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Book SynopsisVoting as a Rite examines China's experiments with elections from the perspective of intellectual and cultural history. Rather than arguing that such exercises were either successful or failed attempts at political democracy, Hill instead asks: how did those who participated in Chinese elections define success or failure for themselves?Trade ReviewProvides a long-term view of political activity in that country from the 19th century to the present day in China and Taiwan. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisVoting as a Rite examines China's experiments with elections from the perspective of intellectual and cultural history. Rather than arguing that such exercises were either successful or failed attempts at political democracy, Hill instead asks: how did those who participated in Chinese elections define success or failure for themselves?Trade ReviewProvides a long-term view of political activity in that country from the 19th century to the present day in China and Taiwan. * Choice *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewLichtman’s important book emphasizes the founders’ great blunder: They failed to enshrine a right to vote in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights…The Embattled Vote in America traces the consequences through American history…[Lichtman] uses history to contextualize the fix we’re in today…Growing outrage, he thinks, could ignite demands for change. With luck, this fine history might just help to fan the flame. -- James A. Morone * New York Times Book Review *The great value of Lichtman’s book is the way it puts today’s right-wing voter suppression efforts in their historical setting. He identifies the current push as the third crackdown on African-American voting rights in our history. -- Michael Tomasky * New York Review of Books *A sweeping look at the history of voting rights in the U.S., focusing on the constant struggle to extend suffrage in this country. -- Sean Illing * Vox *An important and timely work…Provides a general audience with historical context to improve public understanding of current voting rights controversies…Anyone concerned about this pressing public policy issue will find this book to be a valuable resource. -- Rebecca J. Mead * Journal of American History *[A] sweeping history of the country’s ensuing struggles over voting rights…Provides ample historical and contemporary justifications for [his] policy prescriptions to ensure that American democracy remains credible and viable in the twenty-first century. -- Scott J. Spitzer * Journal of Southern History *A noted authority on the history of American voting returns with a disturbing account of American political leaders who have, since the beginning of the republic, worked to limit the franchise. Lichtman…marches us through the dark history of voter limitation, from the Founders to now, and the images he paints are not flattering. The Constitution itself is vague about voting rights…and as Lichtman escorts us through the decades, we see an ugly pattern: people in power doing everything they can to remain so… The author examines a wide variety of discrimination: by race, gender, place of origin (immigrants, as he reminds us, have rarely been welcome here). He spends a lot of time exploring the denial and suppression of the African-American vote, and he notes how such efforts have succeeded and how they continue to dampen voter turnout… The author also explores the issue of ‘voter fraud’ that many (who wish to limit voting rights) have long raised. As Lichtman reveals, repeated studies have found virtually no evidence of it… An alarming, important, perhaps even essential book. * Kirkus Reviews (starred review) *Extraordinary and timely, The Embattled Vote in America reveals the politics and history of the right to vote, or, more importantly, the lack of the right to vote. Lichtman’s courtroom involvement with voting rights and the breadth and depth of his analysis underscore the significance of the vote in our democracy. A remarkable and provocative book that is essential reading for all citizens. -- Orville Vernon Burton, author of The Age of LincolnMost compelling is the author’s extensive experience in voting rights cases over the last four decades, providing first-hand accounts of the ongoing battles to attain a voice in our democracy. His book is a call to arms and a must-read for any American interested in protecting our most fundamental right, the right to vote. -- J. Gerald Hebert, Senior Director of Voting Rights and Redistricting, Campaign Legal Center

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewBowman looks to tease out how religious groups in American history have defined, used, and even wielded the word Christian as a means of understanding themselves and pressing for their own idiosyncratic visions of genuine faith and healthy democracy…Make[s] for an interesting ride through some familiar and forgotten terrain in American religious history. -- Micah Watson * Christian Century *Wise and absorbing… In the last three hundred years [the term ‘Christian’ has] been used in every conceivable partisan way, as invitation and bludgeon, as warning and password. In deeply-researched chapters ranging across the whole of American history but concentrating on the last 100 years, Bowman takes readers through an impressively wide-ranging examination of the many roles Christianity has played in society… Bowman’s insights are clear and well-put. -- Steve Donoghue * Open Letters Review *A thought-provoking series of case studies that charts the long history of Christian political rhetoric in the United States… Most striking for our current political moment may be Bowman’s attention to the ways the politically powerful have used Christianity to claim a divine right to govern, derived—as they saw it—from the superiority of a racialized white Christian cultural heritage. Bowman, in this rigorous study, persuasively argues that Christianity has shaped a collective understanding of the national past and continues to lend spiritual weight to competing visions for America’s future. * Publishers Weekly (starred review) *Bowman…illustrate[s] some of the ways in which Americans have used the language of Christianity to justify wildly diverse social and political perspectives about concepts such as liberty, equality, and democracy…This fascinating book will appeal to readers interested in understanding the historical complexities of a ubiquitous word in American politics that is deceptively difficult to pin down. -- Brian Sullivan * Library Journal *Demonstrates with depth and clarity the ongoing struggle over the relationship between Christianity and politics…Well researched and thoroughly engaging, this volume is a masterful achievement that blends scholarship and readability. Without a doubt, historians of religion should incorporate Bowman’s work in their courses on American religious history. * Choice *Bowman is fast establishing a reputation as a significant commentator on the culture and politics of the United States. -- David Martin * Church Times *Bowman tells the rich and complex story of how the term ‘Christian’ moved rightward from the Civil War to the present, through a series of fascinating chapters that cover unusual and unexpected topics. Anyone who wants to know why ‘Christian nation’ has come to mean what it does today will want to read this expertly argued book. -- Paul Harvey, author of Christianity and Race in the American SouthA timely and important book. Matthew Bowman brilliantly recovers a now long-forgotten history, in which Americans debated the meaning of ‘Christian civilization’ and in which evangelicals and conservative politicians made the politics of Christianity their exclusive terrain. Christian is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand the trajectory of twentieth-century American culture and politics. -- John G. Turner, author of The Mormon JesusSpanning American history from Reconstruction to the present, Bowman's book shows that the word ‘Christian’ has persistently borne political and cultural meanings that far transcend theological beliefs and religious practices. Elegantly written, deeply researched, and persuasively argued, Christian sets a gold standard for serious scholarship about a topic that matters. -- Grant Wacker, author of America’s Pastor: Billy Graham and the Shaping of a NationBowman plunges us headlong into the political tensions behind American Christianity…Bowman illustrates through a series of anecdotes that Christianity has had changeable and politically convenient definitions from the end of the Civil War through the present day…A fascinating examination of the twists and turns in American Christianity, showing that the current state of political/religious alignment was not necessarily inevitable, nor even probable. -- Steven Evans * Deseret News *

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Book SynopsisA Third Way tells the story of Deng Xiaoping’s experimentation with export-led development inspired by Lenin’s New Economic Policy and the economic reforms of Eastern Europe and Asia. This book provides important new insights about the crucial period of the 1980s and how it paved the way for China’s transformation into a global economic superpower.Trade ReviewBuilt on decades of rigorous research, A Third Way provides a fine-grained, nuanced, step-by-step analysis on how China opened up to the world. It is an extremely important new addition to a recent body of literature on the beginning of China’s reform. …The author’s on-the-ground knowledge also enables him to accurately capture the social atmosphere in South China during a period of radical changes. …[A] highly informative read for political scientists, historians, and economists interested in modern China, post-socialist transformations, and international trade and investment. -- Taomo Zhou * China Review International *Reardon’s significant study is worthy of close reading by both economic specialists and the broader community of China scholars. -- Frederick C. Teiwes * China Journal *

