University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Democracy and Institutions
The Life Work of Arend Lijphart
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2010
Institutions are the channels of political power. This volume explores Arend Lijphart's life work--the design of political institutions. All the contributors to this volume share the fundamental insight that the design of political institutions matters in how democracies work.
The essays in...
Rebellious Civil Society
Popular Protest and Democratic Consolidation in Poland, 1989-1993
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Poland is the only country in which popular protest and mass opposition, epitomized by the Solidarity movement, played a significant role in bringing down the communist regime. This book, the first comprehensive study of the politics of protest in postcommunist Central Europe, shows that organized...
Titles, Conflict, and Land Use
The Development of Property Rights and Land Reform on the Brazilian Amazon Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
The Amazon, the world's largest rain forest, is the last frontier in Brazil. The settlement of large and small farmers, squatters, miners, and loggers in this frontier during the past thirty years has given rise to violent conflicts over land as well as environmental duress. Titles, Conflict, and...
by Robert G Boatright
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2011
In the early 2000s, the United States and Canada implemented new campaign finance laws restricting the ability of interest groups to make political contributions and to engage in political advertising. Whereas both nations' legislative reforms sought to reduce the role of interest groups in campaigns,...
Murder Scenes
Normality, Deviance, and Criminal Violence in Weimar Berlin
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
"Sace Elder has exhaustively researched both newspaper and other popular and professional treatments of murder cases and archival sources of police investigations and trials in Berlin between 1919 and 1931. Murder Scenes is an innovative and insightful exploration of the ways in which these investigations...
Worldly Provincialism
German Anthropology in the Age of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
Worldly Provincialism introduces readers to the intellectual history that drove the emergence of German anthropology. Drawing on the most recent work on the history of the discipline, the contributors rethink the historical and cultural connections between German anthropology, colonialism, and race....
by David Schoem, Shelly Kovacs
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This book was written to support the academic success of student athletes—whether at a large or small university or college, whether team or individual sport, whether women or men, whether on scholarship or not.
While all college students must learn to negotiate the complex transition...
Preference Pollution
How Markets Create the Desires We Dislike
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Seldom considered is whether markets do an adequate job of shaping our tastes. David George argues that they do not, and that the standard economic definition of efficiency can be used to demonstrate that the market ignores people's desires about their desires. He concludes that markets perform poorly...
Veto Power
Institutional Design in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
"This is a terrific book. The questions that Slapin asks about intergovernmental conferences (IGCs) in the European Union are extraordinarily important and ambitious, with implications for the EU and for international cooperation more generally. Furthermore, Slapin's theorizing of his core questions...
Suing the Tobacco and Lead Pigment Industries
Government Litigation as Public Health Prescription
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
"The topic, how tort law evolved over time into a system that allowed, for a moment at least, a parens patriae form of massive litigation against corporations, is exceedingly interesting and important. Gifford's treatment of this topic is highly informative, engaging, insightful, very current,...
Much Ado about Culture
North American Trade Disputes
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
In Canada, the audio-visual and print industries are referred to as the cultural industries, whereas the United States calls them the entertainment industries. These language distinctions are accompanied by different domestic policies and political discourses. The United States has relatively open...
The Scourge of War
New Extensions on an Old Problem
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
J. David Singer's legendary Correlates of War project represented the first comprehensive effort by political scientists to gather and analyze empirical data about the causes of war. In doing so, Singer and his colleagues transformed the face of twentieth-century political science. Their work provoked...
Altruistically Inclined?
The Behavioral Sciences, Evolutionary Theory, and the Origins of Reciprocity
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Alexander J. Field is the Michel and Mary Orradre Professor of Economics at Santa Clara University.
The Xavante in Transition
Health, Ecology, and Bioanthropology in Central Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
The Xavánte in Transition presents a diachronic view of the long and complex interaction between the Xavánte, an indigenous people of the Brazilian Amazon, and the surrounding nation, documenting the effects of this interaction on Xavánte health, ecology, and biology.
A powerful example...