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Recent Books

Campaigns and Elections

Campaigns and Elections American Style, 3rd edition.
James A. Thurber and Candice J. Nelson, eds.

With new and revised essays throughout, this book provides a real education in practical campaign politics. (Westview Press, 2009) More Info | About James A. Thurber | About Candice J. Nelson

HONORS

TODD EISENSTADT

Grant from USAID, Higher Education and Development TIES Program for “Uniting Law and Society in Oaxaca, Mexico: A Research and Teaching Program.”


JENNIFER LAWLESS

Brown University Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award, 2009

Human Dignity and Bioethics

Human Dignity and Bioethics
Edmund D. Pellegrino, Adam Schulman, and Thomas W. Merrill, eds.

This collection of essays, commissioned by the President’s Council on Bioethics, explores a fundamental concept crucial to today’s discourse in law and ethics in general and in bioethics in particular. (University of Notre Dame Press, 2009) More Info

Rivals for Power Fourth Edition

Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations
James A. Thurber, ed.

Leading scholars and knowledgeable former public officials consider the historical, political, and constitutional foundations of conflict between the two branches. (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009) More Info | About James A. Thurber

Reach Out to Cuba

Cuban flag

Obama should seize the chance to normalize relations with Havana, writes SPA's William LeoGrande in a recent L.A. Times editorial.

"Not since Richard Nixon went to China has an intractable foreign policy issue been so ripe for resolution as U.S. relations with Cuba are today."

Read the editorial


Recent Articles and Papers


CHRISTINE DEGREGORIO

  • "Calling Out the Troops: Interest Groups, Press Releases and Policy Promotion Through Speech." 2009. Politics and Policy 37 (3): 463-484. View Online

JENNIFER SEGAL DIASCRO

  • "George W. Bush’s Legacy on the Federal Bench: Policy in the Face of Diversity" (With Rorie Spill Solberg). 2009. Judicature 92(6): 289-301. Article

TODD EISENSTADT

  • "Agrarian Tenure Institution Conflict Frames, and Communitarian Identities: The Case of Indigenous Southern Mexico." 2009. Comparative Political Studies 42(1): 82-113. View Online
  • "Walking Together, but in Which Direction? Gender Discrimination and Multicultural Practices in Oaxaca, Mexico" (with Michael Danielson). 2009. Politics & Gender 5: 153-184.

JENNIFER LAWLESS

  • "Sexism and Gender Bias in Election 2008: A More Complex Path for Women in Politics, Politics and Gender." 2009. Politics & Gender 5(1): 70-80.

WILLIAM LEOGRANDE

  • "Engaging Cuba: A Roadmap." Winter 2008/09. World Policy Journal 25(4): 87–99. View Online
  • "La Habana-Washington: México, mediator oficioso" (With Peter Kornbluh). Proceso. January 11, 2009: 46-49.

JILL RICKERHAUSER

  • "Volatility in Prediction Markets: A Measure of Information Flow in Political Campaigns" (with Carlos M. Carvalho). 2009. In The Oxford Handbook of Applied Bayesian Analysis, eds. Tony O'Hagan and Mike West. View Online

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