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Why Poor Americans Love The Political Erosion of the Democracy and Political
Their Country Voting Rights Act Ignorance
Why Smaller Government
Francesco Duina Jesse H. Rhodes
Is Smarter
Why are poor Americans so Over the past five decades, both
patriotic? In Broke and Patriotic, Democrats and Republicans in
Ilya Somin
Francesco Duina contends that the Congress have consistently voted One of the biggest problems with
best way to answer this question is to expand the protections offered modern democracy is that most of
to speak directly to Americas most by the Voting Rights Act. And yet, the public is ignorant of politics.
impoverished. Spending time in the administration of the VRA has This creates a nation of people
bus stations, Laundromats, senior become more fragmented, and with little political knowledge
citizen centers, homeless shelters, judicial interpretation of its terms and little ability to objectively
public libraries, and fast food has become much less generous. evaluate what they do know. The
restaurants, he conducted over 60 second edition of Democracy and
Ballot Blocked argues that conserva-
revealing interviews in which his Political Ignorance fully updates
tives adopt a paradoxical strategy in
participants explain how they view its analysis to include new, vital
which they acquiesce to expansive
themselves and their country. discussions on the Big Sort, the
voting rights protections in Congress
link between ignorance and the
This book offers a stirring portrait (where decisions are visible and easily
disproportionate influence of the
of the people left out of the national traceable) while simultaneously
wealthy, proposed new strategies
conversation. By giving them voice, narrowing the scope of federal
for increasing political knowledge,
Duina sheds new light on a sector of enforcement via administrative and
and up-to-date survey data. Ilya
American society that we are only judicial maneuvers (which are less
Somin reveals political ignorance
beginning to recognize as a powerful visible and harder to trace). Over
as a major problem for democracy,
force in shaping the countrys future. time, this strategy has enabled a
one best mitigated by decentral-
This is superlative ethnography, conservative Supreme Court to
izing and limiting government.
allowing voices too little heard to exercise preponderant influence over
speak for themselves, and to do so the scope of federal enforcement. A must-read for anyone wanting
with pride. Social understandings to understand the pathologies of
Bold and richly detailed. Rhodes American democracy and what we
can be furthered more by this book provides timely and crucial new
than by any other at present in can do about it.
insights into the Voting Rights Acts
the marketplace. evolution and undoing. Jason Brennan,
author ofThe Ethics of Voting
John A. Hall, Vesla Weaver,
McGill University Yale University 312 pages, 2016
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4 U.S. POLITICS
The Rights First Amendment Raised Right In Rome We Trust
The Politics of Free Speech and Fatherhood in Modern The Rise of Catholics in
the Return of Conservative American Conservatism American Political Life
Libertarianism Jeffrey R. Dudas Manlio Graziano
Wayne Batchis What, and who, holds together the The Catholicization of the United
Not so long ago, being aggressively modern conservative movements States is a recent phenomenon and
profree speech was as closely corporate interests, small-government was particularly prominent in the
associated with American political libertarians, social traditionalists, and Obama administration. Over one-
liberalism as being pro-choice or evangelical Christians? third of cabinet members, the Vice
progun control. Yet today, for President, the White House Chief
Raised Rightpursues an answer
many conservatives, free speech of Staff, the heads of Homeland
through a study of three iconic
represents a crucial shield that pro- Security and the CIA, the director
figures:National Revieweditor
tects traditionalists from a perceived and deputy director of the FBI, and
William F. Buckley, Jr., President
scourge of political correctness and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs
Ronald Reagan, and Supreme Court
liberal oversensitivity. Free market of Staff were all Roman Catholic.
Justice Clarence Thomas. Jeffrey R.
conservatives have risen up to Challenging received wisdom that
Dudas identifies a paternal rights
embrace a now cherished liberty: the American Catholic Church is
discoursearguments about father-
freedom of commercial expression. in crisis and that the political
hood and rights that permeate the
Surveying six decades of writings religion in the United States is
mens personal lives and political
from the conservative publication Evangelicalism, Manlio Graziano
visions. Each argued that paternal
National Review, alongside the provides an engaging account of
discipline produced autonomous
evolving constitutional law and the tendency of Catholics to play
citizens worthy and capable of self-
ideological predispositions of an increasingly significant role in
governance, which provided
Supreme Court justices, Wayne American politics, as well as the
the cohesive agent for an entire
Batchis reveals how this keystone rising role of American prelates in
movement, uniting its celebration
of our civic beliefs now carries a the Roman Catholic Church.
of its founding fathers, past
complex political identity. This fascinating and astonishingly
and present, constitutional
An important and readable guide to and biological. neglected subject is of immense
the transition from conservative mor- importance, and I can think of
alism to conservative libertarianism. I began this book a skeptic and finished no one better positioned than
it a convert. A true tour de force. Manlio Graziano to treat it in
Mark Graber,
University of Maryland Malcolm M. Feeley, all its complexity.
