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Confronting the climate challenge
Lawrence Goulder, Marc Hafstead,Confronting the Climate Challenge presents a unique framework for evaluating the impacts of U.S. climate-policy options. Lawrence Goulder and Marc Hafstead demonstrate that these policies—if designed correctly—not only can reduce emissions at low cost but also can avoid burdening low-income house...
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The tragedy of social democracy
Sirvan Karimi,The Tragedy of Social Democracy is about the rise, fall and future of social democracy as a politico-ideological force, a force that was believed would democratically transform capitalism into socialism. Instead of democratizing capitalism, social democracy was itself liberalized by capitalism. W...
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The politics of medicaid
Laura Katz Olson,In 1965, the United States government enacted legislation to provide low-income individuals with quality health care and related services. Initially viewed as the friendless stepchild of Medicare, Medicaid has grown exponentially since its inception, becoming a formidable force of its own. Funded...
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Geopolitical rivalries in the “common neighborhood”
Vasif Huseynov, Nicholas Ross Smith,Vasif Huseynov argues that if nuclear-armed powers compete to expand their sphere of influence, they use soft power as a major instrument while military power remains a tool to back up their foreign policies. He focuses on the rivalries between Russia and the West over the states located between ...
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Al-qaeda's revenge
Fernando Reinares, Bruce Riedel,Fernando Reinares tells the story of 3/11—the March 11, 2004, bombings of commuter trains in Madrid, which killed 191 people and injured more than 1,800. His full analysis links the Madrid bombings to al-Qaeda’s senior leadership and unveils connections between 3/11 and 9/11.
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The class politics of law
Judy Fudge, Eric Tucker,For nearly fifty years, Professor Harry Glasbeek has been at the forefront of legal scholars and public intellectuals challenging assumptions and understandings about the injustices embedded in the economic, social, political and legal orders of Western capitalist democracies. His writings and te...
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Law in conflict
Angela Lindt,Angela Lindt sheds light on various mining disputes in Cajamarca and Piura and examines the role of law in resolving these conflicts.
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Our others
Olesya Yaremchuk, Hanna Leliv, Zenia Tompkins,Our Others is an award-winning exploration of the histories and personal stories of fourteen ethnic minority groups living within the boundaries of present-day Ukraine: Czechs and Slovaks, Meskhetian Turks, Swedes, Romanians, Hungarians, Roma, Jews, ‘Liptaks’, Gagauzes, Germans, Vlachs, Poles, Cr...
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Political science in europe at the beginning of the 21st century
Barbara Krauz-Mozer, Małgorzata Kułakowska, Piotr Borowiec, Paweł Ścigaj,This volume offers a complete guide to current trends in European political science today. It provides quantitative and qualitative descriptions of programs in a variety of countries, addressing fields of study, courses offered, student preferences, and research projects. It also engages with the...
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Boundaries of toleration
Alfred Stepan, Charles Taylor,Distinguished novelists, philosophers, historians, sociologists, and political scientists propose a new approach to settling multicultural tensions in the modern world.
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The indivisible globe, the indissoluble nation
Li-Chun Hsiao,Li-Chun Hsiao attempts to rethink, under the rubric of globalization, several key notions in postcolonial theory and writings by revisiting what he conceives as “the primal scene of postcoloniality”—the Haitian Revolution. He unpacks and critiques poststructuralist penchants and undercurrents of ...
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Russia's capitalist revolution
Anders Åslund,The Russian revolution, collapse of the Soviet Union, and Russia's ensuing transformation belong to the greatest dramas of our time. Revolutions are usually messy and emotional affairs, challenging much of the conventional wisdom, and Russia's experience is no exception. This book focuses on the ...
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Smugglers and states
Max Gallien,Drawing on extensive fieldwork in the borderlands of Tunisia and Morocco, Max Gallien explains why states have long tolerated illegal trade across their borders and develops new ways to understand the political economy of smuggling.
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Fragments of solidarity
Maria Giannoula,Maria Giannoula takes an elaborated look at the emotional and spiritual aspects of political participation within an activist group in Greece in the 2010s.
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Asia-pacific fusion
Funabashi Yoichi,Japanese journalist Yoichi Funabashi has written the first in-depth study of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum based on extensive interviews with heads of state and government officials in the region. A key force behind APEC, he argues, is a potential "fusion" of Asia-Pacific civ...
