University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Rethinking Sustainability
Power, Knowledge, and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
Bringing together the thoughts of economists, political scientists, anthropologists, philosophers, and agricultural policy professionals, this volume focuses on the issues of sustainability in development. Examining such topics as international trade, political power, gender roles, legal institutions,...
Creative Politics
Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
State legislators are constantly making tradeoffs between changing taxes and providing public services. Not only must they reconcile their own policy preferences with the preferences of their constituents, but they must consider the impact of actions taken by both the federal government and competing...
by Melvin J. Hinich, Michael C. Munger
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
There is no unified theory that can explain both voter choice and where choices come from. Hinich and Munger fill that gap with their model of political communication based on ideology.
Rather than beginning with voters and diffuse, atomistic preferences, Hinich and Munger explore why large...
Eat What You Kill
The Fall of a Wall Street Lawyer
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
"A wonderful character study of someone whose cognitive dissonance ('I am brilliant, therefore I must be doing everything correctly') led directly to his downfall. Students would do well to read this book before venturing forth into a large firm, a small firm, or any pressure-cooker environment."
-Nancy...
Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political Economy
Past Paths and Future Directions in International Studies
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
No study of international relations is complete without consideration of foreign policy processes and an understanding of state security, conflict in global politics, and the relationship between the world economy and international behavior. Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy, and International Political...
Networks of Champions
Leadership, Access, and Advocacy in the U.S. House of Representatives
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
Media accounts of Congress emphasize conflict and the failure of Congress to enact legislation. Rarely do we see accounts of the successful efforts of members of Congress and outside advocacy groups to pass legislation dealing with important and controversial issues.
In Networks of Champions...
by Susan Welch, John Gruhl
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Affirmative action is one of the central issues of American politics today, and admission to colleges and universities has been at the center of the debate. While this issue has been discussed for years, there is very little real data on the impact of affirmative action programs on admissions to institutions...
Transforming Masculine Rule
Agriculture and Rural Development in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
"The premise of mainstreaming gender is to bring equality concerns into every aspect of policy-making, and this brave book offers a close look at how feminists have taken up the challenge to transform the hidden dynamics of male domination in agricultural policy in Europe. In contrast to the...
by Sam Pickering
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Praise for Sam Pickering:
"Pickering has all of Thurber's humor, and he writes as well as E. B. White. He writes with passion, wit, and a strange personal note of self-mockery; he is humanely educated, wise, and capable of a wide range of stylistic effects."
----Jay Parini
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The One-State Solution
A Breakthrough for Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
"A clear, trenchant book on a topic of enormous importance . . . a courageous plunge into boiling waters. If The One-State Solution helps propel forward a debate that has hardly begun in this country it will have performed a signal scholarly and political function."
---Tony Judt, New York...
After the End of History
The Curious Fate of American Materialism
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
"Robert E. Lane is one of the most prominent and distinguished critics of both the human impact of market economies and economic theory, arguing from much research that happiness is more likely to flow from companionship, enjoyment of work, contribution to society, and the opportunity to develop...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
"Those at the periphery of society often figure obsessively for those at its center, and never more so than with the rogues of early modern England. Whether as social fact or literary fiction-or both, simultaneously-the marginal rogue became ideologically central and has remained so for historians,...
Slayers and Their Vampires
A Cultural History of Killing the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2010
The first book to explore the origins of the vampire slayer
“A fascinating comparison of the original vampire myths to their later literary transformations.”
—Adam Morton, author of On Evil
“From the Balkan Mountains to Beverly Hills, Bruce has mapped the vampire’s migration. There’s...
Signaling Goodness
Social Rules and Public Choice
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Political, intellectual, and academic discourse in the United States has been awash in political correctness, which has itself been berated and defended -- yet little understood. As a corrective, Nelson and Greene look at a more general process: adopting political positions to enhance one's reputation...