Political science and theory Books
The University of Chicago Press Skepticism Freedom A Modern Case for Classical
Book SynopsisRichard A. Epstein provides a systematic defense of classical liberalism against critiques mounted against it over the past thirty years. Within this he shows why limited government is to be preferred over the modern interventionist welfare state.
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University of Chicago Press Biopower Foucault and Beyond
Book SynopsisMichel Foucault's notion of biopower has been a highly fertile concept in recent theory, influencing thinkers worldwide across a variety of disciplines and concerns. In The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Foucault famously employed the term to describe a power bent on generating forces, making them grow, and ordering them, rather than one dedicated to impeding them, making them submit, or destroying them. With this volume, Vernon W. Cisney and Nicolae Morar bring together leading contemporary scholars to explore the many theoretical possibilities that the concept of biopower has enabled while at the same time pinpointing their most important shared resonances. Situating biopower as a radical alternative to traditional conceptions of powerwhat Foucault called sovereign powerthe contributors examine a host of matters centered on life, the body, and the subject as a living citizen. Altogether, they pay testament to the lasting relevance of biopower in some of our most important contemporary debates on issues ranging from health care rights to immigration laws, HIV prevention discourse, genomics medicine, and many other topics.
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The University of Chicago Press Going Home Black Representatives Their
Book SynopsisIn Going Home Ricahrd F. Fenno explores what representation has meant, and means today, to black voters and to the politicians they have elected to office. These analyses will be important for anyone interested in the workings of congress or in black politics.
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The University of Chicago Press Pornography the Theory What Utilitarianism Did
Book SynopsisFerguson argues that the emergence of pornography as a literary phenomenon in Western culture can be tied to the development of utilitarian philosophy. He contends that considering the usefulness of something rather than its individual essence diverts our attention from individual identities.
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University of Chicago Press Political Philosophy 2 The System of
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The University of Chicago Press The Rhetoric of Platos Republic Democracy and
Book SynopsisPlato isn't exactly thought of as a champion of democracy, and perhaps even less as an important rhetorical theorist. In this book, James L. Kastely recasts Plato in just these lights, offering a vivid new reading of one of Plato's most important works: the Republic. At heart, Kastely demonstrates, the Republic is a democratic epic poem and pioneering work in rhetorical theory. Examining issues of justice, communication, persuasion, and audience, he uncovers a seedbed of theoretical ideas that resonate all the way up to our contemporary democratic practices. As Kastely shows, the Republic begins with two interrelated crises: one rhetorical, one philosophical. In the first, democracy is defended by a discourse of justice, but no one can take this discourse seriously because no one can see-in a world where the powerful dominate the weak-how justice is a value in itself. That value must be found philosophically, but philosophy, as Plato and Socrates understand it, can reach only the very
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The University of Chicago Press Nietzsches New Seas Explorations in Philosophy
Book SynopsisNietzsche's New Seas makes available for the first time in English a representative sample of the best recent Nietzsche scholarship from Germany, France, and the United States. Michael Allen Gillespie and Tracy B. Strong have brought together scholars from a variety of disciplinesphilosophy, history, literary criticism, and musicologyand from schools of thought that differ both methodologically and ideologically. The contributorsKarsten Harries, Robert Pippin, Eugen Fink, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Kurt Paul Janz, Sarah Kofman, Jean-Michel Rey, and the editors themselvestake a new approach to Nietzsche, one that begins with the claim that his enigmatic utterances can best be understood by examining the style or structure of his thought.
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The University of Chicago Press Science Money and Politics
Book SynopsisEach year Congress appropriates billions of dollars for scientific research. Reporter Daniel S. Greenberg reveals here who gets the money and why. The revelations show an overlooked world of false claims where science, money and politics all manipulate each other.
