New Books in Political Science
Episodes
Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia, "Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society" (Cornell UP, 2023)
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In Violent America: The Dynamics of Identity Politics in a Multiracial Society (Cornell University Press, 2023), Dr. Ariane Chebel d'Appollonia coun...
Anne Phillips, "Unconditional Equals" (Princeton UP, 2021)
18 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For centuries, ringing declarations about all men being created equal appealed to a shared human nature as the reason to consider ourselves equals. Bu...
Ajay Gudavarthy, "Politics, Ethics and Emotions in ‘New India’" (Routledge, 2023)
16 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How do emotions mobilise in politics? How do they frame ideologies? Broadly focusing on these questions, Ajay Gudavarthy's book Politics, Ethics and...
Samuel Issacharoff, "Democracy Unmoored: Populism and the Corruption of Popular Sovereignty" (Oxford UP, 2023)
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The 2016 election of Donald Trump focused people's minds on populism, and most of the attention paid to the subject since has been on the threat it po...
Roluah Puia, "Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India" (Cambridge UP, 2023)
15 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Roluah Puia's book Nationalism in the Vernacular: State, Tribes, and Politics of Peace in Northeast India (Cambridge UP, 2023) illuminates our under...
Jade McGlynn, "Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia" (Bloomsbury, 2023)
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why aren't ordinary Russians more outraged by Putin's invasion of Ukraine? Inside the Kremlin's own historical propaganda narratives, Russia's invasio...
Ethnicity and Nation-Building in Myanmar
14 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Did the bloody 1 February 2021 military coup in Myanmar produce an unexpected ‘solidarity dividend’ by unifying opponents of the new regime from a...
Is Laos a Criminal State?: Kearrin Sims on the Current Status of Laos
13 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There is a growing list of human rights abuses and acts of violence against those who have sought to promote political transparency and freedom in Lao...
Morgan L. W. Hazelton and Rachael K. Hinkle, "Persuading the Supreme Court: The Significance of Briefs in Judicial Decision-Making" (UP Kansas, 2022)
10 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Each June in the United States, scholars, journalists, law makers, law enforcers, lawyers, and members of the public wait for the announcement of majo...
Marcos González Hernando and Gerry Mitchell, "Uncomfortably Off: Why Higher-Income Earners Should Care about Inequality" (Policy Press, 2023)
08 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How can we build a better social and political settlement? In Uncomfortably Off: Why the Top 10% of Earners Should Care about Inequality (Policy Pr...
Hindu Nationalism and Lower Caste Politics
07 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Why and how has India’s Hindu nationalist party, the BJP, become so adept at appealing to and recruiting people from the lower castes? And what does...
James Crossland, "The Rise of Devils: Fear and the Origins of Terrorism" (Manchester UP, 2023)
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the dying light of the nineteenth century, the world came to know and fear terrorism. Much like today, this was a time of progress and dread, in wh...
Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson, "Woman President: Confronting Postfeminist Political Culture" (Texas A&M Press, 2013)
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Kristina Horn Sheeler and Karrin Vasby Anderson have each worked on and researched questions of gender, leadership, executive positions, and popular c...
Studying the Pipeline to Politics for Women
06 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
When we teach about how women go into politics, how are we looking for the places and ways that women get involved? Are we giving enough consideration...
Ben Terris, "The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind" (Twelve, 2023)
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Big Break: The Gamblers, Party Animals, and True Believers Trying to Win in Washington While America Loses Its Mind (Twelve, 2023) investigates...
Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox, "Gradual: The Case for Incremental Change in a Radical Age" (Oxford UP, 2023)
05 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many experts believe that we are at a fulcrum moment in history, a time that demands radical shifts in thinking and policymaking. Calls for bold chang...
The Future of Oceans: A Discussion with Chris Armstrong
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amidst all the talk of a green revolution what about the blue stuff? There are the seas that will wash over inhabited land, there’s the sea economy ...
The Supreme Court's Past, Present, and Future: A Conversation with John Yoo
03 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It has been a momentous few weeks for the Supreme Court. What better time to discuss the Court's history and future? We are therefore launching our "S...
Making Democracy Fun: How Game Design Can Empower Citizens and Transform Politics
02 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anyone who has ever been to a public hearing or community meeting would agree that participatory democracy can be boring. Hours of repetitive presenta...
Kevin J. Elliott, "Democracy for Busy People" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
01 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
John Dewey and Jane Addams are both credited with the claim that the cure for democracy’s ills is more democracy. The sentiment is popular to this ...
Samuel Helfont, "Iraq Against the World: Saddam, America, and the Post-Cold War Order" (Oxford UP, 2023)
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The move away from post-Cold War unipolarity and the rise of revisionist states like Russia and China pose a rapidly escalating and confounding threat...
Afghanistan-Pakistan Relations: A Clash of Identities?
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
With Afghanistan once again under Taliban rule and Pakistan reeling under a severe economic and political crisis, the relationship between the neighbo...
Joscha Abels, "The Politics of the Eurogroup: Governing Crisis and Conflict in the European Union" (Routledge, 2023)
30 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before this century's first global financial crisis struck Europe in 2007-2012, only people in the Brussels bubble had heard of the Eurogroup. By th...
Danielle Allen, "Justice by Means of Democracy" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Danielle Allen, the James Bryant Conant University Professor and the Director of the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University, ha...
Markus Virgil Höhne, "Between Somaliland and Puntland: Marginalization, Militarization and Conflicting Political Vision" (Rift Valley Institute, 2023)
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On February 6, 2023, fighting erupted around Las Anod, a city in the eastern parts of the de facto independent state of Somaliland. This still-ongoi...
Mark Harrison, "Secret Leviathan: Secrecy and State Capacity under Soviet Communism" (Stanford UP, 2023)
28 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Soviet Union was one of the most secretive states that ever existed. Defended by a complex apparatus of rules and checks administered by the secre...
Nicholas Dagen Bloom, "The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight" (U Chicago Press, 2023)
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many a scholar and policy analyst has lamented American dependence on cars and the corresponding lack of federal investment in public transportation t...
Philip A. Wallach, "Why Congress" (Oxford UP, 2023)
27 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
To achieve legitimate self-government in America's extended Republic, the U.S. Constitution depends on Congress harmonizing the country's factions thr...
Stephen Vladeck, "The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic" (Basic Books, 2023)
26 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many people are familiar with the United States Supreme Court’s merit docket. Each case follows detailed and professional proceedings that include f...
Bradley C. S. Watson, "Progressivism: The Strange History of a Radical Idea" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
25 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“Only recently have scholars outside the historical profession identified progressivism for what it was and continues to be: a fundamental rupture w...
Anne Irfan, "Refuge and Resistance: Palestinians and the International Refugee System" (Columbia UP, 2023)
24 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In the decades after World War II, the United Nations established a global refugee regime that became central to the lives of displaced people around ...