American Political Science Review back issues from June 1998:
Democracy, equality, and eide: a radical view from Book 8 of Plato's Republic.
Jun 01, 1998; ... An elitist Plato, opposed to democracy and hostile to the masses, fills the literature. In the midst of an extensive philological and grammatical commentary on Plato's Republic, James Adam (1902, 2.24, ad loc. 494a) includes the following brief but telling observation: "The theory of Ideas ...
The illusion of power and the disruption of moral norms: Thycydides' critique of Periclean policy.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is punctuated by the incongruous appearance of a tall, polished metal shaft in the midst of an otherwise natural setting, portending doom or perhaps hiding secrets, the knowledge of which confers understanding and mastery of life. In the film, humanity ...
The public's conditional response to Supreme Court decisions.
Jun 01, 1998; ... In the years leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade (1973), debates over abortion became quite heated, but judicial scholars would have predicted a diminution in the high level of public controversy after the Court ruled. Indeed, the prevalent theory of the day was that ...
A political explanation of variations in Central Bank independence.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Across the industrial democracies, central banks perform a similar function: to implement the government's monetary policy by regulating the supply of money and credit to the economy. Nevertheless, the structures of these bureaucratic institutions - their levels of independence - differ ...
Party aggregation and the number of parties in India and the United States.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Prominent explanations for differences in the number of political parties across countries, most notably Duverger's Law and the literature related to it, have focused on the role of electoral systems. Differences in district magnitude, electoral formulas, the number of run-offs, and ...
On the legitimacy of national high courts.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Perhaps the most neglected subfield within comparative politics is law and courts. Despite impressive progress in understanding many aspects of cross-national politics, comparativists know precious little about the judicial and legal systems in countries outside the United States.(1) We ...
Attitudes toward economic reform in Mexico: the role of political orientations.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Since the debt crisis of 1982, Mexico has experienced a series of stabilization efforts, trade liberalization, privatization, and other market-oriented reforms, but economic performance has fluctuated markedly.(1) In the early 1990s, after a long recession, the reforms appeared to be leading ...
Democracy, war initiation, and victory.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Recent empirical scholarship has noted that democracies are significantly more likely to win the wars they fight than are other types of regimes. Though this finding refutes the general realist claim that regime type is unrelated to foreign policy behavior, it also begs the important ...
Explaining divided U.S. senate delegations, 1788-1996: a realignment approach.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Divided government has become one of the most studied topics in political science in recent years, and it has even been suggested as an organizing principle of American politics research (Fiorina 1992, 3). Since World War II, from the state to the federal level, both parties have shared the ...
Estimating the effect of campaign spending on senate election outcomes using instrumental variables.
Jun 01, 1998; ... In American congressional elections incumbents routinely win reelection. Even in the 1994 Republican landslide, change in the partisan makeup of Congress occurred mainly through open seats switching from the Democrats to the Republicans. A common explanation for high congressional reelection ...
Consequences of the Condorcet jury theorem for beneficial information aggregation by rational agents.
Jun 01, 1998; ... In addition to his contributions to the theory of elections in which the various agents have different preferences, Condorcet ([1785] 1994) established a result, known as the Condorcet Jury Theorem, giving certain conditions under which majority rule is superior to dictatorship for a society ...
Civility, enlightenment, and society: conceptual confusions and Kantian remedies.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Writing in the Berlinische Monatsschrift in 1784, Immanuel Kant speculated that the "hidden plan of nature" was to bring about justice in civil society and peaceful relations between nations by means of the very antagonism that seemed to promise only civil unrest and international conflict ....
Opera and Politics: From Monteverdi to Henze.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By John Bokina. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997, 240p. $25.00.Donald Henderson, Converse CollegeIn the words of the author, Opera and Politics is "the work of a political scientist, a political theorist who loves opera. Here I use my training in the ...
Cornerstones of Peace: Jewish Identity Politics and Democratic Theory.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Marla Brettschneider. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. 201p. $48.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.Jennifer Ring, University of Nevada, RenoEach of these volumes addresses the often overlooked place of American Jews as a complex of interests in American politics ...
The Narrow Bridge: Jewish Views on Multiculturalism.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Edited by Marla Brettschneider, with an introduction by Cornel West. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. 291p. $48.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.Jennifer Ring, University of Nevada, RenoEach of these volumes addresses the often overlooked place of American Jews ...
