... that liberal, Republican politicians—even some left-wing ones—began to waver in their defense of the jury system. The chapter notes that the rise of “scientific” criminology was the most important contributor to increased jury-based leniency, and in that sense, the state and its magistrates found it more...

...This chapter shows how the conservative politicians steered the national debate regarding criminal justice policy toward increasing repression during the late 1960s and early 1970s. At the same time, the culture of American prisons became increasingly radical. Influenced by the New Left, the civil...

...This chapter discusses the new political ritual that visibly symbolized the transformations that woman suffrage had wrought on the South's leading men. It observes that southern politicians in the fall of 1920 confronted the most substantial change in southern politics since the Populist revolt...

...This chapter discusses the continued American expansion into former Indian homelands north and south of the Ohio River, which sparked a renewed passion for what American politicians called “internal improvements.” In addition to roads, canals seemed particularly promising. In 1825, the opening...

... and policy makers including politicians. It is particularly important to involve a true cross-section of the public including those that feel universities have traditionally looked down on them, In general, universities need to do more to make the public welcome in order to dispel the elitist ethic...

...Traditional portrayals of politicians in antebellum Washington, D.C., describe a violent and divisive society, full of angry debates and violent duels, a microcosm of the building animosity throughout the country. Yet, this book paints a more nuanced portrait of Washington as a less fractious city...

... by experts—by trained, professional administrators—was already noticeable during the interwar years, and became still more evident later. The chapter emphasizes that échevinage was seen by many jurists, magistrates, criminologists, and politicians as a means by which juries would be guided...

...This chapter illustrates how politicians and evangelical clergymen pulled the country in different directions in the years between the War of 1812 and the Southampton Insurrection in 1831. Representatives of slave and free-labor regimes competed in Congress for access to western lands and, in 1819...

... with the everyday immediacy of the partisan press, it reveals how judges, lawyers, editors, politicians, and government officials, both North and South, used their constitutions to fight the war and save, or create, their nation. The book illuminates how the U.S. Constitution not only survived its greatest test...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book’s main themes. The book presents an ethnographic study of the exchanges between politicians and subsistence cultivators, and examines the Brazilian state’s effort to dismantle hierarchical exchanges in the name of social justice...

...This chapter examines the vertical exchanges through which relatively wealthy municipal politicians provide poor people with material resources in exchange for their political support. Reciprocal exchange with municipal elites is lived through the mutual revelation of each party’s tragically...

...This chapter describes how, while activists and politicians debated the most appropriate testing policies for the state, and AIDS organizations struggled to raise awareness in at-risk communities, people like Barbara struggled to navigate the complexities of life with AIDS. “With gay men, AIDS...

... on that segregation, the Ku Klux Klan and religious fundamentalists offered harsh racial and religious opinions, a new breed of respectable white supremacy appeared alongside race-baiting politicians, and an interracial movement gained ground. Much of the chapter details African American critiques of the southern...

...This book begins by arguing that America's high incarceration rate prompts impassioned debate. Politicians and activists, editorialists and community leaders consider a range of issues. They discuss the severity of drug crime sentencing, the ethics of for-profit prisons, and the inordinate number...

... politicians as a greater threat than the Rebel army—or from molding the Army of the Potomac in his own cautious image. Army of the Potomac Lincoln Abraham McClellan George B McDowell Irvin Pope John Scott Winfield Stanton Edwin M Bull Run first battle of Chandler Zachariah Chase Salmon P Joint...

...This chapter discusses how southern politicians treated white women's participation in formal politics. It observes that ten years after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, southern politicians had grown accustomed to white women's political status. The chapter observes further...

...This chapter analyzes the tight association between country music and the racial backlash brought by the New Right Movement against the Black Power Movement. In the mid-1960s, country musicians allied with conservative politicians and causes in the hopes of making their music the soundtrack...