Edited Volumes
Other Works

In conjunction with the DCC Program — now the Andrea Mitchell Center for the Study of Democracy — the University of Pennsylvania Press established the Penn Press Series on Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism. Professor Rogers M. Smith, former Chair of the Executive Committee of the DCC Program, was Series Editor along with Mary L. Dudziak (Emory Law).

Edited Volumes

Titles in this series include edited volumes drawn from papers presented during DCC workshops and conferences.  Four are available for purchase as both books and e-books:

Citizenship on the Edge: Sex/Gender/Race (2022), edited by Nancy J. Hirschmann and Deborah A. Thomas
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The Changing Terrain of Religious Freedom (2021), edited by Heather J. Sharkey and Jeffrey Edward Green
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Modern Constitutions (2020), edited by Rogers M. Smith and Richard Beeman
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Digital Media and Democratic Futures (2019), edited by Michael X. Delli Carpini
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Latin America Since the Left Turn (2017), edited by Tulia Falleti and Emilio Parrado
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Corporations and Citizenship (2014), edited by Greg Urban
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Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs (2011), edited by Rogers M. Smith
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Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship (2012), edited by Sigal R. Ben-Porath and Rogers M. Smith.
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Representation: Elections and Beyond (2013), edited by Jack H. Nagel and Rogers M. Smith.
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Other Works

The Series also publishes other scholarly works pertinent to its themes:

The Supreme Court and the Idea of Constitutionalism (2009), edited by Steven Kautz, Arthur Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman.
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Defining the Sovereign Community: The Czech and Slovak Republics (2009), by Nadya Nedelsky.
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Dignity Rights: Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person (2012), by Erin Daly (Foreword by Aharon Barak)
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Truth and Democracy (2012), edited by Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris.
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Building Fortress Europe: The Polish-Ukrainian Frontier (2012), by Karolina S. Follis.
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The Sovereign Citizen: Denaturalization and the Origins of the American Republic (2012), by Patrick Weil.
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Take Up Your Pen: Unilateral Presidential Directives in American Politics (2013), by Graham G. Dodds.
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Multilevel Citizenship (2013), edited by Willem Maas.
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Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States (2013), by Teresa Ann Murphy.
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