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Book SynopsisDuring the Age of Revolution, the British Crown responded to crises in its colonies with a heavy hand. Lisa Ford shows how imperial peacekeeping methods, which blurred the line between the rule of law and the rule of the sword, transformed the imperial constitution and corroded colonial subjectivity.Trade ReviewFinely argued…untangles the corrupted and corrupting logic of colonial peacekeeping…Outstanding in virtually every respect. -- Maxwell Carter * Wall Street Journal *Richly researched and perceptively argued…provides a very convincing and much needed corrective to liberal narratives that have emphasized the acquisition of both personal liberty and colonial self-government in this era. -- Nancy Christie * American Historical Review *Delivers on its claim to demonstrate a rising autocracy across the empire. This top-down story provides the perspective of British authorities. Ford is a compelling writer and each of the chapters draws on a wide range of archival and published sources…Any book that raises this many questions is certainly a valuable addition to undergraduate and graduate syllabi and is sure to generate productive historiographical conversations. -- Dana Rabin * H-Net Reviews *Ford’s arguments are innovative, straightforward, and clear-cut, and her methodology comprehensive…Highly recommended for scholars and students interested in the history of British Empire, and more broadly, the functioning of the complicated system of colonialism. -- Haimo Li * Journal of British Studies *[The King’s Peace] has the potential to contribute to aspects of the increasingly fractious debates on the rights and wrongs of colonialism…[and] offers an opportunity to interrogate, through a look backwards, certain arguments on the perennial difficulties all governments face when balancing, on the one hand, the needs of security and public order, and, on the other, the personal liberty of those subject to their jurisdiction. -- Venkat Iyer * Round Table *The King’s Peace traces the British Empire’s increasingly authoritarian law and order from Boston before the American Revolution to Canada, Jamaica, India, and Australia during the first half of the nineteenth century. If making war was how Britain acquired its empire, keeping the peace, as Ford reminds us in this elegant and important book, was how the British justified their imperial persistence and rule. -- Eliga H. Gould, author of Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World EmpireExamining the heart of law—the king’s peace—Ford reveals its many moods during a period when Britain’s empire covered ever more peoples in ever more fraught circumstances. By telling us wonderful stories filled with fascinating characters, she has given us a major new global legal history of an era of rapid constitutional change. -- Paul D. Halliday, author of Habeas Corpus: From England to EmpireIn a wonderfully wide-ranging book, Ford argues that controversies over order and disorder not only preoccupied British officials, they also propelled reassertions of crown power, shifts to autocratic rule, legal divergences between center and periphery, and coercive peacekeeping across the empire. Powerfully argued and masterfully written, this book compels readers to grapple with the constitutional compromises made in the name of peace and good order. -- Hannah Weiss Muller, author of Subjects and Sovereign: Bonds of Belonging in the Eighteenth-Century British EmpireA persuasive and elegant study of law and governance in the British Empire from the mid-eighteenth to mid-nineteenth century. Ford examines the legal slippages which occurred as imperial officials across the empire wrestled with the challenges of suppressing crime and disorder and maintaining the social order. This book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in the British Empire, ‘war capitalism,’ and the nature of violence in imperial expansion. -- Aaron Graham, author of Corruption, Party, and Government in Britain, 1702–1713With global reach and local depth, this remarkable book fundamentally revises how we should understand the British Empire’s critical eighteenth-century transformations. In so doing, Ford makes a powerful argument for locating the violence that underpins modern state sovereignty not merely in its exceptions but its rule. -- Philip J. Stern, author of The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations of the British Empire in India

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Book SynopsisGovernments make too little use of the skills and experience of citizens. New tools—what Beth Simone Noveck calls technologies of expertise—are making it possible to match citizen expertise to the demand for it in government. She offers a vision of participatory democracy rooted not in voting or crowdsourcing but in people’s knowledge and know-how.Trade ReviewThe ultimate goal of Smart Citizens, Smarter State is not simply a more competent regulatory state, but a transformed relationship between government and the governed. To policymakers and bureaucrats, Noveck makes the case that soliciting citizen expertise can make governance more effective; to democratic theorists, Noveck argues that providing expertise is a genuine form of civic engagement… The strongest characteristic of Smart Citizens, Smarter State is its intellectually modest approach: It builds on existing programs, can be scaled up quickly or slowly, and is predicated on experimentation rather than centralized decision-making. That makes it a great reform agenda for those who have been burned by sweeping overhauls and grandiose promises before. -- Andrew Mayersohn * Boston Review *Richly informative, unafraid to address problem areas (transparency and elitism), [Noveck] offers an inspiring prospect of smarter cities in a smarter future. -- Jonathan Carr * The Guardian *I strongly recommend Smart Citizens, Smarter State to the new generation of scientists emerging at the interface of computing and public policy. Those with technology and ‘hard’ sciences backgrounds would hugely benefit from a comprehensive understanding of government and policy domains in order to set new research agendas with significant potential for wider impact. At the other end of the spectrum, those with politics and social science backgrounds would find it very helpful for understanding the current technologies of expertise and the new trends in public decision-making, offering great promise for transforming the ways that governments should operate under the ongoing data revolution. -- Zeynep Engin * LSE Review of Books *Smarter Citizens, Smarter State is a valuable contribution to a debate that will continue as technology plays an increasing role in almost every aspect our lives. -- J. P. O’Malley * New Internationalist *Noveck offers an optimistic but realistic approach that aims to offer a theoretical and practical road map of policy making, champions more than transparent government, and encourages readers to not perceive citizens as mere passive policy bystanders. In a society that facilitates collaboration and allows for political institutions that are open by default, this approach calls for a fundamental transformation of how government engages citizens in policy making. -- A. E. Wohlers * Choice *New peer-to-peer technology platforms have radically democratized how information spreads, how capital flows, and even how cabs get hailed in the twenty-first century. But our government itself remains a largely closed system, with relatively few opportunities for public engagement and collaboration. In this book, Beth Simone Noveck lays out a fresh and ambitious vision for a more democratized democracy, one in which our government takes full advantage of the Networked Age and the vast resources of its citizenry. Highly recommended! -- Reid Hoffman, cofounder/chairman of LinkedIn and coauthor of The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked AgeA ringing call to arms for anyone who believes that government is busted and citizens could do more than anyone else to fix it. Following in the footsteps of John Dewey, Noveck explores the fundamental changes needed to bring to bear the vast resource of citizen expertise and ability in a time of rising demands and dwindling resources. The book summons smart citizens everywhere to action, be they makers, hackers, data analysts, or everyday experts. It also challenges members of the existing elite, daring them to imagine a more populist—and smarter—future. -- Paul W. Glimcher, Julius Silver Professor of Neural Science, Psychology, and Economics and Director of the Institute for the Interdisciplinary Study of Decision-Making, New York UniversitySmart Citizens, Smarter State is a manifesto for a new way of governing. Digital technologies, Noveck argues, create abundant opportunities for governments to learn from their citizens and provide better services. Written with optimism and passion, this book brings the open source revolution to public administration. -- Jack M. Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law SchoolCrowd-sourcing works wonderfully in creating open-source software and online encyclopedias. Can it work in governance? Beth Noveck, who has spent years creating means of engaging citizens on the Internet, argues it can, if done wisely. This book—informed by experience, breathless energy, optimism, encyclopedic knowledge, and an extraordinary intellect—should be required reading for all who are interested in the question. -- Peter L. Strauss, Betts Professor of Law, Columbia Law SchoolThe endless debate that assumes ‘expertise’ and ‘democracy’ to be in conflict is here unpacked—and then carefully, intelligently reassembled from the perspective of new tools such as digital data and new ideas, including crowd-sourcing distributed expertise. The result? A false choice is demolished, replaced by a commonsense strategy that welcomes expertise without diminishing democracy’s robustness. -- Kenneth Prewitt, Columbia University

