University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Campaign Reform
Insights and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
What is wrong with American political campaigns? How could the campaign process be improved? This volume brings the expertise of leading political scientists to the public debate about campaign reform. These scholars probe the reality behind the conventional wisdom that nasty, vacuous campaigns dominated...
The Great Depression
An International Disaster of Perverse Economic Policies
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
The Great Depression was the worst economic catastrophe in modern history. Not only did it cause massive worldwide unemployment, but it also led to the rise of Adolf Hitler in Germany, World War II in Europe, and the tragic deaths of tens of millions of people. This book describes the sequence of...
The Phantom Respondents
Opinion Surveys and Political Representation
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Examines a fundamental problem for opinion polls and those who use them.
by Andrew Carl Sobel
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
The growth of global finance since 1960 constitutes one of the most important transformations in social relations during the twentieth century. Using historical, statistical, and graphical techniques, State Institutions, Private Incentives, and Global Capital examines three important aspects of this...
The Politics of Community Policing
Rearranging the Power to Punish
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
In this in-depth examination of community policing in Seattle, William T. Lyons, Jr. explores the complex issues associated with the establishment and operation of community policing, an increasingly popular method for organizing law enforcement in this country.
Stories about community policing...
Banking on Reform
Political Parties and Central Bank Independence in the Industrial Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
Banking on Reform examines the political determinants of recent reforms to monetary policy institutions in the industrial democracies. With these reforms, political parties have sought to draw on the political credibility of an independent central bank to cope with electoral consequences of economic...
Building a New Biocultural Synthesis
Political-Economic Perspectives on Human Biology
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Anthropology, with its dual emphasis on biology and culture, is--or should be--the discipline most suited to the study of the complex interactions between these aspects of our lives. Unfortunately, since the early decades of this century, biological and cultural anthropology have grown distinct, and...
Staging Philanthropy
Patriotic Women and the National Imagination in Dynastic Germany, 1813-1916
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
Staging Philanthropy is a history of women's philanthropic associations during Germany's "long" nineteenth century. Challenged by the French Revolution and the Napoleonic occupation and war, dynastic groups in Germany made community welfare and its defense part of newly-gendered social obligations,...
America at Risk
Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
America at Risk gathers original essays by a distinguished and bipartisan group of writers and intellectuals to address a question that matters to Americans of every political persuasion: what are some of the greatest dangers facing America today? The answers, which range from dwindling political...
The Political Economy of Dual Transformations
Market Reform and Democratization in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
In the early 1990s, scholars voiced skepticism about the capacity of Eastern Europe's new democracies to manage simultaneous political and economic reform. They argued that the surge of popular participation following democratization would thwart efforts by successor governments to enact market reforms...
Systemic Choices
Nonlinear Dynamics and Practical Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The revolution in social scientific theory and practice known as nonlinear dynamics, chaos, or complexity, derived from recent advances in the physical, biological, and cognitive sciences, is now culminating with the widespread use of tools and concepts such as praxis, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence,...
Secular Morality and International Security
American and British Decisions about War
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“[Fanis] demonstrates an impressive ability to travel nimbly between abstract theoretical concepts and a messy reality. In each one of the case study chapters, her analysis is rich, thoughtful, and imaginative.”
—Ido Oren, University of Florida
Combining insights from cultural studies,...
Political Complexity
Nonlinear Models of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This collection illustrates how nonlinear methods can provide new insight into existing political questions. Politics is often characterized by unexpected consequences, sensitivity to small changes, non-equilibrium dynamics, the emergence of patterns, and sudden changes in outcomes. These are all...
Trust
Representatives and Constituents
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Why do electors trust their representatives?