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Politics & International Relations 2013 press.princeton.edua TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 FEATURED TITLES 15 PRINCETON STUDIES IN 31 JUDICIAL POLITICS 5 AMERICAN POLITICS & INTERNATIONAL HISTORY & 32 POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY POLITICS POLICY 34 POLITICAL BEHAVIOR 16 POLITICAL ECONOMY 8 POLITICS & SOCIETY IN 35 POLITICAL METHODOLOGY TWENTIETH-CENTURY 20 COMPARATIVE POLITICS 36 EDUCATION POLICY AMERICA 22 PRINCETON STUDIES IN 10 PRINCETON STUDIES IN MUSLIM POLITICS 36 OF RELATED INTEREST AMERICAN POLITICS 23 POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY & 39 EBOOKS 11 AMERICA IN THE WORLD THEORY 40 INDEX ORDER | FORM 12 INTERNATIONAL POLITICS 29 LAW & LEGAL THEORY Jacket Photo: Replica of the White House isolated on white background. © image dj. Courtesy of Shutterstock. FORTHCOMING The Confidence Trap A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present David Runciman “In this book, David Runciman emerges as the most original guide we have to democracy’s global prospects in the twenty-first century.” —Melissa Lane, Princeton University “The Confidence Trap’s engrossing analytical history illuminates democracy’s deepening achievements and recurring crises during the charged past century. By incisively interpreting these moments of unsettled apprehension and by tracking patterns of coping and surviving, this rich, important book helps us understand, and perhaps even navigate, present anxieties about the capacity of democracies to grapple with the big issues of economics, geopolitics, and the environment.” —Ira Katznelson, author of Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time Why do democracies keep lurching from success to failure? The current financial crisis is just the latest example of how things continue to go wrong, just when it looked like they were going right. In this wide-ranging, original, and compelling book, David Runciman tells the story of modern democracy through the history of moments of crisis, from the First World War to the economic crash of 2008. November 2013. 432 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-14868-7 $29.95 | £19.95 FORTHCOMING The Gamble Choice and Chance in the 2012 Presidential Election John Sides & Lynn Vavreck “The 2012 election was when ‘Moneyball’ defeated ‘Game Change’—and Sides and Vavreck explain why political scientists and number-crunchers were able to forecast the results well in advance, while the conventional wisdom was so often wrong. The Gamble is crisply written, comprehensively researched, and carefully argued. It provides the definitive account of what really happened and what really mattered in the campaign.” —Nate Silver, author of The Signal and the Noise “John Sides and Lynn Vavreck have done something remarkable: They’ve managed to not just report on the 2012 election in real time, but research it in real time, too. They’ve solved the problem that bedevils those of us in journalism: How to actually know what you’re talking about when you’re talking about something as fluid and fast-moving as a presidential election. This book should change how we cover campaigns.” —Ezra Klein, columnist, The Washington Post Using an unusual “moneyball” approach, John Sides and Lynn Vavreck look beyond the anecdote, folklore, and con- ventional wisdom that often pass for election analysis. Instead, they draw on extensive quantitative data about the economy, public opinion, news coverage, and political advertising to separate what was truly important from what was irrelevant. Combining this data with the best social science research and colorful on-the-ground reporting, they provide the most accurate and precise account of the election yet written—and the only book of its kind. October 2013. 352 pages. 50 line illus. 23 tables. Cl: 978-0-691-15688-0 $29.95 | £19.95 FEATURED TITLES NEW How to Run a Country An Ancient Guide for Modern Leaders Marcus Tullius Cicero Selected, translated, and with an introduction by Philip Freeman “How to Win an Election was a delight—and How to Run a Country is even better. Cicero’s acute observations about how to govern will resonate with everyone who recognizes that the tribalism, ideological extremism, and coarsened culture of politics today urgently need to change.” —Norman J. Ornstein, coauthor of It’s Even NEW Worse Than It Looks Jane Austen, 2013. 152 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-15657-6 $12.95 | £8.95 Game Theorist Michael Suk-Young Chwe “Jane Austen, Game Theorist . is more than the larky scholarly Also by Marcus Tullius Cicero equivalent of ‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.’. Mr. Chwe argues NEW that Austen isn’t merely fodder A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice for game-theoretical analysis, How to Win an Election but an unacknowledged founder An Ancient Guide for Modern Politicians of the discipline itself: a kind of Translated and with an introduction by Philip Freeman Empire-waisted version of the mathematician and cold war “In his election advice to his brother Marcus, thinker John von Neumann, Quintus Cicero shows himself to be a master ruthlessly breaking down the political strategist with a clear understand- stratagems of 18th-century social ing of opposition research, organization, and warfare.”