American Political Science Review back issues from March 1996:
The citizen as respondent: sample surveys and American democracy.(Transcript)
Mar 01, 1996; ... The study of political participation and the sample survey are closely linked. The latter is the main method by which the former has been studied (Barnes and Kaase 1979; Rosenstone and Hansen 1993; Verba and Nie 1972; Verba, Nie, and Kim 1979; Verba, Schlozman, and Brady 1995). There is a ...
The partisan basis of procedural choice: allocating parliamentary rights in the House, 1789-1990. (US House of Representatives)
Mar 01, 1996; ... As it is always in the power of the majority, by their numbers, to stop any improper measures proposed on the part of their opponents, the only weapons by which the minority can defend themselves against similar attempts from those in power are the forms and rules of proceeding.- ...
Careerism, committee assignments, amd the electoral connection. (US Congress)
Mar 01, 1996; ... A common theme in research on congressional institutions is that members of Congress adopt institutions and rules that serve their desire for reelection. Important structural features of the committee system, for example, should be explicable in terms of their effects on reelection efforts ....
Information aggregation, rationality, and the Condorcet Jury Theorem.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Although never achieving the notoriety of his discovery that majority voting can be cyclic, the Jury Theorem proposed by Condorcet ([1785] 1994) has received periodic attention and in the last decade been the subject of substantial interest and analysis. Loosely speaking, the theorem is as ...
Deliberative democracy and authority. (political theory)
Mar 01, 1996; ... It is remarkable that the topic of authority, so central to political theory, figures only rarely into the literature of radical democratic theory.(1) The reason, I suspect, has to do with the prevailing consensus that authority involves neither coercion nor rational deliberation but, ...
A new guarantee on Earth: Hannah Arendt on human dignity and the politics of human rights.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Human dignity needs a new guarantee which can be found only in a new political principle, in a new law on earth, whose validity this time must comprehend the whole of humanity while its power must remain strictly limited, rooted in and controlled by newly defined territorial entities (Arendt ...
Family matters: Aristotle's appreciation of women and the plural structure of society.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Courtesy is probably not the first criterion that comes to mind when one ponders the current scholarly debate over Aristotle's view of women. But a similar controversy, reported in Baldassare Castiglione's sixteenth-century dialogue, The Courtier, is judged on precisely this basis ....
The ethical individual: an historical alternative to contemporary conceptions of the self.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Discerning hitherto hidden forms of domination has become a popular goal of academic investigations. Power, we now see, courses through spatial orientations, language, and bearings of the body. It does not reside solely or primarily in institutions, the traditionally recognized loci of ...
Global political order, economic change, and armed conflict: coevolving systems and the use of force.
Mar 01, 1996; ... During the past decade many systemic explanations of major power war have concentrated on the association of long-term, repeated cycles in the international system and the coincidence of particular subperiods in these cycles with the onset of great wars. Perhaps the most interesting division ...
Culture and preferences in the international cooperation two-step.
Mar 01, 1996; ... International cooperation is more like a tango than a shuffle; its complexities make it difficult to follow. One perspective, rational choice/game theory, has offered a powerful simplifying guide: the "cooperation two-step." One step involves the formation of preferences of actors, the ...
Attitudes toward individual responsibility and political reform in the former Soviet Union.
Mar 01, 1996; ... In late 1989, the waning days of the former Soviet Union, Ellen Mickiewicz and I conducted one of that country's earliest national in-person opinion surveys. Our article (Finifter and Mickiewicz 1992) reported our findings on attitudes toward political change and support for individual ...
Understanding political change in post-Soviet societies: A further commentary on Finifter and Mickiewicz. (response to Ada W. Finifter, American Political Science Review, vol. 90, p. 138, March 1996)
Mar 01, 1996; ... At the end of the 1980s scholars were challenged to explain the dramatic political changes occurring in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The rapid disintegration of the USSR raised a host of questions about why the collapse occurred and what political and economic arrangements ...
Group Psychology and Political Theory.
Mar 01, 1996; ... By C. Fred Alford. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. 248p. $25.00 cloth.Group Psychology and Political Theory is extraordinary for its linking of group psychology to arguments in both traditional and contemporary political theory. C. Fred Alford reminds us of what political ...
After Marxism.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Brian Fay, Wesleyan UniversityBy Marxism, Aronson does not just mean a theory or a set of analytical tools but a "project of revolutionary social transformation" (p. 51). A project is a practical endeavor by certain historical agents to alter radically a social order. In this ...
Theory of Moves.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Michael B. Nicholson, University of Sussex, EnglandSteven Brams's book represents an important step in the development of a version of game theory which is applicable to actual problems. Brams develops a "Theory of Moves" (TOM) largely in the context of simple two-person, ...
