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Recall, The, Second Edition
(January 2014)
Tribunal of the People
Joseph F. Zimmerman - Author
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In-depth study of the recall, the most important popular device allowing voters to remove unresponsive elected officials from office.
The recall, or “election in reverse,” is meant to allow voters to remove an elected official from office prior to the completion of his/her term in office. In this revised second edition of The Recall, Joseph F. Zimmerman examines the rise of the recall in the United States and ...(Read More) |
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Strategic Decision-Making in Presidential Nominations
(January 2014)
When and Why Party Elites Decide to Support a Candidate
Kenny J. Whitby - Author
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Seeks to understand and explain the behavior of party elites during the 2008 Democratic Party presidential race.
What is the dominant force in presidential nomination campaigns? Are nomination outcomes decided largely by the political party or by the candidates and their activities?In Strategic Decision-Making in Presidential Nominations Kenny J. Whitby aims to provide some answers to these important questions, focusing ...(Read More) |
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The Devil Is in the Details
(January 2014)
Understanding the Causes of Policy Specificity and Ambiguity
Rachel VanSickle-Ward - Author
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Seeks to explain the causes of ambiguously worded state legislation.
The level of detail in a given law can have dramatic consequences for how that law is interpreted and applied. In The Devil Is in the Details, Rachel VanSickle-Ward focuses on the dynamics of social policy construction in the United States in order to better understand why the wording of legislation can range from the specific to the ambiguous. When pol...(Read More) |
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Community, Culture, and Economic Development, Second Edition
(December 2013)
Continuity and Change in Two Small Southern Towns
Meredith Ramsay - Author
Kirkland J. Hall Sr. - Foreword by
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Newly updated comparative study of economic development policy, and its relationship with local power structures and cultural and social relations, in two Maryland towns.
Community economic development is conventionally explained using one of two models: a market model that assumes individuals always attempt to maximize their wealth, or a growth model that assumes land use is controlled by real estate developers who invariably pu...(Read More) |
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Complexity Science and World Affairs
(December 2013)
Walter C. Clemens Jr. - Author
Stuart A. Kauffman - Foreword by
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Applies complexity science to the study of international politics.
Why did some countries transition peacefully from Communist rule to political freedom and market economies, while others did not? Why did the United States enjoy a brief moment as the sole remaining superpower, and then lose power and influence across the board? What are the prospects for China, the main challenger to American hegemony? In Complexity Science and W...(Read More) |
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Doing Democracy
(December 2013)
Activist Art and Cultural Politics
Nancy S. Love - Editor
Mark Mattern - Editor
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Demonstrates how activists and others use art and popular culture to strive for a more democratic future.
Doing Democracy examines the potential of the arts and popular culture to extend and deepen the experience of democracy. Its contributors address the use of photography, cartooning, memorials, monuments, poetry, literature, music, theater, festivals, and parades to open political spaces, awaken critical consciousness, e...(Read More) |
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Becoming a Footnote
(July 2013)
An Activist-Scholar Finds His Voice, Learns to Write, and Survives Academia
Sanford F. Schram - Author
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Humorous and witty recollections of the author’s journey from insecure graduate student to noted activist-scholar.
How does a graduate student acquire the skills necessary to define a clear research agenda and write meaningful contributions to the scholarship in his or her field? Can the requirements of professional advancement in the ivory tower be reconciled with making a difference in the bare-knuckle world of policymaki...(Read More) |
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Systems of Violence, Second Edition
(June 2013)
The Political Economy of War and Peace in Colombia
Nazih Richani - Author
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Expanded new edition of an important study of the protracted violence in Colombia.
This book examines the political, economic, and military factors that have contributed to decades of violent conflict in Colombia during one of the longest protracted civil wars in the world. Using four years of field research, and more than two hundred interviews, Nazih Richani examines Colombia’s “war system”—the systemic ...(Read More) |
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Reproducing Sectarianism
(June 2013)
Advocacy Networks and the Politics of Civil Society in Postwar Lebanon
Paul W. T. Kingston - Author
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Examines the politics of civil society in modern Lebanon.
The Arab Spring in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and elsewhere has highlighted the growing importance of the politics of civil society in the contemporary Middle East. In Reproducing Sectarianism, Paul W. T. Kingston examines rights-oriented advocacy networks within Lebanon’s postwar civil society, focusing on movements and political campaigns based on gender relat...(Read More) |
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