Why do advocacy campaigns succeed or fail? What conditions motivate states to accept commitments championed by advocacy movements? Through in-depth case studies, Busby sheds light on these core questions by examining the ways in which campaigns use rhetoric to tap into cultural currents and the ways in which decision makers assess the values and costs of change.

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The Essence of Strategic Giving

The University of Chicago Press, 2010

Frumkin, Peter

In The Essence of Strategic Giving, Frumkin distills the lessons of his award-winning study "Strategic Giving" into a concise, practical guide for everyone involved in private philanthropy. He defines five critical challenges all donors must address if their philanthropy is to amount to more than indiscriminate charity, including awareness of time frames that guide a gift, specifying the intended impact, and recognizing how a donation fits with a donor’s own identity and style.

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Serving Country & Community: Who Benefits from National Service?

Harvard University Press, 2010

Frumkin, Peter

In Serving Country & Community, Frumkin draws on years of fieldwork and data collection to examine the strengths and weaknesses of American national service programs. In the context of recent major expansions of government-sponsored voluntary service organizations, Frumkin opens up a conversation about what works and what needs reform in national service today.

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Galbraith: The Affluent Society & Other Writings 1952-1967

The Library of America, 2010

Galbraith, James K.

In The Affluent Society & Other Writings, James Galbraith edits the works of John Kenneth Galbraith, the best-known American economist of the twentieth century, and a writer of remarkable style and grace. Galbraith, who forged a brilliantly unconventional career as scholar, intellectual, writer and public servant, is represented here by four of his most important books: American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power, The Great Crash, 1929, The Affluent Society, and The New Industrial State.

James Galbraith also serves as an editor for the journal Structural Change and Economic Dynamics. The journal publishes articles about theoretical, applied and methodological aspects of structural change in economic systems.

Additionally, Galbraith was elected to to the “Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei,” also known as the Lincean Academy, the oldest honorific scientific academy in the world. Although the academy covers all scientific and literary fields, Galbraith is a member of the division for moral, historical and philological sciences, specifically for the social and political sciences.

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Religion and American Foreign Policy, 1945-1960: The Soul of Containment

Cambridge University Press, Paperback Edition, 2010

Inboden, William Charles

In Religion and American Foreign Policy, Inboden examines the influences of religion on the Cold War. Presidents Truman and Eisenhower and other American leaders believed that human rights and freedoms were endowed by God, that God had called the United States to defend liberty in the world, and that Soviet communism was especially evil because of its atheism and its enmity to religion. This public theology was used to mobilize domestic support for Cold War measures, to determine the strategic boundaries of containment, to appeal to people of all religious faiths around the world to unite against communism, and to undermine the authority of communist governments within their own countries.

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International Political Economy: Debating the Past, Present, and Future

Routledge, 2010

Weaver, Catherine

With International Political Economy, Weaver co-edits a set of lively, provocative essays by leading voices in international political economy to debate the evolution of IPE, its current state and its future directions. Featuring contributions from the most influential scholars in the field from North America, Europe and Australia, this book is essential reading for anyone interested in the cutting edge debates in contemporary international political economy.

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Hispanic Families at Risk: The New Economy, Work, and the Welfare State

Springer, 2009

Angel, Jacqueline L.
Angel, Ronald

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21st Century Innovation Systems for Japan and the United States

National Academies Press, 2009.

Flamm, Kenneth S.

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The Fate of Young Democracies

Cambridge University Press

Kapstein, Ethan

LBJ School of Public Affairs Professor Ethan B. Kapstein, along with Nathan Converse, explores the recent backlash against democracy in such countries as Bolivia, Venezuela, Russia and Georgia and examines the concerns about viability of this regime type in the developing world in The Fate of Young Democracies, (Cambridge University Press).

The Fate of Young Democracies draws on a data set of every democratization episode since 1960 and examimes the underlying reasons for backsliding and reversal in the world's fledgling democracies and offers some proposals with respect to what the international community might do to help these states stay on track toward political stability.

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Housing, the State, and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities

Cambridge University Press

Ward, Peter M.

