Accidental Activists: Victim Movements and Government Accountability in Japan and South Korea
Celeste L. Arrington
Cornell University Press
Achieving Regulatory Excellence
Cary Coglianese
Brookings Institution Press
Adam Smith: His Life, Thought, and Legacy
Ryan Patrick Hanley, ed.
Princeton University Press
Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America
Martin Gilens
Princeton University Press
American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction
Adam Seth Levine
Princeton University Press
Anarchism and Art: Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins
Mark Mattern
State University of New York Press
Below the Radar: How Silence Can Save Civil Rights
Alison Gash
Oxford University Press
Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion
Elizabeth Hurd
Princeton University Press
Billionaires: Reflections on the Upper Crust
Darrell M. West
Brookings Institution Press
The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter
Melissa Lane
Princeton University Press
Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics
Marie Gottschalk
Princeton University Press
The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy
Daniel A. Bell
Princeton University Press
Cities, Business, and the Politics of Urban Violence in Latin America
Eduardo Moncada
Stanford University Press
Confronting Political Islam: Six Lessons from the West’s Past
John M. Owen IV
Princeton University Press
Cinema, Democracy and Perfectionism: Joshua Foa Dienstag in Dialogue
Joshua Foa Dienstag
Manchester University Press
Currency Power: Understanding Monetary Rivalry
Benjamin J. Cohen
Princeton University Press
Democratization through Migration? Political Remittances and Participation of Philippine Return Migrants
Christl Kessler and Stefan Rother
Lexington Books
Desis Divided: The Political Lives of South Asian Americans
Sangay K. Mishra
University of Minnesota Press
Economic Interdependence and War
Dale C. Copeland
Princeton University Press
Electing the Senate: Indirect Democracy before the Seventeenth Amendment
Wendy J. Schiller and Charles Stewart
Princeton University Press
Escaping Jurassic Government: How to Recover America’s Lost Commitment to Competence
Donald F. Kettl
Brookings Institution Press
European Competition Policy and Globalization
Terrence Guay
Palgrave Macmillan
Freedom without Violence: Resisting the Western Political Tradition
Dustin Ells Howes
Oxford University Press
Gender Quotas and Democratic Participation: Recruiting Candidates for Elective Offices in Germany
Louisa K. Davidson-Schmich
University of Michigan Press
I Found My Niche: A Lifetime Journey of Lobbying and Association Leadership
Lowell Beck
The Peppertree Press
The Impression of Influence: Legislator Communications, Representation, and Democratic Accountability
Justin Grimmer, Sean J. Westwood, and Solomon Messing
Princeton University Press
Independent Politics: How American Disdain for Parties Leads to Political Inaction
Yanna Krupnikov and Samara Klar
Cambridge University Press
The Inevitable Party: Why Attempts to Kill the Party System Fail and How They Weaken Democracy
Seth E. Masket
Oxford University Press
Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change
Charles T. Lee
Duke University Press
Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations
Keren Yarhi-Milo
Princeton University Press
Learning from a Disaster: Improving Nuclear Safety and Security after Fukushima
Edward D. Blandford and Scott D. Sagan, eds.
Stanford University Press
Liberty and Coercion: The Paradox of American Government from the Founding to the Present
Gary Gerstle
Princeton University Press
Making Human Rights a Reality
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton
Princeton University Press
Nations under God: How Churches Use Moral Authority to Influence Policy
Anna Grzymala-Busse
Princeton University Press
NATO in Afghanistan: Fighting Together, Fighting Alone
David P. Auerswald and Stephen M. Saideman
Princeton University Press
New Order and Progress: Development and Democracy in Brazil
Ben Ross Schneider, ed.
Oxford University Press
The New States of Abortion Politics
Joshua C. Wilson
Stanford University Press
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era: Regional Powers and International Conflict
Vipin Narang
Princeton University Press
Party Brands in Crisis: Partisanship, Brand Dilution, and the Breakdown of Political Parties in Latin America
Noam Lupu
Cambridge University Press
Passing on the Right: Conservative Professors in the Progressive University
Jon A. Shields and Joshua M. Dunn, Sr.
Oxford University Press
Paths Out of Dixie: The Democratization of Authoritarian Enclaves in American Deep South, 1944–1972
Robert Mickey
Princeton University Press
Pet Politics: The Political and Legal Lives of Cats, Dogs, and Horses in Canada and the United States
Susan Hunter, Richard A. Brisbin, Jr.
Purdue University Press
Political Negotiation: A Handbook
Jane Mansbridge and Cathie Jo Martin, eds.
