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American Politics and Government

Before the Convention

Aldrich, John H.
Strategies and Choices in Presidential Nomination Campaigns
August 2012 New Book E-book

Why Parties?

Aldrich, John H.
A Second Look
May 2011 E-book

Education, Justice, and Democracy

Allen, Danielle S.
March 2013 New Book E-book

Timing and Turnout

Anzia, Sarah F.
How Off-Cycle Elections Favor Organized Groups
December 2013 New Book

Changing Minds or Changing Channels?

Arceneaux, Kevin
Partisan News in an Age of Choice
September 2013 New Book

Almanac of American Politics 2014

Barone, Michael
September 2013 New Book

In Time of War

Berinsky, Adam J.
Understanding American Public Opinion from World War II to Iraq
October 2009 E-book

Making the News

Boydstun, Amber E.
Politics, the Media, and Agenda Setting
August 2013 New Book

White-Collar Government

Carnes, Nicholas
The Hidden Role of Class in Economic Policy Making
November 2013 New Book

Party Decides

Cohen, Marty
Presidential Nominations Before and After Reform
October 2008 E-book

Sympathetic State

Dauber, Michele Landis
Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State
November 2012 New Book E-book

Timeline of Presidential Elections

Erikson, Robert S.
How Campaigns Do (and Do Not) Matter
October 2012 New Book E-book

Learning While Governing

Gailmard, Sean
Expertise and Accountability in the Executive Branch
December 2012 New Book E-book

Electing Judges

Gibson, James L.
The Surprising Effects of Campaigning on Judicial Legitimacy
September 2012 New Book E-book

Black Patriots and Loyalists

Gilbert, Alan
Fighting for Emancipation in the War for Independence
April 2012 E-book

Political Tone

Hart, Roderick P.
How Leaders Talk and Why
April 2013 New Book E-book

State and the Stork

Hoff, Derek S.
The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History
September 2012 New Book E-book

Health Care for Some

Hoffman, Beatrix
Rights and Rationing in the United States since 1930
September 2012 New Book E-book

Wartime President

Howell, William G.
Executive Influence and the Nationalizing Politics of Threat
September 2013 New Book

Living Legislation

Jenkins, Jeffery A.
Durability, Change, and the Politics of American Lawmaking
April 2012 E-book

First Son

Koeneman, Keith
The Biography of Richard M. Daley
March 2013 New Book E-book

Filibustering

Koger, Gregory
A Political History of Obstruction in the House and Senate
June 2010 E-book

Follow the Leader?

Lenz, Gabriel S.
How Voters Respond to Politicians' Policies and Performance
October 2012 New Book E-book

How Partisan Media Polarize America

Levendusky, Matthew
September 2013 New Book

Politics of Belonging

Masuoka, Natalie
Race, Public Opinion, and Immigration
September 2013 New Book

Think Tanks in America

Medvetz, Thomas
September 2012 New Book E-book

Submerged State

Mettler, Suzanne
How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy
September 2011 E-book

Selling Fear

Nacos, Brigitte L.
Counterterrorism, the Media, and Public Opinion
June 2011 E-book

Out of Many, One

O'Brien, Ruth
Obama and the Third American Political Tradition
May 2013 New Book E-book

Class War?

Page, Benjamin I.
What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
April 2009 E-book

Post-Ethical Society

Porpora, Douglas V.
The Iraq War, Abu Ghraib, and the Moral Failure of the Secular
August 2013 New Book

Rise of the Public Authority

Radford, Gail
Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America
June 2013 New Book E-book

Social Citizen

Sinclair, Betsy
Peer Networks and Political Behavior
December 2012 New Book E-book

Disciplining the Poor

Soss, Joe
Neoliberal Paternalism and the Persistent Power of Race
November 2011 E-book

Women in the Club

Swers, Michele L.
Gender and Policy Making in the Senate
April 2013 New Book E-book

Democracy in America

Tocqueville, Alexis de
November 2000 E-book

Awakening to Race

Turner, Jack
Individualism and Social Consciousness in America
October 2012 New Book E-book

