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This book contains some of the newest, most exciting ideas now percolating among political scientists, from hallway conversations to conference room discussions. To spur future research, enrich classroom teaching, and direct non-specialist attention to cutting-edge ideas, a distinguished group of authors from various parts of this sprawling and pluralistic discipline has each contributed a brief essay about a single novel or insufficiently appreciated idea on some aspect of political science. The one hundred essays are concise, no more than a few pages apiece, and informal. While the...

This book provides a solution to the ecological inference problem, which has plagued users of statistical methods for over seventy-five years: How can researchers reliably infer individual-level behavior from aggregate (ecological) data? In political science, this question arises when individual-level surveys are unavailable (for instance, local or comparative electoral politics), unreliable (racial politics), insufficient (political geography), or infeasible (political history). This ecological inference problem also confronts researchers in numerous areas of major significance in public...

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In 1956, a group of young mensons of the Great Depressionwere now student athletes in every sense of the phrase. Their young coach was on the verge of an unprecedented winning streak, and Bud Wilkinson s 56 Sooners formed the touchstone of the University of Oklahoma s football dynasty. This team was the heart and soul of OU s record 47-straight victories. "An Autumn Remembered" traces the details of the remarkable 56 season and follows the team into the present through revealing interviews with the principal players. In this stirring account, Gary T. King brings to life a journey filled...

Gary Stephen King II was in a dark place when he first put pen to paper. A former US Marine, King was idolized by a younger brother who, wanting to follow in his footsteps, joined the armed forces. The decision lead to the young man's death, leaving King devastated and guilt ridden. Poetry would help him navigate this dark period of his life.

The poems within "Life of a King" reflect King's love for his brother, his friends, and his family while chronicling his own journey of self-examination. What begins with his brother's loss becomes an evocative, haunting assessment of his own...