University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Elections in Australia, Ireland, and Malta under the Single Transferable Vote
Reflections on an Embedded Institution
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
The Single Transferable Vote, or STV, is often seen in very positive terms by electoral reformers, yet relatively little is known about its actual workings beyond one or two specific settings. This book gathers leading experts on STV from around the world to discuss the examples they know best, and...
Courting Failure
How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
LoPucki's provocative critique of Chapter 11 is required reading for everyone who cares about bankruptcy reform. This empirical account of large Chapter 11 cases will trigger intense debate both inside the academy and on the floor of Congress. Confronting LoPucki's controversial thesis-that competition...
Soul Music
Tracking the Spiritual Roots of Pop from Plato to Motown
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
"Exceptionally illuminating and philosophically sophisticated."
---Ted Cohen, Professor of Philosophy, University of Chicago
"In this audacious and long-awaited book, Joel Rudinow takes seriously a range of interrelated issues that most music theorizing is embarrassed to tackle....
The Problem of the Color[blind]
Racial Transgression and the Politics of Black Performance
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
"Catanese's beautifully written and cogently argued book addresses one of the most persistent sociopolitical questions in contemporary culture. She suggests that it is performance and the difference it makes that complicates the terms by which we can even understand 'multicultural' and 'colorblind'...
by Moshe Lewin
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
One of the great political strategists of his era, V. I. Lenin continues to attract historical interest, yet his complex personality eludes full understanding. This new edition of Moshe Lewin's classic political biography, including an afterword by the author, suggests new approaches for studying...
The Great Justices, 1941-54
Black, Douglas, Frankfurter, and Jackson in Chambers
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2009
The Great Justices offers a revealing glimpse of a judicial universe in which titanic egos often clash, and comes as close as any book ever has to getting inside the minds of Supreme Court jurists.
This is rare and little-examined territory: in the public consciousness the Supreme Court is...
Among the Lowest of the Dead
The Culture of Capital Punishment
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Thorough and unbiased, Among the Lowest of the Dead is a gripping narrative that provides an unprecedented journalistic look into the actual workings of the capital punishment system.
"Has all the tension of the best true crime stories . . . This is journalism at its best."
--Library...
Philadelphia Freedom
Memoir of a Civil Rights Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2009
"David Kairys is one of the grand long-distance runners in the struggle for justice in America. His brilliant legal mind and superb lawyerly skills are legendary. This marvelous book is his gift to us!"
---Cornel West, Professor of Religion and African American Studies, Princeton University,...
Politics in the Pews
The Political Mobilization of Black Churches
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
"Politics in the Pews probes the internal dynamics of political decision making within the Black church."
---William E. Nelson, Jr., Research Professor, Department of African American and African Studies, Ohio State University
As Eric McDaniel demonstrates in his study of Black congregations...
Q. Aurelius Symmachus
A Political Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Symmachus was a brilliant orator, writer, and statesman, often flatly labeled as one of the last pagan senators. Cristiana Sogno offers a reconstruction of the political career of Symmachus through close analysis of his extensive writings, while also proposing a critical reevaluation of his historical...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
As European integration has deepened and become more invasive, the tension between the authority of the European Union and the autonomy of member states has increased, while dissatisfaction with the political institutions of the European Union has increased dramatically. How fast and how far European...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
It's hard to imagine discussing welfare policy without discussing race, yet all too often this uncomfortable factor is avoided or simply ignored. Sometimes the relationship between welfare and race is treated as so self-evident as to need no further attention; equally often, race in the context of...
Growing Apart
Oil, Politics, and Economic Change in Indonesia and Nigeria
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
"Growing Apart is an important and distinguished contribution to the literature on the political economy of development. Indonesia and Nigeria have long presented one of the most natural opportunities for comparative study. Peter Lewis, one of America's best scholars of Nigeria, has produced...
The Changing Face of Economics
Conversations with Cutting Edge Economists
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
The Changing Face of Economics gives the reader a sense of the modern economics profession and how it is changing. The volume does so with a set of nine interviews with cutting edge economists, followed by interviews with two Nobel Prize winners, Paul Samuelson and Kenneth Arrow, reflecting on the...