Brookings Institution Press
Political Turbulence: How Social Media Shape Collective Action
Helen Margetts, Peter John, Scott Hale, and Taha Yasseri
Princeton University Press
The Politics of Common Sense: How Social Movements Use Public Discourse to Change Politics and Win Acceptance
Deva R. Woodly
Oxford University Press
The Politics of the Person as the Politics of Being
David Walsh
University of Notre Dame Press
Populist Authoritarianism: Chinese Political Culture and Regime Sustainability
Wenfang Tang
Oxford University Press
Power and International Relations: A Conceptual Approach
David A. Baldwin
Princeton University Press
The Puzzle of Peace: The Evolution of Peace in the International System
Gary Goertz, Paul F. Diehl, and Alexadru Balas
Oxford University Press
Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency
William G. Howell and Terry M. Moe
Basic Books
The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, and Justin J. Wert
University of Oklahoma Press
Robert A. Dahl: A Quest Unended
Jennifer Hochschild, David R. Mayhew, Bruce Stinebrickner, Nannerl O. Keohane, Catherine A. MacKinnon, and Steven Lukes
Routledge
Scandalous Economics: Gender and the Politics of Financial Crises
Aida A. Hozić and Jacqui True
Oxford University Press
The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions
Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg
Princeton University Press
Social Democratic America
Lane Kenworthy
Oxford University Press
The Supply Side of Security: A Market Theory of Military Alliances
Tongfi Kim
Stanford University Press
Taiwan’s China Dilemma: Contested Identities and Multiple Interests in Taiwan’s Cross-Strait Economic Policy
Syaru Shirley Lin
Stanford University Press
The Terrorist’s Dilemma: Managing Violent Covert Organizations
Jacob N. Shapiro
Princeton University Press
These Estimable Courts: Understanding Public Perceptions of State Judicial Institutions and Legal Policy-Making
Damon M. Cann and Jeff Yates
Oxford University Press
Watchdogs on the Hill: The Decline of Congressional Oversight of US Foreign Relations
Linda L. Fowler
Princeton University Press
What Happened to the Republican Party?
John Kenneth White
Routledge
When Movements Anchor Parties: Electoral Alignments in American History
Daniel Schlozman
Princeton University Press
When Norms Collide: Local Responses to Activism against Female Genital Mutilation and Early Marriage
Karisa Cloward
Oxford University Press
White Backlash: Immigration, Race, and American Politics
Marisa Abrajano and Zoltan L. Hajnal
Princeton University Press
Why Presidents Fail and How They Can Succeed Again
Elaine C. Kamarck
Brookings Institution Press
SPOTLIGHT
Ingenious Citizenship: Recrafting Democracy for Social Change
Charles T. Lee
Duke University Press
From the Author: In Ingenious Citizenship Charles T. Lee centers the daily experiences and actions of migrant domestic workers, sex workers, transgender people, and suicide bombers in his rethinking of mainstream models of social change. Bridging cultural and political theory with ethnographic sources, Lee shows how these abject populations find ingenious and improvisational ways to disrupt and appropriate practices of liberal citizenship. When voting and other forms of civic engagement are unavailable or ineffective, the subversive acts of a domestic worker breaking a dish or a prostitute using the strategies and language of an entrepreneur challenge the accepted norms of political action. Using these examples to critically reinterpret political agency, citizenship practices, and social transformation, this book offers crucial lessons in how to turn even the worst conditions and the most unstable positions in society into footholds for transformative and democratic agency.
Charles T. Lee is associate professor of justice and social inquiry in the school of social transformation at Arizona State University. His work spans the fields of political theory, cultural theory, critical race and gender studies, and critical citizenship studies.
SPOTLIGHT
Private Military and Security Contractors: Controlling the Corporate Warrior
Gary Schaub, Jr. and Ryan Kelty
Rowman and Littlefield
From the Author: A multinational and interdisciplinary team of experts critically examine formal and informal means of controlling private military and security contractors. This theoretically informed work synthesizes micro- to macro-levels of analysis to reveal a multi-layered tapestry of oversight and control deriving from social psychology, industry self-regulation, national oversight, and international law in principle and in national case studies of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa, and Israel.
Gary Schaub, Jr. is a senior researcher at the Centre for Military Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He previously has served on the faculty of the Air War College, the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, and holds a PhD from the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs of the University of Pittsburgh.
Ryan Kelty is an associate professor and chair of the department of sociology at Washington College. He previously has served on the faculty of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Maryland.
SPOTLIGHT
I Found My Niche: A Lifetime Journey of Lobbying and Association Leadership
Lowell R. Beck
The Peppertree Press
From the Author: In I Found My Niche, Beck writes about his role as a lobbyist and association executive during from the 1960s into the ‘90s when the US was seriously challenged internationally and domestically. He points out that lobbying, regardless of some publicized bad actors, is a respectable and even necessary part of government. He describes his work on numerous issues, including the adoption of the Twenty-Fifth and Twenty-Sixth Amendments, and securing the mandating of vehicle airbags.
An important lesson in this book, particularly for younger people, is how fortunate it is to “find your niche” in life. Beck found his, but hadn’t planned on it, even while in law school. Urged by his family, this is his memoir of how he found his life’s work, and how fulfilling that can be.
Lowell R. Beck taught in the political science department at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and had a long career as a lobbyist and association executive, serving as deputy executive director of the American Bar Association, founding executive director of Common Cause, and president of the National Association of Independent Insurers.
SPOTLIGHT
Democracy Protests: Origins, Features, and Significance
Dawn Brancati
Cambridge University Press
From the Author: In Democracy Protests, Brancati examines why democracy protests emerge in some countries at certain times, but not in others, and why governments accommodate these protests, undertaking sweeping reforms in some cases, and in others find ways to suppress them. She argues that crises increase discontent with governments, and authoritarianism in particular, and also increase support for opposition candidates who are more likely to organize protests, especially during election periods. Economic crises are also shown to create chances for opportunists to capitalize on anti-regime sentiment and mobilize support against governments. However, if crises are severe and protests concomitantly large, governments are likely to be compelled to make accommodations with protestors, regardless of their likelihood of retaining office. Brancati's argument rests on a rich statistical analysis of the causes and consequences of democracy pro tests around the globe between 1989 and 2011, combined with qualitative case studies.
Dawn Brancati is visiting scholar at Columbia University, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. She teaches on civil war and peace, research design and methods, and democratization.
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