{"title":"Ira Katznelson","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIra Katznelson\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound explorations into the intersections of politics, history, and society. His works delve into the complexities of American political development, examining themes of power, race, and democracy through a rigorous and thoughtful lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect incisive analyses that challenge conventional narratives, with titles that illuminate historical forces shaping contemporary political and social landscapes. Katznelson's writing is essential for those interested in understanding the nuanced dynamics of political thought and history.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"time-counts-by-ira-katznelson-9780691155050","title":"Time Counts","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHow to study the past using data\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eQuantitative Analysis for Historical Social Science\u003c\/em\u003e advances historical research in the social sciences by bridging the divide between qualitative and quantitative analysis. Gregory Wawro and Ira Katznelson argue for an expansion of the standard quantitative methodological toolkit with a set of innovative approaches that better capture nuances missed by more commonly used statistical methods. Demonstrating how to employ such promising tools, Wawro and Katznelson address the criticisms made by prominent historians and historically oriented social scientists regarding the shortcomings of mainstream quantitative approaches for studying the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTraditional statistical methods have been inadequate in addressing temporality, periodicity, specificity, and context—features central to good historical analysis. To address these shortcomings, Wawro and Katznelson argue for the application of alternative approaches that are particularly well-suited to incorporating these features in empirical investigations. The authors demonstrate the advantages of these techniques with replications of research that locate structural breaks and uncover temporal evolution. They develop new practices for testing claims about path dependence in time-series data, and they discuss the promise and perils of using historical approaches to enhance causal inference.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOpening a dialogue among traditional qualitative scholars and applied quantitative social scientists focusing on history, \u003cem\u003eQuantitative Analysis for Historical Social Science\u003c\/em\u003e illustrates powerful ways to move historical social science research forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46851747741932,"sku":"9780691155050","price":64.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/1537643482434.jpg?v=1759123812"},{"product_id":"fear-itself-by-ira-katznelson-9780871407382","title":"Fear Itself","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA work that \u003cem\u003edeeply reconceptualizes the New Deal and raises countless provocative questions\u003c\/em\u003e (David Kennedy), \u003cem\u003eFear Itself\u003c\/em\u003e changes the ground rules for our understanding of this pivotal era in American history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIra Katznelson examines the New Deal through the lens of a pervasive, almost existential fear that gripped a world defined by the collapse of capitalism and the rise of competing dictatorships, as well as a fear created by the ruinous racial divisions in American society.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKatznelson argues that American democracy was both saved and distorted by a Faustian collaboration that guarded racial segregation as it built a new national state to manage capitalism and assert global power.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFear Itself\u003c\/em\u003e charts the creation of the modern American state and \u003cem\u003ehow a belief in the common good gave way to a central government dominated by interest-group politics and obsessed with national security\u003c\/em\u003e (Louis Menand, The New Yorker).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000619417836,"sku":"9780871407382","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/6570403482498.jpg?v=1763289795"},{"product_id":"when-affirmative-action-was-white-by-ira-katznelson-9781324051084","title":"When Affirmative Action Was White","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWith this explosive analysis, Ira Katznelson fundamentally recasts our understanding of twentieth-century American history, demonstrating that the key programs passed during the New Deal and Fair Deal eras were not, as we are so often told, fundamentally equitable or impartial, but discriminatory in the way they deliberately excluded African Americans from benefits. In fact, Katznelson writes, the gap between black and white Americans actually widened following this period, owing, in no small part, to the segregationist designs of southern Democrats.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNow featuring a new introduction that situates this saga within the wider context of twentieth- and twenty-first-century history, \u003cem\u003eWhen Affirmative Action Was White\u003c\/em\u003e remains, tragically, as salient as ever, providing both a \"painful understanding of how politics and race intersect\" (Henry Louis Gates Jr.) and a broad justification for continuing affirmative action programs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47342117191916,"sku":"9781324051084","price":35.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/11195233482659.jpg?v=1772194883"},{"product_id":"desolation-and-enlightenment-by-ira-katznelson-9780231197892","title":"Desolation and Enlightenment","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDuring and especially after World War II, a group of leading scholars who had been perilously close to the war's devastation joined others fortunate enough to have been protected by distance in an effort to redefine and reinvigorate liberal ideals for a radically new age. Treating evil as an analytical category, they sought to discover the sources of twentieth-century horror and the potentialities of the modern state in the wake of desolation. In the process, they devised strikingly new ways to understand politics, sociology, and history that reverberate still.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this major intellectual history, \u003cem\u003eDesolation and Enlightenment\u003c\/em\u003e, Ira Katznelson examines the works of Hannah Arendt, Robert Dahl, Richard Hofstadter, Harold Lasswell, Charles Lindblom, Karl Polanyi, and David Truman, detailing their engagement with the larger project of reclaiming the West's moral bearing. In light of their epoch's calamities, these intellectuals insisted that the tradition of Enlightenment thought required a new realism, a good deal of renovation, and much recommitment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis array of historians, political philosophers, and social scientists understood that a simple reassertion of liberal modernism had been made radically insufficient by the enormities and moral catastrophes of war, totalitarianism, and the Holocaust. 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