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How Informal Institutions Matter

Evidence from Turkish Social and Political Spheres

with a foreword by B. Guy Peters

By Zeki Sarigil
Subjects: Political Science, Political Theory, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, Governance

Informal institutions are core to political life

Transforming Vòdún

Musical Change and Postcolonial Healing in Benin's Jazz and Brass Band Music

By Sarah Politz
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, African Studies
Series: Musics in Motion

How musicians from the West African Republic of Benin transform Benin’s cultural traditions

Walking the Gendered Tightrope

Theresa May and Nancy Pelosi as Legislative Leaders

By Melissa Haussman & Karen M Kedrowski
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Comparative Politics, Gender Studies, Women's Studies
Series: The CAWP Series in Gender and American Politics

Examines how women in higher office must balance feminine stereotypes with exercising their power

International Organizations and Research Methods

An Introduction

Edited by Fanny Badache, Leah R Kimber, and Lucile Maertens
Subjects: Political Science, Political Methodology

Methodologies for the study of International organizations

Life, Earth, Colony

Friedrich Ratzel's Necropolitical Geography

By Ian Klinke
Subjects: German Studies, History, Intellectual History, Political Science, Political Theory

A critical exploration of Friedrich Ratzel and the relationship between colonial and fascist necropolitics

Administering Justice

Placing the Chief Justice in American State Politics

By Richard Vining & Teena Wilhelm
Subjects: Political Science, American Politics, Judicial Politics

The role and power of state chief justices in and out of the courtroom

The Fourth Amendment

Original Understandings and Modern Policing

By Michael J. Z. Mannheimer
Subjects: Law, Law and Society, Supreme Court and Constitutional Law

Untangling how the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments have influenced U.S. policing

Making Endless War

The Vietnam and Arab-Israeli Conflicts in the History of International Law

Edited by Brian Cuddy & Victor Kattan
Subjects: Law, International Law, Political Science, Conflict Resolution & Peace Studies, International Relations
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

How two conflicts have shaped the relationship between law and war since 1945

Rock This Way

Cultural Constructions of Musical Legitimacy

By Mel Stanfill
Subjects: Music, Popular Music, Media Studies, T.V. & Radio, Law, Intellectual Property, African American Studies

What remixes, covers, mash-ups, and parodies say about the perceived legitimacy of music making

Listening with a Feminist Ear

Soundwork in Bombay Cinema

By Pavitra Sundar
Subjects: Music, Ethnomusicology, Asian Studies, South/Southeast Asia, Media Studies, Cinema Studies, Women's Studies

On the cultural politics and possibilities of sound in cinema

The Medieval Constitution of Liberty

Political Foundations of Liberalism in the West

By Alexander William Salter & Andrew T Young
Subjects: Political Science, Political Economy, Governance

Locating the roots of western liberal democracy in the late medieval period rather than the Age of Enlightenment

Women in German Expressionism

Gender, Sexuality, Activism

Edited by Anke Finger & Julie Shoults
Subjects: German Studies, Women's Studies, Literary Studies, Modern Literature
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

Literary scholarship questions and challenges the limited and fossilized gender narrative of German Expressionism

Congo Style

From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence

By Ruth Sacks
Subjects: African Studies, Art, Art History, Urban Studies
Series: African Perspectives

Examines the impact of colonial Belgium’s influence on the Congo’s visual culture

Racing the Great White Way

Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

By Katie N. Johnson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, African American Studies
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

How artists of color challenged racist stereotypes on the Broadway stage

Lobbying the Autocrat

The Dynamics of Policy Advocacy in Nondemocracies

Edited by Max Grömping & Jessica C. Teets
Subjects: Political Science, Governance, Comparative Politics
Series: Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies

The surprising symbiosis between dictators and citizen lobbyists complicates our understanding of autocratic regimes

Technical Territories

Data, Subjects, and Spaces in Infrastructural Asia

By Luke Munn
Subjects: Political Science, Human Rights, Governance

Toward a geography of infrastructure

Bits and Pieces

Screening Animal Life and Death

By Sarah O'Brien
Subjects: Media Studies, Cinema Studies

How and why animals—especially dead animals—matter in film and television

Viewers in Distress

Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

By Stefka Mihaylova
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Race and Ethnicity

The changing politics of reception, and how rebellious spectators are redefining the avant-garde

Courting Failure

How Competition for Big Cases Is Corrupting the Bankruptcy Courts

By Lynn LoPucki
Subjects: Law

An eye-opening account of the widespread and systematic decay of America's bankruptcy courts

Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies

Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance

By James F. Wilson
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Sexuality Studies, American Studies
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Gay and lesbians in Harlem nightclubs, speakeasies, rent parties, and on Broadway stages

Ethnic Drag

Performing Race, Nation, Sexuality in West Germany

By Katrin Sieg
Subjects: German Studies, Cultural Studies, Theater and Performance, History
Series: Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany

An exploration of the West German attempt to repress and refashion concepts of "race" after the Holocaust

Staging Desire

Queer Readings of American Theater History

Edited by Kimberley Bell Marra & Robert A. Schanke
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Theater and Performance
Series: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer Theater/Drama/Performance

Recovers the hidden history of theater professionals who transgressed the gendered expectations of their time

The Limits to Union

Same-Sex Marriage and the Politics of Civil Rights

By Jonathan Goldberg-Hiller
Subjects: Law, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Political Science
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Offers a case study of the same-sex marriage debate in Hawaii to discuss wider questions of political import

Facing It

AIDS Diaries and the Death of the Author

By Leigh Ross Chambers
Subjects: Sexuality Studies, Literary Studies, Literary Criticism and Theory, Cultural Studies, American Literature

Explores the connection between the politics of AIDS writing and the ethics of reading

Strangers to the Law

Gay People on Trial

By Lisa Melinda Keen & Suzanne Beth Goldberg
Subjects: Law, Sexuality Studies, Political Science, American Politics
Series: Law, Meaning, and Violence

Describes the legal challenge to the Colorado anti-gay civil rights initiative

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