SPOTLIGHT
Activism and the Olympics: Dissent at the Games in Vancouver and London
Jules Boykoff
Rutgers University Press
From the Publisher: In Activism and the Olympics, Boykoff provides a critical overview of the Olympic industry and its political opponents in the modern era. After presenting a brief history of Olympic activism, he turns his attention to activism through the lens of the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Drawing from personal interviews with activists, journalists, civil libertarians, and Olympic organizers, Boykoff angles in on the Games from numerous vantages and viewpoints.
Jules Boykoff, chair, politics and government department, Pacific University, is a widely published scholar of international politics and corporate influence in sport, as well as the suppression of dissent.
American Exceptionalism: An Idea that Made a Nation and Remade the World
Hilde Eliassen Restad
Routledge
American Government and Politics in the Information Age, 2nd Edition
David L. Paletz, Diana Owen, and Timothy E. Cook
Flat World Knowledge
Army and Nation: The Military and Indian Democracy since Independence
Steven I. Wilkinson
Harvard University Press
The Birth of Politics: Eight Greek and Roman Political Ideas and Why They Matter
Melissa Lane
Princeton University Press
Bombay in the Age of Disco: City, Community, Life
Tinaz Pavri
University Press of North Georgia
The Business of America is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate
Lee Drutman
Oxford University Press
Chilean New Song: The Political Power of Music 1960s–1973
J. Patrice McSherry
Temple University Press
Civics Beyond Critics: Character Education in a Liberal Democracy
Ian MacMullen
Oxford University Press
Coercing Compliance: State-Initiated Brute Force in Today’s World
Robert Mandel
Stanford University Press
The Color of Our Shame: Race and Injustice in Our Time
Christopher J. Lebron
Oxford University Press
Contentious Elections: From Ballots to Barricades
Pippa Norris, Richard W. Frank, and Ferran Martínez i Coma, eds.
Routledge
Corrupt Illinois: Patronage, Cronyism, and Criminality
Thomas J. Gradel and Dick Simpson
University of Illinois Press
Debating Brain Drain: May Governments Restrict Emigration?
Gillian Brock and Michael Blake
Oxford University Press
Democracy in Central Asia: Competing Perspectives and Alternative Strategies
Mariya Y. Omelicheva
University Press of Kentucky
Destination India: From London Overland to India
Lloyd I. and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
Oxford University Press
Do Facts Matter? Information and Misinformation in American Politics
Jennifer L. Hochschild and Katherine Levine Einstein
University of Oklahoma Press
Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics
Sarah Reckhow
Oxford University Press
Foreclosed America
Isaac William Martin and Christopher Niedt
Stanford University Press
France after 2012
Gabriel Goodliffe and Riccardo Brizzi, eds.
Berghahn Books
Guns Across America: Reconciling Rules and Rights
Robert Spitzer
Oxford University Press
SPOTLIGHT
Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations
John Ishiyama, William J. Miller, and Eszter Simon
Edward Elgar Publishing
From the Publisher: With a focus on providing concrete teaching strategies for scholars, the Handbook on Teaching and Learning in Political Science and International Relations blends both theory and practice in an accessible and clear manner. To help faculty excel as classroom teachers, the expert contributors offer representation from various types of institutions located throughout the world. This book discusses curriculum and course design, teaching subject areas, and in-class teaching techniques
This handbook is an essential guide for anyone looking to teach political science and international relations at the university level.
John Ishiyama is professor of political science at the University of North Texas, where he is the lead editor of the American Political Science Review.
William J. Miller, Flagler College, has special interests in interests include campaigns and elections, polling, board development, grant writing, and the pedagogy of political science and public administration.
Eszter Simon, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, teaches on foreign policy, international relations, and global terrorism.
Ideas with Consequences: The Federalist Society and the Conservative Counterrevolution
Amanda Hollis-Brusky
Oxford University Press
Individualism in the United States: A Transformation in American Political Thought
Stephanie Walls
Bloomsbury Publishing
The Iron Cage of Liberalism: International Politics and Unarmed Revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa
Daniel P. Ritter
Oxford University Press
The New Normal: Finding a Balance between Individual Rights and the Common Good
Amitai Etzioni
Transaction Publishers
SPOTLIGHT
Groundbreakers: How Obama’s 2.2 Million Volunteers Transformed Campaigning in America
Elizabeth McKenna and Hahrie Han Oxford University Press
From the Publisher: Much has been written about the historic nature of the Obama campaign. The multi-year, multi-billion dollar operation elected the nation’s first black president, raised and spent more money than any other election effort in history, and built the most sophisticated voter targeting technology ever before used on a national campaign. What is missing from most accounts of the campaign is an understanding of how Obama for America recruited, motivated, developed, and managed its formidable army of 2.2 million volunteers. How did they organize so many volunteers to produce so much valuable work for the campaign? This book describes how.
Hahrie Han is an associate professor of political science at Wellesley College, and her research interests include politics of social policy, civic associations, civic engagement, health and environmental politics, polarization, and elections.
Elizabeth McKenna is graduate student in sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and her research interests are political sociology, social movements, and Brazil.
Nimby Is Beautiful: Cases of Local Activism and Environmental Innovation around the World
Carol Hager and Mary Alice
Haddad, eds.
Berghahn Books
No Day in Court: Access to Justice and the Politics of Judicial Retrenchment
Sara Staszak
Oxford University Press
Nuclear Authority: The IAEA and the Absolute Weapon
Robert L. Brown
Georgetown University Press
Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis
Robert Putnam
Simon & Schuster
The Oxford Handbook of Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding
Atalia Omer, R. Scott Appleby, and David Little
Oxford University Press
Paying Bribes for Public Services: A Global Guide to Grass-Roots Corruption
Richard Rose and Caryn Peiffer
Palgrave Press
Reflections on American Progressivism
Sidney A. Pearson, Jr.
Transaction Publishers
The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece
Josiah Ober
Princeton University Press
Routledge Handbook of Comparative Political Institutions
Jennifer Gandhi and Rubén Ruiz-Rufino
Routledge
On Sovereignty and Other Political Delusions
Joan Cocks
Bloomsbury
State Voting Laws in America: Historical Statutes and Their Modern Implications
Kevin Anderson, Chapman Rackaway, and Michael Smith
Palgrave
The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security
Bartholomew Sparrow
Public Affairs
SPOTLIGHT
Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics
Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck
Oxford University Press
From the Publisher: How do institutional arrangements established by law become operational in practice? It takes work for them to develop problem-solving capabilities and win recognition from others—what the authors call “practical authority.” Drawing from a decade-long, multi-site study, the authors show how an assortment of protagonists struggled to breathe life into new institutional designs. Their account weaves together three decades of national and state law-making with experimentation in establishing new kinds of participatory water management organizations. The authors examine why some organizations adapted creatively to challenges while others never got off the ground. To approach this complex, volatile, and non-linear process of transformation, the book develops a framework for investigating the actions and practices of institution-building.
Rebecca Neaera Abers is professor of political pcience at the University of Brasília. Her research interests focus on the politics of institutional reform, especially the creation of new, “participatory” decision-making arenas.
Margaret Keck is professor of political science at Johns Hopkins University. Her areas of interest include comparative politics, international relations (Latin American politics, the environment, and social movements).
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