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The University of Chicago Press The Mosaic Constitution
Book SynopsisIt is a common belief that scripture has no place in modern, secular politics. The author challenges this notion, arguing that Moses' constitution of Israel, which created people bound by the rule of law, was central to early modern writings about government and state.Trade Review"The Mosaic Constitution is an extraordinary work of scholarship - remarkable in its depth and range, remarkable in its implications for the field. The scale and texture of the historical scholarship show the kind of period fluency and scholarly gravitas that will place Graham Hammill squarely in the ranks of the most accomplished of contemporary analysts of the early modern era." (Christopher Pye, Williams College)"
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University of Chicago Press Development Crisis of the Welfare State Parties
Book SynopsisThis text offers a systematic examination of the origins, character, effects and prospects of generous welfare states in advanced industrial democracies in the post-World War II era. The authors demonstrate that prolonged government by different parties results in different welfare states.
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University of Chicago Press Reconceiving DecisionMaking in Democratic
Book SynopsisWhy are there often sudden abrupt changes in public opinion on political issues? Or total reversals in congressional support for specific legislation? Jones aims to answer these questions by connecting insights from cognitive science and rational-choice theory to political life.Table of ContentsList of Figures Preface Introduction: A Nonmarginalist Approach for Political Science Pt. 1: The Paradox of Temporal Political Choice 1: Attention and Agendas in Politics 2: Rationality in Political Choice 3: Attention and Temporal Choice in Politics 4: A Change of Mind or a Change of Focus? 5: Raising and Focusing Attention in the Mass Public Pt. 2: The Paradox of Issue Evolution 6: Macropolitics: Is Political Conflict Recurrent? 7: Policy Subsystems and the Processing of Issues 8: The Serial Policy Shift 9: Governments as Adaptive Systems 10: Political Choice and Democratic Governance Appendix: Spatial Choice Theory and Attentional Dynamics Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press The Socially Responsive Self Social Theory
Book SynopsisThe author argues in this text that a person's integrity and moral responsibility are shaped and limited not just by conscience, but also by socialization and moral support from the communities to which he or she belongs.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction 1: Integrity, Self, and Value Plurality 2: Solidarity and Moral Support 3: Collective Consciousness and Moral Authority 4: Socialization and Institutional Evil 5: Social Responsibility 6: Professional Integrity 7: Conflict of Interest 8: Legal Advocacy 9: Challenging Medical Authority 10: Scientific Whistle-Blowing and Professional Solidarity Bibliography Index
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University of Chicago Press Not by Reason Alone Religion History Identity
Book SynopsisInterweaving political, religious, and historical themes this book reinterprets early modern thought. Mitchell argues that the thought of Luther, Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau is an attempt to locate politics within an authoritative history that cannot be grasped by reason alone.
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The University of Chicago Press Rabbinic Political Theory Paper Religion and
Book SynopsisIn The Economics of the Mishnah Jacob Neusner showed how economics functioned as an active and generative ingredient in the system of the Mishnah. With this new study, Rabbinic Political Theory, he moves from the economics to the politics of the Mishnah, placing that politics in the broader context of ancient political theory. Neusner begins his study with a modification of Weber's categories for a theory of politics: myth, institutions, administration, passion, responsibility, and proportion. Detailing the Mishnah's conception of politics, Neusner considers what he calls the stable and static structure and system through comparison with Aristotle. Although Aristotle's Politics and the Mishnah share a common economic theory based on the fundamental unit of the householder, they diverge in their conceptions of political structure and order. Aristotle embeds economics within political economy, while, Neusner argues, the Mishnah presents the anomaly of an economics separated from politics
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The University of Chicago Press On the Spirit of Rights The Life of Ideas
Book SynopsisBy the end of the eighteenth century, politicians in America and France were invoking the natural rights of man to wrest sovereignty away from kings and lay down universal basic entitlements. Exactly how and when did rights come to justify such measures? InOn the Spirit of Rights, Dan Edelstein answers this question by examining the complex genealogy of the rights that regimes enshrined in the American and French Revolutions. With a lively attention to detail, he surveys a sprawling series of debates among rulers, jurists, philosophers, political reformers, writers, and others who were all engaged in laying the groundwork for our contemporary systems of constitutional governance. Every seemingly new claim about rights turns out to be a variation on a theme, as late medieval notions were subtly repeated and refined to yield the talk of rights we recognize today. From the Wars of Religion to the French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen to the 1948 Universal Declaration
