A PEGS Reader

Recent and Recommended Books

Alba, Richard D. Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Archibugi, Daniele, Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, and Raffaele Marchetti. Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Banzhaf, H. Spencer. The Political Economy of Environmental Justice. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Berman, Eli. Radical, Religious, and Violent: The New Economics of Terrorism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.

Bilakovics, Steven. Democracy Without Politics. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Birchfield, Vicki L. Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies: The Interplay of Values and Institutions. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.

Blofield, Merike, ed. The Great Gap: Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America. Merike Blofield. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2011.

Bolton, Jonathan. Worlds of Dissent: Charter 77, the Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture Under Communism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Borowiak, Craig T. Accountability and Democracy: The Pitfalls and Promise of Popular Control. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Cohen, Josh. The Arc of the Moral Universe and Other Essays. New York: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Corning, Peter A. The Fair Society: the Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Dworkin, Ronald. Justice for Hedgehogs. New York: Belknap Press, 2011.

Eagleton, Terry. Why Marx Was Right. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012.

Fleming, James E., ed. Getting to the Rule of Law: NOMOS L. New York: NYU Press, 2011.

Gorski, Philip, David Kyuman Kim, John Torpey and Jonathan VanAntwerpen, eds The Post-Secular in Question: Religion in Contemporary Society. New York: NYU Press, 2012.

Greene, Abner. Against Obligation: The Multiple Sources of Authority in a Liberal Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Greve, Michael S. The Upside-Down Constitution. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Grossmann, Matthew. The Not-So-Special Interests: Interest Groups, Public Representation, and American Governance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Kidd, Quentin. Civic Participation in America. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2011.

LaCroix, Alison L. The Ideological Origins of American Federalism. New York: Harvard University Press, 2011.

Lenard, Patti Tamara. Trust, Democracy, and Multicultural Challenges. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.

Moyn, Samuel. The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History. Cambridge, MA.; London: Harvard University Press, 2012.

O'Neill, Daniel I, Mary Lyndon Shanley, and Iris Marion Young. Illusion of Consent: Engaging with Carole Pateman. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2008.

Ophuls, William. Plato's Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011.

Picci, Lucio. Reputation-Based Governance. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2011.

Posner, Richard A. The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Rosen, Michael. Dignity: Its History and Meaning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Scheuerman, William. The Realist Case For Global Reform. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2011.

Shapiro, Ian, Peter A. Swenson, and Daniela Donno Panayides, eds., Divide and Deal: The Politics of Distribution in Democracies. New York: New York University, Press, 2010.

Shefner, Jon. Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-income Mexico. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012.

Shugerman, Jed Handelsman. The People's Courts: Pursuing Judicial Independence in America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Siegfried, John J. Better Living Through Economics. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Sollenberger, Mitchell A. Judicial Appointments and Democratic Controls. Durham: Carolina Academic Press, 2011.

Tracy, Karen. Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011.

Wuhs, Steven T. Savage Democracy: Institutional Change and Party Development in Mexico. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2008.

Yack, Bernard. Nationalism and the Moral Psychology of Community. Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2012.

Zanotti, Laura. Governing Disorder: UN Peace Operations, International Security, and Democratization in the Post-Cold War Era. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2011.

Recent and Recommended Articles

Chafetz, Josh, "The Political Animal and the Ethics of Constitutional Commitment," Harvard Law Review Forum 124:1 (2001): 1-12.

Dixon, Rosalind and Tom Ginsburg, "Deciding Not to Decide...