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Book SynopsisRoy demonstrates that the Islamic Fundamentalism of today is still the Third Worldism of the 1960s: populist politics and mixed economies of laissez-faire for the rich and subsidies for the poor. In Roy's formulation, those marching today beneath Islam's green banners are the same as the reds of yesterday, with similarly dim prospects of success.Trade ReviewIs theocracy really the future of the world’s one billion Muslims? Or should it be? …Never has the question been as brilliantly argued as in Olivier Roy’s L’echec de l’Islam politique, now available in a superb English translation as The Failure of Political Islam. His closely reasoned, original and unsentimental conclusion is that political Islam has already failed—that ‘Islamism’ has already atrophied into a sterile, hypocritical—and very Western—neofundamentalism… The Failure of Political Islam addresses the history, sociology, economy and ‘geostrategy’ of political Islam, with excellent case studies of Iran and Afghanistan… [A] daring exploration… This book is a corrective of stunning power. -- Peter Theroux * Boston Book Review *If you read only one book on political Islam, this should be it. Olivier Roy…has turned his attention to the phenomenon of Islamic radicalism with remarkable results. On practically every page one finds an interpretation or observation that is provocative and insightful. -- William B. Quandt * Foreign Affairs *The Failure of Political Islam acts as both a keystone and a launchpad to understanding the political ferment in the Arab world today. In the same way we learned that our perception of Communism as a monolithic force was in error, Olivier Roy exposes the political implications of diversity and weakness within Islam. -- Princeton Borough * The Times [UK] *A view of Islam as a religion of political extremism, containing the seeds of its own politicization in a manner inherently incompatible with much of the Western world, has gradually become well entrenched in Western policy circles… In this erudite and powerful book, Olivier Roy persuasively challenges such ahistoricism. Roy…uses his wide-ranging and detailed knowledge of the Muslim world to present a reading of contemporary Islamic movements that provides an important corrective to such gross simplifications. The argument is all the more pertinent at a time when well-known American political scientists see global politics reduced to a ‘clash of civilizations.’ …[This] is a forceful work—an eloquent contribution to an important current debate by a scholar with long experience in the world of political Islam. -- Leonardo A. Villalón * American Political Science Review *Olivier Roy’s examination of ‘political Islam’ has already had an important impact on the study of Islamism. His analysis is carefully defined and clearly presented… Roy’s conclusions are…sophisticated and nuanced. He argues that a particular type of Islamist program has failed and been replaced, not by a non-Islamic mode of thought, but by a different Islamic approach… This book is essential reading for all interested in the late 20th century evolution of movements of religious activism and revival… The issues that [Roy] raises—regarding the nature of Islamist movements and their relationships with modern institutions and concepts—must be dealt with. -- John O. Voll * Middle East Journal *Roy perceptively argues that the attempt to create a universal Islamist state is doomed to failure because of the conflicts between Sunni and Shia forms and other ethnic differences in the Islamic world. His is a keen, timely study; highly recommended. * Library Journal *

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Book SynopsisHow can decisionmakers tasked with protecting the environment and public health avoid false or misleading scientific research? Is it possible to give scientists more influence in regulatory processes without ceding too much control over policy? These are some of the questions Jasanoff asks in this study of how science advisers shape federal policy.Trade Review[A] provocative and original work...Jasanoff has pioneered the exploring of the workings of the gears and sprockets of the Fifth Branch. -- Daniel S. Greenberg * Nature *[A] first-rate study...[Jasanoff's] findings have important bearing on the general concern with the impact of expertise on democracy. -- Sanford Lakoff * Political Science Quarterly *The problems of science and politics continue. Jasanoff's work will surely enlighten the debate. -- Susan Bartlett Foote * Science *Jasanoff focuses down sharply on a set of solidly researched case-studies involving the Environmental Protection Agency and the Food and Drug Administration, and their handling of regulations concerning clean air, pesticides, and the safety of pharmaceuticals and food additives. But this apparent narrowness belies the theoretical significance of the book, which far transcends its empirical base in these examples and, for that matter, in the United States. -- Philip Gummett * Times Higher Education Supplement *Thorough and thoughtful. [The Fifth Branch] will remain the definitive work in its field for a considerable time to come. -- Roger Williams * Political Studies *Reading this well-written book would be excellent preparation for any scientist planning to participate in regulatory science in an agency or to serve on an advisory panel. And its insights into the workings of advisory committees could be useful to many others...no other book so thoroughly reviews the role science advisory groups have played. -- John F. Ahearne * Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists *Table of Contents1. Rationalizing Politics The Rise of Social Regulation Science and Policymaking Expertise and Trust The Contingency of Knowledge The Reform Debate An Alternative Approach 2. Flawed Decisions Nitrites 2,4,5-T Love Canal Estimates of Occupational Cancer The Technocratic Response A Critical Counterpoint 3. Science for the People The Rationale for Public Science The "New" Expert Agency Scientific Advice and Open Government Judicial Review of Science Policy The Weakening of the Paradigm 4. Peer Review and Regulatory Science The Traditions of Peer Review Peer Review in Practice Instructive Failures Regulatory Science: Content and Context Implications for Regulatory Peer Review 5. EPA and the Science Advisory Board Early Political Challenges A New Cooperation Boundary Exercises SAB's Impact on Policy Conclusion 6. The Science and Policy of Clean Air CASAC and the NAAQS Process Science and Standards Redefining CASAC's Role The Carbon Monoxide Controversy CASAC's Effectiveness: Bridging Science and Policy 7. Advisers as Adversaries The Scientific Advisory Panel Implementing the Impossible Ethylene Dibromide Dicofol Alar A Fragmentation of Authority 8. FDA's Advisory Network The Scientific Evaluation of Drugs Expertise and Food Safety Advice and Decision 9. Coping with New Knowledge The Quest for Principled Risk Assessment Formaldehyde: An Uncertain Carcinogen Conclusion 10. Technocracy Revisited A Public-Private Partnership for Science Risk Assessment without Politics The Public Board of Inquiry Wider Applications 11. The Political Function of Good Science From Advice to Policy Acceptable Risk Scientific Advice as Legitimation: Negotiation and Boundary Work Defining "Good Science" Normative Implications Conclusion Notes Index

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Book SynopsisMany legal theorists maintain that laws are effective because we internalize them, obeying even when not compelled to do so. In a comprehensive reassessment of the role of force in law, Frederick Schauer disagrees, demonstrating that coercion, more than internalized thinking and behaving, distinguishes law from society’s other rules.Trade ReviewModern jurisprudence has been devoted to a search for law’s necessary and sufficient conditions and has downgraded the importance of coercion, which is neither. However, Fred Schauer makes a convincing case for coercion’s importance in understanding law and legal phenomena. His treatment of the topic is erudite, comprehensive, rigorous, and even witty, and it is delivered in a superb writing style. -- Lawrence A. Alexander, University of San Diego School of LawThe Force of Law has the virtues of all of Schauer’s work: clear and accessible writing, the grounding of persuasive arguments on good examples and a wide range of scholarship, and fair consideration of opposing views. It is an important contribution to jurisprudential debates about the nature of law and about the proper approach to theorizing in this area. -- Brian H. Bix, University of Minnesota Law SchoolDrawing upon language, moral, sociological, and economic theory, Schauer explores what makes legal norms unique and why and under what conditions individuals truly obey the law. He asserts that although coercion may not be the only reason people obey the law, often getting individuals to act in ways they would not normally act requires some type of force. This force need not necessarily be negative coercion as normally conceived but can involve an array of sanctions to condition behavior in specific ways. -- D. Schultz * Choice *