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The putin predicament
Bo Petersson, J. Paul Goode,Bo Petersson analyzes the legitimization strategies employed during Vladimir Putin’s third and fourth terms in office, arguing that they have rested on Putin’s highly personalized blend of strongman-image projection and presentation as the embodiment of Russia’s great power myth.
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The eu and the south caucasus
Daviti Mtchedlishvili,This book studies complex and contradictory relations between the South Caucasus and the European Union (EU).
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Rust belt union blues
Lainey Newman, Theda Skocpol,Lainey Newman and Theda Skocpol provide timely insight into the relationship between the decline of unions and the shift of working-class voters away from Democrats.
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Reforming democracies
Douglas A. Chalmers,A noted political scientist revises our understanding of the institutions essential for representative democracy.
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Infrastructure and land policies
Gregory K. Ingram, Karin L. Brandt,More than 50 percent of the global population resides in urban areas where land policy and infrastructure interactions facilitate economic opportunities, affect the quality of life, and influence patterns of urban development. While infrastructure is as old as cities, technological changes and pu...
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Opening access to scenario planning tools
In the face of increasing complexity and uncertainty, planners, public officials, and community residents need new tools to anticipate and shape the future. Opening Access to Scenario Planning Tools examines the current state of scenario planning and scenario planning tools that can help communit...
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Doing democracy differently
Henrike Knappe,Transnational civil society networks have become increasingly important democratizing actors in global politics. This book attempts to understand how new forms of democratic practice emerge in the interaction between political actors and their structural environments.
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Eu: beyond the crisis
Nikolaos Papakostas, Nikos Pasamitros,Though crises arise organically in all political systems, this volume treats the current challenges facing the EU as a unique situation. It takes stock of its losses, gains, and opportunities and what constitutes a viable solution to the EU's current predicament. By envisioning the EU as an evolv...
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Social policy, poverty, and inequality in central and eastern europe and the former soviet union
This book takes stock of the diverse and divergent welfare trajectories of postsocialist countries across central and eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Authors from different disciplines address key aspects of social protection including health care, poverty reduction measures, labor ma...
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Civic activism in south korea
Seungsook Moon,Examining how “citizens’ organizations” in South Korea negotiate with the market and neoliberal governance, Seungsook Moon offers new ways to understand the intricate relationship between democracy and neoliberalism as modes of ruling.
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Making hong kong china
Michael C. Davis,Will the Hong Kong so deeply held in the people’s identity and the world’s imagination be lost? Michael C. Davis, who has taught human rights and constitutional law in this city for over three decades, and has been one of its closest observers, takes us on this constitutional journey.
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Revolution and war in contemporary ukraine
Olga Bertelsen,What are the reasons behind, and trajectories of, the rapid cultural changes in Ukraine since 2013? This volume highlights: the role of the Revolution of Dignity and the Russian-Ukrainian war in the formation of Ukrainian civil society; the forms of warfare waged by Moscow against Kyiv, including...
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Red swan
Sebastian Heilmann,China's exceptional development trajectory challenges conventional wisdom as well as conventional models of political change. This book explains policy making in China's governmental system as an open-ended process with an uncertain outcome, driven by conflicting interests, recurrent interaction...
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Economic sanctions reconsidered
Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Jeffrey J. Schott, Kimberly Ann Elliott, Barbara Oegg,Economic sanctions continue to play an important role in the response to terrorism, nuclear proliferation, military conflicts, and other foreign policy crises. But poor design and implementation of sanctions policies often mean that they fall short of their desired effects. This landmark study, f...
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Political choices
Nirmalangshu Mukherji,These essays written since the catastrophic events of 9/11 try to come to terms with the violence that shapes our everyday lives.
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Obama's america
Andrzej Mania,This publication is a collection of selected papers presented at an international conference organized by the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland in May 2010. All texts included in this book have been written at that time and although two years have already passed, the essays should still b...
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Richard nixon
Vamik D. Volkan, Norman Itzkowitz, Andrew W. Dod,Despite an abundance of literature on Richard Nixon, the man behind the most spectacular crash-and-burn career of modern political history has remained an enigma. What lay behind his obsessive hunger for power and control, his paranoid attacks against enemies real and perceived, his refusal to ac...
