Book interviews tagged Political Science

The American Lie: Government by the People and Other Political Fables
- ISBN: 978 1 59451 412 8 (hc)
- featured in: Political freedom must include freedom from politics and freedom to take part in politicsDecember 5, 2008

Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5677 6
- featured in: Unitary Executive is a controversial corporate model where the CEO is also the Chair of the BoardDecember 23, 2008

Conspiracy Theories: Secrecy and Power in American Culture (revised and updated edition)
- ISBN: 978 0 8166 5494 9
- featured in: The line between culture and politics is exceptionally fluid—if it exists at allJanuary 20, 2009

Cuba in the American Imagination: Metaphor and the Imperial Ethos
- ISBN: 978 0 8078 3216 5
- featured in: Metaphors are vital to understanding the North American relationship with CubaMarch 3, 2009

Cuba in Revolution: A History Since the Fifties
- ISBN: 978 1 86189 402 1
- featured in: Why the Cuban Revolution managed to survive against all the oddsMarch 31, 2009

Global California: Rising to the Cosmopolitan Challenge
- ISBN: 978 0804762267 hb
- featured in: California at the boundary between international and domestic affairsJune 8, 2009

Civil Passions: Moral Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13725 4
- featured in: The path to justice is lighted by the glow of civil passionsJune 19, 2009

The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney
- ISBN: 978 0804758185
- featured in: Dick Cheney was not vice- but co-president of the United StatesJune 22, 2009

Composing the Citizen: Music as Public Utility in Third Republic France
- ISBN: 978 0520257405
- featured in: Music as an art links leisure and personal enjoyment with the social goodJuly 2, 2009

Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right since the 1960s
- ISBN: 978 0 271 02986 3
- featured in: A mosaic of German politics, with a focus on protest movementsJuly 15, 2009

On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship
- ISBN: 978 0 691 13534 2
- featured in: We need better partisanship — not Independence or bipartisanship or post-partisanshipJuly 31, 2009

The Birthright Lottery: Citizenship and Global Inequality
- ISBN: 978 0674032712
- featured in: Citizenship as a special kind of property inheritanceAugust 28, 2009

Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico
- ISBN: 978 0816655885
- featured in: A cultural history of a departure from conventional political and national formsSeptember 13, 2009

Sorry States: Apologies in International Politics
- ISBN: 978 0 8014 4625 2
- featured in: About what promotes international reconciliationSeptember 21, 2009

Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times: Culture, Security and Populism in the New Europe
- ISBN: 978 0521547840
- featured in: Security is a core component of democratic practiceSeptember 25, 2009

The Perils of Global Legalism
- ISBN: 978 0226675749
- featured in: About both the promise of international law and the limits of international lawNovember 2, 2009

Science in Environmental Policymaking: The Politics of Objective Advice
- ISBN: 978 0262512961
- featured in: Scientists in three distinct settings of the policy processNovember 16, 2009

On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State
- ISBN: 978 0231147224
- featured in: Exposing the biased and gendered foundations of the modern political stateDecember 7, 2009

How Wars End
- ISBN: 978 0691140605 pb
- featured in: How states stop the wars they start
January 1, 2010

Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?
- ISBN: 978 0230613294
- featured in: On the related crisis of youth and democracy
January 8, 2010

1989: Bob Dylan Didn’t Have This to Sing About
- ISBN: 978 0520252554
- featured in: I am not smashing together the high and the low just because I canFebruary 24, 2010

From Utopia to Apocalypse: Science Fiction and the Politics of Catastrophe
- ISBN: 978 0816650798 pb
- featured in: Is mass violence justified if it brings about a better world?March 22, 2010

Fractured Rebellion: The Beijing Red Guard Movement
- ISBN: 978 0674035034
- featured in: Why the Cultural Revolution’s student red guards fought one anotherApril 16, 2010

The Art and Craft of International Environmental Law
- ISBN: 978 0674035430
- featured in: How international environmental law works—and sometimes doesn’t workApril 19, 2010

Great Books, Bad Arguments: Republic, Leviathan, & The Communist Manifesto
- ISBN: 978 0691144764
- featured in: Provocative questioning with underlying seriousness of purposeJune 21, 2010