Plato's World: Man's Place in the Cosmos.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Christopher Bruell, Boston CollegeIn Plato's World, Professor Joseph Cropsey presents interpretations of eight Platonic dialogues. Seven are set by Plato at or near the end of Socrates' life and thus "by Plato's explicit indication cohere as a Socratic valedictory" (p. x). In the ...
Our Politics, Our Selves? Liberalism, Identity, and Harm.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Ronald Beiner, University of TorontoPlato's question of the relation between the polis and the psyche has been at the heart of contemporary debates about the wonders or woes of liberalism. Critics of liberalism like Michael Sandel want to put the problem of theories of the self at ...
Regime and Discipline: Democracy and the Development of Political Science.
Mar 01, 1996; ... James W. Ceaser, University of VirginiaMost political scientists today go about the task of practicing political science - conducting research, taking polls, interviewing leaders - without concerning themselves very much with the effect of their discipline on society as a whole. By ...
Values Education and Technology: The Ideology of Dispossession.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Elizabeth A. Kelly, DePaul UniversityIt is perhaps appropriate that this book appeared in a year marking the fiftieth anniversary of the first and to date last military deployment of nuclear weapons. The five decades since Hiroshima and Nagasaki have seen a succession of ...
Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Timothy Fuller, Colorado CollegeWhat is radicalism now if emancipatory Socialism is as dead as Old Conservatism? The Left/Right divide must be re-thought and surmounted under dramatically altering conditions. What are these conditions? What do they tell us about our future? ...
Democratic Theory: The Philosophical Foundations.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Ross Harrison, King's College, Cambridge, EnglandLike others before him Hyland observes that "everyone purports to be in favour of democracy, but there is little agreement over what democracy is" (p. 36). Part of his answer is to produce what he calls a constructive definition ....
Critical Legal Theory and the Challenge of Feminism: A Philosophical Reconception.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Kristin Bumiller, Amherst CollegeThis book challenges both critical legal theory and feminism for their failure to encounter what the author calls a paradox-focused metaphysics. While Kramer commends both fields of scholarship for offering critical perspectives on how domination ...
John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Ian C. Harris, University of LeicesterThis ambitious book aims to provide a "contextual account of the development of John Locke's political, religious, social and moral thought," including "many of Locke's unpublished manuscripts" (p. i). One recognizes the ambition but wonders if ...
History and the Idea of Progress.
Mar 01, 1996; ... George Klosko, University of VirginiaThe papers in this volume were delivered originally at Michigan State University between October 1990 and May 1991. They present a series of reflections on the well-known "end of history" thesis of Francis Fukuyama, as presented in his article ...
The Missing Child in Liberal Theory: Towards a Covenant Theory of Family, Community, Welfare and the Civic State.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Shelley Burtt, Yale UniversityTo appreciate the merits of this ambitious, frustrating book, it is important to understand what it is not. It is not a work in political theory or the history of political thought. It is an unevenly written manifesto that rejects both liberal and ...
Rational Choice and Moral Agency.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Gerald F. Gaus, University of Minnesota, DuluthAt the heart of this book is an important insight: A purely instrumental conception of rationality is incomplete and is unable to make sense of our moral practices. David Schmidtz, quite rightly, refuses to follow those who would ...
Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Hans Sluga, University of California at BerkeleyMartin Heidegger continues to be a writer of profound fascination to philosophers and those concerned with philosophical matters; but because of his radical challenges to the philosophical tradition and even more because of his ...
Heidegger's Political Thinking.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Hans Sluga, University of California at BerkeleyMartin Heidegger continues to be a writer of profound fascination to philosophers and those concerned with philosophical matters; but because of his radical challenges to the philosophical tradition and even more because of his ...
Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism: The Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question.
Mar 01, 1996; ... William E. Connolly, The Johns Hopkins UniversityEverybody takes issue with Charles Taylor, if not on one crucial theme, then another. Why, then, has he been such a compelling and inspiring political theorist in North America over the last third of the twentieth century? I suspect ...
Edmund Burke and International Relations: The Commonwealth of Europe and the Crusade Against the French Revolution.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Thom Kuehls, Weber State UniversityThe works of Edmund Burke, the political theorist, have long been analyzed; the works of Edmund Burke, the international political theorist, have not. On one level, Jennifer Welsh has sought to remedy this in Edmund Burke and International ...
Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Michael Strine, University of Colorado, BoulderEssentialists have argued that one characteristic of the judicial process is the polarization of the parties in dispute. Perhaps because courts often are the locus for resolving disputes over school desegregation, the scholarly ...
