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Politics & law book editor at University of Chicago Press.

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#APSA2025 may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 35% off & free U.S. shipping with promo code EX58106 at our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA

14.09.2025 17:01 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to Aziz Rana on winning the Annual Book Award of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History for his book The Constitutional Bind! You can check out the book at booth #301 or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025

13.09.2025 20:00 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to the authors of Partisan Hostility and American Democracy on winning the 2025 Juliette and Alexander George Book Award from the International Society of Political Psychology! You can check out the book at booth #301 or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025

13.09.2025 19:00 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At #APSA2025? Check out the Author Meets Critics panel today at 10am, where our authors David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht will discuss See Jane Run.

14.09.2025 16:01 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At #APSA2025? Check out these Author Meets Critics panels today! At 10am, Danielle Thompson will discuss The Money Signal, and at 12pm Linda Zerilli will discuss A Democratic Theory of Truth.

13.09.2025 16:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to Shep Melnick on winning the 2025 Jeffrey R. Henig Best Book on Education Politics and Policy Award for his book Crucible of Desegregation! You can check out the book at booth #301 or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025 @bostoncollege.bsky.social

12.09.2025 20:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to Kenny Lowande on winning the Richard E. Neustadt Award given for the best book on executive politics! You can check out the book at booth #301 or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025 @lowande.bsky.social

12.09.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At #APSA2025? Don't miss Author Meets Critics panels today! At 12pm, Maneesh Arora will discuss Parties and Prejudice, and at 2pm Stephen Skowronek will discuss The Adaptability Paradox.

12.09.2025 18:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

APSA folks: Free on Saturday, 9/13 at 10 am? Come to an Author Meets Critics panel for my new book, The Money Signal! Thanks to an amazing group of scholars: Larry Bartels, Brandice Canes-Wrone, @carnes.bsky.social, @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social, and Frances Lee. @uchicagopress.bsky.social

12.09.2025 14:38 πŸ‘ 20 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The @uchicagopress.bsky.social is v. proud to announce the pub of Steve Skowronek's (@slskowronek.bsky.social) latest, The Adaptability Paradox, a gripping book that asks if the US Constitution has exhausted its adaptative capacities. Check out the #APSA2025 author-meets-critics panel today @2pm.

12.09.2025 17:22 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Congratulations to Anthony Grasso, winner of APSA's 2025 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, honoring the best book published in the field of U.S. national policy! You can check out the book at booth #301 or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025 @fas.camden.rutgers.edu

11.09.2025 19:30 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At #APSA2025? Don't miss our authors at their Author Meets Critics panels today at 12pm, where our author Lisa Vanhala will discuss Governing the End, and Christopher Ojeda will discuss The Sad Citizen.

11.09.2025 18:02 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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At the American Political Science Association meeting this year? We'll see you there! Whether you're attending or not, you can now browse our virtual exhibit. Check out our featured books and get 35% off & free U.S. shipping with promo code EX58106 at our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025

11.09.2025 17:03 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Parties and Prejudice An essential guide to how the interactions between social norms, party politics, and expressions of prejudice are driving contemporary politics. Antiminority rhetoric in American politics has grown mo...

Maneesh Arora's (@maneesharora.bsky.social) new book explains how the interactions between parties, social norms, and expressions of prejudice (toward Black, LGBTQ+, and Muslim Americans) sit at the center of contemporary politics. Really sharp & important book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

22.08.2025 17:00 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Money Signal A data-rich, eye-opening look at how, when, and why political fundraising is consequential.Β  Over the last two decades, the number of competitive congressional races has declined precipitously. Yet ca...