School of Law University of California, Berkeley Stanislao G. Pugliese,
Hofstra University
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U.S. POLITICS 5
The Transparency Fix The Poverty of Privacy Rights The Balance Gap
Secrets, Leaks, and Uncontrollable Khiara M. Bridges Working Mothers and the
Government Information Limits of the Law
The Poverty of Privacy Rightsmakes
Mark Fenster a simple, controversial argument: Sarah Cote Hampson
Government information cannot Poor mothers in America are In recent decades, laws and workplace
be controlled. The Transparency deprived of the right to privacy. policies have emerged that seek to
Fix asserts that both transparency The U.S. Constitution is supposed address the balance between work
movements and secrecy advocates to bestow rights equally. Yet the poor and family. Millions of women in
hold the mistaken belief that are subject to invasions of privacy the U.S. take time off when they give
government information can be that are gross demonstrations of birth or adopt a child, making use of
released or kept secure on command. governmental power. Khiara M. family-friendly laws and policies.
Bridges investigates poor mothers
In truth, the world did not end experiences with the stateboth The Balance Gaptraces the paths
because Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, when they receive public assistance individual women take in
and Edward Snowden released and when they do not. Presenting understanding and invoking
classified information. But nor a holistic view of how the state work/life balance laws and policies.
was there a significant political intervenes in all facets of poor Conducting in-depth interviews
change. Using a variety of examples mothers privacy, Bridges turns in two distinctive workplace
to examine how government popular thinking on its head, settingspublic universities and
information actually flows, Mark arguing that these women simply the U.S. militarySarah Cote
Fenster describes how the legal do not have familial, informational, Hampson uncovers how women
regimes tenuous control over state and reproductive privacy rights. navigate the laws and the unspoken
information belies the promise and Further, she asserts that until we cultures of their institutions. As
peril of transparency. He challenges disrupt the cultural narratives that Hampson shows, these policies
us to confront the implausibility of equate poverty with immorality, and womens abilities to understand
controlling government informa- nothing will change. and utilize them have fallen
tion despite our obsession with short of alleviating the tensions
transparency and secrecy. This book calls us to rethink the very women experience.
meaning of the right to privacy and
No one has done more than Mark to end the unjust and unsupportable Elegantly written and timely,The
Fenster to challenge the premises and moral condemnation of poverty. Balance Gapis a rigorous call to
policies of the open government move- action in transforming how we view
Dorothy Roberts,
ment. This book will be foundational author of Killing the Black Body the ideal mother and the ideal worker.
in critical transparency studies. Rene Ann Cramer,
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U.S. POLITICS 7
StanfordBRIEFS
8 STANFORD BRIEFS
Challenged Hegemony The Politics of Weapons Beyond the Euromaidan
The United States, China, and Inspections Comparative Perspectives on
Russia in the Persian Gulf Assessing WMD Monitoring and Advancing Reform in Ukraine
Steve A. Yetiv and Verification Regimes Edited by Henry E. Hale and
Katerina Oskarsson Nathan E. Busch and Robert W. Orttung
Few issues in international affairs Joseph F. Pilat Beyond the Euromaidan examines
and energy security animate thinkers Given recent controversies over the prospects for advancing reform in
more than the classic topic of suspected WMD programs in Ukraine in the wake of the February
hegemony, and the case of the proliferating countries, there is an 2014 Euromaidan revolution and
Persian Gulf presents particularly increasingly urgent need for effective Russian invasion. It examines six
fertile ground for considering this monitoring and verifications crucial areas where reform is needed,
concept. Steve A. Yetiv and Katerina regimesthe mechanisms intended providing one chapter that focuses
Oskarsson offer a panoramic study to clarify the status of WMD programs on Ukraines own experience and
of hegemony and foreign powers in in suspected proliferators. The one chapter that examines the issue
the Persian Gulf, offering the most Politics of Weapons Inspections in the broader context of interna-
comprehensive, data-driven portrait examines the successes, failures, tional practice.
