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  • Producing Reproductive Rights

    Determining Abortion Policy Worldwide

    by Udi Sommer, Aliza Forman-Rabinovici ...
    With events and movements such as #MeToo, the Gender Equality UN Sustainable Development Goal, the Irish and Chilean abortion policy changes, and the worldwide Women's March movement, women's rights are at the top of the global public agenda. Yet, countries around the world continue to debate if and how women should have access to reproductive rights, and specifically abortion. This book provides ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Emerging Republican Minorities

    Racial and Ethnic Realignment in the Trump Era

    by Dr. Udi Sommer, Mr. Idan Franco ...
    How is it possible that Donald Trump, a champion of racist and anti-immigrant policies, has only attracted more minority voters since 2016? Drawing on extensive statistical analysis, this book challenges the conventional wisdom on Black, Latino, and Asian American voters.Positing a host of theoretical innovations based on diverse data sources, The Emerging Republican Minorities establishes that ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Legal Path Dependence and the Long Arm of the Religious State

    Sodomy Provisions and Gay Rights across Nations and over Time

    by Victor Asal, Udi Sommer ...
    A comparative examination of the political, historical, legal, and religious antecedents of penalties and discrimination against sexual minority groups around the world.Bringing together theoretical perspectives from both comparative politics and public law, this book examines the reasons why certain countries criminalize same-sex activities while others have carved into law the requirement that ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Mobilizing for Human Rights

    International Law in Domestic Politics

    by Beth A. Simmons ...
    This volume argues that international human rights law has made a positive contribution to the realization of human rights in much of the world. Although governments sometimes ratify human rights treaties, gambling that they will experience little pressure to comply with them, this is not typically the case. Focusing on rights stakeholders rather than the United Nations or state pressure, Beth ... Read more

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  • Laboratories against Democracy

    How National Parties Transformed State Politics

    by Jacob M. Grumbach ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in American Politics
    As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the priceOver the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the ... Read more

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  • The Backsliders

    Why Leaders Undermine Their Own Democracies

    by Susan C. Stokes ...
    Why democracy is under assault across the globe by the leaders entrusted to preserve itDemocracies around the world are getting swept up in a wave of democratic erosion. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, two dozen presidents and prime ministers have attacked their countries’ democratic institutions, violating political norms, aggrandizing their own powers, and often trying to ... Read more

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  • Polarized by Degrees

    How the Diploma Divide and the Culture War Transformed American Politics

    by Matt Grossmann, David A. Hopkins ...
    Over the past several decades, American society has experienced fundamental changes – from shifting relations between social groups and evolving language and behavior norms to the increasing value of a college degree. These transformations have polarized the nation's political climate and ignited a perpetual culture war. In a sequel to their award-winning collaboration Asymmetric Politics, ... Read more

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  • Post-Racial or Most-Racial?

    Race and Politics in the Obama Era

    by Michael Tesler ...
    When Barack Obama won the presidency, many posited that we were entering into a post-racial period in American politics. Regrettably, the reality hasn't lived up to that expectation. Instead, Americans' political beliefs have become significantly more polarized by racial considerations than they had been before Obama's presidency—in spite of his administration's considerable efforts to neutralize ... Read more

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  • Explaining Institutional Change

    Ambiguity, Agency, and Power

    Edited by Kathleen Thelen, James Mahoney ...
    This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring the general theory to ... Read more

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  • American Contradiction

    Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now

    by Paul Starr ...
    How did Americans come to elect Barack Obama—and then Donald Trump? Those choices capture what Paul Starr calls the American contradiction.The whole truth about America, Starr argues in this new history of the United States since the 1950s, has never been contained in one consistent set of values or interests. The nation was born in the contradiction between freedom and slavery. Today it is beset ... Read more

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  • The White Working Class

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Justin Gest ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To Know®
    Powered by original field research and survey analysis in the United States and United Kingdom, The White Working Class: What Everyone Needs to Know® provides a comprehensive and accessible exploration of white working-class politics and the populism that is transforming the transatlantic social and political landscape. In recent years, the world has been reintroduced to the constituency of "white ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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