Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters

Fall of the Faculty: The Rise of the All-Administrative University and Why it Matters

Until very recently, American universities were led mainly by their faculties, which viewed intellectual production and pedagogy as the core missions of higher education. Today, as Benjamin Ginsberg warns in […]


Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America’s Positive Rights

Looking for Rights in All the Wrong Places: Why State Constitutions Contain America’s Positive Rights

Unlike many national constitutions, which contain explicit positive rights to such things as education, a living wage, and a healthful environment, the U.S. Bill of Rights appears to contain only […]


How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism

How the Jews Defeated Hitler: Exploding the Myth of Jewish Passivity in the Face of Nazism

One of the most common assumptions about World War II is that the Jews did not actively or effectively resist their own extermination at the hands of the Nazis. In […]


Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire

Imperial Rule and the Politics of Nationalism: Anti-Colonial Protest in the French Empire

Why did colonial subjects mobilize for national independence from the French empire? This question has rarely been posed because the answer appears obvious: in the modern era, nationalism was bound […]


We the People

We the People

We the People is the best text for showing students that politics is relevant to their lives and that political participation matters—especially in the digital age. Based on the full-length text, […]


Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

Creating a New Racial Order:  How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America

The American racial order—the beliefs and practices that organize relationships among the nation’s many races and ethnicities—is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. Creating a New Racial Order takes a groundbreaking […]


Zainichi gaikokujin to shiminken: Imin hen’nyū no seijigaku, trans. Atsuko Abe

Zainichi gaikokujin to shiminken: Imin hen’nyū no seijigaku, trans. Atsuko Abe

Playing the Market: A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985-2005

Playing the Market: A Political Strategy for Uniting Europe, 1985-2005

In the 1980s and 1990s, Nicolas Jabko suggests, the character of European integration altered radically, from slow growth to what he terms a “quiet revolution.” In Playing the Market, he traces […]


Alker and IR: Global Studies in an Interconnected World

Alker and IR: Global Studies in an Interconnected World

International Relations have rarely been considered a synthesis of humanistic and social sciences approaches to understand the complex connections of a global, and globalizing, world. One of the few scholars […]


A Guide to the United States Constitution (second edition)

A Guide to the United States Constitution (second edition)

In lively prose, Professors Ackerman and Ginsberg explain the origins of each constitutional provision, assess the ways in which each has been used and interpreted over time, and examine the […]