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College in Prison

Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration

By: Daniel Karpowitz

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College in Prison

Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration

By: Daniel Karpowitz

Over the years, American colleges and universities have made various efforts to provide prisoners with access to education. However, few of these outreach programs presume that incarcerated men and women can rise to the challenge of a truly rigorous college curriculum. The Bard Prison Initiative is different. College in Prison chronicles how, since 2001, Bard College has provided hundreds of incarcerated men and women across the country access to a high-quality liberal arts education. Earning degrees in subjects ranging from Mandarin to advanced mathematics, graduates have, upon release, gone on to rewarding careers and elite graduate and professional programs. Yet this is more than just a story of exceptional individuals triumphing against the odds. It is a study in how the liberal arts can alter the landscape of some of our most important public institutions giving people from all walks of life a chance to enrich their minds and expand their opportunities. Drawing on fifteen years of experience as a director of and teacher within the Bard Prison Initiative, Daniel Karpowitz tells the story of BPI’s development from a small pilot project to a nationwide network. At the same time, he recounts dramatic scenes from in and around college-in-prison classrooms pinpointing the contested meanings that emerge in moments of highly-charged reading, writing, and public speaking. Through examining the transformative encounter between two characteristically American institutions—the undergraduate college and the modern penitentiary—College in Prison makes a powerful case for why liberal arts education is still vital to the future of democracy in the United States.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813584132

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College in Prison

Reading in an Age of Mass Incarceration

By: Daniel Karpowitz

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0813584140

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Representing the Advantaged

How Politicians Reinforce Inequality

By: Daniel M. Butler

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Representing the Advantaged

How Politicians Reinforce Inequality

By: Daniel M. Butler

This book argues that a significant amount of bias in representation traces its roots to the information, opinions, and attitudes that politicians bring to office. It suggests that even if all voters participated equally, there would still be significant levels of bias in American politics because of differences in elite participation.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107075726

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Rejecting Compromise

Legislators' Fear of Primary Voters

By: Sarah E. Anderson,Daniel M. Butler,Laurel Harbridge-Yong

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Rejecting Compromise

Legislators' Fear of Primary Voters

By: Sarah E. Anderson,Daniel M. Butler,Laurel Harbridge-Yong

Legislative solutions to pressing problems like balancing the budget, climate change, and poverty usually require compromise. Yet national, state, and local legislators often reject compromise proposals that would move policy in their preferred direction. Why do legislators reject such agreements? This engaging and relevant investigation into how politicians think reveals that legislators refuse compromise - and exacerbate gridlock - because they fear punishment from voters in primary elections. Prioritizing these electoral interests can lead lawmakers to act in ways that hurt their policy interests and also overlook the broader electorate's preferences by representing only a subset of voters with rigid positions. With their solution-oriented approach, Anderson, Butler, and Harbridge-Yong demonstrate that improving the likelihood of legislative compromise may require moving negotiations outside of the public spotlight. Highlighting key electoral motives underlying polarization, this book is an excellent resource for scholars and students studying Congress, American politics, public policy, and political behavior.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108861644

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9781108861649

Youth without Representation

The Absence of Young Adults in Parliaments, Cabinets, and Candidacies

By: Daniel Stockemer,Aksel Sundstrom

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Youth without Representation

The Absence of Young Adults in Parliaments, Cabinets, and Candidacies

By: Daniel Stockemer,Aksel Sundstrom

Officeholders in contemporary parliaments and cabinets are more likely than not to be male, wealthy, middle-aged or older, and from the dominant ethnicity, whereas young adults have an insufficient presence in political office. Young adults—those aged 35 years or under—comprise a mere ten percent of all parliamentarians globally, and three percent of all cabinet members. Compared to their presence in the world’s population, this age group faces an underrepresentation of one to three in parliament and one to ten in cabinet. In this book, Stockemer and Sundström provide a holistic account of youths’ marginalization in legislatures, cabinets, and candidacies for office through a comparative lens. They argue that youths’ underrepresentation in political office constitutes a democratic deficit and provide ample evidence for why they think that youth must be present in politics at much higher rates. They further embed this book within what they label a vicious cycle of political alienation, which involves the declining political sophistication of the young, their waning electoral participation, and their insufficient of representation in office. Empirically, the authors combine a global focus with in-depth studies, discussing the country-level, party-level, and individual-level factors that bar young adults’ entry to positions of political power. This is the first comprehensive book on youth representation and it has relevance for those broadly interested in issues of representation, democracy, inequality, and comparative politics.