God and Man in the Law: The Foundations of Anglo-American Constitutionalism.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Robert Lowry Clinton. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. 293p. $35.00.Robert P. Kraynak, Colgate UniversityThe opposition to judicial activism is a growing movement that no longer can be ignored by politicians and legal scholars. President Clinton has felt ...
Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity: Critical Essays on 'The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.'
Jun 01, 1998; ... Edited by Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves and Seyla Benhabib, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. 305p. $35.00 cloth, $17,00 paper.Marie Fleming, University of Western OntarioThis volume of essays takes its title from Jurgen Habermas's well-known address, "Modernity: An ...
The Power of Identity: Politics in a New Key.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Kenneth Hoover. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers, 1997. 160p. $19.95.Mary Caputi, California State University, Long BeachThe field of psychology has much to offer political theory, for it makes possible a venue of analysis which, while pertinent to political ...
The Self at Liberty: Political Argument and the Arts of Government.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Duncan Ivison. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 213p. $39.95.Peter C. Myers, University of Wisconsin, Eau ClaireDuncan Ivison sets out to accomplish two general tasks in The Self at Liberty. First, he means to challenge Sir Isaiah Berlin's famous ...
Finding a New Feminism: Rethinking the Woman Question for Liberal Democracy.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Edited by Pamela Grande Jensen. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. 304p. $67.50 cloth. $24.95 paper.Renee J. Heberle, University of ToledoThe first collection under review, Finding a New Feminism, offers a series (interrupted only by Jean Elshtain's essay on the ...
Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Edited by Mary Lyndon Shanley and Uma Narayan. University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 246p. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.Renee J. Heberle, University of ToledoThe first collection under review, Finding a New Feminism, offers a series (interrupted only by ...
The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By James Turner Johnson. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. 185p. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.David R. Mapel, University of Colorado, BoulderThis study compares the development of Christian and Islamic conceptions of holy war from antiquity to the ...
The Reign of Law: Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Paul W. Kahn. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 324p. $35.00.Helena Silverstein, Lafayette CollegeOne might think that a book with this subtitle would be largely devoted to an exploration of that paramount case. One might also think that by now legal ...
Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Ira Katznelson. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 1996. 192p. $19.95.William A. Galston, University of Maryland, College ParkLiberalism's Crooked Circle is not (in any of the usual senses) an academic book, and it does not call for a typical academic review ....
Against Liberalism.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By John Kekes. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 244p. $29.95.Aryeh Botwinick, Temple UniversityThese two books in different ways seek to chart the shortcomings and limitations of liberalism, and their critiques are worthwhile and interesting. Yet, they share a ...
The Growth of the Liberal Soul.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By David Walsh. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. 386p. $39.95.Aryeh Botwinick, Temple UniversityThese two books in different ways seek to chart the shortcomings and limitations of liberalism, and their critiques are worthwhile and interesting. Yet, they ...
A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Gary King. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 342p. $55.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.Douglas Rivers, Stanford UniversityA Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem was published with much fanfare. The NSF, which funded the research, issued a press release, ...
Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Robert D. Lee. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. 216p. $62.00 cloth, $18.00 paper.Roxanne L. Euben, Wellesley CollegeAgainst the assumption that "only the West has produced political theory," (M. Henningsen, "The New Politics of History," in The Philosophy of Order, ...
The Principles of Representative Government.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Bernard Manin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 243p. $54.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.John Gerring, Boston UniversityThis book provides a conceptual and historical overview of the development of representative democracy in the western world. There is no single ...
Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By John P. McCormick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 352p. $39.95.Andrew Norris, Duquesne UniversityWe have recently witnessed a striking rise of interest in the political and legal philosophy of erstwhile Nazi Carl Schmitt. Much of this has focused on ...
The Morality of Nationalism.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Edited by Robert McKim and Jeff McMahan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 371p. $45.00.Glyn Morgan, Harvard UniversityNationalism in one form or another constitutes the most potent and ubiquitous political force of the late twentieth century. The nation-state - the ...
Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Philip Pettit. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 304p. $29.95.Laura J. Scalia, University of HoustonFor generations, scholars understood classical liberalism as including nonarbitrary governments that were relatively unobtrusive and strongly committed to ...
Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Character: Founding Thought.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By William D. Richardson. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. 202p. $29.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.Brian J. Cook, Clark UniversityIn Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Character, William Richardson has successfully packed considerable perceptiveness and stimulating analysis ...
Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Arlene W. Saxonhouse. Notre Dame and London: Notre Dame University Press, 1996. 192p. $26.95.Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard UniversityWe today have embraced the view that democracy is the only legitimate form of government. Political theorists have elaborated the view in ...
Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By George Sher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 251p. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper.Richard Dagger, Arizona State UniversityGeorge Sher begins this important, argument-packed book with the following confession: "I am ambivalent toward contemporary liberalism" ...
Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Thomas G. West. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 218p. $24.95.James H. Read, College of St. BenedictThe aim of this book is to defend the founders against the charge that they were racist, sexist, and biased toward the interests of the wealthy. But its purposes ...
A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism, 1509-1688.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Ellen Meiksins Wood and Neal Wood. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 150p. $30.00.Edward J. Harpham, University of Texas at DallasOver the past twenty years, our understanding of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century political thought has undergone something of a ...
Postmodern Platos: Nietzche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Catherine H. Zuckert, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 351p. $56.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.Bernard Yack, University of Wisconsin, MadisonCatherine Zuckert's new book is a comparative study of the interpretations of Plato's thought and legacy offered by ...
The Natural Rights Republic.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Michael Zuckert. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. 304p. $32.95.Robert Webking, University of Texas at El PasoThe republic of which Zuckert writes is the United States as created in the final quarter of the eighteenth century. The title makes clear ...
Democracy and the Policy Sciences.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Peter DeLeon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 160p. $18.95.Matthew A. Cahn, California State University, NorthridgePolicy studies have emerged as an increasingly important subfield within the discipline over the past decade, with the policy sciences ...
Policy Design for Democracy.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Anne Larason Schneider and Helen Ingram. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. 241p. $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.Matthew A. Cahn, California State University, NorthridgePolicy studies have emerged as an increasingly important subfield within the discipline over ...
Gender Power, Leadership, and Governance.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Edited by Georgia Duerst-Lahti and Rita Mac Kelly. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. 305p. $47.50 cloth, $17.95 paper.Sue Thomas, Georgetown UniversityThe literature on women officeholders - elected and appointed-has evolved tremendously over the past 25 ...
Women's Political Voice: How Women are Transforming the Practice and Study of Politics.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Janet A. Flammang. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1997. 419p. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.Mary Hawkesworth, University of LouisvilleIn characterizing our scholarly investigations as a mode of scientific inquiry, political scientists claim to generate ...
Everson Revisited: Religion Education, and Law at the Crossroads.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Edited by Jo Renee Formicola and Hubert Morken. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Little field, 1997. 242p. $63.00 cloth, $23.95 paper.Lief H. Carter, Colorado CollegeIn 1947 the U.S. Supreme Court announced, in Everson v. Board of Education, that the Constitution's Establishment ...
Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection from Roosevelt through Reagan.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Sheldon Goldman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 488p. $45.00.Susan B. Haire, University of GeorgiaThe delay in filling the record number of federal judicial vacancies in the 1990s has led many scholars to reexamine the influences that shape the selection ...
The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Edited by Stanley B. Greenberg and Theda Skocpol. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 333p. $30.00.L. Sandy Maisel, Colby CollegeThis book emerged from more than a year of discussions among a distinguished group of scholars and activists - all progressive ...
Organizing for Foreign Policy Crises: Presidents, Advisers, and the Management of Decision Making.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Patrick J. Haney. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 183p. $39.50.James M. Scott, University of Nebraska at KearneyPatrick J. Haney examines "the ways that U.S. presidents since World War II have organized and managed advisory groups during foreign policy ...
Executive Governance: Presidential Administrations and Policy Change in the Federal Bureaucracy.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Cornell G. Hooton. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. 274p. $63.95.Francis E. Rourke, Johns Hopkins UniversityThis book challenges the principal explanations offered in the past for the rift that commonly divides a new president and his political aides from the career ...
The Manipulation of the American Voter: Political Campaign Commercials.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Karen S. Johnson-Cartee and Gary A. Copeland. Westport, CT: Praeger. 1997. 232p. $55.00.Karen M. Kedrowski, Winthrop UniversityJohnson-Cartee and Copeland attempt an important task. Their purpose is to bring together the disparate literatures of political science, ...