Black Child-Savers

Ward, Geoff K.
Racial Democracy and Juvenile Justice
June 2012 New Book E-book

Cultural Set Up of Comedy

Webber, Julie
Affective Politics in the United States Post 9/11
September 2013 New Book

Politics and the Courts

Specializing the Courts

Baum, Lawrence
February 2011 E-book

American Supreme Court

McCloskey, Robert G.
Fifth Edition
July 2010 E-book

Political Analysis

Democracy under Attack

Dean, Malcolm
How the Media Distort Policy and Politics
February 2012

Politics and Urban Studies

Third City

Bennett, Larry
Chicago and American Urbanism
November 2010 E-book

Trading Democracy for Justice

Burch, Traci
Criminal Convictions and the Decline of Neighborhood Political Participation
August 2013 New Book

Wealth and Poverty of Regions

Polèse, Mario
Why Cities Matter
February 2010 E-book

Great American City

Sampson, Robert J.
Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect
February 2012 E-book

Declining Significance of Race

Wilson, William Julius
Blacks and Changing American Institutions, Third Edition
June 2012 New Book E-book

Truly Disadvantaged

Wilson, William Julius
The Inner City, the Underclass, and Public Policy, Second Edition
July 2012 New Book E-book

International Politics and Studies

Building Resilience

Aldrich, Daniel P.
Social Capital in Post-Disaster Recovery
August 2012 New Book E-book

Rational Empires

Blanken, Leo J.
Institutional Incentives and Imperial Expansion
April 2012 E-book

Securing Approval

Chapman, Terrence L.
Domestic Politics and Multilateral Authorization for War
April 2011 E-book

Season of Rains

Ellis, Stephen
Africa in the World
April 2012 E-book

Brussels, the Gentle Monster

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus
or the Disenfranchisement of Europe
November 2011

Democracy in Latin America, 1760-1900

Forment, Carlos A.
Volume 1, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru
August 2003

Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect

Glanville, Luke
A New History
December 2013 New Book

Last Colonial Massacre

Grandin, Greg
Latin America in the Cold War, Updated Edition
July 2011 E-book

Democracy and the Left

Huber, Evelyne
Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America
September 2012 New Book E-book

Toward a Just World

Jones, Dorothy V.
The Critical Years in the Search for International Justice
December 2002

American Diplomacy

Kennan, George F.
Sixtieth-Anniversary Expanded Edition
June 2012 New Book E-book

Arc of War

Levy, Jack S.
Origins, Escalation, and Transformation
October 2011 E-book

Immigrant War

Longhi, Vittorio
A Global Movement against Discrimination and Exploitation
December 2012 New Book

Combating Jihadism

Mendelsohn, Barak
American Hegemony and Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism
September 2009 E-book

Power in Concert

Mitzen, Jennifer
The Nineteenth-Century Origins of Global Governance
September 2013 New Book

Sharia Incorporated

Otto, Jan Michiel
A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present
February 2011

Lebanese Salafis between the Gulf and Europe

Pall, Zoltan
Development, Fractionalization and Transnational Networks of Salafism in Lebanon
June 2013 New Book

Cutting the Fuse

Pape, Robert A.
The Explosion of Global Suicide Terrorism and How to Stop It
October 2010 E-book

Perils of Global Legalism

Posner, Eric A.
September 2009 E-book

Global Rivalries

Quark, Amy A.
Standards Wars and the Transnational Cotton Trade
August 2013 New Book

Transition Scenarios

Rapkin, David P.
China and the United States in the Twenty-First Century
September 2013 New Book

Mixed Emotions

Ross, Andrew A. G.
Beyond Fear and Hatred in International Conflict
December 2013 New Book

Transformative Political Leadership

Rotberg, Robert I.
Making a Difference in the Developing World
May 2012 New Book E-book

Reasons of Conscience

Sperling, Stefan
The Bioethics Debate in Germany
April 2013 New Book E-book

Totalitarian Experience

Todorov, Tzvetan
November 2011

Political Thought and Theory

Geometry of Elections

Adams, Ernest W.
June 2013 New Book

Aristotle's

Aristotle,
Second Edition
March 2013 New Book E-book

Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics

Aristotle,
June 2011 E-book

Against Fairness

Asma, Stephen T.
November 2012 New Book E-book

Secular Powers

Cooper, Julie E.
Humility in Modern Political Thought
December 2013 New Book

Why Niebuhr Now?

