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Six Debates That Define the Institution Michael A. Genovese
This book offers an accessible and compelling guide to the American presidency by exploring a series of key questions. Michael A. Genovese, a leading scholar of the presidency, provides a clear overview of the core arguments and debates over the essential characteristics of this contradictory institution.
$22.00 / £16.99 paper 978-0-231-20667-9 $90.00 / £70.00 cloth 978-0-231-20666-2 September 2022 176 pages 10 illus.
Securing Borders, Securing Power
The Rise and Decline of Arizona's Border Politics Mike Slaven
Tracing how the issue of unauthorized migration consumed Arizona state politics from 2003 to 2010, this book provides new perspective on why policy makers adopt hardline views on immigration and how this trend can be turned back. Mike Slaven presents an insider account, weaving a compelling narrative of power struggles and political battles.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20377-7 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20376-0 2022 328 pages
Going Low
How Profane Politics Challenges American Democracy Finbarr Curtis
Going Low examines how the offensive style of contemporary politics challenges liberal democratic institutions. Considering the rise of illiberal politics and debates about the limits of free speech, Finbarr Curtis draws on the insights of religious studies to rethink provocation and transgression.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-20573-3 $110.00 / £85.00 cloth 978-0-231-20572-6 2022 312 pages When Good Government Meant Big Government
The Quest to Expand Federal Power, 1913–1933 Jesse Tarbert
The years after World War I have often been seen as an era when Republican presidents and business leaders brought the growth of government in the United States to a halt. Jesse Tarbert reveals a forgotten effort by businessallied reformers to expand federal power— and how that effort was foiled by Southern Democrats and their political allies.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18973-6 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18972-9 2022 264 pages
Generation Gap
Why the Baby Boomers Still Dominate American Politics and Culture Kevin Munger
Kevin Munger marshals novel data and survey evidence to argue that generational conflict will define the politics of the next decade. He shows that a common “cohort consciousness” binds aging Boomer voters into a bloc—but a shared identity and purpose among Millennials and Gen Z could topple Boomer power.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20087-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20086-8 2022 216 pages 38 illus. Managing the Military
The Joint Chiefs of Staff and Civil-Military Relations Sharon K. Weiner
Managing the Military is a pioneering analysis of the power of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that sheds new light on civil-military relations in the United States. Using detailed case studies of debates over defense budgets, Sharon K. Weiner examines when and how the JCS chairman opposes civilian defense policy preferences.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20735-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20734-8 November 2022 256 pages
Neither Confirm nor Deny
How the Glomar Mission Shielded the CIA from Transparency M. Todd Bennett
M. Todd Bennett explores the logistics, media fallout, and geopolitical significance of one of the most ambitious operations in intelligence history. The Glomar mission, he argues, played a pivotal but underappreciated role in helping the CIA ward off oversight amid a push for transparency and accountability.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19347-4 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19346-7 2023 360 pages 14 illus.
GLOBAL AMERICA
News for the Rich, White, and Blue
How Place and Power Distort American Journalism Nikki Usher
In News for the Rich, White, and Blue, Nikki Usher recasts the challenges facing journalism in terms of place, power, and inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of field research, she illuminates how journalists decide what becomes news and how news organizations strategize about the future.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-18467-0 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-18466-3 2021 376 pages 14 illus. From State Capitols to City Halls
Smarter State Policies for Stronger Cities Alan Mallach
This work examines the crucial relationships between states and their constituent cities, illustrates how states have hindered equitable revitalization, and offers principles to guide state policy reform with an intentional focus on racial equity.
