Books published by Pennsylvania State University Press

Using case studies, this work explains why shifts in voter partisan preferences have occured since the 1950s. The study relies on the actual voting data rather than opinion polls, allowing an in-depth analysis of voting patterns found in individual states not apparent in national surveys.

Based on interviews with several generations of Brazilian scientists, this study of the development of scientific traditions in Brazil offers insight into the motivations, attitudes, values and perceptions of scientists who face challenges and frustrations unknown to industrialized countries.

A treatment of the effects of enforced alienation from the land upon a particular people. It examines how the British enterprise of colonization and Christianization stimulated the formation of Maori renewal movements to hold fast to their threatened land.

This study examines the history of social security policy in two countries - New Zealand and the United States. The system of universal health care and social security for all citizens in New Zealand contrasts sharply with the largely unsuccessful targeting of specific groups in the US.

This text presents a revisionist interpretation of Emerson's philosophical discourse placing him at the juncture of modernism and postmodernism in the Western philosophical tradition.

An exploration of the philosophical and rhetorical implications of William Wordsworth's desire for language to be an "incarnation" of thought. This book concentrates on familiar Wordsworthian texts such as "The Prelude" and also on less frequently read texts such as "The Excursion".

This study demonstrates the emerging differentiation of civil and ceremonial prose in the English Renaissance period. It highlights specific texts of the period to reveal their philosophical awareness of a complexity of moral and political questions.