BOOKS

Good Cop-Bad Cop: Mass Media and the Cycle of Police Reform

Jarret S. Lovell

Good Cop/Bad Cop offers the first extended review of the influence of the mass media on local and federal law enforcement in the US.  Adopting an interdisciplinary approach and drawing on popular characterizations of law enforcement from movies, newspapers, television, and literature, Jarret Lovell reveals police reform is inextricably linked to the rise and technological development of the    More >

Good Cop-Bad Cop: Mass Media and the Cycle of Police Reform

Good Intentions: Pledges of Aid for Postconflict Recovery

Shepard Forman and Stewart Patrick, editors

This comparative study assesses the causes—and consequences—of failures to fulfill pledges of aid to postconflict societies. In each of six case studies, the coauthors (drawn from both donor states and recipient countries), evaluate multilateral efforts to support sustainable recovery and peacebuilding in societies emerging from protracted violence. They first establish the timing,    More >

Good Intentions: Pledges of Aid for Postconflict Recovery

Goodbye, Evil Eye: Stories

Gloria DeVidas Kirchheimer

National Jewish Book Awards Finalist! Humorous and endearing, while dealing with complex issues, the stories in Goodbye, Evil Eye reflect the tensions between Sephardic Jews and contemporary urban life in the United States. The characters—with their superstitions, myths, and contradictions, the still-palpable heritage of the Inquisition and the expulsion of the Jews from Spain—fight    More >

Goodbye, Evil Eye: Stories

Governance, Grievance, and Violent Extremism in West Africa: From the Caliphates to Great Power Competition

Zacharias P. Pieri and Kevin S. Fridy

What happens when external forces are brought to bear on domestic grievances and governance institutions? In environments profoundly affected by both violent extremist organizations and powerful international actors, what attributes characterize local governments that can maintain peace and stability? Addressing these questions, Zacharias Pieri and Kevin Fridy demonstrate the surprising linkages    More >

Governance, Grievance, and Violent Extremism in West Africa: From the Caliphates to Great Power Competition

Governing Africa’s Changing Societies: Dynamics of Reform

Ellen M. Lust and Stephen N. Ndegwa, editors

What is the cumulative impact of the immense social, economic, and political changes that Africa has undergone in recent decades? What opportunities do those changes present to improve the lives of the continent's citizens? Countering the prevailing mood of pessimism in the face of disappointed expectations, the authors of Governing Africa's Changing Societies demonstrate the    More >

Governing Africa’s Changing Societies: Dynamics of Reform

Governing Middle-Sized Cities: Studies in Mayoral Leadership

James R. Bowers and Wilbur C. Rich, editors

From Providence, Rhode Island, to Sacramento, California, from Rockford, Illinois, to Albuquerque, New Mexico, what mayors do—and how they do it—is crucially important to sustaining and revitalizing U.S. cities. Proceeding from this premise, Governing Middle-Sized Cities presents twelve case studies of mayoral leadership and creativity. Each study provides a brief background sketch of    More >

Governing Middle-Sized Cities: Studies in Mayoral Leadership

Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral Institutions

Gordon Mace, Jean-Philippe Thérien, and Paul Haslam, editors

Governing the Americas presents the first systematic assessment of the functioning of hemispheric institutions since the introduction of the Summit of the Americas process in 1994.   The authors evaluate the effectiveness of inter-American institutions with regard to core issues of democratic governance, security, trade, and economic development. They consider, as well, the impact of the    More >

Governing the Americas: Assessing Multilateral Institutions

Governing the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Between State Socialism and the European Union

John A. Scherpereel

Why do democratic leaders sometimes choose not to establish institutions that would promote the consolidation of democracy? And what are the consequences of those choices? Focusing on the cases of the Czech Republic and Slovakia, John Scherpereel explores the interplay of historical institutional legacies, short-term elite interests, and international pressures (i.e., EU conditionality) in the    More >

Governing the Czech Republic and Slovakia: Between State Socialism and the European Union

Governing the Environment: The Transformation of Environmental Regulation

Marc Allen Eisner

This comprehensive overview of US environmental regulation—from the inception of the EPA through the Bush administration—goes beyond traditional texts to consider alternatives to the existing regulatory regime, as well as the challenges posed by the global nature of environmental issues. Thoughtful and evenhanded, Governing the Environment covers the full range of topics relevant to    More >

Governing the Environment: The Transformation of Environmental Regulation

Governing the Internet: The Emergence of an International Regime

Marcus Franda

Governing the Internet explores the many complex issues and challenges that confront governments, technocrats, business people, and others as they try to create and implement rules for a truly global, interoperable Internet. Though focusing on those countries that have the most advanced information technology infrastructures, Franda also discusses the development of the Internet in China as a    More >

Governing the Internet: The Emergence of an International Regime