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Book SynopsisThe History of Akbar, by Abu’l-Fazl, is one of the most important works of Indo-Persian history and a touchstone of prose artistry. It is at once a biography of the Mughal emperor Akbar that includes descriptions of his political and martial feats and cultural achievements, and a chronicle of sixteenth-century India.Trade ReviewOf all the great monarchs to have ruled over India—a land whose history is richer and more turbulent than that of almost any other—the one who most retains our modern-day attention is Akbar, Mughal emperor from 1556 to 1605…[The History of Akbar] includes accounts of his court and his governance, as well as of the wars, alliances and intrigues of his time…Thackston’s translation is the first complete rendition into English of Abu’l-Fazl’s Persian text since Henry Beveridge, a British orientalist and imperial civil servant, completed his version in 1921…Thackston’s English is modern and…[his] translation…is impressively meticulous. -- Tunku Varadarajan * Wall Street Journal *At a time when Hindutva historians are eager to distort the history of Muslim invasions in order to deepen religious cleavages and consolidate vote banks, [Abu’l-Fazl's] elaboration of Akbar’s legacy as a tolerant Muslim ruler of a non-Muslim majority is an important reminder of how Indian society has evolved. -- Pragya Tiwari * India at LSE blog *The [Murty Classical Library of India] aims to make Indian literature accessible to a wide audience, so that ever larger circles of individuals can discover the history, philosophy, and drama of India. As the volume of this library that I read, The History of Akbar (Volume 1) proved, the Murty Library has succeeded in its goal of sharing valuable knowledge and providing interesting insights on India…This particular volume provides valuable insight into both the history and historiography of the Mughals. -- Akhilesh Pillalamarri * The Diplomat *We can only welcome an undertaking like the Murty Classical Library of India, which intends to inject fresh blood directly into the circulatory system of the English language. Any intelligent reader cannot fail to be favorably impressed in the presence of the variegated offerings of the series’ first titles…The Murty Classical Library offers a surprising array of texts that are in any case capable of broadening the all-too-restricted horizons of the average Western reader. -- Roberto Calasso * New York Review of Books *

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Book SynopsisPopulismprogressive or retrogressive force? Posing this question, Norman Pollack draws on Populist manuscripts and newspapers, the best evidence for the movement's response to industrialism. In the words of farmers and workers, Populism springs to life, ceasing to be an abstraction. The author concludes that the movement, while primarily agrarian, had significant intellectual and labor support; accepting industrialization, it opposed capitalistic industrialism as alienating and degrading the individual. In this intellectual historybased on data most of which has been ignoredthe author takes a first step toward a more comprehensive analysis of industrial America.

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Book SynopsisAge of Entanglement explores the connections that linked German and Indian intellectuals from the nineteenth century through the Second World War as they shared ideas, formed networks, and studied one another’s worlds. But, as Kris Manjapra shows, transnational intellectual entanglements are not inherently liberal or conventionally cosmopolitan.Trade ReviewAge of Entanglement is a superb and enriching work of intellectual history, presenting larger contexts, perceptions and connections to the understanding of European Germany and colonial‐nationalist India. -- B. Surendra Rao * The Hindu *Age of Entanglement is a brilliantly original story of the revolt of Indian and German intellectuals against the old world of the Pax Britannica. It is much more than a study of South Asian and European history. It is a landmark work in the emerging field of global intellectual history—a remarkable achievement. -- David Motadel * Literary Review *This magnificent history of intellectual exchange between India and Germany is valuable for many reasons. It redresses an odd imbalance in thinking about the influences that shaped Indian intellectual life and institutions in the early 20th century. As Manjapra demonstrates, German intellectual life was not only a major source of influence across almost all the disciplines in modern India; it also provided a different context for Indian and European dialogue outside the context of Empire… This deeply researched, well written, erudite book is rich in the kind of telling detail that far transcends the interest of the central argument… Its treatment of individual texts and thinkers is always pithy and precise; its eye for institutional detail sets it apart from conventional intellectual histories. It is an impressive achievement that once again reminds you of the complexities that go into the making of intellectual cultures. It is an important book in the rediscovery of the history of modern Indian intellectual life. -- Pratap Bhanu Mehta * Indian Express *Manjapra very carefully and expertly opens a window into two past struggles against hegemony, in Germany and India, struggles that were geographically separated but intellectually attached… [An] excellent work… The book should strongly appeal to a wide range of academic and nonacademic readers, and may be of particular interest to those studying world history, geopolitics, post-colonialism and development. -- Ankit Kumar * LSE Review of Books *A superb piece of global intellectual history that moves well beyond the boundaries of Europe and the British Empire. Manjapra shows that the imagination of German thinkers was never confined to Europe, and that Indian intellectuals were possessed of a global vision that transcended imperial boundaries. Age of Entanglement paves the way for a new kind of history of ideas. -- Sunil Amrith, author of Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of MigrantsA bold and fascinating work. Manjapra moves decidedly and elegantly beyond conventional frameworks by writing a truly global history of intellectual exchange between Germany and India. Age of Entanglement is an ambitious and convincing account of the ways in which both sides were linked to—and enabled and constrained by—the structures and politics of empire. -- Sebastian Conrad, author of German Colonialism: A Short History

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Book SynopsisThe faith in science as an ally of political and economic progress, which Franklin and Jefferson made so firm a part of the American tradition, has been undermined by the very success of the scientific revolution. Has science become so powerful that it cannot be controlled by democratic processes? Is the scientific community acquiring a privileged role in government something like that of the ecclesiastical estate in the medieval world?Writing from first-hand experience in government administration and his service on three presidential advisory panels, as well as from extensive research, Don K. Price describes how science and technology have weakened the independence of private corporations and broken down some of the checks and balances on which we have relied for the protection of freedom. In this connection he recounts the recent attempts to set up a national program of oceanographic research, showing that the more advanced the scientific and technological programs are, the more difTrade ReviewAlways stimulating and never dull, this perceptive book by a distinguished social scientist gives hope that the ‘Two Cultures’ of C.P. Snow can interact for mutual benefit and not collide with mutual harm. It may well be the most important book in this area written to date. -- Harry Schwartz * The New York Times *This book represents a crucial bench mark. It will serve as a starting basis for future scholarship in an area important to all citizens. -- Philip H. Abelson * The Washington Post *Something of a triumph of subtlety and aspiration… This is a book about science that a humanist might be able to read; the only adequate word for it is ‘sophisticated.’ -- Eric Larrabee * Commentary *The Scientific Estate is a book that is hard to praise highly enough; indeed I can think of no book in the general field of government that deserves to rank with it in all the copious literature of the last decade and more. -- Max Beloff * The Listener *Don K. Price has written a superb statement of contemporary political philosophy… This book is filed with acute observation and some new, purely intellectual, insights that a reader will wish he had seen first. If books, rather than print-outs, are still read in future colleges, this one should stay on the list for political philosophy for a long time. It deals with fundamental questions of power and freedom and the uses of knowledge for human welfare. -- James L. McCamy * American Political Science Review *[To the understanding of] the broad subject of science and public policy, Don K. Price’s book has made a major contribution. It may not be too soon to predict that The Scientific Estate will become a classic. -- Brewster C. Denny * Public Administration Review *Table of ContentsEscape to the Endless Frontier The Fusion of Economic and Political Power The Diffusion of Sovereignty The Established Dissenters The Spectrum from Truth to Power Constitutional Relativity Professionals and Politicians Science and Freedom Notes Index

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Book SynopsisDuring the reign of Emperor Ch'ien-lung, mass hysteria broke out among the common people, who feared that sorcerers were roaming the land and clipping the ends of men's braids in order to steal their souls. In his chronicle of this epidemic of fear and the official prosecutions that ensued, Kuhn opens a window on eighteenth-century China.Trade ReviewA masterful study by one of the West’s premier Chinese historians. -- Frederic Wakeman, Jr. * New York Review of Books *Kuhn’s fascinating particulars demonstrate how in any society provincial panic can become a national witch-hunt. * New Yorker *A subtle, powerful, and still relevant inquiry into the dynamics of autocratic rule. -- From the Joseph Levenson Book Prize citationTable of Contents* Introduction * A Time of Turmoil * Model Rulers * Reforming into Collapse * The Song in the South * Three Doctrines * Education and Examination * Life Cycle Rituals * Exploring the World Within and Without * Transforming the Capitals * A Changing World of Production * Money and Taxes * Private Lives in the Public Sphere * Conclusion * Dynastic Rulers * Measures * Pronunciation Guide * Notes * Bibliography * Acknowledgments * Index

