University Of Michigan Press: 1128 books
Power without Force
The Political Capacity of Nation-States
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2010
Decolonization after World War II led to a significant global increase in the number of states. Each new nation was born with high expectations. But these hopes were soon eroded by the ineffectiveness and capriciousness of many of the new regimes. In many states military juntas have become the order...
Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance
Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2009
An irony inherent in all political systems is that the principles that underlie and characterize them can also endanger and destroy them. This collection examines the limits that need to be imposed on democracy, liberty, and tolerance in order to ensure the survival of the societies that cherish them....
Late Sophocles
The Hero’s Evolution in Electra, Philoctetes, and Oedipus at Colonus
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Only a few plays by Sophocles—one of the great tragic playwrights from Classical Athens—have survived, and each of them dramatizes events from the rich store of myths that framed literature and art. Sophocles’ treatment evokes issues that were vividly contemporary for Athenian audiences of the...
Rights Enabled
The Disability Revolution, from the US, to Germany and Japan, to the United Nations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Drawing on extensive fieldwork and a variety of original sources, Katharina Heyer examines three case studies—Germany, Japan, and the United Nations—to trace the evolution of a disability rights model from its origins in the U.S. through its adaptations in other democracies to its current formulation...
Traces of the Past
Classics between History and Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2016
What are we doing when we walk into an archaeological museum or onto an archaeological site? What do the objects and features we encounter in these unique places mean and, more specifically, how do they convey to us something about the beliefs and activities of formerly living humans? In short, how...
The Latin American Voter
Pursuing Representation and Accountability in Challenging Contexts
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2015
In this volume, experts on Latin American public opinion and political behavior employ region-wide public opinion studies, elite surveys, experiments, and advanced statistical methods to reach several key conclusions about voting behavior in the region’s emerging democracies. In Latin America, to...
by Jennifer A. Steen
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2009
Are our elections for sale? Americans have long asked this question in the face of skyrocketing campaign spending by candidates and parties. Then, in the 1990s, came a wave of wealthy individuals whose deep pockets seemed to be buying political offices across the country. Our worst suspicions were...
Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings in the U.S. Senate
Reconsidering the Charade
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Critics claim that Supreme Court nominees have become more evasive in recent decades and that Senate confirmation hearings lack real substance. Conducting a line-by-line analysis of the confirmation hearing of every nominee since 1955—an original dataset of nearly 11,000 questions and answers from...
The Modern Legislative Veto
Macropolitical Conflict and the Legacy of Chadha
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016
In The Modern Legislative Veto, Michael J. Berry uses a multimethod research design, incorporating quantitative and qualitative analyses, to examine the ways that Congress has used the legislative veto over the past 80 years. This parliamentary maneuver, which delegates power to the executive but...
Leadership Organizations in the House of Representatives
Party Participation and Partisan Politics
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2016
In recent Congresses, roughly half of the members of the U.S. House of Representatives served in whip organizations and on party committees. According to Scott R. Meinke, rising electoral competition and polarization over the past 40 years have altered the nature of party participation. In the 1970s...
by Jae-Jae Spoon
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
It is often thought that small party survival or failure is a result of institutional constraints, the behavior of large parties, and the choices of individual politicians. Jae-Jae Spoon, in contrast, argues that the decisions made by small parties themselves determine their ability to balance the...
by R. Michael Alvarez
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2010
R. Michael Alvarez examines how voters make their decisions in presidential elections. He begins with the assumption that voters have neither the incentive nor the inclination to be well-informed about politics and presidential candidates. Candidates themselves have incentives to provide ambiguous...
The Distinction of Peace
A Social Analysis of Peacebuilding
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2017
“Peacebuilding” serves as a catch-all term to describe efforts by an array of international organizations, nongovernmental organizations, and agencies of foreign states to restore or construct a peaceful society in the wake—or even in the midst—of conflict. Despite this variety, practitioners...
Angry Public Rhetorics
Global Relations and Emotion in the Wake of 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
In Angry Public Rhetorics, Celeste Condit explores emotions as motivators and organizers of collective action—a theory that treats humans as “symbol-using animals” to understand the patterns of leadership in global affairs—to account for the way in which anger produced similar rhetorics in...