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Rachel Blaifeder

@rblaifeder.bsky.social
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Publisher at Cambridge University Press, acquiring in political science and sociology.

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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 22/09/2026
If you'd like to learn more about insurance denials, why not read @mirandayaver.bsky.social 's Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States, out now! bookshop.org/p/books/cove...
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Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States
In the aftermath of the assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in December 2024, everyday Americans took to social media to share stories of the challenges they'd faced trying to navigat...
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 18/09/2026
New Cambridge Element, Gender and Local Political Ambition by Christina Wolbrecht, Mirya Holman, Lakshmi Iyer, Samantha Chapa, Fiona Rodger and Emma Schroeder, out now! Read for free for the next 4 weeks at cup.org/4y80hF8
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 19/09/2026
New Cambridge Element, Shocks, Democracy, and Rural Unrest by Jorge Mangonnet and Maria Victoria Murillo, out now! Read for free for the next 4 weeks at cup.org/4rgJFs9
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Jazmin Sierra @jazminsierra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Globalized State-led Development is out with @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org! @rblaifeder.bsky.social The book revisits the developmental state for an era of global capital and democracy, asking why states support the global investments of national firms. Brazil is at the center, with China comparison
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 10/09/2026
Congratulations to Louise Tillin on receiving an Honorable Mention for Making India Work in the APSA Francine Frankel Best Book Award. cup.org/4xKfJag #APSA2026 #PolSky #Awards
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 10/09/2026
Nicholas Barnes' Inside Criminalized Governance has been recognized with an Honorable Mention in the APSA Dennis Judd Best Book Award (Urban & Local Politics Section). Congratulations on this well-deserved achievement. cup.org/4hdSrDF #PolSky #APSA2026
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 09/09/2026
Building Social Mobility by Tanu Kumar wins the APSA Francine Frankel Best Book Award. Congratulations! cup.org/3UGgx19 #APSA2026 #SouthAsianPolitics #PolSky
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 09/09/2026
Congratulations to Vladimir Kogan, co-winner of the APSA Jeffrey R. Henig Best Book on Education Politics and Policy Award for No Adult Left Behind. cup.org/3UGfHBx #APSA2026 #EducationPolicy #PolSky
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 09/09/2026
Congratulations to Killian Clarke on receiving an Honorable mention for Return of Tyranny in the APSA Best Book on MENA Politics by a Junior Scholar. cup.org/4xevwwP #Politics #APSA2026 #Award
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 08/09/2026
Congratulations to Julie Moreau, winner of the APSA Donald Haider-Markel Best Book Award (Sexuality and Politics Section) for After Equality: LGBT Activism in Argentina and South Africa. cup.org/3UCH6EA #APSA2026 #PoliticalScience #LGBTPolitic
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 08/09/2026
Congratulations Isabel M. Perera! Winner of the APSA Politics of Marginalization and Inclusion Award for The Welfare Workforce. Join us in celebrating this outstanding accomplishment. cup.org/3UCGDCk #APSA2026 #CUPAcademic #PolSky
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 08/09/2026
Congratulations Natalie Wenzell Letsa! Winner of Giovanni Sartori Book Award for The Autocratic Voter. We are proud to celebrate this remarkable achievement and the impact of this important work. cup.org/3UvclBp #APSA2026 #PolSky #Award
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/09/2026
Congratulations to Killian Clarke, co-winner of the Best Book Award (Democracy & Autocracy section) for Return of Tyranny. cup.org/4xbKunp #APSAPrizes #AcademicExcellence #PolSky
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/09/2026
Celebrating excellence in political science! Edmund W. Cheng and Samson Yuen have been recognized as co-winners of the Best Book Award in the Democracy & Autocracy section for The Making of Leaderful Mobilization: Power and Contention in Hong Kong. cup.org/3Tcukfq #APSAPrizes #PolSky #CUP
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/09/2026
Congratulations to Sarah Sunn Bush and Jennifer Hadden on their Human Rights Section Best Book Award win for Crowded Out! cup.org/4qQO8kQ #APSA #PolSky
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 07/09/2026
Congratulations to Dan Reiter on being named co-winner of the APSA Best Book Award (Foreign Policy Section) for Untied Hands: How States Avoid the Wrong Wars. cup.org/4y9YTkS #APSA2026 #PoliticalScience #Award
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Around next Monday at noon? I'm giving a Zoom talk with the Ohio University Dept of Social Medicine (thanks to @danskinner.bsky.social for the invite!) on my next book, which explores legal underpinnings of the coverage barriers I expose in Coverage Denied (www.amazon.com/Coverage-Den...). Join us!
