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Analyses decades of voting preferences, values, and policy preferences to debunk some of the myths about gender gaps in voting and policy preferences. Steel extends existing theories to create a broader framework for thinking about gender and voting behaviour to provide more analytical purchase in understanding gender and voters' preferences.

Highlights the contradictory and competing impulses that ran through the project to democratize postwar society and casts a critical eye toward the internal biases that shaped the model of Western democracy. In so doing, contributions probe critical questions that we continue to grapple with today.

This volume collects original essays on Hungarian-German playwright and screenwriter George Tabori (1914-2007) and his remarkable contributions to the stage. Although his illustrious career spanned a century, two continents, several languages, and a variety of literary genres, Tabori's work has received scant attention in American letters.

Multilingualism depoliticizes policymaking in the EU

Explains why some insurgencies collapse after a military defeat while under other circumstances insurgents are able to maintain influence, rebuild strength, and ultimately defeat the government. The author argues that ultimate victory in civil wars rests on the size of the coalition of social groups established by each side.

Documents and analyses the ways in which Hip-Hop music, artists, scholars, and activists have discussed, promoted, and supported social justice challenges worldwide. Drawing from diverse approaches and methods, contributors demonstrate that rap music can positively influence political behaviour and fight to change social injustices.

Award-winning author James Tobin considers ideas of place, tradition, legacy, and pride while investigating two centuries of history at his alma mater, the University of Michigan. The book's 24 essays capture a series of moments that have contributed to the ongoing evolution of the University.

Tells the story of how early US commercial recording companies captured American musical culture in a key period in both music and media history. Through an interdisciplinary and intermedial approach to recording industry history, Record Cultures creates new connections between different strands of media research.

Includes 65 common academic literacy terms and explores how they relate to genres, writing conventions, and language use. Each entry briefly defines the term, identifies variations and tensions about its use across disciplines, provides examples, and includes reflection questions. An appendix lists further readings for each entry.

Examines Central European communism, why it failed, and what has come since. Moving loosely chronologically from 1989 to the present, each chapter focuses on topics of importance to the fields of comparative politics, sociology, and feminist and gender studies.

In the spring of 1973, the Baharvand tribe from the Luristan province of central western Iran prepared to migrate from their winter pastures to their summer camp. That year, one migrating family allowed an outsider to make the trip with them. In this volume, Frank Hole describes the journey, the sites along the way, and the people he traveled with.

Frank Murphy was a Michigan man unafraid to speak truth to power. He is best remembered for his immense legal contributions supporting individual liberty and fighting discrimination. Justice and Faith explores Murphy's life and times by incorporating troves of archive materials not available to previous biographers.

The history of archaeological investigation at Killarney Bay stretches across parts of three centuries and involves field schools from universities in two countries. This volume pulls together the results from all prior research at the site and represents the first comprehensive report ever published on the excavations and finds at Killarney Bay.

Traces the main discourses associated with normalcy in world politics. Gezim Visoka and Nicolas Lemay-Hebert focus on how dominant states and international organisations try to manage global affairs through imposing normalcy over fragile states, restoring normalcy over disaster-affected states, and accepting normalcy over suppressive states.

Explores this prevalent human desire to envision the End by analysing how various live End-Time performances allow people to live in and through future time. The book's main focus is contemporary Christian End-Time performances and how they theatrically construct encounters with future time.

Based on dozens of original interviews and thousands of pages of documents, Discredited demonstrates just how far a university will go to preserve the athletic status quo: tolerating tarnished careers, ruined reputations, and years of scathing media criticism - all for a shot at competitive glory.