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Book SynopsisVogel challenges conventional wisdom that trade liberalization and agreements promoting free trade undermine national health, safety, and environmental standards. He analyzes international and regional trade agreements and treaties, unraveling the important and contentious relationship between trade and environmental, health, and safety standards.Trade ReviewThis interesting book systematically examines the original European Community, the Single European Act, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and its 1979 standards code, the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Area, and the more recent North American Free Trade Agreement...Vogel finds that, while counterexamples do exist, trade liberalization on balance has strongly reinforced environment-improving regulations. -- Richard N. Cooper * Foreign Affairs *Trading Up tackles the increasingly prominent and controversial relationship between trade and regulatory/environmental policies...[It] is well written, with a wealth of sometimes off-beat detail, and will repay reading. * Journal of Environmental Law *This book is a pioneering contribution to the growing literature on the relationship between trade policy and protective regulation...[It] is a required reading not only for students and practitioners of international trade but all those involved in the making of environmental and regulatory standards. -- P. V. Mutalik-Desai * International Journal of Development Banking *Trading Up is not the only book on trade and environment...But it is the one of the most probable interest to most political scientists. It opens the way to many research inquiries on the outcomes of the various linkages and of their possible global extension...The outcomes of these linkages and their successes or failures may provide many dissertations, articles, and books in coming decades. -- Lynton K. Caldwell * American Political Science Review *When I teach international economics, students invariably ask me how to distinguish a protectionist barrier to trade from a legitimate health rule. This book provides a rich collection of cases to show how international trade agreements and their dispute settlement procedures have answered this question. The book centers around the question of how increased economic integration affects consumer safety...The results of the theoretical models are supplemented through rigorous empirical studies. The endnotes of each chapter provide crucial information to readers. The study is comprehensive and well-documented with an exhaustive list of references. The author provides a European perspective on the [Federal Reserve's] exchange rate policies in comparison to those of the Bundesbank's...This book is well-written, interesting and informative, and particularly good at describing how trade and regulatory disputes have been resolved. Teachers of international, environmental, or consumer economics should note that this book is written in an easily-accessible style, and is suitable for students. -- Shannon K. Mitchell * Southern Economic Journal *The book's coverage is broad. It treats efforts to promote free trade within Europe and throughout the world. It examines consumer issues, environmental issues, and the many issues that fall in between. It encompasses legal, economic, and political disputes. Few authors could have mastered all these topics, but fortunately Vogel is up to the task...The basic message of Trading Up cannot be ignored by students of the consumer movement...Vogel convinces us that, for the foreseeable future, it will be impossible to study the consumer or environmental movements without simultaneously considering trade policy. -- Robert N. Mayer * Journal of Consumer Affairs *Table of ContentsNational Regulation in the Global Economy Protectionism versus Consumer Protection in Europe Environmental Regulation and the Single European Market Greening the GATT Food Safety and International Trade Baptists and Bootleggers in the United States Reducing Trade Barriers in North America The California Effect Notes Abbreviations Index

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Book SynopsisFirst Amendment defenders greeted the Court's Citizens United ruling with enthusiasm, while electoral reformers recoiled in disbelief. Post offers a constitutional theory that seeks to reconcile these sharply divided camps, and he explains how the case might have been decided in a way that would preserve free speech and electoral integrity.Trade ReviewDemocracy is not just a structure of elections and political institutions, but a mysterious and historically fluid set of ideas about the relationship between citizens and those who govern. With his characteristically subtle understanding of our cultural history, Robert Post shows how changing ideas of self-government illuminate one of the great political and legal controversies of our time. -- Richard H. Pildes, New York UniversityRobert Post offers a powerful critique of the Citizens United decision, and an original and compelling new perspective on how the Supreme Court should analyze campaign finance laws in light of the First Amendment’s commitment to electoral integrity. -- Geoffrey R. Stone, University of Chicago

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Book SynopsisInto Sur’s Ocean picks up many threads from Sur’s Ocean, a volume in the Murty Classical Library of India, translated by John Stratton Hawley. In this book, Hawley provides a substantial introduction to Surdas, the great sixteenth century Hindi poet; an overview of editions; an analysis of the translation; and commentary on 433 poems.

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Book SynopsisBecause science has shown that racial essentialism is false, and because the idea of race has proved virulent, many people believe we should eliminate the word and concept entirely. Michael Hardimon criticizes this thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance.Trade ReviewRethinking Race is a valuable contribution to debates over race in philosophy. It defends a pluralism about the term ‘race’ and develops a detailed account of the minimalist concept of race. The discussion of various biological accounts of race synthesizes and explains a broad range of views, providing an insightful tour through the many options. A real virtue of the book is that it is ecumenical in the best sense: it is not dogmatically wedded to a strict constructionist or anti-constructionist position, but explores each view thoughtfully, identifying what is plausible and useful. Anyone working on the concept of race will benefit tremendously from reading Hardimon's book. -- Sally Haslanger, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyHardimon makes the case for a deflationary concept of race and the existence of minimalist races. His arguments are precise and compelling. Rethinking Race will be required reading for anyone interested in the metaphysical questions of race. -- Jonathan Kaplan, Oregon State UniversityFor two decades, Michael Hardimon has been thinking hard about concepts of race, articulating parts of a new and illuminating approach to the vexed questions that surround them. This book provides a systematic account of his views. In philosophical work on race, it is unrivaled in the breadth of its vision and in the depth of its probing analyses. Anyone concerned to think clearly about race should read it. -- Philip Kitcher, Columbia UniversityThis study will be appreciated by those working in race theory, social theory, philosophical anthropology, cultural studies, and population studies. -- M. W. Westmoreland * Choice *

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Book SynopsisJonathan Lusthaus lifts the veil on cybercriminals in the most extensive account yet of the lives they lead and the vast international industry they have created. Having traveled to hotspots around the world to meet with hundreds of law enforcement agents, security gurus, hackers, and criminals, he charts how this industry based on anonymity works.Trade ReviewIndustry of Anonymity is an accessible and important work on the organization of cybercrime. No other study provides the depth, breadth, and rigor on this difficult-to-reach community. -- David Skarbek, Brown UniversityWith convincing and compelling arguments, impressive empirical work, balanced explanations, and effective writing, Industry of Anonymity is a remarkable contribution to the literature on cybercrime. Criminology and sociology audiences have been waiting for this kind of book. -- Benoît Dupont, University of MontrealIndustry of Anonymity is without doubt the best exploration of the evolution of cybercrime today. Even as someone who has worked in this field for over a decade, I found new insights in every chapter. An absolute must read for any cybercrime investigator. -- Robert McArdle, Trend Micro Forward-Looking Threat Research TeamBased on more than two hundred interviews and numerous field trips to the world's cybercrime hotspots, this is a masterful account of how cybercrime has matured into a large, profit-driven industry. Offering a wealth of data on the informal arrangements that underpin cooperation among anonymous criminals, Lusthaus puts a face to people who normally hide in the shadows. Industry of Anonymity will be the standard reference for years to come. -- Federico Varese, author of Mafia LifeA timely contribution to a classic sociological problem: the one of social order, expressed in the chance of trusted relationships, cooperation, and governance…A substantial contribution to this conversation in a field that is anything but easy to investigate. -- Matías Dewey * American Journal of Sociology *