Human Reproduction, Emerging Technologies and Conflicting Rights.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Cynthia R. Daniels, Rutgers UniversityIn Human Reproduction, Emerging Technologies and Conflicting Rights, Robert Blank and Janna C. Merrick provide us with a much-needed overview of the complex public policy questions raised by emerging reproductive technologies. Expanding the ...
Cultivating Congress: Constituents, Issues, and Interests in Agriculture Policymaking.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Scott H. Ainsworth, University of GeorgiaAs someone who teaches introductory American politics to sections with over three hundred students, I find the iron triangle concept quite handy for pedagogical purposes. Browne, however, has little use for the iron triangle concept or its ...
Congress' Permanent Minority: Republicans in the U.S. House.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Christopher J. Bailey, Keele University, United KingdomFor five decades, political scientists have taken to heart Speaker Reeds's admonition that: "The right of the minority is to draw its salaries and its function is to make a quorum." Formal theorists have constructed models of ...
Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act 1965-1990.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Mark E. Rush, Washington and Lee UniversityDavidson and Grofman have assembled a superior and comprehensive work on voting rights, which certainly belongs on the bookshelf of every political scientist who has an interest in the field. Furthermore, this work belongs in that special ...
The Lost Promise of Progressivism.
Mar 01, 1996; ... R. Jeffrey Lustig, California State University, SacramentoThe Progressive Era continues to spark intense debate because it saw not only broad political protest and economic transformation but also the forging of the modern American political identity and narrative of national ...
Party Conflict and Community Development: Postwar Politics in Ann Arbor.
Mar 01, 1996; ... William Crotty, Northeastern UniversityWhat can you say about Ann Arbor, Michigan, a relatively small university town in the Midwest that could be of interest to political scientists? Quite a bit it turns out if you are Samuel J. Eldersveld, the author of a number of landmark ...
Regulatory Takings: Law, Economics and Politics.
Mar 01, 1996; ... David A. Schultz, University of MinnesotaLand use politics and regulatory takings issues are often ignored by political scientists. As recently as the late 1980s, this topic was confined mainly to lawyers and law reviews, leaving scholars such as myself to be told that questions ...
To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Mark A. Graber, University of Maryland at College ParkConstitutional interpretation is the most mined region of contemporary legal scholarship. Hardly a week goes by without a new article or book laying claim to a new nugget of wisdom, an ore out of which the author fashions the ...
Democracy in the Fifty States.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Gerald C. Wright, Indiana UniversityThis short book seeks to measure the level of democracy in the states. It shows how democracy has changed over a forty-year period, and it demonstrates that state differences in democratization have policy consequences. The book constitutes a ...
Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication: Information and Influence in an Election Campaign.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Alan S. Zuckerman, Brown UniversityThis is an extraordinarily powerful book, synthesizing and subverting paradigms of knowledge in political science and offering an alternative framework for the analysis of citizen politics in democracies and a pathbreaking theory that produces a ...
To Build a Wall: American Jews and the Separation of Church and State.
Mar 01, 1996; ... H. Frank Way, University of California, RiversideGregg Ivers has presented us with a splendid study of how three Jewish organizations - the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the Anti-Defamation League - used the litigation process to pioneer a new path in ...
The New American Politics: Reflections on Political Change and the Clinton Administration.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Nicol C. Rae, Florida International UniversityOf late "gridlock" has become the standard characterization of the American political process by the news media, politicians, and the general public. By way of contrast, the theme of this worthy collection is the nature and possibility ...
The New Politics of Public Policy.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Robert F. Rich, University of IllinoisThis volume, edited by Marc Landy and Martin Levin and dedicated to the memory of Aaron Wildavsky, is an impressive set of essays focusing on the "new politics of public policy" (p. ix). The book is the product of a conference held at the ...
The Politics of Disappointment: American Elections 1976-94.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Bryan D. Jones, Texas A&M UniversityThe Politics of Disappointment gathers together five essays written by McWilliams about presidential elections over a span of eighteen years, along with three briefer essays on the 1994 election, also previously published. McWilliams has written ...
Fighting for Jobs: Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings.
Mar 01, 1996; ... John Portz, Northeastern UniversityPolitical responses to economic restructuring have captured considerable attention in recent years. The federal plant closing law passed in 1988 is a prominent example. Even more significant, however, are the many and varied responses at the state ...
Property Taxes and Tax Revolts.
Mar 01, 1996; ... David Lowery, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillThe authors set out three tasks for themselves in this short work: providing an overview of property tax systems in the United States and around the world, analyzing the causes of the great tax revolt that swept the United ...
Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology: Trees and Toxics in the American West.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Douglas J. Amy, Mount Holyoke CollegeDaniel Press is interested in the issues that lie at the intersection of democratic theory and environmental politics. In particular, he argues that our environmental crisis creates dilemmas for democracies, and he wants to explore the question ...
