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Social Resilience in the Neoliberal Era
This book analyzes the effects of neoliberalism, a global phenomenon dominating social and political life for more than thirty years. It takes an unusually broad view of neoliberalism, seeing it not only as a set of economic and political initiatives but as a movement that brought new logics into the heart of many spheres of social life, affecting the family, housing, definitions of self-worth, and many fundamental aspects of social relations. To understand how individuals and communities have responded to the movement, the book introduces the concept of social resilience and explores the factors that allowed some groups to sustain their well-being in the face of neoliberal challenges, while others suffered losses in the face of these new logics.
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The Rationalizing Voter
Political behavior is the result of innumerable unnoticed forces and conscious deliberation is often a rationalization of automatically triggered feelings and thoughts. This book proposes and empirically tests a theory of motivated political reasoning that predicts that when citizens think about familiar political leaders, groups, and issues, their prior feelings spontaneously bias how information is encoded, retrieved, evaluated, and acted upon.
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The Political Power of Protest
This book is the first to provide quantifiable evidence that protest shifts the policy positions of national political leaders for each branch of government. Drawing on daily presidential rhetoric, roll call votes of congressional leaders, and Supreme Court decisions, the book demonstrates that national politicians take cues from minority protest activity that later lead to major shifts in public policy, rivaling the influence that minorities have through elections and public opinion.
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Formal Models of Domestic Politics
Intended for students in political science and economics who have already taken a course in game theory, this text provides a unified and accessible survey of canonical and important new formal models of domestic politics.
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A Most Masculine State
Madawi Al-Rasheed's new book goes beyond the conventional tropes that describe women in Saudi Arabia to probe the historical, political, and religious forces that have, across the years, delayed and thwarted their emancipation. The book demonstrates how, under the patronage of the state and its religious nationalism, women have become hostage to contradictory political projects that on the one hand demand female piety, and on the other hand encourage modernity.
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Informal Labor, Formal Politics, and Dignified Discontent in India
This book examines the growing group of "informal" or "precarious" workers who are unregulated and have no labor rights. Rina Agarwala investigates how these vulnerable workers are organizing to improve their livelihoods in India. Drawing on 300 personal interviews with women workers in construction and tobacco, she finds – contrary to the existing literature – that these workers are launching an innovative movement to assert their rights.
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The Undeserving Rich
Most assume that Americans care little about income inequality, believe opportunities abound, admire the rich, and dislike redistributive policies. In this book, Leslie McCall contends that such assumptions are based on both incomplete survey data and economic conditions of the past and not present. Her book reveals that Americans have desired less inequality for decades and explains why.
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Constitutional Change and Democracy in Indonesia
This is the story of how democracy became entrenched in the world's largest Muslim-majority country. Indonesia was threatened by a possibility of deadlock over a new constitution and by violence between Islamic and secular groups. It managed to overcome these divisions by adopting an unconventional, gradual course of constitutional amendment that made consensus possible. The Indonesians also adopted political institutions that preserved their political pluralism and provided incentives for politicians to behave moderately. As a result, Indonesia has managed to hold multiple elections and to transfer power peacefully.
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American Journalism and International Relations
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Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective
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The Political Economy of Human Happiness
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