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The University of Chicago Press Who Deliberates Mass Media in Modern Democracy
Book SynopsisIn three case studies of media coverage in the 1990s, this book explores the role of the press in structuring political discussion. In the conclusion, Page identifies the conditions under which media outlets actively shape and limit the ideas and information available to the public.Table of ContentsPreface 1: Public Deliberation and Democracy 2: The New York Times Goes to War with Iraq 3: Assigning Blame for the Los Angeles Riots 4: Zoe Baird, Nannies, and Talk Radio Jason Tannenbaum, Benjamin I. Page. 5: Conclusion: Successes and Failures of Mediated Deliberation References Index
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University of Chicago Press Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of
Book SynopsisThe question of responsibility plays a critical role not only in our attempts to resolve social and political problems, but in our very conceptions of what those problems are. Who, for example, is to blame for apartheid in South Africa? Is the South African government responsible? What about multinational corporations that do business there? Will uncovering the true facts of the matter lead us to the right answer? In an argument both compelling and provocative, Marion Smiley demonstrates how attributions of blame--far from being based on an objective process of factual discovery--are instead judgments that we ourselves make on the basis of our own political and social points of view. She argues that our conception of responsibility is a singularly modern one that locates the source of blameworthiness in an individual's free will. After exploring the flaws inherent in this conception, she shows how our judgments of blame evolve out of our configuration of social roles, our conception of communal boundaries, and the distribution of power upon which both are based. The great strength of Smiley's study lies in the way in which it brings together both rigorous philosophical analysis and an appreciation of the dynamics of social and political practice. By developing a pragmatic conception of moral responsibility, this work illustrates both how moral philosophy can enhance our understanding of social and political practices and why reflection on these practices is necessary to the reconstruction of our moral concepts.
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The University of Chicago Press American Business Political Power Public
Book SynopsisMost people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this work, the author sets conventional wisdom on its head. He states that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing.
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The University of Chicago Press The Concept of Political Judgment
Book SynopsisIs political judgement a science subject to strict standards of logic and inference, or is it an art, the product of intuition and feeling? This book shows how the seemingly contradictory claims of inference and intuition are reconciled in the concept of political judgement.
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University of Chicago Press Essays on Liberalism and the Economy Volume 18
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The University of Chicago Press Marginalized in the Middle Paper
Book SynopsisAddressing such volatile social issues as gender, pornography, race, welfare, immigration and schooling, this book examines the ills of American society in the 1990s. It concludes that social criticism is connected to a broad understanding of liberalism.
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The University of Chicago Press Faith in Action Religion Race and Democratic
Book SynopsisRichard L. Wood spent several years working with two local groups in Oakland, California, one faith-based, the other race-based. Comparing their activist techniques and acheivements, Wood argues that their alternative cultures offer a more democratic future for all Americans.Trade Review"Faith in Action is a timely and intelligent work - a penetrating look at the efficacy of faith-based community activism. Wood's creative new study will appeal to sociologists of culture, politics, and religion and to anyone interested in how social movements work and continue to prosper." - Christian Smith, author of American Evangelicalism
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The University of Chicago Press Leo Strausss Defense of the Philosophic Life
Book SynopsisLeo Strauss' What Is Political Philosophy? addresses almost every major theme in his life's work and is often viewed as a defense of his overall philosophic approach. Written by scholars well-known for their expertise on Strauss' thought, this book includes essays that apply to Strauss the same meticulous approach he developed in reading others.Trade Review"What is Political Philosophy? is Strauss's most comprehensive, and arguably most introductory, work. But the fact that each chapter focuses on key themes more fully elaborated elsewhere creates the need for a systematic supplementary text. With this collection of essays, the reader is afforded helpful guidance to the way each of the chapters relates to, illuminates, and is illuminated by other major treatments of the same themes by Strauss. The book will attract a broad readership among the many who are involved in or attentive to the ongoing debate over Strauss's controversial thought." (Thomas L. Pangle, University of Texas at Austin)"