to date of their evolving relations. and lessons that can be learned Placing Ukraine in comparative
The authors argue that the United from past WMD monitoring and perspective shows that many of the
States has become hegemonic in the verification regimes in order to help countrys problems are not unique
Persian Gulf, ultimately protecting determine how best to establish and and that other countries have been
oil security for the entire global maintain such regimes in the future. able to address many of the issues
economy. Through an analysis of In addition to examining these currently confronting Ukraine.
official and unofficial diplomatic regimes technological, political, and Ultimately, the authors propose a
relations, trade statistics, military legal contexts, Nathan E. Busch and series of reforms that can help
records, and more, they provide a Joseph F. Pilat reevaluate the track Ukraine make the best of a bad
detailed account of how U.S. hege- record of monitoring and verification situation. The book stresses the
mony and oil security have grown in in the historical cases of South need to focus on reforms that
tandem, as, simultaneously, China Africa, Libya, and Iraq. They further might not have immediate effect,
and Russia have increased their apply the lessons learned from these but that comparative experience
political and economic presence. cases to contemporary controversies shows can solve fundamental
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ASIAN POLITICS 11
Uneasy Partnerships Zouping Revisited The Colonial Origins of
Chinas Engagement with Japan, Adaptive Governance in a Ethnic Violence in India
the Koreas, and Russia in the Chinese County
Ajay Verghese
Era of Reform Edited by Jean C. Oi and
The neighboring north Indian
Edited by Thomas Fingar Steven M. Goldstein districts of Jaipur and Ajmer are
Uneasy Partnerships presents the China has undergone dramatic identical in language, geography,
analysis and insights of practitioners change in its economic institutions and religious and caste demogra-
and scholars who have shaped and in recent years, but surprisingly phy. But in recent decades, these
examined Chinas interactions with little change politically. Somehow, multiethnic communities have
key Northeast Asian partners the political institutions seem displayed differing patterns of
Japan, the Koreas, and Russia. capable of governing a vastly more ethnic conflict. Using archival
This text analyzes the perceptions, complex market economy and a research and elite interviews in five
priorities, and policies of China and rapidly changing labor force. One case studies across India, as well
its partners to explain why dyadic possible explanation, examined in as a quantitative analysis of 589
relationships evolved as they have Zouping Revisited, is that within the districts, Ajay Verghese shows that
during Chinas rise. old organizational molds there have the legacies of British colonialism
A masterful examination of been subtle but profound changes are key drivers of contemporary
Chinas complex interactions with to the ways these governing bodies conflict. Additionally, because
its immediate neighbors. The fine- actually work. The authors take as India served as a model for British
grained strands of this complex a case study the local government colonial expansion into parts of
story are woven into a compelling of Zouping County and find that it Africa and Southeast Asia, this
macro-level analysis of Northeast has been able to evolve significantly book links Indian ethnic conflict
Asia that will be applauded by
through ad hoc bureaucratic adapta- to violent outcomes in states as
experts and generalists alike.
tions and accommodations that diverse as Nigeria and Malaysia.
T.J. Pempel,
University of California, Berkeley
drastically change the operation of Outstanding.Verghese offers fresh
government institutions. hypotheses about the sources of
264 pages, April 2017 different types of ethnic violence
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The New Great Game old institutional structures are repur- James Mahoney,
posed to perform new functions. Northwestern University
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POLITICAL THEORY 15
Selfish Libertarians and Queer Theory The Prince of This World
Socialist Conservatives? The French Response Adam Kotsko
The Foundations of the Libertarian- Bruno Perreau The most enduring challenge to
Conservation Debate
In 2012 and 2013, masses of traditional monotheism is the
Nathan W. Schlueter and French citizens took to the streets problem of evil: God is all-good
Nikolai G. Wenzel to demonstrate against a bill on and all-powerful, and yet evil
Nathan W. Schlueter and Nikolai G. gay marriage. But demonstrators happens. The Prince of This World
Wenzel present a lively debate over the were not merely denouncing gay traces the story of the offloading of
essential questions that divide two marriage; they were also claiming responsibility for evil onto one of
competing political philosophies. that its origins lay in gender Gods rebellious creatures. In this
Wenzela libertarianand Schlueter theory, an ideology imported striking reexamination, the devil
a conservativeexplore the funda- from the United States. What are emerges as a theological symbol
mental similarities and differences the various facets of the French who helps justify oppression at the
between their respective positions, response to queer theory, from hands of Christian rulers. And he
introducing readers to the foundations the mobilization of activists and evolves alongside the biblical God,
of each political philosophy. the seminars of scholars to the who at first presents himself as the
emergence of queer media and liberator of the oppressed but ends
232 pages, 2016 the decision to translate this or up a cruel ruler. This is the story,
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that kind of book? By examining then, of how God becomes the
SECOND EDITION mutual influences across the devila devil who remains with
The Max Weber Dictionary Atlantic, Bruno Perreau analyzes us in our ostensibly secular age.
