Self

Matthew H. Bowker

Routledge

From the Author: While it is difficult to find a branch of modern thought, science, industry, or art that has not relied in some way on the notion of “experience” in defining its assumptions or aims, no study has yet applied a politically-conscious and psychologically-sensitive critique to the construct of experience. Doing so reveals that most of the qualities that have been attributed to experience over the centuries are part of unlikely fantasies or ideologies. By analyzing a series of related cases, the book builds a convincing case that ideologies of experience are invoked not to keep us close to lived realities and “things-in-themselves,” but, rather, to distort and destroy true knowledge of ourselves and others. In spite of enduring admiration for those who may be called champions of experience, such as Michel de Montaigne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and others treated throughout the work, the ideologies of experience ultimately discourage individuals and groups from creating, resisting, and changing our experience, urging us instead to embrace trauma, failure, deprivation, and self-abandonment.

Matthew H. Bowker, visiting assistant professor, Medaille College, researches political theory with psychoanalytic and literary approaches.

SPOTLIGHT

Elder Care Journey: A View From the Front Lines

Laura Katz Olson

State University of New York Press

From the Author: Elder Care Journey: A View from the Front Lines offers a personal frame of reference for understanding the US long-term care system. In it, Olson finds her studies of elder care inconveniently interrupted by a real person with ever-increasing needs—her own mother. Thrust into a caregiving role, she discovers her previous notions about assisting a frail parent at variance with the actual experience. Countless Aha! moments reveal aspects of situations that shatter earlier convictions and expose the irrationality of many government policies. The book also is a window into commercial long-term care industries that consume a significant percentage of taxpayer dollars but often fail to deliver quality care.

Laura Katz Olson, professor of political science at Lehigh University since 1974, studies aging, health care, and social welfare. To date, she has published eight books, mainly in the area of long-term care of the elderly.