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The University of Chicago Press Liberalism without Illusions
Book SynopsisBefore her death in 1992, Judith Shklar was recognized as an outstanding political theorist and a major figure in the reinvigoration of liberal theory since the 1970s. This collection of essays explores Shklar's intellectual legacy, focusing on both her own ideas and the areas she explored.Table of ContentsPreface Liberalism without Illusions: An Introduction to Judith Shklars' Political Thought Bernard Yack 1: On Negative Politics Michael Walzer 2: The Democracy of Everyday Life Nancy L. Rosenblum 3: Hope over Fear: Judith Shklar as Political Educator John Dunn 4: Judith Shklar's Dystopic Liberalism Seyla Benhabib 5: How Limited Is Liberal Government? Amy Gutmann 6: Judith Shklar as a Political Thinker Stanley Hoffmann 7: Ordinary Passions in Descartes and Racine Stephen Holmes 8: The Self Knowing the Self in the Work of Jean-Jacques Rousseau Tracy B. Strong 9: Shklar on Rousseau on Fenelon Patrick Riley 10: Liberalism, Marxism, and the Enlightenment: The Case of Harold Laski Isaac Kramnick 11: Thomas Hobbe's Antiliberal Theory of Liberty Quentin Skinner 12: Hypocrisy and Democracy Dennis F. Thompson 13: Active and Passive Justice Bernard Yack 14: The Political Case for Constitutional Courts Bruce Ackerman 15: The Freedom of Worthless and Harmful Speech George Kateb 16: The Unfinished Tasks of Liberalism Rogers M. Smith Appendix: A Life of Learning Judith N. Shklar Works by Judith N. Shklar Contributors Index
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The University of Chicago Press The Dynamics of Deterrence
Book SynopsisThe value of a theory of deterrence lies in its ability to reconstruct and predict strategic behavior accurately and consistently. Contemporary scholarship on deterrence has drawn upon decision models and classical game theory, with some success, to explain how deterrence works. But the field is marked by unconnected and sometimes contradictory hypotheses that may explain one type of situation while being inapplicable to another. The Dynamics of Deterrence is the first comprehensive treatment of deterrence theory since the mid-1960s. Frank C. Zagare introduces a new theoretical framework for deterrence that is rigorous, consistent, and illuminating. By placing the deterrence relationship in a theory of moves framework, Zagare is able to remedy the defects of other models. His approach is illustrated by and applied to a number of complex deterrence situations: the Berlin crisis of 1948, the Middle East crises of 1967 and 1973, and The Falkland/Malvinas crisis of 1980. He also examines t
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The University of Chicago Press Why the American Century
Book SynopsisExploring the struggles of the American elites as they tried to maintain a democratic, modern mass society, this text reveals the limits of a system ultimately benefiting an abstract average consumer. It exposes the internal contradictions that would undermine Americans' belief in their ideology.Table of ContentsPreface: "The New Colossus" Pt. 1: Making the Century American Ch. 1: Producers, Brokers, and Users of Knowledge Ch. 2: Defining Tools of Social Intelligence Ch. 3: Inventing the Average American Pt. 2: The Social Contract of the Market Ch. 4: Turning out Consumers Ch. 5: Deradicalizing Class Pt. 3: Embattled Identities Ch. 6: From Voluntarism to Pluralism Ch. 7: Enlarging the Polity Pt. 4: Exporting American Principles Ch. 8: Individualism and Modernization Ch. 9: The Power of Uncertainty Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC The Legitimation of Power 10 Political Analysis
Book SynopsisDavid Beetham is Emeritus Professor of Politics, University of Leeds, UK.Trade Review'By far the best account of legitimacy available. This is a welcome new edition of the book that displaced the work of Max Weber to become the definitive treatment of a concept that stands at the centre of social life and politics everywhere.' - Bruce Gilley, Portland State University, USA 'No better analysis exists of the factors that combine to render power being seen as rightful. David Beetham, uniting the skills of social scientist and political philosopher, brings unusual clarity and depth to this ancient question. He has updated the examination of how different political systems answer it and, in two stimulating new chapters, further sharpens the analysis and applies it beyond and below the level of the state.' - Steven Lukes, New York University, USATable of ContentsPreface to the 2nd edition Preface to the 1st edition Introduction PART I: THE CRITERIA FOR LEGITIMACY 1. Towards a Social-Scientific Concept of Legitimacy 2. Power and its need of Legitimation 3. The Intellectual Structure of Legitimacy 4. Social Science and the Social Construction of Legitimacy PART II: LEGITIMACY IN THE MODERN STATE 5. Dimensions of State Legitimacy 6. Crisis Tendencies of Political Systems 7. Modes of Non-Legitimate Power 8. Legitimacy in Political Science and Political Philosophy 9. The Legitimation of Power in the 21st Century PART III: LEGITIMACY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY 10. Legitimacy Within the State 11. Legitimacy Beyond the State.
