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  • 14 Nov 2024
    Daniel Silverman

    Understanding the Appeal and Limits of Misinformation in War

    Palestinians are faking their injuries. The October 7th attack was an “inside job.” Ukraine is full of secret Western chemical weapons labs. Misinformation narratives in situations of war and conflict continue to pile up around the world. When and where do these kinds of narratives spread, and what explains the extent to which people accept […]

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  • 31 Oct 2024
    Antje Wiener, Phil Orchard

    Contesting the World: Norm Research in Theory and Practice

    What are norms, and why do they matter for international relations? How do they help to guide and constitute state behaviour at the international level, as well as behaviour by other actors like international organisations and global civil society? And how do they constitute just and fair order? This book brings together a group of […]

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  • 30 Oct 2024
    Daniel B. Rodriguez

    Good Governing

    The constitutions of the fifty states in the United States create by their authority as fundamental law the structure of government and the means and mechanisms of governance for state, local, and special purpose governments.  Moreover, it is within the constitutions – their design, their interpretation by courts, and ultimately in their performance – that […]

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  • 14 Aug 2024
    Aditi Malik

    Playing with Fire: Parties and Political Violence in Kenya and India

    Political parties play vital roles in the healthy functioning of democratic regimes. They form the government and the opposition, provide structure to the electoral process, aggregate and channel citizens’ preferences, and promote democratic accountability. Yet, increasing global and comparative evidence suggests that parties are also key protagonists in events of violence around the world. From […]

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  • 5 Aug 2024
    Christopher Chambers-Ju

    Teachers’ Unions, the Labor Movement, and Education Reform

    Mobilizing Teachers is a book that shows how teachers’ unions have turned into powerful labor organizations that developed different roles in the political arena. Teachers’ unions lie at the juncture of two global changes that are playing out in countries around the world. First, with labor unions in decline (because of changes including automation and […]

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  • 22 Jul 2024
    Patrick J. Kenney, Kim L. Fridkin

    Do Debates Matter?

    A few weeks ago on May 15, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump agreed to at least two general election debates: one on June 27, 2024 and one on September 10, 2024.  The first debate will be hosted by CNN and moderated by Jake Tapper and Dana Bash, with no audience present at […]

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  • 13 May 2024
    Mehran Kamrava

    How Islam Rules in Iran

    How Islam Rules in Iran questions prevailing assumptions about the Iranian theocracy by demonstrating that the Islamic Republic has deep and continuously evolving ideological and jurisprudential roots. In today’s Iran, the book argues, state-religion relations exhibit three key features. An obvious feature is the deep basis of the state in innovative interpretations of Shia jurisprudence. […]

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  • 6 May 2024
    Joseph P. Tomain, Sidney A. Shapiro

    The Necessary Mix

    Market favoritism has been aggressively supported for more than 50 years by the Right and adopted by many on the Left. The emphasis has been on the priority of markets over government for solution to policy problems and for enhancing political liberties. Our book, How Government Built America, flips the script by arguing the strength […]

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