Key Words and Central Concepts changes in the idea of national This diabolically gripping geneal-
identity in France and the United ogy offers a stunning parable of
Richard Swedberg and States. In the process, he offers a Western politics, religious and
Ola Agevall new theory of minority politics: an secular. With the ironic wisdom
This fully updated and expanded ongoing critique of norms is not of a postmodern Beatrice, Kotsko
only what gives rise to a feeling of guides us through the sequence of
edition reflects current scholarly hells that leads to our own.
threads of inquiry and introduces belonging; it is the very thing that
founds citizenship. Catherine Keller,
the most recent translations and Drew University
references to Webers work. A wealth A signature contribution to
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been added, making this book is critical theory.
an invaluable resource to students, Bernard Harcourt,
scholars, and general readers alike. Columbia University
16 POLITICAL THEORY
Jimmy Carter in Africa Trust, but Verify The Politics of Rights and the
Race and the Cold War The Politics of Uncertainty and the 1911 Revolution in China
Nancy Mitchell Transformation of the Cold War
Xiaowei Zheng
Order, 19691991
In the late 1970s, the Cold War Chinas 1911 Revolution was a
overseas seemed to take a backseat Edited by Martin Klimke, momentous political transformation.
to more contentious domestic issues, Reinhild Kries, and Its leaders, however, were not rebellious
including race relations. Racism Christian F. Ostermann troublemakers on the periphery of
at home undermined Americans Trust, but Verify uses trustwith its imperial order. On the contrary, they
efforts to win hearts and minds emotional and predictive aspects were a powerful political and economic
abroad and provided potent propa- to explore international relations elite deeply entrenched in local society.
ganda to the Kremlin. As President in the second half of the Cold War. The revolution they spearheaded
Carter confronted Africa, American The dtente of the 1970s led to the produced a new, democratic political
foreign policy slammed up against development of some limited trust culture that enshrined national sover-
the most explosive and raw aspect of between the United States and the eignty, constitutionalism, and the rights
American domestic politicsracism. Soviet Union, but it also created of the people as indisputable principles.
Drawing on candid interviews with uncertainty in other areas, espe- Based upon previously untapped
Carter, as well as key diplomats, and cially on the part of smaller states Qing and Republican sources,
on an array of international archival that depended on their The Politics of Rights and the 1911
sources, Nancy Mitchell offers a alliance leaders for protection. Revolution in China is a nuanced and
timely reevaluation of the Carter The contributors to this volume colorful chronicle of the revolution
administration and of the man look at how the emotional side as it occurred in local and regional
himself. Mitchell reveals an admin- of the conflict affected the dynamics areas. Xiaowei Zheng explores the
istration not beset by weakness and of various Cold War relations. ideas that motivated the revolution,
indecision, but rather constrained An insightful explanation for one the popularization of those ideas,
by Cold War dynamics and by the of the great puzzles of recent history: and their animating impact on the
presidents own temperament as he how the Cold War, a seemingly inde- Chinese people at large. The focus
wrestled with a divided public and structible international regime, came of the book is not on the success or
his own human failings. to an end. The essays take seriously
the mission of relating the political, failure of the revolution, but rather
A truly definitive account of one of economic, and cultural factors to on the transformative effect that
the most challenging and important emotions history. revolution has on people.
aspects of my presidency.
