The Institution for Social and Policy Studies Series

18 primary works • 18 total works
Published by Yale University Press
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
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4.21 · 6954 Ratings · 802 Reviews · published 1998 · 46 editions
Compulsory ujamaa villages in Tanzania, collectivi…

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    Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History
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    4.12     · 42 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1997 · 10 editions
    Is civic identity in the United States really defi…

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    True Security: Rethinking American Social Insurance
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    3.67     · 3 Ratings · published 1999 · 3 editions
    Social insurance in the United States―including th…

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    Democratic Justice
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    3.65     · 20 Ratings · 1 Reviews · published 1999 · 6 editions
    Democracy and justice are often mutually antagonis…

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    The Loss of Happiness in Market Democracies
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    3.85     · 20 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2000 · 5 editions
    Despite the fact that citizens of advanced market …

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    Quantitative Evaluation of HIV Prevention Programs
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    0.00     · published 2001 · 3 editions
    How successful are HIV prevention programs? Which …

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    The Patient as Person: Explorations in Medical Ethics
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    3.80     · 15 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 1970 · 5 editions
    As physicians are faced with new and wonderful opt…

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    The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What To Make of It
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    3.55     · 121 Ratings · 9 Reviews · published 2001 · 5 editions
    In this clear and accessible book, an eminent poli…

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    The Yale Guide to Careers in Medicine and the Health Professions: Pathways to Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
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    4.33     · 9 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2003 · 4 editions
    Can I become a doctor? Should I? How can I find ou…

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    How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
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    3.69     · 758 Ratings · 79 Reviews · published 2001 · 31 editions
    “Robert A. Dahl . . . is about as covered in honor…

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    Electoral Realignments
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    3.75     · 20 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2002 · 7 editions
    The study of electoral realignments is one of the …

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    City: Urbanism and Its End
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    4.06     · 150 Ratings · 12 Reviews · published 2003 · 7 editions
    This extraordinary book is both a richly textured …

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    Women, Work, and Politics: The Political Economy of Gender Inequality
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    3.86     · 29 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2010 · 6 editions
    Looking at women's power in the home, in the workp…

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    MOBILIZING INCLUSION
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    4.11     · 18 Ratings · 3 Reviews · published 2012 · 6 editions
    Which get-out-the-vote efforts actually succeed in…

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    Race, Poverty, and Domestic Policy
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    0.00     · published 2004 · 4 editions
    What explains the continuing hardship of so many b…

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    Field Experiments and Their Critics: Essays on the Uses and Abuses of Experimentation in the Social Sciences
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    3.69     · 13 Ratings · published 2014 · 5 editions
    In recent years, social scientists have engaged in…

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    Democracy and the Origins of the American Regulatory State
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    3.57     · 7 Ratings · 2 Reviews · published 2015 · 3 editions
    Political scientist Samuel DeCanio examines how po…

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    The Progressives' Century: Political Reform, Constitutional Government, and the Modern American State
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    3.33     · 3 Ratings · 3 editions
    A landmark work on how the Progressive Era redefin…

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