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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 24d

#APSA2025 may be ending, but our virtual exhibit is still open! Browse our virtual exhibit and get 35% off & free U.S. shipping with promo code EX58106 at our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations to Aziz Rana on winning the Annual Book Award of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History for his book The Constitutional Bind! You can check out the book at booth #301 or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 24d

Congratulations to the authors of Partisan Hostility and American Democracy on winning the 2025 Juliette and Alexander George Book Award from the International Society of Political Psychology! You can check out the book at booth #301 or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 24d

At #APSA2025? Check out the Author Meets Critics panel today at 10am, where our authors David E. Campbell and Christina Wolbrecht will discuss See Jane Run.

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 25d

At #APSA2025? Check out these Author Meets Critics panels today! At 10am, Danielle Thompson will discuss The Money Signal, and at 12pm Linda Zerilli will discuss A Democratic Theory of Truth.

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 25d

Congratulations to Shep Melnick on winning the 2025 Jeffrey R. Henig Best Book on Education Politics and Policy Award for his book Crucible of Desegregation! You can check out the book at booth #301 or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025 @bostoncollege.bsky.social

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 25d

Congratulations to Kenny Lowande on winning the Richard E. Neustadt Award given for the best book on executive politics! You can check out the book at booth #301 or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025 @lowande.bsky.social

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 26d

At #APSA2025? Don't miss Author Meets Critics panels today! At 12pm, Maneesh Arora will discuss Parties and Prejudice, and at 2pm Stephen Skowronek will discuss The Adaptability Paradox.

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Danielle Thomsen @daniellethomsen.bsky.social · 26d

APSA folks: Free on Saturday, 9/13 at 10 am? Come to an Author Meets Critics panel for my new book, The Money Signal! Thanks to an amazing group of scholars: Larry Bartels, Brandice Canes-Wrone, @carnes.bsky.social, @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social, and Frances Lee. @uchicagopress.bsky.social

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Sara Doskow @saradoskow.bsky.social · 26d

The @uchicagopress.bsky.social is v. proud to announce the pub of Steve Skowronek's (@slskowronek.bsky.social) latest, The Adaptability Paradox, a gripping book that asks if the US Constitution has exhausted its adaptative capacities. Check out the #APSA2025 author-meets-critics panel today @2pm.

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 26d

Congratulations to Anthony Grasso, winner of APSA's 2025 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, honoring the best book published in the field of U.S. national policy! You can check out the book at booth #301 or our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025 @fas.camden.rutgers.edu

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 27d

At #APSA2025? Don't miss our authors at their Author Meets Critics panels today at 12pm, where our author Lisa Vanhala will discuss Governing the End, and Christopher Ojeda will discuss The Sad Citizen.

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · 27d

At the American Political Science Association meeting this year? We'll see you there! Whether you're attending or not, you can now browse our virtual exhibit. Check out our featured books and get 35% off & free U.S. shipping with promo code EX58106 at our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAPSA #APSA2025

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Sara Doskow @saradoskow.bsky.social · Aug 22

Maneesh Arora's (@maneesharora.bsky.social) new book explains how the interactions between parties, social norms, and expressions of prejudice (toward Black, LGBTQ+, and Muslim Americans) sit at the center of contemporary politics. Really sharp & important book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Parties and Prejudice

An essential guide to how the interactions between social norms, party politics, and expressions of prejudice are driving contemporary politics. Antiminority rhetoric in American politics has grown mo...

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Sara Doskow @saradoskow.bsky.social · Aug 22

Danielle Thomsen's (@daniellethomsen.bsky.social) The Money Signal will change how you think about the function of money in US elections. A must-read! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

The Money Signal

A data-rich, eye-opening look at how, when, and why political fundraising is consequential. Over the last two decades, the number of competitive congressional races has declined precipitously. Yet ca...