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University of Michigan Press

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0472902849

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9780472902842

Positioning Women in Conflict Studies

How Women's Status Affects Political Violence

By: Hardis Family Assistant Professor of Government Sabrina Karim,Sabrina Karim,Associate Professor of International Affairs Daniel W Hill Jr,Daniel W. Hill (Jr.)

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Positioning Women in Conflict Studies

How Women's Status Affects Political Violence

By: Hardis Family Assistant Professor of Government Sabrina Karim,Sabrina Karim,Associate Professor of International Affairs Daniel W Hill Jr,Daniel W. Hill (Jr.)

In Positioning Women in Conflict Studies, Sabrina Karim and Daniel W. Hill, Jr., re-evaluate the literature on gender, international politics, and conflict to reveal that the term "gender equality" is often used to refer to four distinct concepts: women's inclusion, women's rights, harm to women, and beliefs about women's roles. They develop original measures for each of these concepts and examine their impact on inter-state war onset, intra-state conflict onset, state repression/human rights violations, and terrorism. Overall, Karim and Hill demonstrate how the conceptualization and measurement of gender equality and women's status is critical in understanding how to reduce political violence globally.

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Oxford University Press

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0197757936

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9780197757932

Why Vote?

Essential Questions About the Future of Elections in America

By: Daniel M. Shea

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Why Vote?

Essential Questions About the Future of Elections in America

By: Daniel M. Shea

For nearly 200 years, Americans have pinned the democratic character of their system on elections. In many ways, we have become an election-crazed nation, ever-hoping that the next grand contest or the next great candidate will save the day. But tectonic shifts abound – changes that are distorting the nature of the process. From the rise of fear-centered partisanship, new limits on voter access to the polls, the omnipotence of social media, declining standards of objectivity, Russian interference, the reemergence of the partisan press, the growing weight of elites and more, elections – our "grand democratic feasts" – are transforming before our eyes. We’ve reached a precarious intersection, and it is no stretch to say the future of the republic is at stake. Written by one of the nation’s leading parties and elections scholars, Why Vote? Essential Questions About the Future of Elections in America explores a range of topics. Each chapter is set by a guiding question, and concludes with a novel, often surprising argument. Who or what is to blame for the rise of rabid, hate-centered polarization? Can a third party really save our system? Should we even try to limit money in campaigns? Do elections stifle other, more potent forms of engagement? Who’s to blame for the growing number of voter access restrictions? Might attitudes toward immigration and race form a "unified theory" of voter coalitions? This lively, accessible book is sure to inspire robust discussion and debate. The election process in the United States is coming apart at the seams, and Why Vote? tees up a new way of thinking about the future. This book will be of particular interest to students and scholars of US politics and elections, and to general interest readers.

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Routledge

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0429866720

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Mark Twain, Culture and Gender

Envisioning America Through Europe

By: John Daniel Stahl

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Mark Twain, Culture and Gender

Envisioning America Through Europe

By: John Daniel Stahl

In these writings, Stahl shows, Twain utilized the terms and symbols of European society and history to express his deepest concerns involving father-son relationships, the legitimation of parentage, female political and sexual power, the victimization of "good" women, and, ultimately, the desire to bridge or even destroy the barriers between the sexes. The "exoticism" of foreign culture - with its kings and queens, priests, and aristocrats - furnished Twain with some especially potent images of power, authority, and tradition. These images, Stahl argues, were "plastic material in Mark Twain's hands," enabling the writer to explore the uncertainties and ambiguities of gender in America: what it meant to be a man in Victorian America; what Twain thought it meant to be a woman; how men and women did, could, and should relate to each other. Stahl's approach yields a wealth of fresh insights into Twain's work

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University of Georgia Press

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0820315591

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9780820315591

Global Shell Games

Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism

By: Michael G. Findley,Daniel L. Nielson

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Global Shell Games

Experiments in Transnational Relations, Crime, and Terrorism

By: Michael G. Findley,Daniel L. Nielson

Every year a staggering number of corporate service providers mask perpetrators of terrorist financing, corruption and illegal arms trades, but the degree to which firms flout global identification standards remains unknown. This book sheds new light on the sordid world of anonymous shell corporations through a series of field experiments.

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Cambridge University Press

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110704314X

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Book's by Daniel Karpowitz

College in Prison

College in Prison

College in Prison

College in Prison

Representing the Advantaged

Representing the Advantaged

Rejecting Compromise

Rejecting Compromise

Youth without Representation

Youth without Representation

Positioning Women in Conflict Studies

Positioning Women in Conflict Studies

Why Vote?

Why Vote?

Mark Twain, Culture and Gender

Mark Twain, Culture and Gender

Global Shell Games

Global Shell Games

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