University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
The Influence of Campaign Contributions in State Legislatures
The Effects of Institutions and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Campaign contributions are widely viewed as a corrupting influence but most scholarly research concludes that they have marginal impact on legislative behavior. Lynda W. Powell shows that contributions have considerable influence in some state legislatures but very little in others. Using a national...
by Bruce A Larson, Eric S Heberlig
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2012
Close competition for majority party control of the U.S. House of Representatives has transformed the congressional parties from legislative coalitions into partisan fundraising machines. With the need for ever increasing sums of money to fuel the ongoing campaign for majority control, both Republicans...
Catching Up with the Competition
Trade Opportunities and Challenges for Arab Countries
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2010
At a time when countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are joining the World Trade Organization, the lack of an economically sound analysis of trade policies in the region is especially notable. This volume remedies the situation by bringing together a distinguished group of applied trade...
A Civil Economy
Transforming the Marketplace in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2009
A civil society is one in which a democratic government and a market economy operate together. The idea of the civil economy--encompassing a democratic government and a market economy--presumes that people can solve social problems within the market itself. This book explores the relationship between...
Mixed-Member Electoral Systems in Constitutional Context
Taiwan, Japan, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Reformers have promoted mixed-member electoral systems as the “best of both worlds.” In this volume, internationally recognized political scientists evaluate the ways in which the introduction of a mixed-member electoral system affects the configuration of political parties. The contributors examine...
How Parties Win
Shaping the Irish Political Arena
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
In recent decades, Ireland’s three major political parties have maintained over 80 percent of the vote in the face of rapidly shifting social divisions, political values, and controversial issues, though not by giving voice to particular interest groups or reacting to issues of the day. Rather,...
by Michael J Collins
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
The Drama of the American Short Story, 1800–1865 argues that to truly understand the short story form, one must look at how it was shaped by the lively, chaotic, and deeply politicized world of 19th-century transatlantic theater and performance culture. By resurrecting long-neglected theatrical...
Prometheus Reimagined
Technology, Environment, and Law in the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Technologies such as synthetic biology, nanotechnology, artificial intelligence, and geoengineering promise to address many of our most serious problems, yet they also bring environmental and health-related risks and uncertainties. Moreover, they can come to dominate global production systems and...
by Dana R. Ferris
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Statistical and anecdotal evidence documents that even states with relatively little ethnic or cultural diversity are beginning to notice and ask questions about long-term resident immigrants in their classes. As shifts in student population become more widespread, there is an even greater need for...
by Christine Pearson Casanave
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
Journal writing is not new--journals have been around for centuries. More recently, journals have been viewed as a means of scaffolding reflective teaching and encouraging reflectivity in research processes. As a result, some educators may ask, “What more do we need to know?” Those likely to raise...
The Social Life of Criticism
Gender, Critical Writing, and the Politics of Belonging
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The Social Life of Criticism explores the cultural representation of the female critic in Victorian Britain, focusing especially on how women writers imagined themselves—in literary essays, periodical reviews, and even works of fiction—as participants in complex networks of literary exchange....
A World of Fiction
Digital Collections and the Future of Literary History
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
During the 19th century, throughout the Anglophone world, most fiction was first published in periodicals. In Australia, newspapers were not only the main source of periodical fiction, but the main source of fiction in general. Because of their importance as fiction publishers, and because they provided...
Adoption in America
Historical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2009
"Includes research on adoption documents rarely open to historians . . . an important addition to the literature on adoption."
---Choice
"Sheds new light on the roots of this complex and fascinating institution."
---Library Journal
"Well-written and accessible...
Capital, the State, and War
Class Conflict and Geopolitics in the Thirty Years' Crisis, 1914-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
The history of the modern social sciences can be seen as a series of attempts to confront the challenges of social disorder and revolution wrought by the international expansion of capitalist social relations. In Capital, the State, and War, Alexander Anievas focuses on one particularly significant...