We are a department committed to intellectual rigor and believe that when theory and careful empirical analysis are joined together in an environment of purposeful interrogation significant insights for the discipline, our communities, and the world emerge. Our faculty has wide-ranging interests and they approach their work from varying interdisciplinary, theoretical and empirical perspectives. We are not committed to a discipline but instead to the unyielding pursuit of new paradigms for understanding the world. Here are some of the most recent books by our faculty.
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Cordelli, Chiara The Privitized State: Why Government Outsourcing of Public Powers is Making Us Less Free. Princeton University Press, 2020. |
Howell, William G. and Terry M. Moe Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy. University of Chicago Press, 2020. |
Albertus, Michael Property Without Rights: Origins and Consequences of the Property Rights Gap. Cambridge University Press, 2021. |
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Poast, Paul Arguing About Alliances: The Art of Agreement in Military-Pact Negotiations. Cornell University Press, 2019. |
Hansen, John Mark The City in a Garden. Chicago Studies Publication Series, 2019. |
Gulotty, Robert Narrowing the Channel: The Politics of Regulatory Protection in International Trade. University of Chicago Press, 2020. |
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Wedeen, Lisa Authoritarian Apprehensions: Ideology, Judgement, and Mourning in Syria. University of Chicago Press, 2019. |
Yang, Dali Child and Youth Well-being in China. Routledge, 2019. |
Wilson, James Lindley Democratic Equality. Princeton University Press, 2019.
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Getachew, Adom Worldmaking after Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self Determination. Princeton University Press, 2019. |
Stokes, Susan C. and S. Erdem Aytaç Why Bother? Rethinking Participation in Elections and Protests. Cambridge University Press, 2019. |
Landauer, Matthew Dangerous Counsel: Accountability and Advice in Ancient Greece. University of Chicago Press, 2019. |
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Kasimis, Demetra The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2018. |
Carson, Austin Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics. Princeton University Press, 2018. |
McCormick, John P. Reading Machiavelli: Scandalous Books, Suspect Engagements & the Virtue of Populist Politics. Princeton University Press, 2018. |
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Poast, Paul and Johannes Urpelainen Organizing Democracy: How International Organizaations Assist New Democracies. University of Chicago Press, 2018. |
Oliver, Eric and Thomas J. Wood Enchanted America: How Intuition and Reason Divide Our Politics. University of Chicago Press, 2018. |
Mearsheimer, John The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities. Yale University Press, 2018. |
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Albertus, Michael and Victor Menaldo Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2018. |
Pitts, Jennifer Boundaries of the International: Law and Empire. Harvard University Press, 2018. |
Lessing, Benjamin Making Peace in Drug Wars: Crackdowns and Cartels in Latin America. Cambridge University Press, 2017. |
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Herrigel, Gary Globale Qualitätsproduktion. Campus Verlag, 2017. |
Pitts, Jennifer The Law of Nations in Global History. Oxford University Press, 2017. |
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Cordelli, Chiara Philanthropy in Democratic Societies. University of Chicago Press, 2016. |
Howell, William and Terry Moe Relic: How Our Constitution Undermines Effective Government—and Why We Need a More Powerful Presidency. Basic Books, 2016. |
Zerilli, Linda A Democratic Theory of Judgment. University of Chicago Press, 2016. |
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Albertus, Michael Autocracy and Redistribution: The Politics of Land Reform. Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
Patty, John and Elizabeth Maggie Penn Social Choice and Legitimacy: The Possibilities of Impossibility. Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
Penn, Elizabeth Maggie and John Patty Social Choice and Legitimacy: The Possibilities of Impossibility. Cambridge University Press, 2014. |
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Staniland, Paul Networks of Rebellion: Explaining Insurgent Cohesion and Collapse. Cornell University Press, 2014. |
Dawson, Michael Blacks In and Out of the Left: Past, Present, and Future. Harvard University Press, 2013. |
Howell, William Thinking about the American Presidency. Princeton University Press, 2013. |
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Howell, William and Saul Jackman and Jon Rogowski The Wartime President. University of Chicago Press, 2013. |
McCormick, John Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy. Princeton University Press, 2013. |
Oliver, Eric (with Shang E. Ha & Zachary Callen) Local Elections and the Politics of Small Scale Democracy. Princeton University Press, 2012. |
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Padgett, John and Walter Powell The Emergence of Organizations and Markets. Princeton University Press, 2012. |
Patty, John and Sean Gailmard Learning While Governing. University of Chicago Press, 2012. |
Dawson, Michael Not in Our Lifetimes: The Future of Black Politics. University of Chicago Press, 2011. |
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McCormick, John Machiavellian Democracy. Cambridge University Press, 2011. |
Mearsheimer, John Why Leaders Lie: The Truth about Lying in International Politics. Oxford University Press, 2011. |
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