The first books in the newly formed ISPS Politics & Policy Book Series are Rogers M. Smith, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in U.S. History, and James C. Scott, Seeing Like a State: How High-Modernist Plans to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed. Each of the books leavens its analysis with insights drawn from history, sociology, economics, and political science. Smith's book has received the following recognition: Association of American Publishers, Government and Political Science Award for Excellence in Professional/Scholarly Publishing in 1997; 1998 finalist, Pulitzer Prize in History (one of three books nominated by the Pulitzer Prize jury); 1998 finalist, Boston Book Review General Non-Fiction Prize (one of five books nominated); and 1998 co-winner of the J. David Greenstone Book Award given by the History and Politics section of the American Political Science Association for best book in history and politics. Civic Ideals received the endorsement of Eric Foner, who called it "important and original," and the Library Journal remarked that the book is "an excellent chronology of the people, parties, movement and developments in this often ignored area of American legal history." Scott's book was favorably reviewed in the New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The New Yorker, the Lingua Franca Book Review, and most recently by Francis Fukuyama in Foreign Affairs.