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Politics and Government: New Books

New Books

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy

The Oxford Handbook of Historical Political Economy brings together scholars who are working on essential and field-shaping topics in this burgeoning area. 

The Political Economy of Extreme Poverty in Eastern Europe: A Comparative Historical Perspective of Romanian Roma

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This book examines the creation of extreme poverty in Eastern Europe, focusing on Romanian Roma, through a comparative historical perspective on its roots and the socio-economic and political mechanisms that have shaped it in labor, housing, and migration.

Teaching Political Science: a Practical Guide for Instructors

This book applies the existing literature in the scholarship of teaching and learning to political science, advising discipline-specific tips, approaches, and strategies to put immediately into practice. Keeping in mind the pace of an academic career, it also challenges the widely held misconception that being a good teacher requires a huge time investment.

The Great Experiment

The Great Experiment is that rare book that offers both a profound understanding of an urgent problem and genuine hope for our human capacity to solve it. As Mounk contends, it is up to us and the institutions we build whether we come to see each other as strangers or compatriots. Giving up on the prospect of diverse democracies is simply not an option—and that is why we must strive to realize a more ambitious vision for the future of our societies.

Struggles for the Human

In Struggles for the Human, Lara Montesinos Coleman blends ethnography, political philosophy, and critical theory to reorient debates on human rights through attention to understandings of legality, ethics, and humanity in anticapitalist and decolonial struggle.

Social Media and Political Communication

This book offers a wide-scale, interdisciplinary analysis and guide to social media and political communication, examining the political use of social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok.

When Politics Becomes Personal

Can we be good partisans without demonizing our political opponents? Using insights from political science and social psychology, this book argues for the distinction between positive and negative partisanship. The book concludes with the hopeful message that partisanship is an essential pillar of representative and liberal democracy.

Religious Rhetoric in US Right-Wing Politics

This book seeks to understand white conservative Christians' support for Donald Trump, using their own words.

Fast Politics

The goal of this book is to show the role of TikTok as a tool for political purposes.

The Palgrave Handbook of Teaching and Research in Political Science

This book provides a resource for political science faculty wanting to increase their research productivity and/or teaching effectiveness in a time and resource efficient way. Faculty from various subfields and institution types offer examples of how they align their research and teaching activities to "get more bang for their buck.