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  • Proximity Politics

    How Distance Shapes Public Opinion and Political Behaviors

    by Jeronimo Cortina ...
    Republicans who live closer to the U.S.-Mexico border are less likely to support constructing a wall than those who live farther away. After a mass shooting, gun sales and permit applications skyrocket in nearby communities. Experiencing an extreme weather event like a hurricane or flood can encourage someone to attribute climate change to human activity. Why do we react so differently to faraway ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    Proximity Politics

    How Distance Shapes Public Opinion and Political Behaviors

    by Jeronimo Cortina ...
    Narrated by Adam Xavier ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 22 min

    Republicans who live closer to the U.S.-Mexico border are less likely to support constructing a wall than those who live farther away. After a mass shooting, gun sales and permit applications skyrocket in nearby communities. Experiencing an extreme weather event like a hurricane or flood can encourage someone to attribute climate change to human activity. Why do we react so differently to faraway ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • New Perspectives on International Migration and Development

    Edited by Jeronimo Cortina, Enrique Ochoa-Reza ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    With contributions from leading scholars in international development, economics, political science, and sociology, this collection draws attention to migration's developmental impacts on sending and receiving societies. Through current case studies, contributors examine the interplay among migration, development, culture, family reunification, human rights, and government, all with the aim of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

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    by Valentine Moghadam, Chandra Talpade Mohanty, Sarah White, Diana L. Wolf, Deepa Shankaran, Lourdes Beneria, Aysan Sev'er, Maria Patricia Fernandez-Kelly, Barbara Ehrenreich, Arlie Russell Hochschild, Beth Herzfeld, Aili Mari Tripp, Kalpana Wilson, Susie Jolly, Sylvia Chant, Diane Elson, Gita Sen, Betsy Hartmann, Peggy Antrobus, Elizabeth Barajas-Roman, Jennifer Fluri, Anesu Makina, Isabel Casimiro, Joy Kwesiga, Ruth Needleman, Alice Mungwa, Jean Pyle, Sonia Corra, Ayesha M. Imam, Amy Lind, Jennifer L. Fruri, Samanthi Gunawardana, Haejin Kim, Paula Voos, Gulay Toksoz, Lila Abu-Lughod, Annette Desmarais, Shirin M. Rai, Ruth Pearson ...
    The Women, Gender and Development Reader is the definitive volume of literature dedicated to women in the development process. Now in a fully revised second edition, the editors expertly present the impacts of social, political and economic change by reviewing such topical issues as migration, persistent structural discrimination, the global recession, and climate change. Approached from a ... Read more

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  • Somebody Should Do Something

    How Anyone Can Help Create Social Change

    by Michael Brownstein, Daniel Kelly, Alex Madva ...
    A novel and scientific approach to creating transformative social change—and the surprising ways that each of us can help make a real difference.Changing the world is difficult. One reason is that the most important problems, like climate change, racism, and poverty, are structural. They emerge from our collective practices: laws, economies, history, culture, norms, and built environments. The ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Labor Versus Empire

    Race, Gender, Migration

    Edited by Gilbert G. Gonzalez, Raul A. Fernandez, Vivian Price, David Smith, Linda Trinh Võ ...
    The essays in this collection address issues significant to labor within regional, national and international contexts. Themes of the chapters will focus on managed labor migration; organizing in multi-ethnic and multi-national contexts; global economics and labor; global economics and inequality; gender and labor; racism and globalization; regional trade agreements and labor. ... Read more

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  • Explaining Institutional Change

    Ambiguity, Agency, and Power

    Edited by Kathleen Thelen, James Mahoney ...
    This book contributes to emerging debates in political science and sociology on institutional change. Its introductory essay proposes a new framework for analyzing incremental change that is grounded in a power-distributional view of institutions and that emphasizes ongoing struggles within but also over prevailing institutional arrangements. Five empirical essays then bring the general theory to ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Wrong

    How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation

    by Dannagal Goldthwaite Young ...
    An engaging look at how American politics and media reinforce partisan identity and threaten democracy.Why are so many of us wrong about so much? From COVID-19 to climate change to the results of elections, millions of Americans believe things that are simply not true—and act based on these misperceptions. In Wrong: How Media, Politics, and Identity Drive Our Appetite for Misinformation, expert in ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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  • Global Migration and Development

    Edited by Ton van Naerssen, Ernst Spaan, Annelies Zoomers ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development and Society
    The debate on international migration and development currently focuses on South-North migration, transnationalism, remittances and knowledge transfer. The potential positive role of migration for countries and regions the emigrants originate from has recently been acknowledged by, among others, the World Bank, United Nations Commissions and the International Organisation for Migration (IOM). This ... Read more

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  • Institutional Pathways To Equity: Addressing Inequality Traps

    by Walton Michael; Bebbington Anthony J.; Dani Anis A.; de Haan Arjan ...
    Questions of equity and inequality have moved to the center of debates on development and poverty reduction. This reflects growing awareness that even countries with high rates of growth can experience stagnating or increasing inequality, and that inequality can itself limit the poverty reducing effects of growth. Indeed, recent work indicates that, in addition to its intrinsic value, equity ... Read more

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  • Anxious Politics

    Democratic Citizenship in a Threatening World

    by Bethany Albertson, Shana Kushner Gadarian ...
    Emotions matter in politics - enthusiastic supporters return politicians to office, angry citizens march in the streets, a fearful public demands protection from the government. Anxious Politics explores the emotional life of politics, with particular emphasis on how political anxieties affect public life. When the world is scary, when politics is passionate, when the citizenry is anxious, does ... Read more

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  • The Political Economy of Violence against Women

    by Jacqui True ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Gender and International Relations
    Violence against women is a major problem in all countries, affecting women in every socio-economic group and at every life stage. Nowhere in the world do women share equal social and economic rights with men or the same access as men to productive resources. Economic globalization and development are creating new challenges for women's rights as well as some new opportunities for advancing women ... Read more

    $38.69 USD