University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
The Power-Conflict Story
A Dynamic Model of Interstate Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
The Power-Conflict Story explains patterns of behavior in major world rivalries since 1816. Kelly M. Kadera carefully lays out the dynamic connections between two rival nations' power relationship and their conflictual interactions with one another. Rivals accumulate power and use conflict as a method...
by Michael Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
International Political Earthquakes is the masterwork of the preeminent scholar Michael Brecher. Brecher, who came of age before World War II, has witnessed more than seven decades of conflict and has spent his career studying the dynamics of relations among nations throughout the world.
When...
Embedded Politics
Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Embedded Politics offers a unique framework for analyzing the impact of past industrial networks on the way postcommunist societies build new institutions to govern the restructuring of their economies. Drawing on a detailed analysis of communist Czechoslovakia and contemporary Czech industries and...
#identity
Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-underrepresented...
by Caroline Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
When it appeared in 1983, Caroline Humphrey's Karl Marx Collective was the first detailed study of the Soviet collective farm system. Through careful ethnographic work on two collective farms operated in Buryat communities in Siberia, the author presented an absorbing--if dispiriting--account of the...
by Maura Stanton
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2009
In Cities in the Sea, Maura Stanton taps into the mysterious force of the fairy tale, with its fantastic images and magical narrative patterns. Her stories blur the boundaries between fairy tale and verité, and comment on the art of storytelling. A range of characters -- from a business man to a...
Miranda's Waning Protections
Police Interrogation Practices after Dickerson
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Did the Supreme Court's upholding of Miranda in 2000 adversely impact law enforcement, as conservatives have complained, or was it a reaffirmation of individual rights?
Welsh S. White looks at both sides of the issue, emphasizing that Miranda represents just one stage in the Court's ongoing...
by Gregory Wawro
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
When members are elected to the House of Representatives they have a certain freedom to decide how they will act as members and how they will build their reputations. Just as in the market place entrepreneurs build businesses, so in the House of Representatives members have the freedom to choose to...
The Politics of Preference
Democratic Institutions and Affirmative Action in the United States and India
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Sunita Parikh examines the history and fate of affirmative action programs in two ethnically heterogeneous democracies, the United States and India. Affirmative action programs in the United States represent a controversial policy about which the American public feel at best ambivalence and at worst...
From Revolution to War
State Relations in a World of Change
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
In the history of international relations, few events command as much attention as revolution and war. Over the centuries, revolutionary transformations have produced some of the most ruinous and bloody wars. Nevertheless, the breakdown of peace in time of revolution is poorly understood. Patrick...
Transformative Justice
Israeli Identity on Trial
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?
Transformative Justice, Leora Bilsky's landmark study of Israeli political trials, poses this deceptively simple question. The four trials that she analyzes focus on identity, the nature of pluralism, human rights, and the rule of law-issues whose importance...
by Liza Wieland
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2010
A modest, quiet woman, Mara Raynor never dreamed she'd one day find herself in charge of the small private school in Washington, D.C., where for many years she taught music and choir. But after the unexpected death of her husband, the school's headmaster, Mara finds herself thrust into the public...
Party Competition and Responsible Party Government
A Theory of Spatial Competition Based Upon Insights from Behavioral Voting Research
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
In countries with multiparty political systems, we assume--if the system is going to work--that parties have relatively stable positions on policy, that these positions diverge, and that voters make choices based on policy preferences. Yet much of the research on voter behavior and party competition...
Melancholy, Love, and Time
Boundaries of the Self in Ancient Literature
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2010
Ancient literature features many powerful narratives of madness, depression, melancholy, lovesickness, simple boredom, and the effects of such psychological states upon individual sufferers. Peter Toohey turns his attention to representations of these emotional states in the Classical, Hellenistic,...