University Of Michigan Press imprint: 1020 books
by Jamie L Carson, Joel Sievert
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2018
David Mayhew’s 1974 thesis on the “electoral connection” and its impact on legislative behavior is the theoretical foundation for research on the modern U.S. Congress. Mayhew contends that once in office, legislators pursue the actions that put them in the best position for reelection. Carson...
Bodies and Ruins
Imagining the Bombing of Germany, 1945 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Bodies and Ruins explores changing German memories of World War II as it analyzes the construction of narratives in the postwar period including the depiction of the bombing of individual German cities. The book offers a corrective notion rising in the late 1990s notion that discussions of the Allied...
Ecoambiguity
Environmental Crises and East Asian Literatures
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2012
East Asian literatures are famous for celebrating the beauties of nature and depicting people as intimately connected with the natural world. But in fact, because the region has a long history of transforming and exploiting nature, much of the fiction and poetry in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean...
Imperfect Creatures
Vermin, Literature, and the Sciences of Life, 1600-1740
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Lucinda Cole’s Imperfect Creatures offers the first full-length study of the shifting, unstable, but foundational status of “vermin” as creatures and category in the early modern literary, scientific, and political imagination. In the space between theology and an emergent empiricism, Cole’s...
Democratization by Institutions
Argentina's Transition Years in Comparative Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In this pioneering study of democratization in Argentina, Leslie Anderson challenges Robert Putnam’s thesis that democracy requires high levels of social capital. She demonstrates in Democratization by Institutions that formal institutions (e.g., the executive, the legislature, the courts) can...
by Matt Brim
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2014
The central figure in black gay literary history, James Baldwin has become a familiar touchstone for queer scholarship in the academy. Matt Brim’s James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination draws on the contributions of queer theory and black queer studies to critically engage with and complicate...
When Informal Institutions Change
Institutional Reforms and Informal Practices in the Former Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2017
Huseyn Aliyev examines how, when, and under which conditions democratic institutional reforms affect informal institutions in hybrid regimes, or countries transitioning to democracy. He analyzes the impact of institutional changes on the use of informal practices and what happens when democratic reforms...
Ruins
Classical Theater and Broken Memory
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
Much of the theater of antiquity is marked by erasures: missing origins, broken genres, fragments of plays, ruins of architecture, absented gods, remains of older practices imperfectly buried and ghosting through the civic productions that replaced them. Ruins: Classical Theater and Broken Memory...
Kant's International Relations
The Political Theology of Perpetual Peace
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Why does Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) consistently invoke God and Providence in his most prominent texts relating to international politics? In this wide-ranging study, Seán Molloy proposes that texts such as Idea for a Universal History with Cosmopolitan Intent and Toward Perpetual Peace cannot...
by Barbara C. Burrell
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Barbara Burrell presents a comprehensive examination of women’s candidacy for the U.S. House of Representatives in congressional elections from 1994 through 2012. Analyzing extensive original data sets on all major party candidates for 10 elections—covering candidate status, sex, party affiliation,...
Future Medicine
Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
Future Medicine is an investigation into the clinical, legal, ethical, and regulatory changes occurring in our health care system as a result of the developing field of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine (CAM). Here Michael H. Cohen describes the likely evolution of the legal system and the health...
Narratives of Justice
Legislators' Beliefs about Distributive Fairness
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Narratives of Justice offers a provocative, contemporary look at the timeless questions of justice and fairness. Using face-to-face interviews, Grant Reeher plumbs the minds of legislators for their beliefs about distributive justice and attempts to discover the ways in which those beliefs influence...
by Cheryl Lynne Shanks
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2009
What does it mean to be an American? The United States defines itself by its legal freedoms; it cannot tell its citizens who to be. Nevertheless, where possible, it must separate citizen from alien. In so doing, it defines the desirable characteristics of its citizens in immigration policy, spelling...
Power without Force
The Political Capacity of Nation-States
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Decolonization after World War II led to a significant global increase in the number of states. Each new nation was born with high expectations. But these hopes were soon eroded by the ineffectiveness and capriciousness of many of the new regimes. In many states military juntas have become the order...