SPOTLIGHT

Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London

Jules Boykoff

Rutgers University Press

From the Publisher: In Activism and the Olympics, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and its political opponents in the modern era. After presenting a brief history of Olympic activism, he turns his attention to activism through the lens of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Drawing from personal interviews with activists, journalists, civil libertarians, and Olympic organizers, Boykoff angles in on the Games from numerous vantages and viewpoints.

Jules Boykoff, chair, politics and government department, Pacific University, is a widely published scholar of international politics and corporate influence in sport, as well as the suppression of dissent.

American Exceptionalism: An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World

Hilde Eliassen Restad

Routledge

American Government and Politics in the Information Age, 2nd Edition

David L. Paletz, Diana Owen, and Timothy E. Cook

Flat World Knowledge

Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence

Steven I. Wilkinson

Harvard University Press

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

Melissa Lane

Princeton University Press

Bombay in the Age of Disco: City, Community, Life

Tinaz Pavri

University Press of North Georgia

The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate

Lee Drutman

Oxford University Press

Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music 1960s–1973

J. Patrice McSherry

Temple University Press

Civics Beyond Critics: Character Education in a Liberal Democracy

Ian MacMullen

Oxford University Press

Coercing Compliance: State-Initiated Brute Force in Today’s World

Robert Mandel

Stanford University Press

The Color of Our Shame: Race and Injustice in Our Time

Christopher J. Lebron

Oxford University Press

Contentious Elections: From Ballots to Barricades

Pippa Norris, Richard W. Frank, and Ferran Martínez i Coma, eds.

Routledge

Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality

Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson

University of Illinois Press

Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration?

Gillian Brock and Michael Blake

Oxford University Press

Democracy in Central Asia: Competing Perspectives and Alternative Strategies

Mariya Y. Omelicheva

University Press of Kentucky

Destination India: From London Overland to India

Lloyd I. and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph

Oxford University Press

Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics

Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein

University of Oklahoma Press

Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics

Sarah Reckhow

Oxford University Press

Foreclosed America

Isaac William Martin and Christopher Niedt

Stanford University Press

France after 2012

Gabriel Goodliffe and Riccardo Brizzi, eds.

Berghahn Books

Guns Across America: Reconciling Rules and Rights

Robert Spitzer

Oxford University Press

SPOTLIGHT

Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations

John Ishiyama, William J. Miller, and Eszter Simon

Edward Elgar Publishing

From the Publisher: With a focus on providing concrete teaching strategies for scholars, the Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations blends both theory and practice in an accessible and clear manner. To help faculty excel as classroom teachers, the expert contributors offer representation from various types of institutions located throughout the world. This book discusses curriculum and course design, teaching subject areas, and in-class teaching techniques

This handbook is an essential guide for anyone looking to teach political science and international relations at the university level.

John Ishiyama is professor of political science at the University of North Texas, where he is the lead editor of the American Political Science Review.

William J. Miller, Flagler College, has special interests in interests include campaigns and elections, polling, board development, grant writing, and the pedagogy of political science and public administration.

Eszter Simon, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, teaches on foreign policy, international relations, and global terrorism.

Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution

Amanda Hollis-Brusky

Oxford University Press

Individualism in the United States: A Transformation in American Political Thought

Stephanie Walls

Bloomsbury Publishing

The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa

Daniel P. Ritter

Oxford University Press

The New Normal: Finding a Balance between Individual Rights and the Common Good

Amitai Etzioni

Transaction Publishers

SPOTLIGHT

Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America

Elizabeth McKenna and Hahrie Han Oxford University Press

From the Publisher: Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation’s first black president, raised and spent more money than any other election effort in history, and built the most sophisticated voter targeting technology ever before used on a national campaign. What is missing from most accounts of the campaign is an understanding of how Obama for America recruited, motivated, developed, and managed its formidable army of 2.2 million volunteers. How did they organize so many volunteers to produce so much valuable work for the campaign? This book describes how.

Hahrie Han is an associate professor of political science at Wellesley College, and her research interests include politics of social policy, civic associations, civic engagement, health and environmental politics, polarization, and elections.

Elizabeth McKenna is graduate student in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and her research interests are political sociology, social movements, and Brazil.

Nimby Is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World

Carol Hager and Mary Alice

Haddad, eds.

Berghahn Books

No Day in Court: Access to Justice and the Politics of Judicial Retrenchment

Sara Staszak

Oxford University Press

Nuclear Authority: The IAEA and the Absolute Weapon

Robert L. Brown

Georgetown University Press

Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis

Robert Putnam

Simon & Schuster

The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding

Atalia Omer, R. Scott Appleby, and David Little

Oxford University Press

Paying Bribes for Public Services: A Global Guide to Grass-Roots Corruption

Richard Rose and Caryn Peiffer

Palgrave Press

Reflections on American Progressivism

Sidney A. Pearson, Jr.

Transaction Publishers

The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

Josiah Ober

Princeton University Press

Routledge Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions

Jennifer Gandhi and Rubén Ruiz-Rufino

Routledge

On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions

Joan Cocks

Bloomsbury

State Voting Laws in America: Historical Statutes and Their Modern Implications

Kevin Anderson, Chapman Rackaway, and Michael Smith

Palgrave

The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security

Bartholomew Sparrow

Public Affairs

SPOTLIGHT

Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics

Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck

Oxford University Press

From the Publisher: How do institutional arrangements established by law become operational in practice? It takes work for them to develop problem-solving capabilities and win recognition from others—what the authors call “practical authority.” Drawing from a decade-long, multi-site study, the authors show how an assortment of protagonists struggled to breathe life into new institutional designs. Their account weaves together three decades of national and state law-making with experimentation in establishing new kinds of participatory water management organizations. The authors examine why some organizations adapted creatively to challenges while others never got off the ground. To approach this complex, volatile, and non-linear process of transformation, the book develops a framework for investigating the actions and practices of institution-building.

Rebecca Neaera Abers is professor of political pcience at the University of Brasília. Her research interests focus on the politics of institutional reform, especially the creation of new, “participatory” decision-making arenas.

Margaret Keck is professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. Her areas of interest include comparative politics, international relations (Latin American politics, the environment, and social movements).

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