Uses legal and literary resources to explore Shakespeare's use of the law and its instruments in the problem plays.

Explores the political and economic causes and consequences of homelessness.

Explores the moral dimensions of the current global role of the U.S. military.

Interdisciplinary essays on the White House and the lives of first families.

Confronts globalization and technology from philosophical perspectives.

Argues that love plays an essential—if often implicit—role in Hegel's mature theory of moral subjectivity and political community.

Examines the relations among knowledge, politics, aesthetics, and individuality.

Investigates the effects of political consultants on American democracy.

Blends memoir and scholarship to provide a moving and sometimes unsettling look at how academic discourse affects the cultural values and identities that students bring into the writing classroom.

A provocative examination of the use and abuse of public opinion polls.

Argues that international institutions are becoming increasingly democratized.

Nationwide study of the proposal and adoption of minority-opportunity districts at the local level.

A fresh and easy-to-understand examination of some of America's most challenging social issues.

Acknowledging that religion can motivate both violence and compassion, this book looks at how a variety of world religions can and do build peace.

Comparative study of American and Canadian constitutionalism, especially rights jurisprudence.

A collection of lectures delivered during the Fulbright Hays Scholar program in Ghana.

A critical look at the image of human nature that underlies the realist theory of international relations.

Using cutting-edge methodologies, this book evaluates California's measures to protect the public from dangerous criminals.

Re-reads Marx in light of the contemporary critical interrogation of subjectivity.

Explores the contexts of judges' decision making in juvenile courts that incarcerate disproportionately more minorities than whites.

Explores Americans' increasing attraction to alternative medicine by looking at two alternative health networks, one "New Age," the other conservative Christian.

Uses Norway to test the claim that elites are central to the politicization of linguistic conflict.

Challenges conventional assumptions about the family and the modern Middle East.

Explores the ideological underpinnings of school choice and other market-based education reforms.

Documents how even progressive foundations serve to reinforce the political status quo.