Budgeting Democracy: State Building and Citizenship in America, 1890-1928.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Jonathan Kahn. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 222p. $42.50.Charles Stewart III, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyFor the same reasons a fish does not know it is wet, the modern American political observer is probably unaware that politics at all ...
Liberty, Property, and Privacy: Toward a Jurisprudence of Substantive Due Process.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Edward Keynes. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. 238p. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.Keith E. Whittington, Princeton UniversityThis is a work of advocacy, but advocacy of a peculiar kind. The author is ultimately concerned with defending a ...
Turf Wars: How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By David C. King. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 207p. $34.00 cloth, $15.95 paper.Bryan D. Jones, University of WashingtonIn graduate school, I swore that I would NEVER, but NEVER, study two topics: urban services ("count manhole covers") and congressional ...
The Days of Wine and Roses Are Over.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Daniel C. Kramer. Lanham, MD, and London: University Press of America, 1997. 340p. $64.50 cloth, $37.50 paper.Jeffrey Kraus, Wagner CollegeKramer offers us a biography of Hugh Carey, a governor who had a significant influence on the direction taken by New York City and ...
The President's Call: Executive Leadership from FDR to George Bush.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Judith E. Michaels. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. 348p. $50.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.M. Stephen Weatherford, University of California, Santa BarbaraAmong the president's greatest and most inscrutable challenges is shaping the bureaucracy to carry ...
FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Edited by Mark J. Rozell and William D. Pederson. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 242p. $59.95.M. Stephen Weatherford, University of California, Santa BarbaraAmong the president's greatest and most inscrutable challenges is shaping the bureaucracy to carry out the ...
Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Denise Scheberle. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1997. 224p. $58.00 cloth, $20.95 paper.Susan J. Buck, University of North Carolina, GreensboroThis book is one in a series edited by Barry Rabe and John Tierney, American Governance and Public Policy. The ...
Ambition and Accommodation: How Women View Gender Relations.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Roberta S. Sigel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 240p. $48.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.Linda L. Fowler, Dartmouth CollegeRoberta Sigel examines the consequences of the women's movement for the daily lives and perceptions of women. Changes in gender roles and ...
The Farrakhan Phenomenon: Race, Reaction, and the Paranoid Style in American Politics.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Robert Singh. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1997. 352p. $60.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.Richard A. Keiser, Carleton CollegeRobert Singh has written a peculiar book. it makes lengthy and determined, but flawed, arguments for two theses for much of its first ...
The Rise of Baptist Republicanism.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Oran P. Smith. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 320p. $38.50.Mark J. Rozell, American UniversityThis study, a revision of the author's doctoral dissertation, is a worthy addition to the rapidly growing literature on religion and politics. Smith traces in ...
America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 704p. $32.50.Edith J. Barrett, University of Texas at ArlingtonMuch of the scholarly literature on race and race relations over the past thirty years has examined the successes and failures of ...
The Politics of Social Welfare: The Collapse of the Center and the Rise of the Right.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Alex Waddan. Cheltenham, UK, and Brookfield, MA: Edward Elgar, 1997. 204p. $70.00.Stathis N. Kalyvas, New York UniversityHow did the Right win the battle of ideas surrounding the welfare state? How did liberals allow the debate to shift from social justice and poverty ...
"We Ain't What We Was": Civil Rights in the New South.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Frederick M. Wirt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. 286p. $49.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.Richard L. Engstrom, University of New OrleansIn 1970 Frederick Wirt published The Politics of Southern Equality, a case study of the initial effect of civil rights laws on ...
Latino Politics in California.
Jun 01, 1998; ... Edited by Anibal Yanez-Chavez. San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1996. 142p. $12.95.Christine Marie Sierra, University of New MexicoThe Latino presence in California is formidable and growing. Numbering more than 10 million, ...
Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Robert J. Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. 145p. $22.50.Robert W. Jackman, University of California, DavisThe study of economic growth has enjoyed a considerable resurgence over the past decade, inspired in good measure by Robert Barro's empirical work. This ...
Voting and Political Attitudes in Denmark: A Study of the 1994 Election.
Jun 01, 1998; ... By Ole Borre and Jorgen Goul Andersen. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press and Oakville, CT: David Brown, 1997. 352p. $33.00.Peter Nannestad, Aarhus UniversityOutside the ranks of country specialists, knowledge of voting behavior in Denmark is most likely quite limited ....