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewA remarkable book. -- Malcolm Gladwell * San Francisco Chronicle *A serious empirical analysis of the topic suggesting ways to reduce civilian deaths…Estimates that only roughly 1 in 200 police officers who kills a civilian is indicted, with about 1 in 1,000 convicted of a felony. -- Robert Maranto * Wall Street Journal *Roughly 1,000 Americans die each year at the hands of the police…The civilian body count does not seem to be declining, even though violent crime generally and the on-duty deaths of police officers are down sharply…Police kill African-Americans at more than double their share of the population, a phenomenon Zimring painstakingly demonstrates is not explained by higher crime rates in black neighborhoods…The average number of those 1,000 deaths per year that result in felony convictions of a police officer: one. Zimring’s most explosive assertion…is that police leaders don’t care…To paraphrase the French philosopher Joseph de Maistre, every country gets the police it deserves. -- Bill Keller * New York Times *Zimring is no stranger to the field of gun violence research, having produced formative efforts in this field for more than forty years. And if you think for one second that the issue of cop killings doesn’t go to the heart of the debate about gun violence, think again. Because what Zimring shows is that not only are most fatalities which occur at the hands of police the result of cops using guns, but the number of such deaths each year is undercounted by more than half!…[A] valuable and important book…It needs to be read. -- Mike Weisser * Huffington Post *Meticulously researched. -- Richard Thompson Ford * San Francisco Chronicle *The seminal study of killing by police. -- David T. Johnson * Honolulu Civil Beat *This is a superb book, and an urgently needed one. Frank Zimring carefully demonstrates what is known and inexcusably unknown about fatal shooting by American police officers. Even better, he tells us how to fix the problem. This is a book full of sharp insight and wise counsel. It should be read by anyone concerned about the problem of police violence. -- David Alan Sklansky, Stanford Law SchoolRarely has a public policy book been as necessary as When Police Kill. There is virtually no current literature on the public policy issues of police shootings and this book will fill that void. -- Philip Matthew Stinson, Bowling Green State UniversityWhen Police Kill is the most comprehensive, data-driven study of the use of lethal force by police I have read. Professor Zimring's objective examination provides valuable guideposts for a way forward for both police and communities. -- Ray Kelly, former NYC Police Commissioner, and Vice Chairman of K2 Intelligence

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Book SynopsisThe Arab Spring may not have achieved regime change, but the uprising did foster meaningful reforms. Asef Bayat shows how waves of protest transformed ordinary life in farms and factories, souks and schools. In Egypt and Tunisia, women, workers, poor people, and the queer community can credit the Arab Spring with steps toward equality and freedom.Trade ReviewBayat, a sociologist and an acute chronicler of everyday life in the Middle East and North Africa, explores the fate of marginalized people in the uprisings of the Arab Spring. -- Lisa Anderson * Foreign Affairs *Stands out…for its brilliance and lack of sentimentality…Focusing on Egypt and Tunisia, Bayat’s argument is that the events of 2011 set something radical in motion and imposed a new set of social relations onto everyday life. The book is rich with examples of this everyday resistance from both countries. -- Nihal El Aasar * Jacobin *Pioneers an important topic…By diving deeper into overlooked and marginal groups, Bayat reveals the dynamics of ordinary people disregarding individual ideals and participating in something exceptional. Revolutionary Life is a study of the ordinary that is anything but. -- Elizabeth Pipes * Middle East Quarterly *[Bayat] has been a sure-footed observer of revolutions for decades…Although the Arab revolts appear to have largely failed, Bayat argues that even revolutions that do not reach the pinnacle of power leave behind lasting change. -- Ray Takeyh * Survival: Global Politics and Strategy *This remarkable book uncovers how mass revolutionary uprisings shape—and are shaped by—the everyday experiences of people from all walks of life. In Revolutionary Life, Asef Bayat has delivered another tour de force. -- Erica Chenoweth, Frank Stanton Professor of the First Amendment, Harvard UniversityThrough finely detailed studies of the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, highlighting the lives of the poor and subaltern, Bayat illuminates the gap between changing political structures and transforming everyday life that contemporary revolutions everywhere must bridge. He makes an important and timely argument about how, although they did not significantly change state power, the Arab Spring revolutions gave rise to new subjectivities and a new political imaginary, which could be powerful resources for the future. -- Michael Hardt, Professor of Literature, Duke UniversityWhile revolutions are mostly made from below, through mass mobilization of ordinary people, they are usually narrated from above. Reversing that perspective, Asef Bayat explains the development of the Arab Spring by analyzing the everyday life of the subaltern. Most innovative for the study of extraordinary moments and their outcomes is the importance he gives to the transformations in people’s subjectivities, expectations, and practices as a trigger for, but also a constraint upon, social and political change. Empirically rich and theoretically provoking, this is a must-read book for all those interested in contentious politics. -- Donatella della Porta, Professor of Political Science, Scuola Normale Superiore

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Book SynopsisIn the 1980s some developing countries adopted orthodox market-oriented policies in response to international economic crises, others experimented with alternative programs, and still others failed to develop coherent adjustment strategies of any sort. This title examines the role of the state in the adjustment process.Trade Review"An impressive effort to summarize the political legacy of economic reform, and to clarify the elusive relationship between political transition and economic change. In its comparative breadth and theoretical depth, this volume has few peers in the contemporary literature in comparative political economy."--American Political Science ReviewTable of ContentsList of Figures and TablesContributorsPrefaceIntroduction: Institutions and Economic Adjustment3Pt. IInternational ConstraintsCh. 1International Influence on Economic Policy: Debt, Stabilization, and Structural Reform41Ch. 2External Influence, Conditionality, and the Politics of Adjustment89Pt. IIThe State and the Politics of AdjustmentCh. 3The State as Problem and Solution: Predation, Embedded Autonomy, and Structural Change139Ch. 4The Heart of the Matter? Public Enterprise and the Adjustment Process182Pt. IIIDistributive PoliticsCh. 5Poverty, Equity, and the Politics of Adjustment221Ch. 6The Political Economy of Inflation and Stabilization in Middle-Income Countries270Pt. IVConclusionCh. 7Economic Adjustment and the Prospects for Democracy319Index351

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Book SynopsisExplores the relationship between overseas developments and the most important reform movement in modern American history, the struggle for racial justice. This book argues that civil rights leaders were interested in the world beyond America and incorporated their understanding of overseas matters into their reform program.Trade Review"Jonathan Rosenberg, describing 'color-conscious internationalism', demonstrated how the men and women who struggled to win equality for black Americans used world affairs--and especially wars--to advance their cause... Rosenberg does a superb job of analyzing the interplay of world affairs and the quest for racial justice in the United States from 1914 to the 1960s."--Warren I. Cohen, International History ReviewTable of ContentsList of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi INTRODUCTION: Color-Conscious Internationalism and the Twentieth-Century Struggle 1 PART I: World War I and the Peace Settlement PRELUDE: "Yours for World Democracy": Journeys to Paris 15 CHAPTER ONE: "Let Us Be True to Our Mission": Race Reform and the World War 19 CHAPTER TWO: "The Morning Cometh": The Signi .cance of the Peace 51 PART II: Between the Wars CHAPTER THREE: "From Deep in the Heart of Russia": The Reformers Look Abroad in the 1920s 75 CHAPTER FOUR: "Sounds Suspiciously like Miami": The Turbulent World of the 1930s 101 PART III: From World War II to Vietnam CHAPTER FIVE: "Democracy Should Begin at Home": The Struggle for Equality and the Second World War 131 CHAPTER SIX: "To Help Save the World": Seeking Race Reform,1945 -1950 156 CHAPTER SEVEN: "Struggling to Save America": The Reformers and the World of the 1950s 185 CHAPTER EIGHT: "I've Seen the Promised Land": Triumph and Tragedy in the 1960s 214 POSTLUDE: World Affairs and the Domestic Crusade 229 Notes 235 Index 311

