- The Contentious French
- Charles Tilly
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback
- The Demands of Liberty
- Pierre Rosanvallon
- Translated by Arthur Goldhammer
- Rosanvallon offers a radical new interpretation of the development of democracy in France and the relationship between the government and its citizens. Arguing that the French have cherished and demonized Jacobinism at the same time--their hearts following Robespierre, but their heads turning toward Benjamin Constant--The Demands of Liberty traces the long history of resistance to Jacobinism, including the creation of associations and unions and the implementation of elements of decentralization.
- Hardcover 2007
- Free Riding
- Richard Tuck
- A proposition of contemporary economics and political science is that it would be an exercise of reason, not a failure of it, not to contribute to a collective project if the contribution is negligible, but to benefit from it nonetheless.Tuck makes careful distinctions between the prisoner’s dilemma problem, threshold phenomena such as voting, and free riding. He analyzes the notion of negligibility, and shows some of the logical difficulties in the idea—and how the ancient paradox of the sorites illustrates the difficulties.
- Hardcover 2008
- Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times
- Scott M. Matheson
- Presidents have exercised extraordinary power to protect the nation in ways that raised serious constitutional concerns about individual liberties and separation of powers. By looking at examples through different constitutional perspectives, Matheson achieves a deeper understanding of wartime presidential power in general and of President Bush’s assertions of executive power in particular.
- Hardcover 2009
- Where Have All the Voters Gone?
- Martin P. Wattenberg
- Paperback 2002 / Hardcover 2002