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Precarious employment
Stephanie Procyk, Wayne Lewchuk, John Shields,This edited collection introduces and explores the causes and consequences of precarious employment in Canada and across the world. After contextualizing employment precarity and its root causes, the authors illustrate how precarious employment is created amongst different populations and describ...
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Implementing value capture in latin america
Martim O. Smolka,This report provides a review of land value capture's antecedents in Latin America and its longstanding presence in the urban planning agenda. It also examines a variety of land value capture instruments including: property taxation and betterment contributions; exactions and charges for building...
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Property rights and land policies
Gregory K. Ingram, Yu-Hung Hong,The Lincoln Institute’s third annual land policy conference explored the connections between property rights and land policies in developed and developing country contexts. The chapter authors discuss a range of topics including regulatory takings, the use of eminent domain and expropriation in l...
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Capitalizing on the morocco-us free trade agreement
Gary Clyde Hufbauer, Claire Brunel,This study assesses the US-Morocco free trade agreement (FTA) and identifies shortcomings in the implementation of the US-Morocco FTA, provide policy recommendations for better leveraging the FTA, and suggest ways for Morocco to take better advantage of its cooperation agreements with the Europea...
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The sublime of the political
Dean Caivano, Sarah Naumes,Dean Caivano and Sarah Naumes argue that storytelling in the form of narrative and autoethnography creates an emancipatory potential through its ability to theorize from below, welcoming marginalized and excluded voices. They offer a new assessment of political texts to challenge who can write an...
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Triadic coercion
Wendy Pearlman, Boaz Atzili,As states find themselves in conflicts with nonstate actors, they often target other states that harbor or aid these challenging opponents. Wendy Pearlman and Boaz Atzili investigate this strategy, which they term triadic coercion: why states pursue it and the conditions under which it succeeds, ...
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Making history
Richard Flacks,Regular price $38.00Sale price $38.00 Regular price $38.00Unit price / per -
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God, guns, and sedition
Bruce Hoffman, Jacob Ware,Winner, 2025 Airey Neave Memorial Book Prize, Airey Neave TrustShocking acts of terrorism have erupted from violent American far-right extremists in recent years, including the 2015 mass murder at a historic Black church in Charleston and the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. These inc...
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Journal of soviet and post-soviet politics and society
Yulia Yurchuk, Andreas Umland, Julie Fedor, Sam Greene,The Journal of Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (JSPPS) is a biannual companion journal to the Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society (SPPS) book series (founded 2004 and edited by Andreas Umland). Like the book series, the journal provides an interdisciplinary forum for new origi...
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Equality governance via policy analysis?
Arn T. Sauer,Arn T. Sauer examines the instruments of gendered policy analysis and the conditions under which they are being used by the Canadian federal government and the European Commission. He shows that the success of equality governance depends upon whether knowledge about gendered policy and administra...
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The scandal of reason
Albena Azmanova,Theories of justice are haunted by a paradox: the more ambitious the theory of justice, the less applicable and useful the model is to political practice; yet the more politically realistic the theory, the weaker its moral ambition, rendering it unsound and equally useless. Brokering a resolution...
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Against the people
Bryan Evans, Carlo Fanelli,No-holds-barred exposure of Ford Nation giving billions to corporations and insecurity to everyone else.
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Political crisis/fiscal crisis
Martin Shefter,Regular price $36.00Sale price $36.00 Regular price $36.00Unit price / per -
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The world trading system
Jeffrey J. Schott,Regular price $20.00Sale price $20.00 Regular price $20.00Unit price / per -
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China’s transition
Andrew J. Nathan,With more than one billion people, China represents both an ocean of economic opportunity and a frustrating backwater of continuing brutal political repression. What are the prospects for democratic evolution in a nation with one of the world's poorest human rights records? How have other nations...
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Measuring the costs of protection in china
Zhang Shuguang,Regular price $15.95Sale price $15.95 Regular price $15.95Unit price / per -
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The naqab bedouins
Mansour Nasasra,The Naqab Bedouins represents the first attempt to chronicle Bedouin history and politics across the last century, including the Ottoman era, the British Mandate, Israeli military rule, and the contemporary schema, and document its broader relevance to understanding state-minority relations in th...
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Crowded orbits
James Clay Moltz,Crowded Orbits offers readers a valuable primer on space policy from an international perspective. This second edition is thoroughly updated to cover events of the decade following the book’s original publication in 2014.
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