University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
by Andrew Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
The House and the Senate floors are the only legislative forums where all members of the U.S. Congress participate and each has a vote. Andrew J. Taylor explores why floor power and floor rights in the House are more restricted than in the Senate and how these restrictions affect the legislative process....
by Joseph Geha
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2012
Lebanese Blondetakes place in 1975-76 at the beginning of Lebanon's sectarian civil war. Set primarily in the Toledo, Ohio, "Little Syria" community, it is the story of two immigrant cousins: Aboodeh, a self-styled entrepreneur; and Samir, his young, reluctant accomplice. Together the two...
Reading for the Planet
Toward a Geomethodology
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
In his new book, Christian Moraru argues that post-Cold War culture in general and, in particular, the literature, philosophy, and theory produced since 9/11 foreground an emergent “planetary” imaginary—a “planetarism”—binding in unprecedented ways the world’s peoples, traditions, and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Vanguard Performance Beyond Left and Right challenges assumptions regarding “radical” and “experimental” performance that have long dominated thinking about the avant-garde. The book brings to light vanguard performances rarely discussed: those that support totalitarian regimes, promote conservative...
by Nancy L. Maveety
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2010
Maveety argues that the Supreme Court under Burger revolutionized the constitutional view of political representation
Finding Voice
A Visual Arts Approach to Engaging Social Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
In Finding Voice, Kim Berman demonstrates how she was able to use visual arts training in disenfranchised communities as a tool for political and social transformation in South Africa. Using her own fieldwork as a case study, Berman shows how hands-on work in the arts with learners of all ages and...
by David Hemenway
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
On an average day in the United States, guns are used to kill over ninety people and wound about three hundred more; yet such facts are accepted as a natural consequence of supposedly high American rates of violence. Private Guns, Public Health reveals the advantages of treating gun violence as a...
Water and Politics
Clientelism and Reform in Urban Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
Most of the world’s population lives in cities in developing countries, where access to basic public services, such as water, electricity, and health clinics, is either inadequate or sorely missing. Water and Politics shows how politicians benefit politically from manipulating public service provision...
From Inclusion to Influence
Latino Representation in Congress and Latino Political Incorporation in America
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2017
In From Inclusion to Influence, Walter Wilson addresses urgent questions regarding the political incorporation of Latinos in America. First, he demonstrates that Latino representatives in the U.S. Congress do, in fact, represent Latino interests more effectively than do other representatives, both...
Leadership in Committee
A Comparative Analysis of Leadership Behavior in the U.S. Senate
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
A study of Senate committees and leadership behavior
The Electorate, the Campaign, and the Office
A Unified Approach to Senate and House Elections
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2010
Voters simultaneously choose among candidates running for different offices, with different terms, and occupying different places in the Constitutional order. Conventional wisdom holds that these overlapping institutional differences make comparative electoral research difficult, if not impossible....
by David Schoem, Lynn Dunlap
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2013
Most students arrive at college not fully aware of just how different the college experience is from other prior experiences. The intellectual and social expectations, as well as the rules and regulations, are different, and not just different from high school.
While all college students...
Strengthening International Courts
The Hidden Costs of Legalization
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
As all manner of commerce becomes increasingly global, states must establish laws to protect property rights, human rights, and national security. In many cases, states delegate authority to resolve disputes regarding these laws to an independent court, whose power depends upon its ability to enforce...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2010
A comprehensive picture of costs in Japan's effective and efficient health care system.