Danielle Thomsen's (@daniellethomsen.bsky.social) The Money Signal will change how you think about the function of money in US elections. A must-read! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

22.08.2025 16:43 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At last, it's here: Lisa Vanhala's brilliant, searing @uchicagopress.bsky.social book on how the international community is trying--and failing--to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential burdens borne by rich and poor countries.
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

19.08.2025 16:35 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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DC Folks: Please join us at Politics & Prose this Friday 7pm for a discussion of Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). @joshpage.bsky.social and I will be in discussion with @nazgolg.bsky.social, Director of Research @sentencingproject.bsky.social

18.08.2025 21:13 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Maraam A. Dwidar, "Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2025) - New Books Network

Check out this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview, where @stephenpimpare.bsky.social speaks to Maraam Dwidar about her fascinating new @uchicagopress.bsky.social book on the power of coalitional work in social justice advocacy, Power to the Partners.

newbooksnetwork.com/power-to-the...

10.07.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Partisan Hostility and American Democracy An unflinching examination of the effects and boundaries of partisan animosity. For generations, experts argued that American politics needed cohesive parties to function effectively. Now many fear th...

Partisan Hostility and American Democracy is winner of the 2025 Juliette and Alexander George Book Award from ISPP (β€ͺ@polpsyispp.bsky.social‬). Congratulations, Jamie Druckman, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Matthew Levendusky, & John Barry Ryan!
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

09.07.2025 21:14 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Constitutional Bind An eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world. Some Americans today worry that the Federal Constitution is...

Hearty congratulations to Aziz Rana, whose @uchicagopress.bsky.social book, The Constitutional Bind, was just honored with the Annual Book Award of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (β€ͺ@susih.bsky.social‬). β€ͺ@bulaw.bsky.social‬
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

09.07.2025 21:13 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is an absolute must-read!

09.07.2025 19:24 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Legal Plunder A searing, historically rich account of how US policing and punishment have been retrofitted over the last four decades to extract public and private revenues from America’s poorest and most vulnerabl...

Hey @saradoskow.bsky.social! I read instructor's sample chapters of Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice (@joshpage.bsky.social @joesoss.bsky.social). Whoa. Looks like a great fit 4 my Politics of Punishment seminar I'm revising/reviving. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

12.06.2025 17:40 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Big, big congrats to @lowande.bsky.social, who just won two awards: the Neustadt Award for False Front (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and the Emerging Scholar award for the study of presidents & executive politics. Well deserved, Kenny! πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰πŸŽ‰

23.05.2025 20:19 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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#LSA2025: Come find @uchicagopress.bsky.social new releases in the exhibit hall. You can also get a first peek at forthcoming books. We’re open till Sat 5pm.

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Six book covers rotating clockwise: Dual Justice, Governing the Global Clinic, Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State, The Political Development of American Debt Relief, The Power of the Badge, Trial by Treatment.

Six book covers rotating clockwise: Dual Justice, Governing the Global Clinic, Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State, The Political Development of American Debt Relief, The Power of the Badge, Trial by Treatment.

Attending the Law & Society Association meeting in Chicago? We'll see you there! You can check out our featured books and get 30% off & free US shipping with promo code EX57892 at our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXLAW. #LSA2025

22.05.2025 14:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reallly looking forward to #PSA25 next week. If you're interested in democracy & political parties, please come and join us for the roundtable on my recent @uchicagopress.bsky.social book Parties under Pressure. Wed, 16 Apr, 3.30pm, The Rep-LOB102. @polstudiesassoc.bsky.social. tinyurl.com/bp7tpr4a

11.04.2025 10:31 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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I'm looking forward to these author-meets-critics panels, starting Thurs w/ Maraam Dwidar's Power to the Partners and Jennifer Chudy's Some White Folks and continuing Friday w/ @lowande.bsky.social's False Front and @cwolbrecht.bsky.social & Dave Campbell's See Jane Run.

02.04.2025 21:30 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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We’re ready for you, #MPSA2025! Come browse @uchicagopress.bsky.social new releases in the exhibit hall, opening 9:30 tomorrow.

02.04.2025 21:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Aziz Rana, Constitutional Collapse β€” Sidecar Trump and the law.

Always worth reading Aziz Rana...
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24.03.2025 23:44 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

ICYMI, I talked about @cwolbrecht.bsky.social and David Campbell's forthcoming book, See Jane Run, which they wrote about in @goodauth.bsky.social a few months ago. I noticed their book now has a cover and can be preordered. Here's a link:

press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

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