The Straight State is the most expansive study of the federal regulation of homosexuality yet written. Unearthing startling new evidence from the National Archives, Margot Canaday shows how the state systematically came to penalize homosexuality, giving rise to a regime of second-class citizenship that sexual minorities still live under today.
Canaday looks at three key arenas of government control—immigration, the military, and welfare—and demonstrates how federal enforcement of sexual norms emerged with the rise of the modern bureaucratic state. She begins at the turn of the twentieth century when the state first stumbled upon evidence of sex and gender nonconformity, revealing how homosexuality was policed indirectly through the exclusion of sexually “degenerate” immigrants and other regulatory measures aimed at combating poverty, violence, and vice. Canaday argues that the state’s gradual awareness of homosexuality intensified during the later New Deal and through the postwar period as policies were enacted that explicitly used homosexuality to define who could enter the country, serve in the military, and collect state benefits. Midcentury repression was not a sudden response to newly visible gay subcultures, Canaday demonstrates, but the culmination of a much longer and slower process of state-building during which the state came to know and to care about homosexuality across many decades.
Social, political, and legal history at their most compelling, The Straight State explores how regulation transformed the regulated: in drawing boundaries around national citizenship, the state helped to define the very meaning of homosexuality in America.

Methods of Discovery is organized around strategies for deepening arguments in order to find the best ways to study social phenomena. This exciting book is not about the mechanics of doing social science research, but about habits of thinking that enable students to use those mechanics in new ways, by coming up with new ideas and combining them more effectively with old ones. Examples from throughout the social sciences help show how these moves can open new lines of thinking. Each chapter covers several moves and their reverses (if these exist), discussing particular examples of the move as well as its logical and theoretical structure. This book offers readers a new way of thinking about directions for their research and new ways to imagine information relevant to their research problems.

Do political parties merely represent divisions in society? Until now, scholars and other observers have generally agreed that they do. But Building Blocs argues the reverse: that some political parties in fact shape divisions as they struggle to remake the social order. Drawing on the contributors' expertise in Indonesia, India, the United States, Canada, Egypt, and Turkey, this volume demonstrates further that the success and failure of parties to politicize social differences has dramatic consequences for democratic change, economic development, and other large-scale transformations.
This politicization of divisions, or "political articulation," is neither the product of a single charismatic leader nor the machinations of state power, but is instead a constant call and response between parties and would-be constituents. When articulation becomes inconsistent, as it has in Indonesia, partisan calls grow faint and the resulting vacuum creates the possibility for other forms of political expression. However, when political parties exercise their power of interpellation efficiently, they are able to silence certain interests such as those of secular constituents in Turkey. Building Blocs exposes political parties as the most influential agencies that structure social cleavages and invites further critical investigation of the related consequences.

Today’s researchers have access to more information than ever before. Yet the new material is both overwhelming in quantity and variable in quality. How can scholars survive these twin problems and produce groundbreaking research using the physical and electronic resources available in the modern university research library? In Digital Paper, Andrew Abbott provides some much-needed answers to that question.
Abbott tells what every senior researcher knows: that research is not a mechanical, linear process, but a thoughtful and adventurous journey through a nonlinear world. He breaks library research down into seven basic and simultaneous tasks: design, search, scanning/browsing, reading, analyzing, filing, and writing. He moves the reader through the phases of research, from confusion to organization, from vague idea to polished result. He teaches how to evaluate data and prior research; how to follow a trail to elusive treasures; how to organize a project; when to start over; when to ask for help. He shows how an understanding of scholarly values, a commitment to hard work, and the flexibility to change direction combine to enable the researcher to turn a daunting mass of found material into an effective paper or thesis.
More than a mere how-to manual, Abbott’s guidebook helps teach good habits for acquiring knowledge, the foundation of knowledge worth knowing. Those looking for ten easy steps to a perfect paper may want to look elsewhere. But serious scholars, who want their work to stand the test of time, will appreciate Abbott’s unique, forthright approach and relish every page of Digital Paper.

"The Idea of India" was originally published to mark the 50th anniversary of India's independence and has since established itself as a uniquely valuable and authoritative book on a key subject. At the heart of India's self-image since independence has been 'the idea of India' - modern, technocratic, egalitarian, secular - but the tensions between the idea and the reality have become almost intolerable. With the legacy of Nehru and Gandhi everywhere under attack and ferociously religious and militant politicians in power has the idea of India lost all meaning?

Some of the most remarkable impacts of digital media on political activism lie not in the new types of speech it provides to disorganized masses, but in the new types of listening it fosters among organized pressure groups. Beneath the easily visible waves of e-petitions, "likes," hashtags, and viral videos lies a powerful undercurrent of activated public opinion. In this book, David Karpf offers a rich, detailed assessment of how political organizations carefully monitor this online activity and use it to develop new tactics and strategies that help them succeed in the evolving hybrid media system. Karpf discusses the power and potential of this new "analytic activism," exploring the organizational logics and media logics that determine how digital inputs shape the choices that political campaigners make. He provides the first careful analysis of how organizations like Change.org and Upworthy.com influence the types of political narratives that dominate our Facebook newsfeeds and Twitter timelines. He investigates how MoveOn.org and it "netroots" peers use analytics to listen more effectively to their members and supporters. He also identifies two boundaries of analytic activism — the analytics floor and analytics frontier — which define the scope of this new style of organized citizen engagement. The book concludes by examining the limitations of analytic activism, raising a cautionary flag about the ways that putting too much faith in digital listening can lead to a weakening of civil society as a whole.