$20.00 / £14.99 paper 978-1-55844-440-9 2022 64 pages with color photos and figures throughout
LINCOLN INSTITUTE OF LAND POLICY
At War with Government
How Conservatives Weaponized Distrust from Goldwater to Trump Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris
Polling shows that since the 1950s Americans’ trust in government has fallen dramatically to historically low levels. Political scientists Amy Fried and Douglas B. Harris reveal that this trend is no accident—it is fueled by conservative elites who benefit from a breakdown in trust of fgovernment.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-19521-8 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-19520-1 2021 320 pages
The Republican Evolution
From Governing Party to Antigovernment Party, 1860–2020 Kenneth Janda
Kenneth Janda sheds new light on the Republican Party’s transformations, drawing on a wide range of quantitative and qualitative evidence. He examines nearly three thousand planks from every Republican platform since 1856 as well as candidate statements and historical sources.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-20789-8 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-20788-1 November 2022 344 pages 40 illus. The Great Polarization
How Ideas, Power, and Policies Drive Inequality Edited by Rudiger L. von Arnim and Joseph E. Stiglitz
The Great Polarization brings together contributors from disparate perspectives to examine the causes and consequences of skyrocketing inequality. Contributors reconsider the data on inequality, examine the policies that have led to this predicament, and outline potential ways forward.
$70.00 / £54.00 cloth 978-0-231-19926-1 December 2022 400 pages 58 illus.
INITIATIVE FOR POLICY DIALOGUE AT COLUMBIA: CHALLENGES IN DEVELOPMENT AND GLOBALIZATION
Organizing for Power and Empowerment
The Fight for Democracy Second Edition Jacqueline B. Mondros and Joan Minieri
This second edition draws on extensive research to portray how social-action organizations have evolved over the past twenty-five years, building power in the struggle for social and economic justice. It explores how organizers increasingly target corporate influence and fight pervasive intersectional injustice.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-18945-3 $140.00 / £108.00 cloth 978-0-231-18944-6 January 2023 400 pages 4 illus. Not Exactly Lying
Fake News and Fake Journalism in American History Andie Tucher
From fibs in America’s first newspaper about royal incest to social-media-driven conspiracy theories about Barack Obama’s birthplace, Andie Tucher explores how American audiences have argued over what’s real and what’s not and why that matters for democracy.
$28.00 / £22.00 paper 978-0-231-18635-3 $115.00 / £90.00 cloth 978-0-231-18634-6 2022 352 pages 9 illus.
Media Capture
How Money, Digital Platforms, and Governments Control the News Edited by Anya Schiffrin
This book features pathbreaking analysis from journalists and academics on the changing nature and the peril of media capture—that is, how formerly independent institutions fall under the sway of governments, plutocrats, and corporations. Contributors examine the role played by new media companies and funders, showing how the confluence of the growth of big tech and legacy media’s falling revenues has led to new forms of control.
$30.00 / £24.00 paper 978-0-231-18883-8 $120.00 / £93.00 cloth 978-0-231-18882-1 2021 328 pages
Soft-Power Internationalism
Competing for Cultural Influence in the 21st-Century Global Order Edited by Burcu Baykurt and Victoria de Grazia
This book is a global comparative history of how “soft power” came to define the interregnum between the celebration of global capitalism in the 1990s and the recent resurgence of nationalism and authoritarianism. It brings together case studies from the European Union, China, Brazil, Turkey, and the United States.
$35.00 / £28.00 paper 978-0-231-19545-4 $145.00 / £112.00 cloth 978-0-231-19544-7 2021 352 pages The Essential Writings of Vannevar Bush
Edited by G. Pascal Zachary
The influence of Vannevar Bush on the history and institutions of twentieth-century American science and technology is staggeringly vast. Edited by Bush’s biographer, G. Pascal Zachary, this collection presents more than fifty of Bush’s most important works across four decades.
$30.00 / £25.00 paper 978-0-231-11643-5 $120.00 / £94.00 cloth 978-0-231-11642-8 2022 392 pages
The Long Year
A 2020 Reader Edited by Thomas J. Sugrue and Caitlin Zaloom
In The Long Year, some of the world’s most incisive thinkers excavate 2020’s buried crises, revealing how they must be confronted in order to achieve a more equal future.
$22.95 / £17.99 paper 978-0-231-20453-8 $95.00 / £74.00 cloth 978-0-231-20452-1 2022 560 pages