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The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? In A Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time. Exploring hot-button issues ranging from presidential power to same-sex relations to gun rights, Sunstein shows how the meaning of the Constitution is reestablished in every generation as new social commi

The role of campaign advertising -- The problem of persuasion -- A brief primer on data and research design -- How race context matters -- How ad negativity and emotional appeal in ads matter -- How receivers' characteristics matter -- How ad coverage in news matters -- The future study of ad effects.

From 19th-century public baths to today's private backyard havens, swimming pools have been a provocative symbol of American life. In this social and cultural history of swimming pools in the U.S., Wiltse relates how, over the years, pools have served as asylums for the urban poor, leisure resorts for the masses, and private clubs for middle-class suburbanites. As sites of race riots, shrinking swimsuits, and conspicuous leisure, swimming pools reflect the tensions and transformations that have given rise to modern America

Introduction -- PART I: UNDERSTANDING POLICE CULTURE: Prologue -- Culture and knowledge -- Issues in the study of police culture -- Culture and cultural themes -- Articulating police culture and its environments: patterns of line-officer interactions -- PART II: THEMES OF POLICE CULTURE: SECTION I: COERCIVE TERRITORIAL CONTROL: The moral transformation of territory (Theme: Domination) -- Force is righteous (Theme: Force) -- Crime is war, metaphor (Theme: Militarization) -- Stopping power (Theme: Guns) -- SECTION II: THEMES OF THE UNKNOWN: The twilight world (Theme: Suspicion) -- Danger through the lens of culture (Theme: Danger and its anticipation) -- Anything can happen on the street (Theme: Unpredictability and situational uncertainty) -- No animal out there is going to beat me (Theme: Turbulence and edge control) -- Seductions of the edge (Theme: Seduction) -- SECTION III: CULTURAL THEMES OF SOLIDARITY: Angels and assholes: the construction of police morality (Theme: Police morality) -- Common sense and the ironic deconstruction of the obvious (Theme: Common sense) -- No place for sissies (Theme: Masculinity) -- Mask of a thousand faces (Theme: Solidarity) -- America's great guilty crime secret (Theme: Racism) -- SECTION IV: LOOSELY COUPLING CULTURAL THEMES: On becoming invisible (Theme: Outsiders) -- Individualism and the paradox of personal accountability (Theme: Individualism) -- The truth game (Theme: Deception) -- Cop deterrence and the soft legal system (Theme: Deterence) -- The petty injustice and the everlasting grudges (Theme: Bullshit) -- SECTION V: DEATH AND POLICE CULTURE: Thinking about ritual -- The culture eater (Theme: Death) -- Good-bye in a sea of blue (Theme: Police funerals) -- Postscript.

In these eleven essays scholars from diverse disciplines address the argument, reception, and implications of The Dialectic of Sex and make a compelling, critical case for its contemporary salience.

The future of the U.S. Supreme Court hangs in the balance like never before. Will conservatives or liberals succeed in remaking the court in their own image? InA Constitution of Many Minds, acclaimed law scholar Cass Sunstein proposes a bold new way of interpreting the Constitution, one that respects the Constitution's text and history but also refuses to view the document as frozen in time. Exploring hot-button issues ranging from presidential power to same-sex relations to gun rights, Sunstein shows how the meaning of the Constitution is reestablished in every generation as new social commitments and ideas compel us to reassess our fundamental beliefs. He focuses on three approaches to the Constitution--traditionalism, which grounds the document's meaning in long-standing social practices, not necessarily in the views of the founding generation; populism, which insists that judges should respect contemporary public opinion; and cosmopolitanism, which looks at how foreign courts address constitutional questions, and which suggests that the meaning of the Constitution turns on what other nations do. Sunstein demonstrates that in all three contexts a "many minds" argument is at work--put simply, better decisions result when many points of view are considered. He makes sense of the intense debates surrounding these approaches, revealing their strengths and weaknesses, and sketches the contexts in which each provides a legitimate basis for interpreting the Constitution today. This book illuminates the underpinnings of constitutionalism itself, and shows that ours is indeed a Constitution, not of any particular generation, but of many minds.

Este volumen re ne seis estudios de distinguidos historiadores y polit logos mexicanos y estadunidenses y de un italiano, en los que se analiza la evoluci n hist rica e institucional del presidencialismo en M xico y en Estados Unidos, a la luz de su funci n en el sistema pol tico.

Poverty and policy in the United States and Canada -- The story and the setting -- The union difference -- Health-care differences -- Social welfare policy differences -- Public investment and city-level differences -- Subjective perceptions and future outlook -- Improving the lives of the working poor