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“matthew motta”

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  • Anti-Scientific Americans

    The Prevalence, Origins, and Political Consequences of Anti-Intellectualism in the US

    by Matthew Motta ...
    Anti-intellectualism has long been a powerful force in American political life. It has also regularly been the subject of both scholarly and public interest. In Anti-Scientific Americans, Matthew Motta revives Richard Hofstadter's pioneering insights from the 1960s on the subject and offers new theoretical and data-driven insights into the prevalence, origins, and policy consequences of anti ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

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  • Conformity

    The Power of Social Influences

    by Cass R Sunstein, Robert H Frank ...
    The New York Times–bestselling coauthor of Nudge reveals the appeal—and the danger—of conformity: "Fascinating and surprising revelations." — GQWe live in an era of tribalism, polarization, and intense social division—separating people along lines of religion, political conviction, race, ethnicity, and sometimes gender. How did this happen? In Conformity, Cass R. Sunstein argues that the key to ... Read more

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  • Social Dominance

    An Intergroup Theory of Social Hierarchy and Oppression

    by Jim Sidanius, Felicia Pratto ...
    This volume focuses on two questions: why do people from one social group oppress and discriminate against people from other groups? and why is this oppression so mind numbingly difficult to eliminate? The answers to these questions are framed using the conceptual framework of social dominance theory. Social dominance theory argues that the major forms of intergroup conflict, such as racism, ... Read more

    $50.89 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Empirical Legal Research

    Edited by Peter Cane, Herbert Kritzer ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    The empirical study of law, legal systems and legal institutions is widely viewed as one of the most exciting and important intellectual developments in the modern history of legal research. Motivated by a conviction that legal phenomena can and should be understood not only in normative terms but also as social practices of political, economic and ethical significance, empirical legal researchers ... Read more

    $54.89 USD

  • Evolution, Creationism, and the Battle to Control America's Classrooms

    by Michael Berkman, Eric Plutzer ...
    Who should decide what children are taught in school? This question lies at the heart of the evolution-creation wars that have become a regular feature of the US political landscape. Ever since the 1925 Scopes 'monkey trial' many have argued that the people should decide by majority rule and through political institutions; others variously point to the federal courts, educational experts, or ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • American Law in the Age of Hypercapitalism

    The Worker, the Family, and the State

    by Ruth Colker ...
    Series Book 81 - Critical America
    Since the fall of communism, laissez-faire capitalism has experienced renewed popularity. Flush with victory, the United States has embraced a particularly narrow and single-minded definition of capitalism and aggressively exported it worldwide. The defining trait of this brand of capitalism is an unwavering reverence for the icons of the market. Although promoted as a laissez-faire form of ... Read more

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  • Sharing Power, Securing Peace?

    Ethnic Inclusion and Civil War

    by Lars-Erik Cederman, Simon Hug, Julian Wucherpfennig ...
    Does power sharing bring peace? Policymakers around the world seem to think so. Yet, while there are many successful examples of power sharing in multi-ethnic states, such as Switzerland, South Africa and Indonesia, other instances show that such arrangements offer no guarantee against violent conflict, including Rwanda, Yugoslavia, Zimbabwe and South Sudan. Given this mixed record, it is not ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life

    by Majia Holmer Nadesan ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
    Governmentality, Biopower, and Everyday Life synthesizes and extends the disparate strands of scholarship on Foucault's notions of governmentality and biopower and grounds them in familiar social contexts including the private realm, the market, and the state/military. Topics include public health, genomics, behavioral genetics, neoliberal market logics and technologies, philanthropy, and the war ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Our Common Bonds

    Using What Americans Share to Help Bridge the Partisan Divide

    by Matthew Levendusky ...
    Series series Chicago Studies in American Politics
    A compelling exploration of concrete strategies to reduce partisan animosity by building on what Democrats and Republicans have in common.One of the defining features of twenty-first-century American politics is the rise of affective polarization: Americans increasingly not only disagree with those from the other party but distrust and dislike them as well. This has toxic downstream consequences ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Politics of Truth in Polarized America

    Edited by David C. Barker, Elizabeth Suhay ...
    In American politics, the truth is rapidly losing relevance. The public square is teeming with misinformation, conspiracy theories, cynicism, and hubris. Why has this happened? What does it mean? What can we do about it? In this volume, leading scholars offer multiple perspectives on these questions, and many more, to provide the first comprehensive empirical examination of the "politics of truth" ... Read more

    $71.09 USD

  • These Estimable Courts

    Understanding Public Perceptions of State Judicial Institutions and Legal Policy-Making

    by Damon M. Cann, Jeff Yates ...
    In These Estimable Courts, Damon M. Cann and Jeff Yates explore how citizens feel about the government institutions at the front lines of jurisprudential policy-making in America - our nation's state and local courts. The book's central focus concerns a primary question of governance: why do people support and find legitimate the institutions that govern their lives? Cann and Yates evaluate the ... Read more

    $67.49 USD

  • Constitutional Powers and Politics

    How Citizens Think about Authority and Institutional Change

    by Eileen Braman ...
    Series series Constitutionalism and Democracy
    The relationship between public opinion and the actions of institutions such as the Supreme Court has come under increased scrutiny in recent years. In this timely book, Eileen Braman explores how American citizens think about government across all three branches, applying a rigorous political scientific methodology to explore why citizens may support potentially risky changes to our governing ... Read more

    $29.99 USD