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...Sarah X. Pemberton Abstract This article uses Michel Foucault’s account of state racism from “Society Must Be Defended” to understand racialized violence in the criminal justice systems of the USA and England and Wales. Foucault argues that modern states make race in order to exercise the sovereign...

...Shelby E. Ward Abstract Sri Lanka provides a geopolitical lens to analyze theviolence (both overt and discursive) necessary for the formation of the postcolonial nation-state. Following Himadeep Muppidi’s concept of the zoological metaphor as one of the colonial signs in international relations, I...

...Clyde W. Barrow Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power , by Stephen Maher , Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2022 , 380 pp., $139.00 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-3-030-83771-6 © Clyde W. Barrow @358 BOOK REVIEWS suicide...

... important ground opening the space for further critical recycling analysis. SARAH SURAK Salisbury University, USA © 2013 Sarah Surak httpdx.doi.org/l0.l080/07393148.2012.754680 Suzanne Mettler, The Submerged State: How Invisible Government Policies Undermine American Democracy, Chicago, IL: University...

...Jennifer Leigh Disney; Virginia S. Williams Abstract This article explores the shift to the left in Latin America within the context of understanding power relations among, within, and between social movements and the state. We examine the emergence and development of social movement resistance...

...Stacey Hunt Abstract Literacy and literature were central to the birth of the modern nation state. Yet few studies explore the importance of literature in contemporary state construction. In this article, the ongoing importance of literacy and literature in (re)producing the Colombian nation state...

...Jonathan Martin Abstract This article addresses why US progressive third parties today seldom win state legislative elections, despite apparent opportunities to the contrary. It analyzes seventeen illustrative races for state representative in New England. It finds that seemingly viable progressive...

..., & the Jury clearly is such a book, finely written and full of interesting arguments. WILLIAM L. NIEMI Western State Colorado University, USA © 2013 William L. Niemi httpdx.doi.org/l0.1 080/07393148.2013.790720 Francis G. Castles, Stephan Leibfried, Jane Lewis, Herbert Obinger, and Christopher Pierson (eds...

...Latha Varadarajan Abstract In the past few decades, states across several disparate geographical contexts have adopted policies and initiatives aimed at institutionalizing their relationship with groups constituted as “their” diasporas. These practices, which range from creating new ministries...

...James J. Chriss Reviewing Political Criticism: Journals, Intellectuals, and the State , by Elisabeth K. Chaves , Surrey, UK : Ashgate , 2015 , 174 + xiii pp. © 2016 James Chriss 2016 9296 BOOK REVIEWS Running the risk of being labeled an apologist for Stalinism, Zumoff demands...

...Daniel Kato Abstract Mass incarceration is at a crossroads. Even though demands to dismantle mass incarceration are increasingly gaining traction, it will not necessarily lead to a reduction of the carceral state. There is an emerging trend that centers on surveillance, security, and police...

...Craig Curtis Marie Gottschalk , Caught: The Prison State and the Lockdown of American Politics , Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press , 2015 , 282 pp. © 2015, Craig Curtis 2015 New Political Science, 2015 Vol. 37,~o. 3,429-445 Book Reviews Marie Gottschalk, Caught...

...Davina Cooper Abstract Against the conventional assumption that publics, and particularly radical publics, are outside the state, this article explores their mutual combination and entanglement in order to consider how states might contribute to progressive politics. At the heart of this account...

...George V. Davis Andy Scerri , Greening Citizenship: Sustainable Development, the State and Ideology , New York : Palgrave Macmillan , 2012 , 256 pp. © 2014, George V. Davis 2014 278 Book Reviews still has something useful to say, even while, as the author of Corporate Sovereignty...

..., an assault on one is an assault on the other. And so, their local war lends itself to larger uses as one of many jihads, and thus as part of the Global War on Terror. Olivier Roy noted this political concatenation in first book, Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan? II Why did the United States invade...

..., September 2008 Counter-Refortn in the Atnerican Welfare State: Ideas, Institutions, and Progressive Taxation Alba Alexander University of Illinois, USA Kurt Jacobsen University of Chicago, USA Abstract The Nixon/Ford years were a pivotal period when severe fiscal problems emerged whose resolutions...

...Claire Duncanson; Catherine Eschle Abstract This article enquires into the connections between gender and discourses of the nuclear weapons state. Specifically, we develop an analysis of the ways in which gender operates in the White Paper published by the UK government in 2006 on its plans...

... two decades. In this article, we unpack California’s policies and historical shift on immigrant rights, and develop a typology of regressive, restrictive, and progressive variants of state citizenship. We then advance a theory of how California’s progressive state citizenship crystallized in 2014...

.../07393148.2018.1449068 SYMPOSIUM Trajectory of Asian American Nonpartisanship: Transitory, Transitional, or End State? Loan K. Lea,b and Paul OngC alnstitute for Good Government and Inclusion, Oakland, CA, USA; bDepartment of Ethnic Studies, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA, USA; (Luskin School of Public Affairs...

...Margaret Poulos The Indigenous State: Race, Politics, and Performance in Plurinational Bolivia , by Nancy Postero , Oakland, CA , University of California Press , 2017 , 216 pp., $34.95 (paperback), ISBN 9780520294035 © 2018 Margaret Poulos 2018 @NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 435...