University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Security Integration in Europe
How Knowledge-based Networks Are Transforming the European Union
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
At a time when many observers question the EU’s ability to achieve integration of any significance, and indeed Europeans themselves appear disillusioned, Mai’a K. Davis Cross argues that the EU has made remarkable advances in security integration, in both its external and internal dimensions....
Origins of Liberal Dominance
State, Church, and Party in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
How did liberal movements reshape the modern world? Origins of Liberal Dominance offers a revealing account of how states, churches, and parties joined together in France, Belgium, Switzerland, and Germany to produce fundamentally new forms of organization that have shaped contemporary politics.
Modern...
by Andrew Farkas
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Explaining change in the behavior of states and other international actors is at the core of the study of international relations. The proficiency with which states respond to changes in the international environment has important consequences for world peace and the world economy as well as domestic...
Altering Party Systems
Strategic Behavior and the Emergence of New Political Parties in Western Democracies
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
New political parties have regularly appeared in developed democracies around the world. In some countries issues focusing on the environment, immigration, economic decline, and regional concerns have been brought to the forefront by new political parties. In other countries these issues have been...
Protest and the Politics of Blame
The Russian Response to Unpaid Wages
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2009
The wage arrears crisis has been one of the biggest problems facing contemporary Russia. At its peak, it has involved some $10 billion worth of unpaid wages and has affected approximately 70 percent of the workforce. Yet public protest in the country has been rather limited. The relative passivity...
Empowering Exporters
Reciprocity, Delegation, and Collective Action in American Trade Policy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2010
Until the New Deal, most groups seeking protection from imports were successful in obtaining relief from Congress. In general the cost of paying the tariffs for consumers was less than the cost of mounting collective action to stop the tariffs. In 1934, with the passage of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements...
Choosing an Identity
A General Model of Preference and Belief Formation
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Social science research is fragmented by the widely differing and seemingly contradictory approaches used by the different disciplines of the social sciences to explain human action. Attempts at integrating different social science approaches to explain action have often been frustrated by the difficulty...
When the Stakes Are High
Deterrence and Conflict among Major Powers
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
When the Stakes Are High is based on the premise that powers have continually played a decisive role in international conflicts. Consequently, one of the key questions concerns the conditions that are likely to trigger or abate dispute escalation into major power conflicts. In this book, Vesna Danilovic...
The Power-Conflict Story
A Dynamic Model of Interstate Rivalry
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2010
The Power-Conflict Story explains patterns of behavior in major world rivalries since 1816. Kelly M. Kadera carefully lays out the dynamic connections between two rival nations' power relationship and their conflictual interactions with one another. Rivals accumulate power and use conflict as a method...
by Michael Brecher
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
International Political Earthquakes is the masterwork of the preeminent scholar Michael Brecher. Brecher, who came of age before World War II, has witnessed more than seven decades of conflict and has spent his career studying the dynamics of relations among nations throughout the world.
When...
Embedded Politics
Industrial Networks and Institutional Change in Postcommunism
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2010
Embedded Politics offers a unique framework for analyzing the impact of past industrial networks on the way postcommunist societies build new institutions to govern the restructuring of their economies. Drawing on a detailed analysis of communist Czechoslovakia and contemporary Czech industries and...
#identity
Hashtagging Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Nation
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Since its launch in 2006, Twitter has served as a major platform for political performance, social justice activism, and large-scale public debates over race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and nationality. It has empowered minoritarian groups to organize protests, articulate often-underrepresented...
by Caroline Humphrey
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2010
When it appeared in 1983, Caroline Humphrey's Karl Marx Collective was the first detailed study of the Soviet collective farm system. Through careful ethnographic work on two collective farms operated in Buryat communities in Siberia, the author presented an absorbing--if dispiriting--account of the...
by Marjorie K Cole
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2011
"I couldn't put it down."
---Barbara Kingsolver
In 1955, Mary and Jim Leader have the American dream: careers in medicine; a young and healthy family; and even a vacation home---a shabby resort far from bustling Chicago. But one hot afternoon changes everything. Mary, now a widow,...