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University of Illinois Press Obama Clinton Palin
Book SynopsisTaking the long view on a groundbreaking electionTrade Review"Time will tell whether the presidential campaign of 2008 constituted what political scientists call a critical election in US history, but there is no question that it changed the game for women and African Americans in politics. . . . Recommended."--Choice"These essays make a compelling case that the groundbreaking 2008 election was simply one chapter in a long and complicated history of race and gender politics in the United States."--The Journal of Southern History"This readable collection brings together a distinguished group of scholars to offer reflections that place the galvanizing candidacies of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin in historical perspective." --Eileen Boris, coeditor of Intimate Labors: Cultures, Technologies, and the Politics of Care"Gathering first-rate scholars, Gidlow's effort offers a raw perspective of a moment in time when the progressive efforts of generations erupted finally—and all at once—on the national stage."--The Journal of American History"These stimulating essays draw meaning from the 2008 campaigns of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, and Sarah Palin at a critical juncture in U.S. history--a topic worthy of serious reflection and tackled here from a variety of interesting angles."--Louise Newman, author of White Women's Rights: Racial Origins of Feminism in the United StatesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Taking the Long View of Election 2008 / Liette Gidlow Part I. Representations: Is Hillary Man Enough? Is Barack Black Enough? Is Michelle the New Jacqueline Kennedy? 1: Hillary Rodham Clinton, the Race Question, and the "Masculine Mystique" / Kathryn Kish Sklar; 2: Barack Obama and the Politics of Anger / Tiffany Patterson; 3: Michelle Obama, the Media Circus, and America's Racial Obsession / Mitch Kachun Part II. Historical Precedents, or How Election 2008 Began Before the Civil War 4: The 2008 Election, Black Women's Politics, and the Long Civil Rights Movement / Glenda Gilmore; 5: The Forgotten Legacy of Shirley Chisholm: Race v. Gender in the 2008 Democratic Primaries / Tera W. Hunter; 6: Hillary Clinton's Candidacy in Historical and Global Context / Susan Hartmann; 7: Defining a Maverick: Putting Palin in the Context of Western Women's Political History / Melanie Gustafson; 8: Populist Currents in the 2008 Presidential Campaign / Ronald Formisano Part III. Unintended Legacies: Democracy Undermined, Feminism Redefined 9: Obama 2.0: Farewell to the Federal Campaign Finance System and the Secret Ballot? / Paula Baker; 10: Political Feminism and the Problem of Sarah Palin / Catherine Rymph Conclusion: The Difference that "Difference" Makes / Elisabeth I. Perry Historical Timeline; Contributors
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MIT Press Ltd Cannabis Global Histories
Book SynopsisCannabis consumption, commerce, and control in global history, from the nineteenth century to the present day.This book gathers together authors from the new wave of cannabis histories that has emerged in recent decades. It offers case studies from Africa, Asia, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East. It does so to trace a global history of the plant and its preparations, arguing that Western colonialism shaped and disseminated ideas in the nineteenth century that came to drive the international control regimes of the twentieth. More recently, the emergence of commercial interests in cannabis has been central to the challenges that have undermined that cannabis consensus. Throughout, the determination of people around the world to consume substances made from the plant has defied efforts to stamp them out and often transformed the politics and cultures of using them. These texts also suggest that globalization might have a cannabis history. The migration of c
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MIT Press Ltd Undue Hate A Behavioral Economic Analysis of
Book SynopsisHow to understand the mistakes we make about those on the other side of the political spectrum—and how they drive the affective polarization that is tearing us apart.It’s well known that the political divide in the United States—particularly between Democrats and Republicans—has grown to alarming levels in recent decades. Affective polarization—emotional polarization, or the hostility between the parties—has reached an unprecedented fever pitch. In Undue Hate, Daniel F. Stone tackles the biases undergirding affective polarization head-on. Stone explains why we often develop objectively false, and overly negative, beliefs about the other side—causing us to dislike them more than we should.Approaching affective polarization through the lens of behavioral economics, Undue Hate is unique in its use of simple mathematical concepts and models to illustrate how we misjudge those we disagree with, for both po