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 04/09/2026
Congratulations to Zeynep Ozgen Winner of the Best Book Award from the APSA European Politics & Society Section for Pious Politics: Cultural Foundations of the Islamist Movement in Turkey. cup.org/3Uw50l1 #APSA #CUP #PolSky
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 04/09/2026
Congratulations to Jenny Guardado, whose The Venal Origins of Development in Spanish America has been recognized with both the Luebbert Best Book Award and the William H. Riker Book Award. cup.org/4qQMj7J #APSA2026 #AcademicBooks #PolSky
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 04/09/2026
Congratulations to Christian Breunig and Chris Koski on receiving the Virginia Gray Book Award from the APSA State Politics & Policy Section for Means, Motives, and Opportunities: How Executives and Interest Groups Set Public Policy. cup.org/4zSnzzM #APSA2026 #PolSky #CUP
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 03/09/2026
We're proud to celebrate Kate Baldwin and Faith in Democracy, winner of the Hubert Morken Book Award. cup.org/3UwSSA7 #APSA2026 #PolSky #Democracy
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 03/09/2026
A well-deserved congratulations to Amanda Driscoll, Jay N. Krehbiel, and Michael J. Nelson on this prestigious recognition for The Efficacy of Judicial Review. cup.org/4xwmiNz #Award #APSA2026 #Polsky
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
The book signing is happening! At the @universitypress.cambridge.org booth. #apsa2026
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 02/09/2026
Congratulations to Tulia G. Falleti on receiving the Martha Derthick Book Award for Decentralization and Subnational Politics in Latin America. cup.org/4wZ4qtm #APSA2026 #PolSky #Award
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 02/09/2026
Congratulations to Luis Schiumerini, winner of the Robert A. Dahl Award for Incumbency Bias! cup.org/4wYhizS #APSA2026 #PoliSky #CUPAcademic
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 02/09/2026
Congratulations to Ning Leng! Politicizing Business has won the APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award, recognizing remarkable achievement and a significant contribution to political science. cup.org/4gxmJB2 #APSA2026 #CUPAcademics #PoliSky
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
If you're at APSA at noon tomorrow, come to my Author Meets Critics panel on my book Coverage Denied: How Health Insurers Drive Inequality in the United States! It'll be an all-star lineup -- Dan Carpenter, Mark Peterson, Eric Patashnik, Suzanne Mettler, and Jamila Michener -- and a great discussion
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Seth Masket @smotus.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
And on that topic, be sure to stop by my book signing, 3:30pm Thursday!
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Rachel Blaifeder @rblaifeder.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
All set up for #APSA2026! Come by and check out one of our 19 (and counting) prize winners, forthcoming titles, new books across American, comparative, IR, and theory, and highlights (looking at you, @smotus.bsky.social & @mirandayaver.bsky.social). 75% off HBs, 60% off PBs. See you at 9am!
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drdendere.bsky.social @drdendere.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Political Science friends :) mark your APSA calendars for my author meets critic book panel. It will be sooooo good. Great set of panelists.
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Dan Lane @danlane.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Our new book (Element) "Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality" is out! Free for a time: tinyurl.com/mgdpi26 Handy video trailer: vimeo.com/1203556992 + summary thread 👇 So fun to collab w/ Emilija Gagrčin & @yqpan.bsky.social - Big thxs to @snsoroka.bsky.social & team! @polcomm.bsky.social
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Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality
Cambridge Core - Politics: General Interest - Mapping Global Digital Political Inequality
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 20/08/2026
"A compelling account of how women’s political inclusion reshapes party organization from the ground up"- Diana Z. O'Brien Representation from Below by Tanushree Goyal (@princetonpolitics.bsky.social), Coming Soon #PoliSky #BookSky #ComparativePolitics cup.org/3TMbwUp
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Representation from Below
Cambridge Core - Comparative Politics - Representation from Below
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Rachel Blaifeder @rblaifeder.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Hey there, #ASA2026! Looking forward to conferencing in my hometown over the next few days. Stop by the Cambridge University Press booth to check out our latest offerings in political sociology, historical sociology, elements, textbooks, and more!