Housing, the State and the Poor: Policy and Practice in Three Latin American Cities, (Cambridge University Press) by LBJ School Professor Peter Ward with Alan Gilbert, is concerned with the housing and service needs of the poor in Latin American and how they are articulated and satisfied. It examines the aims and implementation of government policies towards low-income housing dwellers and tries to relate those policies to the wider interests of the state.

This book will interest not only those concerned with housing and planning but also those who wish to understand social and economic policies towards the poor in most kinds of developing countries.

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Urban Segregation and Government in the Americas

Palgrave MacMillan

Wilson, Robert H.

Urban Segregation and Governance in the Americas, (Palgrave MacMillan) edited by LBJ Professor and Associate Dean Robert H. Wilson, with Bryan R. Robert, uses the recent availability of geo-coded census data and techniques of spatial analysis to conduct the first detailed comparative examination of residential segregation in six major Latin American metropolises, with Austin, Texas, as a U.S. comparison. It demonstrates the high degree of residential segregation of contemporary Latin American cities and discusses implications for the welfare of urban residents.

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Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform

Princeton University Press

Weaver, Catherine

LBJ School Assistant Professor Catherine Weaver's book, Hypocrisy Trap: The World Bank and the Poverty of Reform, (Princeton University Press) was awarded the Chadwick Alger Award for Best Book on Multilateralism and International Organizations from the International Studies Association (February 2009) and was winner of the Harold Lasswell Prize from the Society of Policy Scientists (September 2009).

Using a rich sociological model and several years of field research, Weaver delves into the political and cultural worlds within and outside of the World Bank to uncover the tensions that incite and perpetuate organized hypocrisy -- the pervasive gaps between the organization's talk, decisions, and actions. She examines the courses and dynamics of hypocrisy in the critical cases of the Bank's governance and anticorruption agenda, and its recent Strategic Compact organization.

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Inheritance in Contemporary America: The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008

Angel, Jacqueline L.

With the baby boom generation on the cusp of retirement, life expectancies on the rise, and the nation’s cultural makeup in flux, the United States is faced with social and policy quandaries that demand attention. In Inheritance in Contemporary America, Jacqueline L. Angel tackles the complex legal, policy, and emotional issues that surround bequests and inheritances in an era of increasing longevity, broadening ethnicity, and unraveling social safety nets.

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Corruption and Reform in India: Public Services in the Digital Age

Cambridge University Press, 2012.

Bussell, Jennifer

Corruption and Reform in India asks why some governments improve public services more effectively than others. Through the investigation of a new era of administrative reform, in which digital technologies may be used to facilitate citizens’ access to the state, Bussell’s analysis provides unanticipated insights into this fundamental question.

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Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population

(Springer, 2012 co-edited with Fernando Torres-Gil and Kyriakos Markides)

Angel, Jacqueline L.

Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population creates a foundation for an interdisciplinary discussion of the trajectory of disability and long-term care for older people of Mexican-origin from a bi-national perspective.

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Inequality and Instability: A Study of the World Economy Just Before the Great Crisis

Oxford University Press, USA, 2012

Galbraith, James K.

Inequality and Instability demonstrates that finance is the driveshaft that links inequality to economic instability. The book challenges those, mainly on the right, who see mysterious forces of technology behind rising inequality. And it also challenges those, mainly on the left, who have placed the blame narrowly on trade and outsourcing.

Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age

Cornell University Press, 2012

Gavin, Francis J.

Nuclear Statecraft: History and Strategy in America’s Atomic Age reassesses the strategy of flexible response, the influence of nuclear weapons during the Berlin Crisis, the origins of and motivations for U.S. nuclear nonproliferation policy, and how to assess the nuclear dangers the world faces today.

Metropolitan Governance in the Federalist Americas: Strategies for Equitable and Integrated Development

University of Notre Dame Press, 2012

Ward, Peter M.
Wilson, Robert H.

Metropolitan Governance in the Federalist Americas features original research and analysis of the principal metropolitan areas in six federalist countries of the Americas—Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, the United States, and Venezuela. It finds that a common feature of metropolitan expansion is the lack of a unified governmental structure.