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MIT Press Ltd You Know Youre Black in France When The Fact of
Book SynopsisA groundbreaking study about everyday antiblackness and its refusal in an officially raceblind France.What does it mean to be racialized-as-black in France on a daily basis? #You Know You’re Black in France When… responds to that question. Under the banner of universalism, France messages a powerful and seductive ideology of blindness to race that disappears blackened people and the antiblackness they experience. As Trica Keaton notes, in everyday life, France is anything but raceblind. In this interdisciplinary study, drawn from a range of critical scholarship including that of Philomena Essed and Frantz Fanon, Keaton illuminates how b/Black (racialized/politicized) French people distinctly expose and refuse what she calls “raceblind republicanism.” By officially turning a blind eye to the specificity of antiblackness, the French state in fact perpetuates it, she argues, along with structural racism. Through daily life, publi
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MIT Press Beyond Data Reclaiming Human Rights at the Dawn
Book SynopsisWhy laws focused on data cannot effectively protect people—and how an approach centered on human rights offers the best hope for preserving human dignity and autonomy in a cyberphysical world.Ever-pervasive technology poses a clear and present danger to human dignity and autonomy, as many have pointed out. And yet, for the past fifty years, we have been so busy protecting data that we have failed to protect people. In Beyond Data, Elizabeth Renieris argues that laws focused on data protection, data privacy, data security and data ownership have unintentionally failed to protect core human values, including privacy. And, as our collective obsession with data has grown, we have, to our peril, lost sight of what’s truly at stake in relation to technological development—our dignity and autonomy as people. Far from being inevitable, our fixation on data has been codified through decades of flawed policy. Renieris provides a comprehensive
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MIT Press Ltd Italian Operaismo Genealogy History Method
Book SynopsisAn accessible, introductory presentation of operaismo, one of the most important revolutionary theories and praxes of the twentieth century.“Operaismo is a Machiavellian return to first principles: it is a return to Marx against Marxism, against its tradition of determinism, historicism, and objectivism. Operaismo isn’t a heresy within the Marxist family, it is a rupture with that family.”—extract from Italian Operaismo This accessible, introductory presentation of operaismo (or “workerism” in English) arms readers with a deeper understanding of the concepts, context, and history of one of the most important revolutionary theories and praxes of the twentieth century. While the ideas of some of its proponents—above all, Antonio Negri—have circulated widely in the English-speaking world over the past twenty years, rather less is known about the context from which (and aga
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MIT Press Ltd CoCities Innovative Transitions Toward Just and
Book SynopsisA new model of urban governance, mapping the route to a more equitable management of a city’s infrastructure and services.The majority of the world’s inhabitants live in cities, but even with the vast wealth and resources these cities generate, their most vulnerable populations live without adequate or affordable housing, safe water, healthy food, and other essentials. And yet, cities also often harbor the solutions to the inequalities they create, as this book makes clear. With examples drawn from cities worldwide, Co-Cities outlines practices, laws, and policies that are presently fostering innovation in the provision of urban services, spurring collaborative economies as a driver of local sustainable development, and promoting inclusive and equitable regeneration of blighted urban areas. Identifying core elements of these diverse efforts, Sheila R. Foster and Christian Iaione develop a framework for understanding how certain initiatives posi
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MIT Press Ltd Democratizing Our Data
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MIT Press Ltd The Demonstration Society Infrastructures
Book SynopsisToday, as in the past, public demonstrations are not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but also fundamental forms of social interaction and exchange.YouTube demos of makeup products by famous influencers, demonstrations of strength during street protests, demonstrations of military might in North Korea: public demonstrations are omnipresent in social life. Yet they are often perceived as isolated events, unworthy of systematic examination. In The Demonstration Society, Claude Rosental explores the underlying dynamics of what he calls a “demonstration society.” He shows how, both in today’s world and historically, public demonstrations constitute not only tools to prove, persuade, and promote, but fundamental forms of interaction and exchange, and, in some cases, attempts to lead the world. Rosental compares demos with other forms of public demonstrations, drawing out both their peculiarities and common features. He analyzes t