Diggins, John Patrick
June 2011 E-book

Wrong-Doing, Truth-Telling

Foucault, Michel
The Function of Avowal in Justice
October 2014 New Book E-book

Nietzsche's Enlightenment

Franco, Paul
The Free-Spirit Trilogy of the Middle Period
October 2011 E-book

Mosaic Constitution

Hammill, Graham
Political Theology and Imagination from Machiavelli to Milton
May 2012 New Book E-book

Reflections on Aristotle's Politics

Hansen, Mogens Herman
October 2013 New Book

Enduring Importance of Leo Strauss

Lampert, Laurence
August 2013 New Book

Leo Strauss's Defense of the Philosophic Life

Major, Rafael
Reading "What Is Political Philosophy?"
January 2013 New Book E-book

Statesmanship and Party Government

Mansfield, Harvey C.
A Study of Burke and Bolingbroke
February 2013 New Book E-book

Tocqueville in Arabia

Mitchell, Joshua
Dilemmas in a Democratic Age
September 2013 New Book

Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

Niebuhr, Reinhold
A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
September 2011 E-book

Arbitrary Rule

Nyquist, Mary
Slavery, Tyranny, and the Power of Life and Death
May 2013 New Book E-book

Aristotle's Teaching in the

Pangle, Thomas L.
April 2013 New Book E-book

Maimonides and Spinoza

Parens, Joshua
Their Conflicting Views of Human Nature
August 2012 New Book E-book

Major Political Writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
The Two Discourses and the Social Contract
October 2012 New Book E-book

Leo Strauss on Maimonides

Strauss, Leo
The Complete Writings
April 2013 New Book E-book

Leo Strauss on Moses Mendelssohn

Strauss, Leo
December 2012 New Book E-book

On Tyranny

Strauss, Leo
Corrected and Expanded Edition, Including the Strauss-Kojève Correspondence
June 2013 New Book E-book

Politics without Vision

Strong, Tracy B.
Thinking without a Banister in the Twentieth Century
April 2012 E-book

Symbolic Power, Politics, and Intellectuals

Swartz, David L.
The Political Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu
April 2013 New Book E-book

Karl Marx

Thomas, Paul
June 2012 New Book

Heidegger, Strauss, and the Premises of Philosophy

Velkley, Richard L.
On Original Forgetting
November 2011 E-book

Ideas Have Consequences

Weaver, Richard M.
Expanded Edition
October 2013 New Book

Development of a Russian Legal Consciousness

Wortman, Richard S.
December 2010 E-book

Neighbor

Zizek, Slavoj
Three Inquiries in Political Theology, with a new Preface
July 2013 New Book E-book

Plato's Philosophers

Zuckert, Catherine
The Coherence of the Dialogues
June 2009 E-book

Politics and Economics

Uncommon Sense

Becker, Gary S.
Economic Insights, from Marriage to Terrorism
November 2009 E-book

Constitution of Liberty

Hayek, F. A.
The Definitive Edition
April 2011 E-book

Market and Other Orders

Hayek, F. A.
January 2014 New Book

From Pleasure Machines to Moral Communities

Hodgson, Geoffrey M.
An Evolutionary Economics without Homo economicus
November 2012 New Book E-book

Bourgeois Dignity

McCloskey, Deirdre N.
Why Economics Can't Explain the Modern World
November 2010 E-book

Collateral Knowledge

Riles, Annelise
Legal Reasoning in the Global Financial Markets
May 2011 E-book

Birth of Hegemony

Sobel, Andrew C.
Crisis, Financial Revolution, and Emerging Global Networks
September 2012 New Book E-book

Questioning Secularism

Agrama, Hussein Ali
Islam, Sovereignty, and the Rule of Law in Modern Egypt
November 2012 New Book E-book

Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange

Arruñada, Benito
Theory and Policy of Contractual Registries
August 2012 New Book E-book

