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In the details

The inaugural issue of Disability and the Global South is out. Jessica Tillipman (George Washington): Gifts, Hospitality and the Government Contractor. Jeffrey W. Ladewig (Conn) and Seth C. McKee (Texas Tech): The Devil’s in the Details: Evaluating the One Person, One Vote Principle in American Politics. John Gardner (Oxford): The Evil of Privatization. Tamas Nagypal (York): From the Classical Polis to the Neoliberal Camp: Mapping the Biopolitical Regimes of the Undead in Dawn of the Dead, Zombi 2 and 28 Days Later. Kenneth K. Ching (Regent): What We Consent to When We Consent to Form Contracts: Market Price. Saul Levmore (Chicago) and Ariel Porat (Tel Aviv): Credible Threats (“This Article suggests that there is a good case to be made for legal intervention on behalf of some commercial threats, in order to enhance their credibility and signaling value”). From the Journal of Political Ecology, a special section on non-capitalist political ecologies. Erin Gloria Ryan on the paranoid hypochondriac's guide to the ebola outbreak. What would Hamas do if it could do whatever it wanted? Jeffrey Goldberg on understanding what the Muslim Brotherhood's Gaza branch wants by studying its theology, strategy, and history. In Central America, war without a name and refugees without papers. Why so many people care so much about others' sex lives? A new study looks at the evolutionary psychology behind ideas of sexual morality. Herbert Gintis reviews Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up by David Colander and Roland Kupers. Twitter has log cabins and Facebook has graffiti — what do the offices of tech giants tell us about the future of work?