在任何一个时代小说都是自我和世界的关系的一个隐喻。想要了解20世纪人类的生存世界，认识20世纪人类的心灵境况，读20世纪的现代主义文学经典是最为可行的途径。我们可以从卡夫卡那里领悟先知的深邃和隐秘的思想、孤独的预见力和寓言化的传达；从青年加缪那里感受什么是激情方式，学习什么是反叛；从昆德拉那里了解现代主义作家对人的生存境遇和存在本身的无穷追索；从博尔赫斯的大百科全书那里领悟世界的总体图式…… 正是这些带来了对文学性的经验，对经典的领悟以及对人类生存图景的认知。同时，在中国文学的视域内，“狂人”的绝望、废名的乡土记忆、张爱玲的感性世界、北岛的心灵历程又再次带领我们去感知那些梦想、感性、反叛、失落以及苦难。如此愉悦，如此忧伤。

The New Fiscal Sociology: Taxation in Comparative and Historical Perspective demonstrates that the study of taxation can illuminate fundamental dynamics of modern societies. The sixteen essays in this collection offer a state-of-the-art survey of the new fiscal sociology that is emerging at the intersection of sociology, history, political science, and law. The contributors include some of the foremost comparative historical scholars in these disciplines and others. They approach the institution of taxation as a window onto the changing social contract. Their chapters address the social and historical sources of tax policy, the problem of how taxes persist, and the social and cultural consequences of taxation. They trace fundamental connections between tax institutions and macrohistorical phenomena - wars, shifting racial boundaries, religious traditions, gender regimes, labor systems, and more.

This book offers a careful examination of the politics of social policy in an era of austerity and conservative governance. Focusing on the administrations of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, Pierson provides a compelling explanation for the welfare state's durability and for the few occasions where each government was able to achieve significant cutbacks. The programmes of the modern welfare state - the 'policy legacies' of previous governments - generally proved resistant to reform. Hemmed in by the political supports that have developed around mature social programmes, conservative opponents of the welfare state were successful only when they were able to divide the supporters of social programmes, compensate those negatively affected, or hide what they were doing from potential critics. The book will appeal to those interested in the politics of neo-conservatism as well as those concerned about the development of the modern welfare state. It will attract readers in the fields of comparative politics, public policy, and political economy.

中国改革开放前粗放型的经济增长方式以及低下的经济效益，给后人留下了太过深刻的印象，以至于我们很少能发现同时期国家在追求效率上作出的努力。林超超著的这本《动员与效率（计划体制下的上海工业）》认为，1949年后的中国是在短缺的社会资源基础上实现其工业化诉求的，工业经济的高速增长显示了中国计划经济和劳动激励的独。以生产指标构筑起来的指令体系和赏罚体系，是国家推动经济增长的核心驱动器；对劳动竞赛等群众运动式的生产动员方式的青睐，是国家常用的一种针对劳动者个人的激励办法。然而，这种激励机制在换来经济高增长的同时，是不可估量的效益流失。

历史与人的命题，讨论的是历史学如何建立动态的眼光，在不断变化的历史过程中把握变化本身所具有的意义。
为什么历史过程是不断变化的呢？那是因为，历史是由无数人和人所结成的群体所推动的。而人本身是不断变化着的。钱穆先生说过，要讲一代的制度，必先精熟一代的人事，他说的就是历史与 人的关系。离开了人，离开了人事的变动，不仅制度变成了没有生命的条文，历史也会被杀死。
但是，无论是历史学里的人，还是政治学里的人，都不是直观意义上的生命个体，人被转化成为分析的特定视角和范畴。在这个意义上，历史学里的“人”更多的是作为机能的分析要素，而文学里的“人”更多的是生命体验本身。
——孙 歌
本书由著名学者孙歌在系列讲演基础上整理修订而成，集合了作者近几年在思想史研究中新的工作进展与突破。全书包含三个内在互相关联的章节，第一章从认识论角度重新讨论了“普遍性问题”，认为新的普遍性所对应的知识实践方式，不是将讨论抽象化，而是通过深化对于具体性、特殊性讨论，进一步开放差异性，在具体的层次建立连结。第二章处理了日本战后知识界围绕马克思主义史学者书写的《昭和史》一书展开的论战，触及了历史书写如何处理人的问题。第三章讨论了沟口雄三的中国思想史研究理路，抓住沟口对于“自然”“心”“公私”的讨论，指出沟口对于中国历史动力与众不同的把握能力。
全书保留了演讲时的即兴和口语化表述，并有意通过大量的事例，将较为抽象的问题拉到日常生活以及较为具体的学理层面展开，高屋建瓴、深入浅出。三个章节看似内容迥异，其实内里相通。所有的讨论都旨在在认识论的层面打破二元对立和静态的思考习惯，建立可转化的、动态的思维模式。这一点不仅仅彰显于作者重点对认识论的推进过程，也同样体现在具体案例的分析之中。

