Piety and Public Funding–Now Available
04/17/2012
Piety and Public Funding: Evangelicals and the State in Modern America Axel R. Schäfer 288 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4411-3 | $45.00 | £29.50 A… READ MORE
Category: Public Policy
Paul’s Pick for April, a Free Article on School Reform from Dissent
04/16/2012
Hence, to revolutionize public education, which is largely under state and local jurisdiction, reformers must get state and local governments to adopt their agenda as basic policy; they must counter the teachers’ unions’ political clout. To this end, ed reformers are shifting major resources—staff and money—into state and local campaigns for candidates and legislation.
Tax Day Tangle, a Guest Post by Molly C. Michelmore
04/12/2012
In this guest blog post, historian Molly Michelmore considers why the Internal Revenue Code came to be so baffling. Her answers may surprise you.
Making Seafood Sustainable–Now Available
04/09/2012
Making Seafood Sustainable: American Experiences in Global Perspective Mansel G. Blackford 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4393-2 | $45.00 | £29.50 A… READ MORE
Tax and Spend–Now Available
04/04/2012
Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism Molly C. Michelmore 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
Beyond the Resource Curse–Now Available
04/03/2012
Beyond the Resource Curse Edited by Brenda Shaffer and Taleh Ziyadov 512 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4400-7 | $69.95 | £45.50 "Beyond the Resource Curse… READ MORE
Eugenic Design author Christina Cogdell Talks about the History of Sterilization on CNN
03/16/2012
A new CNN report on California's history of forced sterilizations includes an interview with Christina Cogdell, author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. According to the report, in… READ MORE
California Crucible–Now Available
03/15/2012
California Crucible: The Forging of Modern American Liberalism Jonathan Bell 352 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4387-1 | $47.50 | £31.00 A volume in the Politics… READ MORE
Truth and Democracy–Now Available
03/05/2012
Truth and Democracy Edited by Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris 352 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4379-6 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in the Democracy,… READ MORE
China Hand–Now Available
03/01/2012
China Hand: An Autobiography John Paton Davies, Jr. Foreword by Todd S. Purdum. Epilogue by Bruce Cumings 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