Student's Guide to Law School

Ayers, Andrew B.
What Counts, What Helps, and What Matters
September 2013 New Book

Rehabilitating Lochner

Bernstein, David E.
Defending Individual Rights against Progressive Reform
May 2011 E-book

Making and Unmaking Intellectual Property

Biagioli, Mario
Creative Production in Legal and Cultural Perspective
June 2011

Death of the American Trial

Burns, Robert P.
April 2009 E-book

Invitation to Law and Society

Calavita, Kitty
An Introduction to the Study of Real Law
May 2010 E-book

Power to Do Justice

Cormack, Bradin
Jurisdiction, English Literature, and the Rise of Common Law
February 2008 E-book

Shakespeare and the Law

Cormack, Bradin
A Conversation among Disciplines and Professions
April 2013 New Book E-book

Legal Analyst

Farnsworth, Ward
A Toolkit for Thinking about the Law
June 2007 E-book

Legal Writing in Plain English, Second Edition

Garner, Bryan A.
A Text with Exercises
August 2013 New Book E-book

SuperVision

Gilliom, John
An Introduction to the Surveillance Society
November 2012 New Book E-book

Failure of Corporate Law

Greenfield, Kent
Fundamental Flaws and Progressive Possibilities
February 2007 E-book

Three and a Half Minute Transaction

Gulati, Mitu
Boilerplate and the Limits of Contract Design
November 2012 New Book E-book

Negotiating in Civil Conflict

Hamoudi, Haider Ala
Constitutional Construction and Imperfect Bargaining in Iraq
November 2013 New Book

Why the Law Is So Perverse

Katz, Leo
September 2011 E-book

Introduction to Legal Reasoning

Levi, Edward H.
August 2013 New Book

Restoring Justice

Levi, Edward H.
The Speeches of Attorney General Edward H. Levi
May 2013 New Book E-book

Lawyers in Practice

Levin, Leslie C.
Ethical Decision Making in Context
March 2012 E-book

Theory of Rules

Llewellyn, Karl N.
April 2011 E-book

This Is Not Civil Rights

Lovell, George I.
Discovering Rights Talk in 1939 America
October 2012 New Book E-book

Occupy

Mitchell, W. J. T.
Three Inquiries in Disobedience
May 2013 New Book E-book

Realizing Educational Rights

Newman, Anne
Advancing School Reform through Courts and Communities
October 2013 New Book

Rights of the Defenseless

Pearson, Susan J.
Protecting Animals and Children in Gilded Age America
July 2011 E-book

Law and Happiness

Posner, Eric A.
April 2010 E-book

Republic Afloat

Raffety, Matthew Taylor
Law, Honor, and Citizenship in Maritime America
March 2013 New Book E-book

Payback

Rosenbaum, Thane
The Case for Revenge
April 2013 New Book E-book

Introduction to Political Crime

Ross, Jeffrey Ian
June 2012 New Book

Trying Biology

Shapiro, Adam R.
The Scopes Trial, Textbooks, and the Antievolution Movement in American Schools
May 2013 New Book E-book

Ethics of Interrogation

Skerker, Michael
May 2010 E-book

Language of Statutes

Solan, Lawrence M.
Laws and Their Interpretation
December 2010 E-book

Hidden Stories of the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry

Stone, Richard
Personal Reflections
April 2013 New Book

Failing Law Schools

Tamanaha, Brian Z.
June 2012 New Book E-book

Everyday Law on the Street

Valverde, Mariana
City Governance in an Age of Diversity
October 2012 New Book E-book

Learning to Love Form 1040

Zelenak, Lawrence
Two Cheers for the Return-Based Mass Income Tax
March 2013 New Book E-book

Politics and the Constitution

Political Theory of The Federalist

Epstein, David F.
August 2007 E-book

Supreme Court Review, 2011

Hutchinson, Dennis J.
June 2012 New Book

Nixon's Court

McMahon, Kevin J.
His Challenge to Judicial Liberalism and Its Political Consequences
October 2011 E-book

Slaveholders' Union

Van Cleve, George William
Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic
October 2010 E-book