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 04/08/2026
Can migration change the future of democracy? In How Migration Helps Authoritarians, Justin Gest examines the idea of "democratic drain". Read the article in Foreign Affairs: cup.org/4fxknjN #Migration #PolSky #Book
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How Migration Helps Authoritarians
The costs of democratic drain.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 26/05/2026
Shared Morals by Jae-Hee Jung This book examines how moral rhetoric is a crucial – and potentially unifying – part of how we experience democratic representation. 📚 cup.org/4lR6KPk
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 05/08/2026
Persistent Citizens by Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro and Matthew S. Winters. This book analyzes why individuals vary in their persistence when pursuing social welfare programs in the Global South. 📚 cup.org/3TQPi3p
Persistent Citizens by Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro and Matthew S. Winters.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 06/08/2026
The Coup Trap in Latin America by Fabrice Lehoucq Explains instability in Latin America-and why some countries escaped from chronic instability by building democracy or dictatorship. 📚 cup.org/4ajy97U
The Coup Trap in Latin America by Fabrice Lehoucq
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 11/05/2026
Examines how wage-earner bankruptcy governs White middle-class precarity and reproduces Whiteness in America's racialized political economy. White Knuckling: Holding On in America's Racialized Political Economy by Tess Wise (@wakeforest.bsky.social), Coming Soon #PoliSky cup.org/4tQBmmS
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White Knuckling
Cambridge Core - American Government, Politics and Policy - White Knuckling
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Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Thanks so much to @mswinche.bsky.social for the lovely and thoughtful review of my book Coverage Denied at Health Affairs Forefront! I arrived at this scholarly work because of my own encounters with this, so I’m especially glad when it resonates. www.healthaffairs.org/content/fore...
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Health Affairs Journal
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Lisa Zanotti @lisazanottiphd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
OUT NOW!!! with Cambridge University Press: The Far Right in Latin America, co-edited with Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Carlos Meléndez, Talita Tanscheit & me. @ceudeminst.bsky.social Open Access on Cambridge Core. www.cambridge.org/core/books/f...
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The Far Right in Latin America
Cambridge Core - Latin American Studies - The Far Right in Latin America
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 31/07/2026
Read in The Guardian: "One reason US democracy is in trouble? Its supporters are moving elsewhere" by Justin Gest cup.org/4x9pgae #PolSky #Democracy
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One reason US democracy is in trouble? Its supporters are moving elsewhere | Justin Gest
The recent exodus of people – voluntary and not – from the US threatens to worsen America’s authoritarian slippage
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 03/08/2026
Democracy. Migration. Civic engagement. Explore the connections in The Democratic Drain. Listen now. cup.org/4x2wahh #Democracy #PolSky
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The Democratic Drain
Immigration, democratic backsliding, and the future of free societies.
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historianpub @historianpub.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
How to Build a Democracy: From Fannie Lou Hamer and Barbara Jordan to Stacey Abrams by @cmgreer.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/element...
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How to Build a Democracy
Cambridge Core - American Studies - How to Build a Democracy
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Stan Veuger @stanveuger.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I reviewed Justin Gest’s new book, “Democratic Drain: Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy” for @UnPopulistMag. www.theunpopulist.net/p/does-immig...
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Does Immigration Lead to ‘Democratic Drain’ and Illiberalism in Native Countries?
A fascinating book by a political scientist says yes—but, in fact, there is strong evidence for the opposite case, too
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 22/07/2026
Ghostwriting Legislation by Mary Kroeger. Delves into the central yet often-overlooked role that interest groups, think tanks, companies, and bureaucrats play in shaping state law. 📚 cup.org/3R8Czs6
Ghostwriting Legislation by Mary Kroeger.
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 23/07/2026
Justin Gest joins Research Remix to discuss how global migration influences democracy, the challenges of "democratic drain," and what these trends mean for countries of origin and destination. cup.org/44NrnUT #DemocraticDrain #Podcast #PolSky
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Justin Gest on Global Migration and Democracy
Podcast Episode · Research Remix · July 21 · 14m
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Cambridge University Press Political Science & IR @cambup-polsci.cambridge.org · 24/07/2026
“A pathbreaking, absorbing study of the global political effects of migration…” Democratic Drain, Global Migration and the Struggle for Democracy by Justin Gest cup.org/3TtjzoJ #PoliSci #ComparativePolitics #USPol
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Democratic Drain
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