Cover Art: Bow-side view of Liberty Ship SS Frederick Douglass sliding down the ways on the day of its launching, May 22, 1943. (Credit: Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations)
Book Reviews: American Politics
Prison Break: Why Conservatives Turned Against Mass Incarceration. By David Dagan and Steven M. Teles. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. 256p. $29.95.
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The Chief Justice: Appointment and Influence. By David Danelski and Artemus Ward. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. 451p. $90.00.
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The Business of America Is Lobbying: How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate. By Lee Drutman. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 269p. $29.95 cloth, $21.95 paper.
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Don’t Blame Us: Suburban Liberals and the Transformation of the Democratic Party. By Lily Geismer. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 392p. $35.00 Cloth, $27.95 Paper. - Blazing the Neoliberal Trail: Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom. By Timothy P. R. Weaver. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. 360p. $69.95.
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Multidimensional Democracy: A Supply and Demand Theory of Representation in American Legislatures. By Jeffrey J. Harden. 2015. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 185p. $99.00 cloth.
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- 18 August 2017, pp. 891-893
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Why Washington Won’t Work. By Marc J. Hetherington and Thomas J. Rudolph. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. 264p. $85.00 (cloth), $27.00 (paper).
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Social Democratic America. By Lane Kenworthy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 238p. $27.95 cloth, 19.95 paper.
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American Insecurity: Why Our Economic Fears Lead to Political Inaction. By Adam Seth Levine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015. 320p. $29.95 cloth, $23.95 paper.
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Social Insurance: America’s Neglected Heritage and Contested Future. By Theodore R. Marmor, Jerry L. Mashaw, and John Pakutka. Los Angeles: Sage/CQ Press, 2014. 299p. $ 40.00.
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- 18 August 2017, pp. 896-898
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The Politics of African American Education: Representation, Partisanship, and Educational Equity. By Kenneth J. Meier and Amanda Rutherford. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016. 236p. $99.99 cloth, $34.99 paper.
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Renegade Cities, Public Policy, and the Dilemmas of Federalism. By Lori Riverstone-Newell. Boulder, CO: First Forum, 2014. 225p. $67.00. - Saving Our Cities: A Progressive Plan to Transform Urban America. By William W. Goldsmith. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2016. 294p. $29.95.
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Separation of Powers and Legislative Organization: The President, the Senate, and Political Parties in the Making of House Rules. By Gisela Sin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 193p. $93.00.
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Negativity in Democratic Politics: Causes and Consequences. By Stuart N. Soroka. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 198p. $28.99.
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Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress: The Lawmakers. By Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. 245p. $30.99.
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Book Reviews: Comparative Politics
Ethics and Integrity in British Politics: How Citizens Judge Their Politicians’ Conduct and Why It Matters. By Nicholas Allen and Sarah Birch. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 241p. $88.00 cloth, $35.99 paper.
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How Social Movements Die: Repression and Demobilization of the Republic of New Africa. By Christian Davenport. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015. 352p. $93.00 cloth, $33.99 paper.
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Single Markets: Economic Integration in Europe and the United States. By Michelle P. Egan. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 240p. $85.00.
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Women in Presidential Cabinets: Power Players or Abundant Tokens? By Maria Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle Taylor-Robinson. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 320p. $74.00.
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Unfinished Revolutions: Yemen, Libya, and Tunisia after the Arab Spring. By Ibrahim Fraihat. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2016. 304p. $40.00.
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Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance, and the Internet. By M. I. Franklin. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 286p. $105.00 cloth, $31.95 paper.
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- 18 August 2017, pp. 913-914
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