No Blank Check. The Origins and Consequences of Public Antipathy towards Presidential Power, Paperback - Jon C. (University of Chicago) Rogowski

No Blank Check presents a comprehensive study of public opinion towards presidential power. Analyzing data from panel surveys, original experiments...

Reducere. Black & Blue is the first systematic description of how American doctors think about racial differences and how this kind of thinking affects the t...

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That the president uniquely represents the national interest is a political truism, yet this idea has been transformational, shaping the efforts of...

The far right is on the rise. The rhetoric of anger and resentment emanating from personalities like Donald Trump, Marine Le Pen, Rodrigo Duterte a...

Incomplete rural property rights are endemic throughout most of the developing world. This book explores the political origins of this lack of righ...

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Primitive man's discovery of the ability to change matter from one state to another brought about a profound change in spiritual behavior. In The F...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Alan ShapiroNumber of pages: 104Collection: Phoenix PoetsPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 140...

This edited collection evaluates the election and its outcome by analyzing the campaign, voting preferences and forecasts, and some predictions and...

This intriguing, inspirational Young Adult novel takes place on a fictional U.S. island, but the story that evolves could help reshape public schoo...

Reveals how the U.S. Supreme Court's presidentialism threatens our democracy and what to do about it. Donald Trump's presidency made many Americans...

Reducere. Based on a Pulitzer Prize-winning series of articles, this is a thorough, astonishing expose of the "Black Budget"--a 36-billion-dollar cache used ...

The question of why an individual would actively kill itself has long been an evolutionary mystery. Pierre M. Durand's ambitious book answers this ...

Reducere. The numbers are staggering: One-third of America's adult population has passed through the criminal justice system and now has a criminal record. M...

Reducere. Peter Brown, perhaps the greatest living authority on Mediterranean civilization in late antiquity, traces the growing power of Christian bishops a...

Reducere. Exposing the religious roots of our ostensibly godless age, Michael Allen Gillespie reveals in this landmark study that modernity is much less secu...

DescriptionWith gridlock, presidents increasingly rely on unilateral actions - means not requiring legislative statutes - which many view as tantam...

How the executive branch-not the president alone-formulates executive orders, and how this process constrains the chief executive's ability to act ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Karl S. MatlinIllustration(s): 38 halftones, 2 line drawingsNumber of pages: 368Collection: Co...

Reducere. Choice Outstanding Academic Title Everything began to unravel on October 5, 1986, when a Nicaraguan soldier downed an American plane carrying arms ...

Reducere. The Trump presidency was not the first to spark contentious debates about presidential power, but its impact on these debates will reverberate far ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Yun-han (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, National Taiwan Universit...

American students vary in educational achievement, but white students in general typically have better test scores and grades than black students. ...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lilliana MasonIllustration(s): 45 line drawings, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 224Collection: Chica...

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DescriptionHas the imperial presidency returned? "Well written and, while indispensable for college courses, should appeal beyond academic audience...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ethan W. RisNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 228 x 27Cover type: Pa...

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Reducere. "This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."--E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books "This is...

Reducere. It is 1963 in an unnamed town in North Dakota, and Anthony Thrasher is languishing for a second year in eighth grade. Prematurely sophisticated, yo...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Karl S. MatlinIllustration(s): 38 halftones, 2 line drawingsNumber of pages: 368Collection: Co...

Offering a fascinating biography of a foundational theory, Amadae reveals not only how the ideological battles of the Cold War shaped ideas but als...

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Reducere. Preference falsification, according to the economist Timur Kuran, is the act of misrepresenting one's wants under perceived social pressures. It ha...

Chronicling the development of scientific ideas, practices, and institutions from pre-Socratic Greek philosophy to late-medieval scholasticism, thi...

The United States is once again experiencing a major influx of immigrants. Rather than simply characterizing Americans as either nativist or nonnat...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Johanna DruckerIllustration(s): 100 halftonesNumber of pages: 384Publication date: 2022Dimensi...

Pierre Bourdieu is one of the world's most important social theorists and is also one of the great empirical researchers in contemporary sociology....

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Lilliana MasonIllustration(s): 45 line drawings, 7 tablesNumber of pages: 216Collection: Chica...

Publisher: The University of Chicago PressAuthor(s): Ethan W. RisNumber of pages: 368Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 284 x 172 x 30Cover type: Ha...