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MIT Press Ltd From Big Oil to Big Green Holding the Oil
Book SynopsisHow Big Oil can transform itself into Big Green through reparation and decarbonization to rectify the harm it has done through fossil fuels. In From Big Oil to Big Green, Marco Grasso examines the responsibility of the oil and gas industry for the climate crisis and develops a moral framework that lays out its duties of reparation and decarbonization to allay the harm it has done. By framing climate change as a moral issue and outlining the industry’s obligation to tackle it, Grasso shows that Big Oil is a central, yet overlooked, agent of climate ethics and policy. Grasso argues that by indiscriminately flooding the global economy with fossil fuels—while convincing the public that halting climate change is a matter of consumer choice, that fossil fuels are synonymous with energy, and that a decarbonized world would take civilization back to the Stone Age—Big Oil is morally responsible for the climate crisis. He explai
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MIT Press Ltd Remaking the American Dream The Informal and
Book SynopsisThe redefinition of the single-family house, the urban landscape, and the American Dream.Sitting squarely at the center of the American Dream, the detached single-family home has long been the basic building block of most US cities. In Remaking the American Dream, Vinit Mukhija considers how this is changing, in both the American psyche and the urban landscape.In defiance of long-held norms and standards, single-family housing is slowly but significantly transforming through incremental additions of second and third units. Drawing on empirical evidence of informal and formal changes, Remaking the American Dream documents homeowners’ quiet unpermitted modifications, conversions, and workarounds, as well as gradual institutional alterations to once-rigid local land-use regulations. Mukhija’s primary case study is Los Angeles and the role played by the State of California—findings he contrasts with the experience of other cities inclu
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MIT Press Ltd War on All Fronts A Theory of Health Security
Book SynopsisAn argument for the centrality of rights in health security, and how to apply ethical principles to protecting those rights during public health crises.In recent years, efforts to respond to infectious diseases have been described in terms of national and global security, leading to the formation of the field of “health security.” In War on All Fronts, Nicholas G. Evans provides a novel theory of just health security and its relation to the practice of conventional public health. Using COVID-19 as a jumping-off point to examine wider issues, including how the US thinks about and prepares for pandemics, Evans shows the flaws in using the “war metaphor and how any serious understanding of health security must square with human rights—even when a disease poses a threat to national security. Evans asks what ethical principles justify declaring, and taking action during, a public health
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MIT Press Managing Meaning in Ukraine Information
Book SynopsisAn in-depth look at Ukraine’s attempts to shape how it is perceived by the rest of the world.During times of crisis, competing narratives are often advanced to define what is happening, and the stakes of information management by nations are high. In this timely book, Göran Bolin and Per Ståhlberg examine the fraught intersection of state politics, corporate business, and civil activism to understand the dynamics and importance of meaning management in Ukraine. Drawing on fieldwork inside the country, the authors discuss the forms, agents, and platforms within the complex political and communicative situation and how each articulated and acted upon perceptions of the propaganda threat.Bolin and Ståhlberg focus their analysis on the period between 2013 and 2022, when political tensions, commercial dynamics, and new communication technologies bred novel forms of information management. As they show, entities fro
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MIT Press Ltd The Parent Trap How to Stop Overloading Parents