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Former President of the United States
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POLITICAL HISTORY 17
The Social Life of Politics Contraband Corridor Campaigning for Children
Ethics, Kinship, and Union Making a Living at the Mexico Strategies for Advancing
Activism in Argentina Guatemala Border Childrens Rights
Sian Lazar Rebecca Berke Galemba Jo Becker
A central motor of Argentine historical The MexicoGuatemala border has Campaigning for Childrenfocuses
and political development since the emerged as a geopolitical hotspot on contemporary childrens rights,
early twentieth century, unions have of illicit flows of both goods and identifying the range of abuses
been the site of active citizenship people. Contraband Corridor seeks that affect children today, including
in both political participation and to understand the border from early marriage, female genital
the distribution of social, economic, the perspective of its long-term mutilation, child labor, sex traf-
political, and cultural rights. The inhabitants, including petty smug- ficking, corporal punishment,
Social Life of Politics examines the glers of corn, clothing, and coffee. the impact of armed conflict, and
intimate, personal, and family Challenging assumptions regarding access to education. Jo Becker
dimensions of two political activist security, trade, and illegality, Rebecca traces the last 25 years of the chil-
groups: the Union of National Civil Berke Galemba details how these drens rights movement, including
Servants (UPCN) and the Association residents engage in and justify the evolution of international laws
of State Workers (ATE). Sian Lazar extralegal practices in the context and standards to protect children
examines how activists in both of heightened border security, from abuse and exploitation. From
unions create themselves as particular restricted economic opportunities, a practitioners perspective, Becker
kinds of militants and forms of and exclusionary trade policies. provides careful case studies of the
political community. She places the Rather than assuming that extralegal organizations and campaigns that
lived experience of political activism activities necessarily threaten the are making a difference in the lives
into historical relief and shows how state and formal economy, Galembas of children.
ethics and family values deeply ethnography illustrates the complex This book examines initiatives
inform the process by which political ways that the formal, informal, legal, and strategies to show that change
actors are formed and understood. and illegal economies intertwine. for children is possible, and that
Sian Lazar provides fresh insight into This grounded, bottom up account remarkable transformation is
the moral foundations of political draws much-needed attention to this achievable.With its most
commitment and collective identity. too often overlooked border while compelling evidence, it will go
This book opens up fertile new terrain. carefully avoiding the alarmism a long way in ensuring that
and sensationalism found in popular human rights of children are
Webb Keane,
depictions of cross-border smuggling. protected worldwide.
author of Ethical Life: Its
Natural and Social Histories Kailash Satyarthi,
Peter Andreas, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
Brown University and Childrens Rights Activist
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18 POLITICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Just Violence Rights after Wrongs Crook County
Torture and Human Rights in Local Knowledge and Human Racism and Injustice in Americas
the Eyes of the Police Rights in Zimbabwe Largest Criminal Court
Rachel Wahl Shannon Morreira Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve
Stark revelations about police Rights After Wrongs ethnographically Crook County bursts open the
brutality have stoked heated debates explores the chasm between the ideals courthouse doors and enters the
about the use of force. Despite and the practice of human rights, hallways, courtrooms, judges
public interest, we know little about detailing the ways in which the chambers, and attorneys offices
the police officers who commit global framework of human rights is to reveal a world of punishment
violence such as torture. Through locally interpreted, constituted, and determined by race, not offense.
interviews with law enforcers in contested among Zimbabweans, in It urges all citizens to take a closer
India, Rachel Wahl uncovers what both Zimbabwe and South Africa. look at the way we do justice in
motivates officers to use and sup- Presenting the stories of those who America and to hold our arbiters of
port torture, and how these beliefs lived through the violent struggles justice accountable to the highest
shape their responses to human of the past decades, Shannon standards of equality.
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and coerce police officers into in the context of post-colonial
compliance, these strategies can Southern Africa. She uncovers the The Global Rise of Populism
undermine each other, leaving the disconnect between the ways human Performance, Political Style, and
movement with complex dilemmas rights appear on paper and the ways Representation
regarding whether to work with or in which it is possible for people
Benjamin Moffitt
against violent state officials. to use and understand them in
everyday life. This book argues for the need to
Just Violence offers an alternative
explanation of police violence and the rethink the concept of populism.
The global movement of refugees
misfit between local conceptions of and migrants is the human rights While still based on the classic
justice and the general principles of the issue of the twenty-first century. divide between the people and
human rights system. This provocative Shannon Morreira elegantly docu- the elite, populisms reliance on
book offers new insights into human ments the struggles of Zimbabwean new media technologies, its shifting
rights education and the enduring refugees and exiles in South Africa, relationship to political representa-
tensions between rights and security. drawing out the wider implications tion, and its increasing ubiquity
Sally Engle Merry, for concepts of personhood, rights, have seen it transform in nuanced
New York University and migration.
ways that demand explaining.
264 pages, January 2017 Richard A. Wilson,
University of Connecticut 240 pages, 2016
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