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Book SynopsisAddresses the problems that arise not only from a politicized foreign policy process but also from excessive bureaucratization and lack of leadership in the Foreign Service itself.Trade Review"An engaging and delightfully written plea for restoring the role of the professional diplomat in American foreign policy."--Foreign Affairs "[P]rovides an insider's account of the 'practice' of diplomacy--the point where policies from Washington are implemented locally... This is not a long book, but between its covers the author imparts a great deal of wisdom."--Library Journal "Mr. Stearns has given us a thoughtful study of the foreign service, its role in diplomacy and how it may have to operate in the future. Written in admirably lucid prose, it will be of interest to everyone concerned with foreign affairs."--Sol Schindler, The Washington TimesTable of ContentsForewordPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsCh. 1The New Frontiers of American Diplomacy3Ch. 2The Diplomacy of Reason20Ch. 3The Diplomacy of Doctrine38Ch. 4The Diplomacy of Process55Ch. 5Diplomacy as Representation72Ch. 6Diplomacy as Management92Ch. 7Diplomacy as Communication112Ch. 8Diplomacy as Negotiation132Ch. 9Improving the Reach of American Foreign Policy148Ch. 10Improving the Grasp of American Diplomacy164Notes179Index193

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Book SynopsisThe description for this book, Policy Making in China, will be forthcoming.Trade Review"Show[s] the system to be made up of real human beings engaged in high-stakes political activity, impossible to capture on an organization chart... A major work that no serious student of politics should miss."--Michael Gasster, Annals of American Academy of Political & Social Science "The best book yet in the 'doing business in China' category."--Nancy Langston, Far Eastern Economic Review

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Book SynopsisPresents an analysis of the major political crises in post-1945 East Central Europe: Hungary (1956-63), Czechoslovakia (1968-76), and Poland (1980-89). This book also explores how political crises reshaped party-state institutions, redefined relations between party and state institutions, and modified the political practices of these regimes.Trade ReviewWinner of the 1996 Orbis Polish Book Prize, American Association for the Advancement of Slavic StudiesTable of ContentsPreface and AcknowledgmentsCh. 1Introduction: Political Crises, Mobilization, and Demobilization in East Central Europe3Pt. IThe Political Crisis and Its Aftermath in Hungary, 1956-196337Ch. 2The Party-State and Society during the Hungarian Revolution42Ch. 3The Soviet Invasion and the Defeat of the Revolution65Ch. 4The Political Crisis, Demobilization, and Regime Reequilibration in Hungary99Pt. IIThe Political Crisis and Its Aftermath in Czechoslovakia, 1968-1976121Ch. 5The Party-State and Society during the Prague Spring126Ch. 6The End of Socialism with a Human Face162Ch. 7The Political Crisis, Demobilization, and Regime Reequilibration in Czechoslovakia198Pt. IIIThe Political Crisis and Its Aftermath in Poland, 1980-1989215Ch. 8The Party-State and Society during the Solidarity Period222Ch. 9Poland under Martial Law and After257Ch. 10The Political Crisis and the Failure of Demobilization and Regime Reequilibration283Ch. 11Conclusions: Patterns and Legacies of Political Crisis, Demobilization, and Regime Reequilibration in East Central Europe305Notes331Bibliography405Index431

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Book Synopsis'Domestic politics matters' has become a rallying cry for international relations scholars over the years, yet the question still remains: Just how does it matter? This book argues that an important part of the international impact of domestic politics springs from the institutional responses to its many uncertainties.Trade Review"George Downs and David Rocke's new book on the intersection of domestic politics and international relations is an important and exciting contribution to the burgeoning game theory literature on the subject. Moving beyond the two-level game metaphor both in terms of analytical rigor and in terms of subject matter, it focuses on how uncertainty about aspects of a state's domestic politics can affect international behavior and institutions."--Andrew Kydd, Political Science QuarterlyTable of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables xi Preface xiii 1 The Impact of Uncertainty 3 1.1 Introduction 3 1.2 Realism and Early Rational Choice 9 1.3 The Psychological Tradition 13 1.4 The Institutionalist Tradition 19 1.5 Recent Research 23 1.6 Conclusion 25 2 Game Theory and Uncertainty 27 2.1 Modeling Uncertainty 27 2.2 Games of Incomplete Information 28 2.2.1 Introduction 28 2.2.2 Bayesian Updating 31 2.2.3 Signaling and Reputation 35 2.3 Principal-Agent Models 41 2.4 Trigger Strategies 44 2.5 Conclusion 54 3 Gambling for Resurrection 56 3.1 Introduction 56 3.2 The Theory 59 3.3 The Executive's Dilemma 67 3.4 Gambling for Resurrection 68 3.5 Conclusion 71 3.6 Appendix: Optimal Bayesian Policies 72 4 Optimal Imperfection: GATT and the Uncertainty of Interest Group Demands 76 4.1 Introduction 76 4.2 Modeling Trade Treaties 77 4.3 Treaty Maintenance under Perfect Information 79 4.3.1 Reversionary Strategies 79 4.3.2 Reciprocity and Tit-for-Tat 85 4.4 Interest Group Uncertainty 87 4.5 Asymmetric Preferences 91 4.6 Coping with Nontariff Barriers: U.S. Section 301 93 4.7 Conclusion 99 4.8 Appendixes 101 4.8.1 Assumptions 101 4.8.2 Proof of Proposition 4.1 101 4.8.3 Proof of Proposition 4.2 102 4.8.4 Proof of Proposition 4.3 104 5 Willing but Maybe Not Able: The Impact of Uncertainty about State Capacity 105 5.1 Introduction 105 5.2 An Environmental Model 107 5.2.1 Enforcement Ill 5.2.2 Trigger Strategy 112 5.3 Capacity Uncertainty and Change 114 5.3.1 Capacity Uncertainty 114 5.3.2 Capacity Change 117 5.3.3 Equilibrium Behavior 119 5.4 The Effects of State Capacity Uncertainty 121 5.5 Informational Issue-Linking and a Multivariate Model 123 5.6 Conclusion 125 5.7 Appendixes 127 5.7.1 Normal Mixture Distributions 12 5.7.2 Proof of Proposition 5.1 127 6 Conclusion 130 6.1 Domestic Uncertainty and Institutions 130 6.2 Policy Prescriptions 138 Bibliography 143 Index 155

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Book SynopsisThis work seeks to clarify why and when interest group leaders in Washigton, USA seek to mobilize the public order to influence policy decisions in Congress. It grants a more important role to the need for interest group leaders to demonstrate popular support on particular issues.Table of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPreface1Introduction32Tactics and Strategies283Outside Lobbying as Costly Signaling584Public Opinion and Mobilization785Outside Lobbying as Conflict Expansion1016Lobbying over Trade Policy1337Conclusion155App. AGroups and Persons Interviewed165App. BQuestionnaire for Interest Groups168App. COpinion Questions173App. DA Signaling Model of Outside Lobbying193Bibliography201Index211

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"This is the most important recent book on economic development written from a Left political perspective... Rare has been the industrial revolution which has equitably benefitted the generation which produced that revolution. What Evans has accomplished in this book is a brilliant analysis of the circumstances in which the most recent version of this kind of alienating development can occur."--The Annals

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Book SynopsisExamining the development of the process of presidential selection, this book contends that many of the major purposes of the selection system as it was formerly understood have been ignored by reformers and modern scholars. It identifies a set of criteria for a selection system and analyzes and evaluates the changes in the selection process.

