University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Gendering Politics
Women in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
What are the cultural and structural mechanisms that exclude women from politics in general and from local politics in particular? What meaning is ascribed to women's political activity?
Gendering Politics explores the place of women in democratic politics by means of a detailed study of women...
Backlash Against the ADA
Reinterpreting Disability Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
For civil rights lawyers who toiled through the 1980s in the increasingly barren fields of race and sex discrimination law, the approval of the Americans with Disabilities Act in 1990 by a nearly unanimous U.S. House and Senate and a Republican President seemed almost fantastic. Within five years...
Lee Konitz
Conversations on the Improviser's Art
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2018
“Meticulously researched, detailed and documented, this long awaited overview justly establishes Konitz as one of the most consistently brilliant, adventurous and original improvisers in the jazz tradition—a genius as rare as Bird himself.”
—John Zorn
“Hamilton’s work may...
Making Security Social
Disability, Insurance, and the Birth of the Social Entitlement State in Germany
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2016
While welfare has been subject to pronounced criticism throughout the twentieth century, social insurance has consistently enjoyed the overwhelming support of European policy makers and citizens. This volume argues that the emergence of social insurance represents a paradigmatic shift in modern understandings...
by Jean McGarry
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2009
Siri is a legacy admission, rich and spoiled and destined to flunk out of her freshman year at college. Esther, her roommate, is a scholarship student from humble means, brilliant and driven to succeed.
Brought together by chance, the girls soon become partners in a struggle to find their way in...
With All Deliberate Speed
The Life of Philip Elman
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
"With All Deliberate Speed is just wonderful. It gives the reader fascinating insights into the Roosevelt era, the Supreme Court, the Justice Department. It is funny, and endearingly human. Three cheers!"
-Anthony Lewis, New York Times columnist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning
author of Gideon's...
The Politics of Purity
Harvey Washington Wiley and the Origins of Federal Food Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2010
Spearheaded by Harvey Washington Wiley, the Pure Food and Drugs Act of 1906 launched the federal regulation of food and drugs in the United States. Wiley is often lauded as a champion of public interest for bringing about a law that required healthful ingredients and honest labeling. Clayton Coppin...
Monetary Politics
Exchange Rate Cooperation in the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
A single currency--and the necessary prior condition of exchange rate cooperation and the stabilization of exchange rates--has been an elusive goal of many European leaders for more than twenty years. While much of the literature on exchange rate cooperation within the European Union focuses on the...
Helping People Help Themselves
From the World Bank to an Alternative Philosophy of Development Assistance
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2009
David Ellerman relates a deep theoretical groundwork for a philosophy of development, while offering a descriptive, practical suggestion of how goals of development can be better set and met. Beginning with the assertion that development assistance agencies are inherently structured to provide help...
by D. Scott Bennett, Allan C. Stam III
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2009
In The Behavioral Origins of War, D. Scott Bennett and Allan C. Stam analyze systemic, binary, and individual factors in order to evaluate a wide variety of theories about the origins of war.
Challenging the view that theories of war are nothing more than competing explanations for observed behavior,...
Brokers and Bureaucrats
Building Market Institutions in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2009
A classic problem of social order prompts the central questions of this book: Why are some groups better able to govern themselves than others? Why do state actors sometimes delegate governing power to other bodies? How do different organizations including the state, the business community, and protection...
Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences
Foundations and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences: Foundations and Applications offers the most recent thinking in applying the chaos paradigm to the social sciences. The book explores the methodological techniques--and their difficulties--for determining whether chaotic processes may in fact exist in a particular...
Volatile States
Institutions, Policy, and the Performance of American State Economies
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2009
Why do American state economies grow at such vastly different rates and manifest such wide differences in living standards? Volatile States identifies the sources of rising living standards by examining the recent economic and fiscal history of the American states. With new insights about the factors...
Suing the Gun Industry
A Battle at the Crossroads of Gun Control and Mass Torts
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
"Mass tort litigation against the gun industry, with its practical weaknesses, successes, and goals, provides the framework for this collection of thoughtful essays by leading social scientists, lawyers, and academics. . . . These informed analyses reveal the complexities that make the debate...