住房是“美国梦”的核心内容，不论是激进的政治演讲者还是雄心勃勃的企业家，都认为住房的建筑模式，将为国民提供理想的生存环境，其重要性远超过对工厂、机构的建筑或改造，它们是新的社会秩序的一部分。
普通美国人对家的珍爱使住房史别有寓意，拥有一套“像样的住房”的权利是基本权利，维护这种权利是美国生活方式的必须准则。但是，每一次关于住房的争论都要穿越阶级的界限，何谓“像样的住房”也引发了一系列令人思考的问题：家庭的作用是什么？如何保持家庭隐私与社区生活之间的平衡？或保持个人自由选择权与政府控制权之间的平衡？郊区的独门独户住房是“像样的住房”的唯一可接受的表达方式吗？核心家庭是最好的居住单元吗？民主平等是简单地意味着拥有栖身之所的权利、选择的权利，还是被他人接受的权利。

本书是一部现代西方政治学的名著，它从道德主体、分配原则、社会契约等角度展开论述，指证了以罗尔斯为代表的“政治自由主义”学说的偏颇，并据此提出了“正义内在于善”的思想。本书结构严谨，论述精妙，见解深刻，故被西方学界视为少数几部有影响的挑战罗尔斯理论的力作之一。与诺齐克的《无政府、国家和乌托邦》、麦金太尔的《追寻美德》等并称于世。

What is a global market? How does it work? At a time when new crises in world markets cannot be satisfactorily resolved through old ideas, "Market Threads" presents a detailed analysis of the international cotton trade and argues for a novel and groundbreaking understanding of global markets. The book examines the arrangements, institutions, and power relations on which cotton trading and production depend, and provides an alternative approach to the analysis of pricing mechanisms. Drawing upon research from such diverse places as the New York Board of Trade and the Turkish and Egyptian countrysides, the book explores how market agents from peasants to global merchants negotiate, accept, reject, resist, reproduce, understand, and misunderstand a global market. The book demonstrates that policymakers and researchers must focus on the specific practices of market maintenance in order to know how they operate. Markets do not simply emerge as a relationship among self-interested buyers and sellers, governed by appropriate economic institutions. Nor are they just social networks embedded in wider economic social structures. Rather, global markets are maintained through daily interventions, the production of prosthetic prices, and the waging of struggles among those who produce and exchange commodities. The book illustrates the crucial consequences that these ideas have on economic reform projects and market studies. Spanning a variety of disciplines, "Market Threads" offers an original look at the world commodity trade and revises prevailing explanations for how markets work.

During the Cold War, several prominent African American radical activist-intellectuals—including W.E.B. and Shirley Graham Du Bois, journalist William Worthy, Marxist feminist Vicki Garvin, and freedom fighters Mabel and Robert Williams—traveled and lived in China. There, they used a variety of media to express their solidarity with Chinese communism and to redefine the relationship between Asian struggles against imperialism and black American movements against social, racial, and economic injustice. In The East Is Black, Taj Frazier examines the ways in which these figures and the Chinese government embraced the idea of shared struggle against U.S. policies at home and abroad. He analyzes their diverse cultural output (newsletters, print journalism, radio broadcasts, political cartoons, lectures, and documentaries) to document how they imagined communist China’s role within a broader vision of a worldwide anticapitalist coalition against racism and imperialism.

Why were some countries able to build "developmental states" in the decades after World War II while others were not? Through a richly detailed examination of India's experience, Locked in Place argues that the critical factor was the reaction of domestic capitalists to the state-building project. During the 1950s and 1960s, India launched an extremely ambitious and highly regarded program of state-led development. But it soon became clear that the Indian state lacked the institutional capacity to carry out rapid industrialization. Drawing on newly available archival sources, Vivek Chibber mounts a forceful challenge to conventional arguments by showing that the insufficient state capacity stemmed mainly from Indian industrialists' massive campaign, in the years after Independence, against a strong developmental state.
Chibber contrasts India's experience with the success of a similar program of state-building in South Korea, where political elites managed to harness domestic capitalists to their agenda. He then develops a theory of the structural conditions that can account for the different reactions of Indian and Korean capitalists as rational responses to the distinct development models adopted in each country.
Provocative and marked by clarity of prose, this book is also the first historical study of India's post-colonial industrial strategy. Emphasizing the central role of capital in the state-building process, and restoring class analysis to the core of the political economy of development, Locked in Place is an innovative work of theoretical power that will interest development specialists, political scientists, and historians of the subcontinent.
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