University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
America at Risk
Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2009
America at Risk gathers original essays by a distinguished and bipartisan group of writers and intellectuals to address a question that matters to Americans of every political persuasion: what are some of the greatest dangers facing America today? The answers, which range from dwindling political...
The Political Economy of Dual Transformations
Market Reform and Democratization in Hungary
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
In the early 1990s, scholars voiced skepticism about the capacity of Eastern Europe's new democracies to manage simultaneous political and economic reform. They argued that the surge of popular participation following democratization would thwart efforts by successor governments to enact market reforms...
Systemic Choices
Nonlinear Dynamics and Practical Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The revolution in social scientific theory and practice known as nonlinear dynamics, chaos, or complexity, derived from recent advances in the physical, biological, and cognitive sciences, is now culminating with the widespread use of tools and concepts such as praxis, fuzzy logic, artificial intelligence,...
Secular Morality and International Security
American and British Decisions about War
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
“[Fanis] demonstrates an impressive ability to travel nimbly between abstract theoretical concepts and a messy reality. In each one of the case study chapters, her analysis is rich, thoughtful, and imaginative.”
—Ido Oren, University of Florida
Combining insights from cultural studies,...
Political Complexity
Nonlinear Models of Politics
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
This collection illustrates how nonlinear methods can provide new insight into existing political questions. Politics is often characterized by unexpected consequences, sensitivity to small changes, non-equilibrium dynamics, the emergence of patterns, and sudden changes in outcomes. These are all...
Trust
Representatives and Constituents
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Why do electors trust their representatives?
The Political Economy of Expertise
Information and Efficiency in American National Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
The Political Economy of Expertise is a carefully argued examination of how legislatures use expert research and testimony. Kevin Esterling demonstrates that interest groups can actually help the legislative process by encouraging Congress to assess research and implement well-informed policies.
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Reinventing the State
Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
The political economic history of Latin America in the post-World War II era has largely been one of underachievement and opportunities lost. This all changed with the wave of market reforms that were implemented in the 1990s. However, the precise role of these reforms as an agent of change is still...
Finance Capitalism Unveiled
Banks and the German Political Economy
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
If we are moving toward one global financial market, will all national financial systems that determine how businesses raise money look the same? Richard Deeg argues that, despite financial market integration and considerable harmonization in the regulation of financial markets, the traditional structure...
Tax Politics in Eastern Europe
Globalization, Regional Integration, and the Democratic Compromise
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2011
“This is the first book to systematically examine the variation in policies of Eastern European countries. There is a theoretical contribution to understandings of variation in tax policies, but just as impressive is the in-depth empirical analysis and in particular the data from interviews with...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
For decades, the primary argument in justifying education has been based on its direct economic effects. Yet education also provides "social benefits" for individuals and society at large, including a better way of taking care of ourselves, and consequently creating a better society to live...
Childhood Years
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
In Childhood Years, originally published serially in a literary magazine between 1955 and 1956, Tanizaki Jun’ichiro (1886–1965) takes a meandering look back on his early life in Tokyo. He reflects on his upbringing, family, and the capital city with a conversational—and not necessarily honest—eye, offering insights into his later life and his writing.
Lives in Play
Autobiography and Biography on the Feminist Stage
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
Lives in Play explores the centrality of life narratives to women’s drama and performance from the 1970s to the present moment. In the early days of second-wave feminism, the slogan was “The personal is the political.” These autobiographical and biographical “true stories” have the political...
Heartless Immensity
Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans made sense of their country’s constantly fluctuating...