The Constitution as Political Structure.
Mar 01, 1996; ... William Gangi, St. John's University, New YorkRedish challenges those constitutional scholars who contend, on the one hand, that the Supreme Court should not intervene in political structure and separation of powers issues (p. 17) but, on the other hand, insist that its "paramount ...
Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients: Power and Meaning in the Legal Process.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Roy B. Flemming, Texas A&M UniversityLaw takes shape and form in everyday life through encounters between legal officials and citizens and as citizens employ law or legal concepts in their relationships with one another. The contours of these encounters and relationships are not ...
Mediation, Citizen Empowerment, and Transformational Politics.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Richard J. Maiman, University of Southern Maine"Transformational politics" is a social and scholarly movement whose adherents share an interest in building a political community based on norms that include personal empowerment, cooperation, grassroots democracy, equality, and ...
A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court.
Mar 01, 1996; ... David M. O'Brien, University of VirginiaJournalists, in one charitable view, write the first drafts of history. This is a view taken seriously by Rodney Smolla, a professor at the College of William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law and director of its Institute of Bill of ...
The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration: A Conflict in World Views.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Donald J. Maletz, The University of OklahomaThis book begins with the author's distinguishing between two views about the proper powers and extent of government. One is the "distinctively optimistic and frankly almost utopian view" of American specialists in public administration ....
Ethics in Congress: From Individual to Institutional Corruption.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Charles Stewart III, The Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyCongressional corruption is one of those topics that members of the public assume are central to political science, but are actually relegated to the professional periphery. Thus, when a book entitled Ethics in Congress ...
Democracy's Feast: Elections in America.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Carol A. Cassel, University of AlabamaAs editor Herb Weisberg writes in the introduction, Democracy's Feast: Elections in America is really about the 1992 election. The broader title fits because the volume also serves as a primer on American electoral behavior. Many of the 12 ...
The Politicizing Presidency: The White House Personnel Office, 1948-1994.
Mar 01, 1996; ... G. Calvin MacKenzie, Colby CollegeBemused and befuddled followers of President Clinton's efforts to staff his administration should read this book. They will find many clues to the difficulties that all our recent presidents have encountered in their attempts to exercise the ...
Comparative Political Finance Among the Democracies.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Arthur B. Gunlicks, University of RichmondThis book consists of 13 chapters on the political finances of 14 countries (one chapter deals briefly with certain features of U.S. and Canadian political financing) and an introductory essay by the editors. It "took root" at a conference ...
The French Communist Party in the Fifth Republic.
Mar 01, 1996; ... George Ross, Brandeis UniversityDavid Bell and Byron Criddle have produced a competent historical institutionalist review of scholarship on the Parti Communiste Francais (PCF). After a general introduction, they review the party's political history in Part I and then move topically ...
Radical Right-wing Populism in Western Europe.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Peter H. Merkl, University of California, Santa BarbaraOn the face of it, this book is a rather successful attempt to categorize and examine radical right populist parties in eight countries (not including Britain, Iberia, and Greece), much as others have compared conservative, ...
Paths of Emancipation.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Benjamin Ginsberg, Johns Hopkins UniversityThis collection of excellent and stimulating essays examines the emancipation of the Jews in eight different national settings. Far from being a parochial topic, Jewish emancipation is an important event in world history and, because of ...
Democracy Within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Judith Gentleman, U.S. Air War CollegeMiguel Angel Centeno has written an important study of the rise of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's regime in Mexico that seeks to explain the people, organization, and ideology that lay behind what Centeno calls the "technocratic ...
Legislatures and the New Democracies in Latin America.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Scott Mainwaring, University of Notre DameThis short book provides case studies of the legislatures in seven Latin American countries, as well as an introduction by the editor and a conclusion. The overall rationale for the book is that legislatures either have become more ...
National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Michael Dillon, University of Durham, EnglandSeventeen essays, some of them previously published elsewhere, make up this enquiry into the present and future of China. They are arranged in three sections headed National Identity Crisis, After Socialist Anti-Imperialism, and ...
The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Mar 01, 1996; ... John P. Willerton, University of Arizona, TucsonThis volume explores the collapse of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) through an examination of institutional, political elite, and policy changes of the Gorbachev period (1985-91). Gill's especially detailed analysis of ...
The State in the Modernization Process: The Case of Norway 1850-1970.
Mar 01, 1996; ... Christine Ingebritsen, University of WashingtonThorvald Gran has written an important book on the evolution of the modern Norwegian state. Gran analyzes the role of the state in Norway's economic development, from a peasant society to a growth-oriented, industrial-capitalist ...