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Passionate Politics
Emotions are back. Once at the center of the study of politics, emotions have receded into the shadows during the past three decades, with no place in the rationalistic, …
Patent Politics
Over the past thirty years, the world’s patent systems have experienced pressure from civil society like never before. From farmers to patient advocates, new voices are arguing …
Political Epistemics
What does the durability of political institutions have to do with how actors form knowledge about them? Andreas Glaeser investigates this question in the context of a fascinating …
The Politics of Dialogic Imagination
In The Politics of Dialogic Imagination, Katsuya Hirano seeks to understand why, with its seemingly unrivaled power, the Tokugawa shogunate of early modern Japan tried so hard to …
The Political Theory of The Federalist
In "The Political Theory of "The Federalist,"" David F. Epstein offers a guide to the fundamental principles of American government as they were understood by the framers of the …
The Politics of Custom
How are we to explain the resurgence of customary chiefs in contemporary Africa? Rather than disappearing with the tide of modernity, as many expected, indigenous sovereigns are …
Convents and the Body Politic in Late Renaissance Venice
In late-16th-century Venice, nearly 60 per cent of all patrician women joined convents, and only a minority of these women did so voluntarily. In trying to explain why …
The Politics of Pure Science
This work examines the place of science in American politics and society. Dispelling the myth of scientific purity and detachment, Daniel S. Greenberg documents the political …
A Slaveholders` Union – Slavery, Politics, and the Constitution in the Early American Republic
After its early introduction into the English colonies in North America, slavery in the United States lasted as a legal institution until the passage of the Thirteenth Amendment in …
Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities
With thorough documentation of the oppression of homosexuals and biographical sketches of the lesbian and gay heroes who helped the contemporary gay culture to emerge, Sexual …