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Book SynopsisThe description for this book, Origins of Containment: A Psychological Explanation, will be forthcoming.Trade Review"One of the more encouraging historiographical developments of recent years has been the dialogue that is beginning to take place between American diplomatic historians and their colleagues in the fields of political science, international relations, and social pathology... Larson's book provides impressive evidence that these interdisciplinary contacts are at last bearing fruit."--John Lewis Gaddis, American Historical Review "A refutation of the idea that nothing remains to be said about the origins of the Cold War. The author offers cogent criticisms of the limitations of revisionist and 'confirmationist' interpretations and then subtly applies a range of theories about the way people think to the behavior of American leaders in the years 1945-1947."--Foreign Affairs "The bulk of the book consists of an intelligent and balanced account of the evolutions of United States policy toward the Soviet Union in the early Truman years. Larson's focus is on the four men--Harry S. Truman, James F. Byrnes, W. Averell Harriman, Dean Acheson--whom she considers the key figures in this evolution... Larson portrays an uncertain, vacillating President who was inarticulate on strategic issues, lacked a coherent philosophy of foreign policy, was unduly impressed by the last person who talked to him, and spent these years in a 'genuine torment of indecision.' ... In general, Larson sees the Cold War belief system as the consequence, not the cause of, the adoption of the containment policy."--Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Political Science Quarterly "Deborah W. Larson's cogent and lucid analysis of the historical origins of containment is presented three-dimensionally. Larson invokes the theoretical tools of the political scientist, historian, and psychologist to demonstrate that no single disciplinary model has sufficient explanatory value. Instead, she offers us a 'composite multidimensional strategy' to explain why the United States embraced Cold War policies in the period following World War II."--Lauren H. Holland, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

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Book SynopsisChallenging those who accept or advocate executive supremacy in American foreign-policy making, this title proposes that we abandon the supine roles often assigned our legislative and judicial branches in that field. It offers analysis of foreign policy and constitutionalism.Trade Review"Although Constitutional Diplomacywas written before an American line was drawn in the sands of the Arabian Peninsula after Iraq took over Kuwait, it is hard to imagine a book that is more prescient and provocative about the huge military buildup in the Persian Gulf... Glennon writes as if he had a crystal ball that foretold the events ... in the Persian Gulf."--The New York Times

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Book SynopsisWhy do some governments respond promptly to signs of economic trouble, while others muddle indecisively for years? In this volume, a number of eminent contributors analyze the politics of adjustment in 13 countries and 19 governments, drawing comparisons across the full set of cases and within clusters selected to clarify specific issues.

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Book SynopsisLooks more at the operational side of nuclear strategy than previous analysts have done, seeking to bridge the gap between theory and practice.Trade Review"Sagan presents a succinct survey, enriched with original argument, of important themes in the development of U.S. nuclear doctrine in practice (as distinct from academic theory)."—Richard K. Betts, Senior Fellow, The Brookings Institution"Sagan's critique of U.S. nuclear doctrine is highly intelligent and informative. The case he makes for second-strike counterforce and leadership targeting will be interesting to specialists and lay readers alike. It is the best such effort I have seen. . . . No one who reads this book could fail to emerge much better informed regarding current U.S. nuclear strategy, and why the strategy has developed along the lines it has taken. Such a reader would be much better equipped to understand many aspects of the current nuclear debate, and would be much less prone to reach for sloganistic formulas for change."—Richard H. Ullman, Princeton University

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Book SynopsisThe description for this book, Issue Evolution: Race and the Transformation of American Politics, will be forthcoming.Trade Review"This is one of the most important books in political science to have been published in the post-World War II era. It is a book indispensable for anyone who wishes to understand contemporary American politics and public opinion."--Bernard Grofman, International Journal of Public Opinion Research

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Book SynopsisOffers a demonstration of how historical analysis can be brought to bear on the study of strategic issues, and, conversely, how strategic thinking can help drive historical research. This book begins with an overview of strategic thought in America from 1952 through 1966 and ends with a discussion of 'making sense' of the nuclear age.

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Book SynopsisAmericans claim a strong attachment to the work ethic and regularly profess support for government policies to promote employment. Why, then, have employment policies gained only a tenuous foothold in the United States? This title highlights two related elements: the power of ideas in policymaking and the politics of interest formation.Trade Review"Politics and Jobs establishes a new landmark in the study of economic and social policies in the United States. Weir's insightful and analytically powerful book will be widely read and cited for years."—William Julius Wilson, University of ChicagoTable of ContentsList of FiguresList of TablesPrefaceAcknowledgmentsList of Abbreviations1Innovations and Boundaries in American Policymaking32Creating an American Keynesianism273Race and Politics of Poverty624Public Employment and the Politics of "Corruption"995The Political Collapse of Full Employment1306Policy Boundaries and Political Possibilities163Notes181Index231

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Book SynopsisDemonstrates that the ownership structure of large U S firms owes its distinctive character as much to politics as to economics and technology. This title addresses issues facing American businesses as they compete in the new international marketplace.Trade Review"Economic theory appeared to predict that the American version [of capitalism, in which firms feed on a huge and liquid stockmarket] should be the most efficient. This view stemmed from [Berle and Means] in The Modern Corporation and Private Property ... [and] held sway for the next fifty years... Roe ... takes this debate a giant step forward. Far from being the inevitable winner of a Darwinian struggle, argues Roe, the Berle-Means corporation owes its existence to American politics, and in particular to a deeply ingrained popular mistrust of concentrated financial power."--The Economist "Roe ... argues persuasively that old-fashioned politics ... play[s] the key role in building a structure of corporate finance... Strong Managers, Weak Owners does for corporate governance what Alfred Chandler's The Visible Hand did for the corporation: makes history essential to understanding current practice and policy."--Robert Teitelman, Institutional InvestorTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPt. IThe Economic Paradigm1Ch. 1Diffuse Ownership as Natural Economic Evolution3Ch. 2Fragmentation's Costs9Pt. IIThe Political Paradigm19Ch. 3Diffuse Ownership as Political Product21Ch. 4A Political Theory26Pt. IIIThe Historical Evidence51Ch. 5Banks54Ch. 6Insurers60Ch. 7Banks Again94Ch. 8Mutual Funds102Ch. 9Pension Funds124Pt. IVThe Contemporary and Comparative Evidence147Ch. 10Takeovers151Ch. 11Corporate Ownership in Germany and Japan169Ch. 12A Small Comparative Test of the Political Theory187Ch. 13Counterpoint I198Ch. 14Political Evolution in Germany and Japan?210Ch. 15Trends in the United States222Ch. 16An American Crossroads226Pt. VPolicy Recommendations231Ch. 17Managers as the Problem?235Ch. 18Short-Term Finance as the Problem?240Ch. 19Industrial Organization as the Problem?248Ch. 20Counterpoint II254Ch. 21Changing the American Ownership Structure?263Conclusion283Bibliography289Acknowledgments309Index311

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Book SynopsisBrings together the scholarship on business and politics by one of the leading authorities on this subject. The essays in this volume explore a number of contemporary issues, including the debate over the scope and extent of business power in America, the growth of shareholder protests and consumer boycotts, and more.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Study of Business and Politics3Ch. 1Why Businessmen Distrust Their State: The Political Consciousness of American Corporate Executives29Ch. 2Cooperative Regulation: Environmental Protection in Great Britain73Ch. 3The Globalization of Business Ethics: Why America Remains Distinctive91Ch. 4Government-Industry Relations in the United States: An Overview113Ch. 5The Public-Interest Movement and the American Reform Tradition141Ch. 6Lobbying the Corporation: Citizen Challenges to Business Authority166Ch. 7The Ethical Roots of Business Ethics195Ch. 8When Consumers Oppose Consumer Protection: The Politics of Regulatory Backlash214Ch. 9Political Science and the Study of Corporate Power: A Dissent from the New Conventional Wisdom239Ch. 10The Power of Business in America: A Reappraisal268Ch. 11The Power of Business in Capitalist Societies: A Comparative Perspective298Ch. 12A Case Study of Clear Air Legislation, 1967-1981323Appendix394Index397

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