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SPOTLIGHT
Trouble in the University: How the Education of Health Care Professionals Became Corrupted
Mildred A. Schwartz
Brill
From the Publisher: In Trouble in the University, Mildred A. Schwartz analyzes how changes in US higher education affecting the health care professions and in the relations between universities and the state have created conditions that can give rise to corruption. Citing University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Schwartz discusses how the connections between changing conditions and organizational structures can lead to illegal and unethical behavior. Because that university’s experiences were not unique, they can be used to demonstrate how higher education has become vulnerable to corruption. Identification of the structural and cultural sources of corruption also suggests possible ways it could be avoided.
Mildred A. Schwartz, PhD (1965), Columbia University, is Professor Emerita of Sociology at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Visiting Scholar at New York University. A political sociologist.
Activating Democracy in Brazil: Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking Institutions
Brian Wampler
University of Notre Dame Press
Battle for the Big Sky: Representation and the Politics of Place in the Race for the US Senate
David Parker
CQ Press
The Bigot Today: Why Prejudice Persists
Stephen Eric Bronner
Yale University Press
Canadian Democracy from the Ground Up: Perceptions and Performance
Elisabeth Gidengil and Heather Bastedo, editors
The University of British Columbia Press
Civil War Interventions and Their Benefits: Unequal Return
Isaac M. Castellano
Lexington Books
Congressional Primary Elections
Robert Boatright
Routledge
Dead Men Ruling: How to Restore Fiscal Freedom and Rescue Our Future
C. Eugene Steuerle
Century Foundation Press
Fighting for Votes: Parties, the Media, and Voters in an Ontario Election
William P. Cross, Jonathan Malloy, Tamara A. Small, and Laura B. Stephenson
The University of British Columbia Press
Judging Judges: Values and the Rule of Law
Jason E. Whitehead
Baylor University Press
Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy
Daniel Beland, Christopher Howard, Kimberly J. Morgan, editors
Oxford University Press
Political Communication in Canada: Meet the Press and Tweet the Rest
Alex Marland, Thierry Giasson, and Tamara A. Small, editors
The University of British Columbia Press
Political Rhetoric: A Presidential Briefing Book
Mary E. Stuckey
Transaction Publishers
Recognition versus Self-Determination: Dilemmas of Emancipatory Politics
Avigail Eisenberg, Jeremy Webber, Glen Coulthard, and Andrée Boisselle, editors
The University of British Columbia Press
Reviving Social Democracy: The Near Death and Surprising Rise of the Federal NDP
David Laycock and Lynda Erickson, editors
The University of British Columbia Press
Revolt on the Right: Explaining Support for the Radical Right in Britain
Robert Ford and Matthew J. Goodwin
Routledge
Rightlessness in an Age of Rights: Hannah Arendt and the Contemporary Struggles of Migrants
Ayten Gündoğdu
Oxford University Press
Sex, Lies, and the Ballot Box: 50 Things You Need to Know about British Elections
Philip Cowley and Robert Ford, editors
Biteback Publishing
Shakespeare and Politics: What a Sixteenth-Century Playwright Can Tell Us about Twenty-First-Century Politics
Bruce Altschuler and Michael Genovese
Paradigm Publishers
Territorial Pluralism: Managing Difference in Multinational States
Karlo Basta, John McGarry, and Richard Simeon, editors
The University of British Columbia Press
Transgender Rights and Politics: Groups, Issue Framing, & Policy Adoption
Jami K. Taylor and Donald P. Haider-Markel, editors
University of Michigan Press
SPOTLIGHT
Lincoln Gordon: Architect of Cold War Foreign Policy
Bruce L. R. Smith
University Press of Kentucky
From the Publisher: In this impressive biography, Bruce L. R. Smith examines Lincoln Gordon’s substantial contributions to US mobilization during the Second World War, Europe’s postwar economic recovery, the security framework for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and US policy in Latin America. He also highlights the vital efforts of the advisers who helped Gordon plan NATO’s force expansion and implement America’s dominant foreign policy favoring free trade, free markets, and free political institutions.
Bruce L. R. Smith is a retired professor of political science at Columbia University and a Brookings Scholar. He is currently affiliated with the School of Public Policy at George Mason University.