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Sara Doskow @saradoskow.bsky.social · Aug 19

At last, it's here: Lisa Vanhala's brilliant, searing @uchicagopress.bsky.social book on how the international community is trying--and failing--to address the worst effects of climate change and the differential burdens borne by rich and poor countries.
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Joe Soss @joesoss.bsky.social · Aug 18

DC Folks: Please join us at Politics & Prose this Friday 7pm for a discussion of Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice (@uchicagopress.bsky.social). @joshpage.bsky.social and I will be in discussion with @nazgolg.bsky.social, Director of Research @sentencingproject.bsky.social

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Sara Doskow @saradoskow.bsky.social · Jul 10

Check out this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview, where @stephenpimpare.bsky.social speaks to Maraam Dwidar about her fascinating new @uchicagopress.bsky.social book on the power of coalitional work in social justice advocacy, Power to the Partners.

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Maraam A. Dwidar, "Power to the Partners: Organizational Coalitions in Social Justice Advocacy" (University of Chicago Press, 2025) - New Books Network

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Sara Doskow @saradoskow.bsky.social · Jul 9

Partisan Hostility and American Democracy is winner of the 2025 Juliette and Alexander George Book Award from ISPP (‪@polpsyispp.bsky.social‬). Congratulations, Jamie Druckman, Samara Klar, Yanna Krupnikov, Matthew Levendusky, & John Barry Ryan!
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Partisan Hostility and American Democracy

An unflinching examination of the effects and boundaries of partisan animosity. For generations, experts argued that American politics needed cohesive parties to function effectively. Now many fear th...

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Sara Doskow @saradoskow.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hearty congratulations to Aziz Rana, whose @uchicagopress.bsky.social book, The Constitutional Bind, was just honored with the Annual Book Award of the Society for U.S. Intellectual History (‪@susih.bsky.social‬). ‪@bulaw.bsky.social‬
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The Constitutional Bind

An eye-opening account of how Americans came to revere the Constitution and what this reverence has meant domestically and around the world. Some Americans today worry that the Federal Constitution is...

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Sara Doskow @saradoskow.bsky.social · Jul 9

This is an absolute must-read!

Josh Page @joshpage.bsky.social · Jul 8

Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice, my book w/ @joesoss.bsky.social, is now available. 30% off through @uchicagopress.bsky.social (see below). Look out for info about book-related events beginning in late-August.

Joe Soss @joesoss.bsky.social · Jul 8

It's hard to believe, but today is the day -- the release date for Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice, a book that @joshpage.bsky.social and I have been working on for most of the past decade. If you’d like to check it out, you can get 30% off by entering the code UCPNEW.

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Michael Leo Owens @milophd.bsky.social · Jun 12

Hey @saradoskow.bsky.social! I read instructor's sample chapters of Legal Plunder: The Predatory Dimensions of Criminal Justice (@joshpage.bsky.social @joesoss.bsky.social). Whoa. Looks like a great fit 4 my Politics of Punishment seminar I'm revising/reviving. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Legal Plunder

A searing, historically rich account of how US policing and punishment have been retrofitted over the last four decades to extract public and private revenues from America’s poorest and most vulnerabl...

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Sara Doskow @saradoskow.bsky.social · May 23

Big, big congrats to @lowande.bsky.social, who just won two awards: the Neustadt Award for False Front (@uchicagopress.bsky.social) and the Emerging Scholar award for the study of presidents & executive politics. Well deserved, Kenny! 🎉🎉🎉

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Sara Doskow @saradoskow.bsky.social · May 23

#LSA2025: Come find @uchicagopress.bsky.social new releases in the exhibit hall. You can also get a first peek at forthcoming books. We’re open till Sat 5pm.

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The University of Chicago Press @uchicagopress.bsky.social · May 22

Attending the Law & Society Association meeting in Chicago? We'll see you there! You can check out our featured books and get 30% off & free US shipping with promo code EX57892 at our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXLAW. #LSA2025

Six book covers rotating clockwise: Dual Justice, Governing the Global Clinic, Sunbelt Capitalism and the Making of the Carceral State, The Political Development of American Debt Relief, The Power of the Badge, Trial by Treatment.

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