University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
Helping People Help Themselves
From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
David Ellerman relates a deep theoretical groundwork for a philosophy of development, while offering a descriptive, practical suggestion of how goals of development can be better set and met. Beginning with the assertion that development assistance agencies are inherently structured to provide help...
by D. Scott Bennett, Allan C. Stam III
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
In The Behavioral Origins of War, D. Scott Bennett and Allan C. Stam analyze systemic, binary, and individual factors in order to evaluate a wide variety of theories about the origins of war.
Challenging the view that theories of war are nothing more than competing explanations for observed behavior,...
Brokers and Bureaucrats
Building Market Institutions in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
A classic problem of social order prompts the central questions of this book: Why are some groups better able to govern themselves than others? Why do state actors sometimes delegate governing power to other bodies? How do different organizations including the state, the business community, and protection...
Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences
Foundations and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications offers the most recent thinking in applying the chaos paradigm to the social sciences. The book explores the methodological techniques--and their difficulties--for determining whether chaotic processes may in fact exist in a particular...
Volatile States
Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economies
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Why do American state economies grow at such vastly different rates and manifest such wide differences in living standards? Volatile States identifies the sources of rising living standards by examining the recent economic and fiscal history of the American states. With new insights about the factors...
Suing the Gun Industry
A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
"Mass tort litigation against the gun industry, with its practical weaknesses, successes, and goals, provides the framework for this collection of thoughtful essays by leading social scientists, lawyers, and academics. . . . These informed analyses reveal the complexities that make the debate...
Security Integration in Europe
How Knowledge-based Networks Are Transforming the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
At a time when many observers question the EU’s ability to achieve integration of any significance, and indeed Europeans themselves appear disillusioned, Mai’a K. Davis Cross argues that the EU has made remarkable advances in security integration, in both its external and internal dimensions....
Origins of Liberal Dominance
State, Church, and Party in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
How did liberal movements reshape the modern world? Origins of Liberal Dominance offers a revealing account of how states, churches, and parties joined together in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany to produce fundamentally new forms of organization that have shaped contemporary politics.
Modern...
by Andrew Farkas
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Explaining change in the behavior of states and other international actors is at the core of the study of international relations. The proficiency with which states respond to changes in the international environment has important consequences for world peace and the world economy as well as domestic...
Altering Party Systems
Strategic Behavior and the Emergence of New Political Parties in Western Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
New political parties have regularly appeared in developed democracies around the world. In some countries issues focusing on the environment, immigration, economic decline, and regional concerns have been brought to the forefront by new political parties. In other countries these issues have been...
Protest and the Politics of Blame
The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
The wage arrears crisis has been one of the biggest problems facing contemporary Russia. At its peak, it has involved some $10 billion worth of unpaid wages and has affected approximately 70 percent of the workforce. Yet public protest in the country has been rather limited. The relative passivity...
Empowering Exporters
Reciprocity, Delegation, and Collective Action in American Trade Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Until the New Deal, most groups seeking protection from imports were successful in obtaining relief from Congress. In general the cost of paying the tariffs for consumers was less than the cost of mounting collective action to stop the tariffs. In 1934, with the passage of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements...
Choosing an Identity
A General Model of Preference and Belief Formation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Social science research is fragmented by the widely differing and seemingly contradictory approaches used by the different disciplines of the social sciences to explain human action. Attempts at integrating different social science approaches to explain action have often been frustrated by the difficulty...
When the Stakes Are High
Deterrence and Conflict among Major Powers
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
When the Stakes Are High is based on the premise that powers have continually played a decisive role in international conflicts. Consequently, one of the key questions concerns the conditions that are likely to trigger or abate dispute escalation into major power conflicts. In this book, Vesna Danilovic...