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Leah Stokes, “Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy” (Oxford UP, 2020)
Leah Stokes
Short Circuiting Policy
Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States
Oxford University Press, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in Environmental StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & Technology January 28, 2020 Susan Liebell

Why do even successful clean energy policies fail to create momentum for more renewable energy? In her new book Short Circuiting Policy: Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States (Oxford University Press, 2020), Leah Stokes analyzes policy-making in Texas, Kansas, Arizona, and... Read More
Daniel Denvir, “All-American Nativism: How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It” (Verso, 2020)
Daniel Denvir
All-American Nativism
How the Bipartisan War on Immigrants Explains Politics as We Know It
Verso, 2020

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in LawNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in PoliticsNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network January 27, 2020 Stephen Pimpare

It is often said that with the election of Donald Trump nativism was raised from the dead. After all, here was a president who organized his campaign around a rhetoric of unvarnished racism and xenophobia. Among his first acts on taking office was to issue an executive order blocking Muslim... Read More
Nancy D. Campbell, “OD: Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose” (MIT Press, 2020)
Nancy D. Campbell
OD
Naloxone and the Politics of Overdose
MIT Press, 2020

New Books in Drugs, Addiction and RecoveryNew Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books in Science, Technology, and SocietyNew Books in TechnologyNew Books Network January 24, 2020 Dorian Deshauer

For years, drug overdose was unmentionable in polite society. OD was understood to be something that took place in dark alleys―an ugly death awaiting social deviants―neither scientifically nor clinically interesting. But over the last several years, overdose prevention has become the unlikely object of a social movement, powered by the... Read More
Ian Wray, “No Little Plans: How Government Built America’s Wealth and Infrastructure” (Routledge, 2019)
Ian Wray
No Little Plans
How Government Built America’s Wealth and Infrastructure
Routledge, 2019

New Books in American StudiesNew Books in ArchitectureNew Books in Arts & LettersNew Books in EconomicsNew Books in HistoryNew Books in Peoples & PlacesNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network January 23, 2020 Tricia Keffer

Is planning for America anathema to the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness? Is it true, as thinkers such as Friedrich Von Hayek, Milton Friedman, and Ayn Rand have claimed, that planning leads to dictatorship, that the state is economically  inefficient, and that prosperity is owed primarily to the workings... Read More
Nicci Gerrard, “The Last Ocean: A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting” (Penguin, 2019)
Nicci Gerrard
The Last Ocean
A Journey Through Memory and Forgetting
Penguin, 2019

New Books in MedicineNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in PsychologyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in Science & TechnologyNew Books Network January 22, 2020 Richard Davies and Jim Meigs

Dementia provokes profound moral questions about our society and the meaning of life itself. How much are we connected to one another? In what ways are we distant and separated? What does it mean to have a self? How can we offer dignity to those who suffer from Alzheimer’s and... Read More
Maria Dimova-Cookson, “Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty” (Routledge, 2019)
Maria Dimova-Cookson
Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty

Routledge, 2019

New Books in Intellectual HistoryNew Books in PhilosophyNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books Network January 20, 2020 Yorgos Giannakopoulos

Maria Dimova-Cookson‘s new book Rethinking Positive and Negative Liberty (Routledge, 2019) offers an analysis of the distinction between positive and negative freedom building on the work of Constant, Green and Berlin. The author proposes a new reading of this distinction for the twenty-first century. The author defends the idea that... Read More
Wendy Bottero, “A Sense of Inequality” (Roman and Littlefield, 2020)
Wendy Bottero
A Sense of Inequality

Roman and Littlefield, 2020

New Books in AnthropologyNew Books in Critical TheoryNew Books in Political ScienceNew Books in Politics & SocietyNew Books in Public PolicyNew Books in SociologyNew Books Network January 20, 2020 Dave O'Brien

How should we understand inequality? In A Sense of Inequality (Roman and Littlefield, 2020), Wendy Bottero, a Reader in Sociology at the University of Manchester, offers a detailed and challenging new approach to how we conceive of, how we study, and how we might challenge, social inequality. The book contends... Read More
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