Book SynopsisHow parents have been set up to fail, and why helping them succeed is the key to achieving a fair and prosperous society.Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, and its primary workers—parents—labor in isolation. If they ask for help, they are made to feel inadequate; there is no centralized organization to represent their interests; and there is virtually nothing spent on research and development to help them achieve their goals. It’s almost as if parents are set up to fail—and the result is lost opportunities that limit children’s success and make us all worse off. In The Parent Trap, Nate Hilger combines cutting-edge social science research, revealing historical case studies, and on-the-ground investigation to recast parenting as the hidden crucible of inequality. Parents are expected not only to care for
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Yale University Press American Religion American Politics An Anthology
Book SynopsisEssential primary sources reveal the central tensions between American politics and religion throughout the nation's historyTrade Review"Joseph Kip Kosek has rendered valuable service by bringing together these sources. A careful perusal of American Religion, American Politics may bring some clarity to matters that have never been more contested in our public conversation."—Randall Balmer, Dartmouth College "Joseph Kip Kosek’s intelligent, informative, and insightful assemblage of documents illuminates questions central to American history and intensely relevant at the present."—Mark A. Noll, co-editor of Religion and American Politics: From the Colonial Period to the Present "Kosek's collection breaks new ground in tying U.S. spiritual diversity to the swirl of American politics. From the 17th century to the 21st, the book captures the quest to infuse public life with religious energy while shielding it from religious control. Cogent introductions make these 34 documents ideal for classroom use."—Richard Wightman Fox, author of Lincoln's Body: A Cultural History
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Vintage Canada The Moral Lives of Israelis Reinventing the Dream
Book SynopsisThe Moral Lives of Israelis explores the last ten years of life in Israel, a sixty-one-year-old country that has never not been in a state of war. The last words given to David Berlin by his father, a Sabra who had fought for Israel's independence, were not words of love for his son and his grandchildren, but this command: Look after my little country. These words set off a huge voyage of exploration and remembrance for Berlin. The result is a thrilling blend of memoir, reportage and original thinking on the place of Israel in the world. The fundamental question that floats over every page of this passionate book is, with so many missteps and in a region deeply fraught with antagonism, racism and misunderstanding, how can Israel move forward? After many dead ends and twists and turns, it is the nineteenth-century visionary father of Zionism, Theodor Herzl, who ultimately sparks Berlin's dream for Israel in the twenty-first century--i
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Vintage Espanol La audacia de la esperanza Reflexiones sobre como
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Random House USA Inc Maximalist
Book SynopsisAmerican foreign policy since World War II has long been seen primarily as a story of strong and successful alliances, domestic consensus, and continuity from one adminstration to the next. Why then have so many presidents left office condemned for their foreign policy record?In his fresh and compelling history of America's rise to dominance, Stephen Sestanovich makes clear that U.S. diplomacy has always stirred controversy, both at home and abroad. He shows how successive adminstrations have struggled to find new solutions, alternating between bold maximalist strategies and retrenchment efforts to downsize America's role. Almost all our presidents emerge from this vivid retelling in a sharp and unexpected light.
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group The Embrace of Unreason
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Crown Lincoln in the World
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Book SynopsisPresident Bill Clinton gives us his views on the challenges facing the United States today and why government matters—presenting his ideas on restoring economic growth, job creation, financial responsibility, resolving the mortgage crisis, and pursuing a strategy to get us back in the future business.” He explains how we got into the current economic crisis, and offers specific recommendations on how we can put people back to work, increase bank lending and corporate investment, double our exports, restore our manufacturing base, and create new businesses. He supports President Obama’s emphasis on green technology, saying that changing the way we produce and consume energy is the strategy most likely to spark a fast-growing economy while enhancing our national security.Clinton also stresses that we need a strong private sector and a smart government working together to restore prosperity and progress, demonstrating that whenever we’ve given in to the tem
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