—Jennifer Schuessler, turnout (though a little weak on message). New York Times Fresh, lively, and sharp, this primer provides timeless counsel and a great read for the 2013. 288 pages. 5 line illus. 9 tables. modern political practitioner.” Cl: 978-0-691-15576-0 $35.00 | £24.95 —Karl Rove, former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush Also by Michael Suk-Young 2012. 128 pages. Chwe Cl: 978-0-691-15408-4 $9.95 | £6.95 NEW PAPERBACK With a new afterword by the author Rational Ritual NEW Culture, Coordination, and Meeting at Grand Central Common Knowledge Understanding the Social and Evolutionary Roots of Cooperation See page 34 for details. Lee Cronk & Beth L. Leech “An evolutionary psychologist and a political scientist somehow accomplish the spectacular feat of explaining human cooperation by delineating diverse accounts of the roadblocks to it. Cronk and Leech persuasively argue that cooperation is based in complicated emergent institutions surrounding indirect reciprocity but also in basic individual biological and evolutionary realities. They are a great team.” —John R. Hibbing, University of Nebraska– Lincoln 2012. 264 pages. 7 line illus. Cl: 978-0-691-15495-4 $29.95 | £19.95 FEATURED TITLES FEATURED TITLES 1 NEW NEW FORTHCOMING Political Bubbles Change They Can’t Conservative Financial Crises and the Failure Believe In Internationalism of American Democracy The Tea Party and Reactionary Armed Diplomacy under Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Politics in America Jefferson, Polk, Truman, Poole & Howard Rosenthal Christopher S. Parker & and Reagan “This wise book offers an incisive Matt A. Barreto Henry R. Nau evaluation of the politics of eco- “This original and important “Henry Nau is one of our wisest nomic crisis. Persuasively insist- book is the most well-researched scholars of international relations, ing on the need for a new public and significant scholarly study of and that wisdom is on full display philosophy, its elegant account at the Tea Party movement and its here. Cutting across today’s the juncture of political economy members yet to appear. Unfold- exhausted political categories, and policy analysis artfully con- ing a profile of Tea Party activists his book is a vision of limited nects conceptual argumentation threatened by liberal changes government and personal liberty about ideology, interests, and and ill-formulated images of big at home and abroad, achieved institutions to inventive and government and state regulatory through an international en- illuminating analyses of data.” power, Parker and Barreto tease gagement pioneered by Thomas —Ira Katznelson, Columbia out core beliefs and views, Jefferson and developed by three University ranging from commonplace con- of America’s most successful 2013. 368 pages. 3 halftones. 26 line illus. servatism to racist antagonism. presidents. It is a vision that will 11 tables. Their book is an outstanding surprise and challenge conserva- Cl: 978-0-691-14501-3 $29.95 | £19.95 contribution to understanding tives, liberals, and realists alike.” American politics.” —John Owen, University —Desmond King, University of Virginia of Oxford October 2013. 296 pages. 1 halftone. NEW 2013. 384 pages. 60 line illus. 11 tables. 3 line illus. 1 table. 2 maps. On Settling Cl: 978-0-691-15183-0 $29.95 | £19.95 Cl: 978-0-691-15931-7 $35.00 | £24.95 Robert E. Goodin “This is a profound book by one of our very FORTHCOMING best social philosophers. It is a must-read A World without Why in the age of unrealistic expectations and unyielding demands by extremists. It speaks Raymond Geuss both to our personal lives and to our public “A World without Why is a fasci- lives, as citizens and voters. Above all, one nating collection of essays by one wishes our public leaders would heed it.” of the most original, witty, pro- —Amitai Etzioni, author of The New Golden Rule found, passionate, and erudite 2012. 128 pages. philosophers alive today.” Cl: 978-0-691-14845-8 $24.95 | £16.95 —Wendy Brown, author of Walled States, Waning Sovereignty February 2014. 320 pages. Cl: 978-0-691-15588-3 $39.50 | £27.95 Connect with us on Twitter @ PrincetonUPress 2 FEATURED TITLES NEW NEW NEW On the Muslim Question Presidential Leadership Thinking about Anne Norton and the Creation of the the Presidency “This is an extraordinary American Era The Primacy of Power book—an impassioned, astute, Joseph S. Nye, Jr. William G. Howell and erudite critique that strongly With David Milton Brent “A compelling study of the use refutes the ‘clash of civilizations’ and misuse of power in the “In this brief, well-written book, rhetoric and the stereotypes modern age. Written by one of William Howell ranges widely shaping contemporary discus- our country’s foremost scholars, and astutely as he encourages sions of Muslims in the West.