University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Capitol Investments
The Marketability of Political Skills
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
“Who would spend millions for a job that pays $250k? Parker’s answer will surprise you. Required reading for Congress jocks.”
—Michael C. Munger, Duke University
“A unique and interesting approach to the study of legislators and legislative institutions.”
—David Brady, Stanford...
Elections in Japan, Korea, and Taiwan under the Single Non-Transferable Vote
The Comparative Study of an Embedded Institution
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2010
In recent years there has been a marked resurgence of interest in the effects of electoral laws on important aspects of politics such as party competition. In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars looks at the impact of one set of electoral rules--the single non-transferable vote--on electoral...
The Heimat Abroad
The Boundaries of Germanness
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
Germans have been one of the most mobile and dispersed populations on earth. Communities of German speakers, scattered around the globe, have long believed they could recreate their Heimat (homeland) wherever they moved, and that their enclaves could remain truly German. Furthermore, the history of...
Our Sisters' Promised Land
Women, Politics, and Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
In this powerful and timely book, Ayala H. Emmett examines the political roles of women in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. Emmett's insights come from numerous trips to the region that included in-depth interviews with many of the participants. Excerpts from the interviews give voice to the...
The Idea of the Theater in Latin Christian Thought
Augustine to the Fourteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
"Through well-informed and nuanced readings of key documents from the fourth through fourteenth centuries, this book challenges historians' long-held beliefs about how concepts of Greco-Roman theater survived the fall of Rome and the Middle Ages, and contributed to the dramatic triumphs of the...
Fractured Borders
Reading Women's Cancer Literature
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2010
Women have been writing about cancer for decades, but since the early 1990s, the body of literature on cancer has increased exponentially as growing numbers of women face the searing realities of the disease and give testimony to its ravages and revelations.
Fractured Borders: Reading Women's...
Rhythms of the Afro-Atlantic World
Rituals and Remembrances
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
"Collecting essays by fourteen expert contributors into a trans-oceanic celebration and critique, Mamadou Diouf and Ifeoma Kiddoe Nwankwo show how music, dance, and popular culture turn ways of remembering Africa into African ways of remembering. With a mix of Nuyorican, Cuban, Haitian, Kenyan,...
Law and the Postmodern Mind
Essays on Psychoanalysis and Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
David Gray Carlson and Peter Goodrich argue that the postmodern legal mind can be characterized as having shifted the focus of legal analysis away from the modernist understanding of law as a system that is unitary and separate from other aspects of culture and society. In exploring the various "other...
Trading Blocs
States, Firms, and Regions in the World Economy
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Global commerce is rapidly organizing around regional trading blocs in North America, Western Europe, Pacific Asia, and elsewhere--with potentially dangerous consequences for the world trading system. Professor Kerry Chase examines how domestic politics has driven the emergence of these trading blocs,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
Noneconomists often think that economists' approach to race is almost exclusively one of laissez-faire. Racism, Liberalism, and Economics argues that economists' ideas are more complicated. The book considers economists' support of markets in relation to the challenge of race and race relations and...
Ethnic Cues
The Role of Shared Ethnicity in Latino Political Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
"New theoretical propositions, original data, and rigorous empirical tests are what one looks for in cutting-edge social science. Fortunately, all three are apparent in Ethnic Cues. The author has pushed his thinking to develop new ways of understanding and explaining patterns of Latino voting...
Responsive Democracy
Increasing State Accountability in East Asia
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2011
"Responsive Democracy is a pioneering contribution to the political analysis of administrative law in East Asia. Both political scientists and legal academics will greatly benefit from the author's in-depth analysis of the intersection between presidential power and administrative law in the...
Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind
Medieval Constructions of a Disability
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2014
"Bold, deeply learned, and important, offering a provocative thesis that is worked out through legal and archival materials and in subtle and original readings of literary texts. Absolutely new in content and significantly innovative in methodology and argument, Stumbling Blocks Before the Blind...
No Middle Ground
How Informal Party Organizations Control Nominations and Polarize Legislatures
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2009
“This is a fascinating book. It is one of the best studies of the ways that parties and politics get conducted in any American state. Masket shows that legislators can be perfectly content without parties that control agendas and does a terrific job of explaining the transition from free-wheeling...