SPOTLIGHT: The Global President: International Media and the U.S. Government, Stephen J. Farnsworth, S. Robert Lichter, and Roland Schatz, Rowman and Littlefield

From the publisher: Stephen J. Farnsworth, S. Robert Lichter, and Roland Schatz provide an expansive international examination of news coverage of US political communication and the roles the US government and the presidency play in an increasingly communicative and interconnected political world. This comprehensive yet concise text will engage and inform students in many intersecting disciplines, as it includes analyses of not just the presidency, but US foreign policy and contemporary political media itself. The media developed to keep pace with the headwinds of political change are being asked more and more to adapt to and enhance the ways in which policy-makers, voters, and students make sense of the process of governance.

The realities of an ever-changing political landscape are magnified nowhere more greatly than in the realm of foreign policy, and the stakes surrounding the need for quality communicational skills are no higher than at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue because—when the voices of the US government speak—the world is listening. This book provides students a perfect entry point into the complex and amorphous relationship between media and government, where that relationship has been, and where it looks to be heading in the future.

Stephen J. Farnsworth is professor of political science and international affairs at the University of Mary Washington and Director of the University's Center for Leadership and Media Studies. He is the author or co-author of several books on media and politics and a former daily newspaper journalist.

S. Robert Lichter is professor of communication at George Mason University, where he directs the Center for media and Public Affairs, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media research organization.

Roland Schatz is the president of the New York–based Media tenor Ltd., a provider of international media content analysis.

SPOTLIGHT: Subsidizing Democracy: How Public Funding Changes Elections and How It Can Work in the Future, Michael G. Miller, Cornell University Press

From the publisher: In Subsidizing Democracy, Michael G. Miller considers the impact of state-level public election financing on political campaigns through the eyes of candidates. Miller's insights are drawn from survey data obtained from more than 1,000 candidates, elite interview testimony, and twenty years of election data. This book is therefore not only an effort to judge the effects of existing public election funding but also a study of elite behavior, campaign effects, and the structural factors that influence campaigns and voters.

The presence of publicly funded candidates in elections, Miller reports, results in broad changes to the electoral system, including more interaction between candidates and the voting public and significantly higher voter participation.

Michael G. Miller is assistant professor in the Department of Political Science and the Institute for Legal, Legislative and Policy Studies at the University of Illinois, Springfield.

SPOTLIGHT: Outsiders No More? Models of Immigrant Political Incorporation, Jennifer Hochschild, Jacqueline Chattopadhyay, Claudine Gay, and Michael Jones-Correa, Editors, Oxford University Press

From the publisher: Outsiders No More? brings together a multidisciplinary group of scholars to consider pathways by which immigrants may be incorporated into the political processes of western democracies. At a time when immigrants are increasingly significant political actors in many democratic polities, this volume makes a timely and valuable intervention by pushing researchers to articulate causal dynamics, provide clear definitions and measurable concepts, and develop testable hypotheses. By including historians, sociologists, and political scientists, by ranging across North America and Western Europe, by addressing successful and failed incorporative efforts, this handbook offers guides for anyone seeking to develop a dynamic, unified, and supple model of immigrant political incorporation.

Jennifer Hochschild is Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Professor of African and African American Studies, and Harvard College Professor at Harvard University.

Jacqueline Chattopadhyay is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Claudine Gay is Professor of Government and of African and African-American Studies at Harvard University

Michael Jones-Correa is Professor of Government at Cornell University.

America's War on Terror: The State of the 9/11 Exception from Bush to Obama, Jason Ralph, Oxford University Press

The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time, Christopher J. Lebron, Oxford University Press

Confluence of Thought: Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr., Bidyut Chakrabarty, Foreword by Clayborne Carson, Oxford University Press

Counting Civilian Casualties: An Introduction to Recording and Estimating Nonmilitary Deaths in Conflict, Taylor B. Seybolt, Jay D. Aronson, and Baruch Fischhoff, editors, Oxford University Press

The Effective Presidency: Lessons on Leadership from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama, Erwin C. Hargrove, Paradigm Publishers

Eleventh Hour: The Politics of Policy Initiatives in Presidential Transitions, Davide M. Shafie, Texas A & M University Press

Exploitation and Economic Justice in the Liberal Capitalist State, Mark R. Rieff, Oxford University Press

The Gingrich Senators: The Roots of Partisan Warfare in Congress, Sean M. Theriault, Oxford University Press

The Kennedy Half Century: The Presidency, Assassination, and the Lasting Legacy of John. F. Kennedy, Larry J. Sabato, Bloomsbury USA

The Limits of Electoral Reform, Shaun Bowler and Todd Donovan, Oxford University Press

A Mere Machine: The Supreme Court, Congress, and American Democracy, Anna Harvey, Yale University Press

Multilevel Citizenship, Willem Maas, editor, University of Pennsylvania Press

Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics, Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck, Oxford University Press

Renegade Cities, Public Policy, and the Dilemmas of Federalism, Lori Riverstone-Newell, Lynne Rienner, First Forum Press

Revolution Stalled: The Political Limits of the Internet in the Post-Soviet Sphere, Sarah Oates, Oxford University Press

Russia vs. the EU: The Competition for Influence in Post-Soviet States, Jakob Tolstrup, Lynne Rienner, First Forum Press

The Social Evolution of International Politics, Shiping Tang, Oxford University Press

Strong Constitutions: Social-Cognitive Origins of the Separation of Powers, Maxwell A. Cameron, Oxford University Press

The Time Is Always Now: Black Thought and the Transformation of US Democracy, Nick Bromell, Oxford University Press

Tolerance: A Sensorial Orientation of Politics, Lars Tønder, Oxford University Press

Understanding Prime-Ministerial Performance: Comparative Perspectives, Paul Strangio, Paul ‘t Hart, and James Walter, Oxford University Press

Wealth of an Empire: The Treasure Shipments that Saved Britain and the World, Robert Switky, Potomac Books

Who's Running America? The Obama Reign, Thomas R. Dye, Paradigm Publishers

Why States Matter: An Introduction to State Politics, Gart Moncrief and Peverill Squire, Rowman and Littlefield

Why Taiwan Matters: Small Island, Global Powerhouse, updated edition, Shelley Rigger, Rowman and Littlefield