Princeton University Press: 2605 books
by Gwyneth H. McClendon
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
How envy, spite, and the pursuit of admiration influence politics
Why do governments underspend on policies that would make their constituents better off? Why do people participate in contentious politics when they could reap benefits if they were to abstain? In Envy in Politics, Gwyneth McClendon...
When Experiments Travel
Clinical Trials and the Global Search for Human Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2009
The phenomenal growth of global pharmaceutical sales and the quest for innovation are driving an unprecedented search for human test subjects, particularly in middle- and low-income countries. Our hope for medical progress increasingly depends on the willingness of the world's poor to participate...
Biomedical Odysseys
Fetal Cell Experiments from Cyberspace to China
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Thousands of people from more than eighty countries have traveled to China since 2001 to undergo fetal cell transplantation. Galvanized by the potential of stem and fetal cells to regenerate damaged neurons and restore lost bodily functions, people grappling with paralysis and neurodegenerative disorders...
The Politics of Precaution
Regulating Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2012
The Politics of Precaution examines the politics of consumer and environmental risk regulation in the United States and Europe over the last five decades, explaining why America and Europe have often regulated a wide range of similar risks differently. It finds that between 1960 and 1990, American...
Unhealthy Politics
The Battle over Evidence-Based Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
How partisanship, polarization, and medical authority stand in the way of evidence-based medicine
The U.S. medical system is touted as the most advanced in the world, yet many common treatments are not based on sound science. Treatments can go into widespread use before they are rigorously...
Digital Keywords
A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
In the age of search, keywords increasingly organize research, teaching, and even thought itself. Inspired by Raymond Williams's 1976 classic Keywords, the timely collection Digital Keywords gathers pointed, provocative short essays on more than two dozen keywords by leading and rising digital media...
Creating Wine
The Emergence of a World Industry, 1840-1914
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
Today's wine industry is characterized by regional differences not only in the wines themselves but also in the business models by which these wines are produced, marketed, and distributed. In Old World countries such as France, Spain, and Italy, small family vineyards and cooperative wineries abound....
The Economic Evolution of American Health Care
From Marcus Welby to Managed Care
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
The American health care industry has undergone such dizzying transformations since the 1960s that many patients have lost confidence in a system they find too impersonal and ineffectual. Is their distrust justified and can confidence be restored? David Dranove, a leading health care economist, tackles...
by Diana C. Mutz
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
Population-based survey experiments have become an invaluable tool for social scientists struggling to generalize laboratory-based results, and for survey researchers besieged by uncertainties about causality. Thanks to technological advances in recent years, experiments can now be administered to...
Nuclear Strategy in the Modern Era
Regional Powers and International Conflict
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2014
The world is in a second nuclear age in which regional powers play an increasingly prominent role. These states have small nuclear arsenals, often face multiple active conflicts, and sometimes have weak institutions. How do these nuclear states—and potential future ones—manage their nuclear forces...
How Terrorism Ends
Understanding the Decline and Demise of Terrorist Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2009
Amid the fear following 9/11 and other recent terror attacks, it is easy to forget the most important fact about terrorist campaigns: they always come to an end--and often far more quickly than expected. Contrary to what many assume, when it comes to dealing with terrorism it may be more important...
The Terrorist's Dilemma
Managing Violent Covert Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2013
How do terrorist groups control their members? Do the tools groups use to monitor their operatives and enforce discipline create security vulnerabilities that governments can exploit? The Terrorist's Dilemma is the first book to systematically examine the great variation in how terrorist groups are...
by Leonardo Avritzer
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. Scholars have long held that the postwar stability of Western Europe reveals that restricted democracy, or...
Being Numerous
Poetry and the Ground of Social Life
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
"Because I am not silent," George Oppen wrote, "the poems are bad." What does it mean for the goodness of an art to depend upon its disappearance? In Being Numerous, Oren Izenberg offers a new way to understand the divisions that organize twentieth-century poetry. He argues that the most important...