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Examines the factors that make women politicians more electorally vulnerable than their male counterparts. These factors combine to convince women that they must work harder to win elections - a phenomenon that Jeffrey Lazarus and Amy Steigerwalt term ""gendered vulnerability"".

Since the moment after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the most important German theatre artists have created plays and productions about unification. Performing Unification examines how German directors, playwrights, and theater groups have represented and misrepresented the past, confronting their nation's history and collective identity.

Through the lens of urban water provision, this book shows how politicians fail to provide reliable and high quality public services because they often benefit politically from manipulating public service provision for electoral gain. In many young democracies, politicians exchange water service for votes or political support, attempting to reward allies or punish political enemies.

Sheds light on the sources of power for three prominent women of the Meiji period: Meiji Empress Haruko; public speaker, poet, and diarist Nakajima Shoen; and educator and prolific author Shimoda Utako.

Of Angie Estes, the poet and critic Steph Burt has written that she ""has created some of the most beautiful verbal objects in the world."" In The Allure of Grammar, Doug Rutledge gathers insightful responses to the full range of Estes's work that approach these beautiful verbal objects with both intellectual rigour and genuine awe.

Explores how software code serves as meaningful communication through which software developers construct arguments that are made up of logical procedures and express both implicit and explicit claims as to how a given program operates.

Why do some states provide infrastructure and social services to their citizens, and others do not? In Development in Multiple Dimensions, Alexander Lee examines the origins of success and failure in the public services of developing countries.

Brings together notions of intertextuality and interperformativity to understand how the confluence of oratorical and theatrical practices in the antebellum period reflected the conflict over slavery and deeply influenced the language that barely contained that conflict.

Since the 1990s Seoul has sought to recreate itself from a mega city to a global city, equipped with cutting-edge knowledge industries and infrastructures. By juxtaposing the cultural turn and cultural/creative city-making, this book interrogates the formation of new citizen subjectivity, namely the enterprising self, in post-Fordist Seoul.

Argues that the quality of citizens' interactions with the government through service provision sends them important signals about what they can hope to gain from political action. These interactions influence not only formal political behaviours, but also collective behaviour, political engagement, and subversive behaviours like tax evasion.

Utilizing Japanese and South Korean newspaper databases to review discussion of the two countries' disputed historical perceptions from the end of World War II to the present, this book provides readers with the historical framework and the major players involved, offering much-needed clarity on polarizing issues.

Though she published only five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924-2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries. In Jane Cooper: A Radiance of Attention, Martha Collins and Celia Bland bring together several decades' worth of essential writing on Cooper's poetry.

Introduces a refined definition of process tracing, differentiating it into three distinct variants and explaining the applications for and limitations of each. The authors develop the underlying logic of process tracing, including how one should understand causal mechanisms and how Bayesian logic enables strong within-case inferences.

During two research trips to Japan, Judith Pascoe was fascinated to discover the popularity that Emily Bronte's novel Wuthering Heights has enjoyed there. On the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte is Pascoe's account of her quest to discover the reasons for the continuous Japanese embrace of Wuthering Heights, including varied and surprising adaptations of the novel.

Among the Lowest of the Dead offers an introduction to the complex human politics of capital punishment while showing why the death penalty system remains - nearly 30 years after its overhaul - costly, slow and unpredictable.

This is a success story - the life history of a small community, the "Bomber City" that had sprung up in World War II. It tells what a group of returning veterans and their families did to make it into a progressive, thriving settlement. Marion F. Wilson tells their story - a tribute to American pioneering courage.

In this brief volume from the Humanistic Series, Charles R. Morey takes a detailed look at several items in Charles Freer's collection of Christian art: two miniatures of St. John Climacus, eight miniatures from a manuscript of the Gospels, and the painted covers of the Washington manuscript of the Gospels. Sketches of the art under discussion are included.

Presents a consideration of Athenian financial records preserved on inscriptions in the Epigraphical Museum in Athens, Greece.

Traces the history of a previously neglected genre, the catalog of women, from its origins in Greece and Rome to the late Middle Ages, revealing the catalogs' considerable importance as cultural documents of the evolution of the Western definition of womankind. These catalogs were simple listings of past heroines, sometimes described in extended biographies, sometimes merely enumerated by name.

Focuses on William Borah, an all-time giant of the US Senate and one of the most enigmatic of American statesmen. This, his first full-length biography, makes use of a vast collection of Borah's unpublished papers, and with fresh material at her disposal author Marian C. McKenna provides a colourful and convincing interpretation of his career.

Features a collection of papers originally published between July 10, 1924, and August 3, 1927, and edited by Eugene S. McCartney. Most, but not all, of the contributors were members of the faculties or graduates of the University of Michigan who published on their findings while examining fossils and rock formations.

Features 30,000 coins excavated at Seleucia-on-the-Tigris in the 1927-32 excavations under the auspices of the University of Michigan, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Half of the included coins came from definite provinces; photographs were taken by Michigan's George Swain, after treatment of many coins by the American Numismatic Society's E.T. Newell.

Features a collection of papers originally published between July 31, 1936, and July 1, 1939, and edited by Eugene S. McCartney. Most, but not all, of the contributors were members of the faculties or graduates of the University of Michigan who published on their findings while examining fossils and fossilized remains. Many of the articles discuss findings from the state of Michigan.

Brings together essays that analyse the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of US Latino/a literature. The editors argue that recent global events have compelled contemporary scholars to reexamine traditional interpretive models that centre on identity politics and an ethics of multiculturalism.

The struggle for national liberation, the freedom to develop an independent identity-these are the issues advocated with fiery eloquence in this absorbing political tract. Written in 1919 by two Ukrainian-born Bolsheviks, On the Current Situation in the Ukraine is the first impressive statement of national communism.

Provides a brief history of sixty years of English rule in Gascony, the southwestern region of present-day France. Marsh's particular concern is how the various towns of the region were affected by decades of political upheavals.

The third of a series of major publications devoted to the archaeology of South America. Richard S. MacNeish has assembled an excellent staff of cooperating scientists for the excavation and interdisciplinary analysis of the Ayacucho Basin, a pristine nuclear site and a region containing the major archaeological, geographical, and ecological units of highland Peru.

The first of a series of major publications devoted to the archaeology of South America. Richard S. MacNeish has assembled an excellent staff of cooperating scientists for the excavation and interdisciplinary analysis of the Ayacucho Basin, a pristine nuclear site and a region containing the major archaeological, geographical, and ecological units of highland Peru.