American Political Science Review back issues from September 1999:
Editor's Notes.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 1999 ... Full information about methods used in empirical research is fundamental to readers' understanding and evaluation of published research reports. Among empirical methods, sample surveys are a major tool in the political scientist's armamentarium, and the response rate is one of the most ...
Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Attributions of Blame and the Struggle over Apartheid.
Sep 01, 1999; ... In an effort to put its past firmly behind, the New South Africa created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to document human rights abuses under apartheid and to grant amnesty to those confessing their nefarious deeds. South Africa's democratic experiment depends mightily upon ...
The Dynamics of Legislative Gridlock, 1947-96.
Sep 01, 1999; ... David Mayhew's Divided We Govern (1991) sparked an industry of scholars who alternately challenge or confirm the work on theoretical and empirical grounds. Still, we lack a definitive account of the proportions and causes of legislative gridlock. I revisit the effects of elections and ...
"Killer" Amendments in Congress.
Sep 01, 1999; ... For more than three decades, social choice theorists and legislative scholars have studied how legislative outcomes in Congress can be manipulated through strategic amendments and voting. I address the central limitation of this research, a virtual absence of systematic empirical work, by ...
Mass Public Decisions to Go to War: A Cognitive-Interactionist Framework.(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
Sep 01, 1999; ... How do Americans decide whether their country should use military force abroad? We argue they combine dispositional preferences and ideas about the geopolitical situation. This article reports the results of a representative national survey that incorporated five experiments. Findings ...
Party Systems and Electoral Volatility in Latin America: A Test of Economic, Institutional, and Structural Explanations.
Sep 01, 1999; ... Three different theoretical explanations are tested for the exceptionally high level of electoral volatility found in contemporary Latin America: economic voting, institutional characteristics of political regimes and party systems, and the structure and organization of class cleavages. A ...
Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis.
Sep 01, 1999; ... This article investigates hypotheses generated by the veto players' theory. The fundamental insight of this theory is that an increase in the number of veto players (for all practical purposes, in parliamentary systems the number of parties in government) and their ideological distance ...
Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies.
Sep 01, 1999; ... Looking at the history of democracies in the developed world, I show that electoral systems derive from the decisions the ruling parties make to maximize their representation according to the following conditions. As long as the electoral arena does not change and the current electoral ...
Aristotle on the Conditions for and Limits of the Common Good.
Sep 01, 1999; ... Contemporary debates over liberal political theory should encourage renewed investigation of the common good, and it is appropriate to begin by interrogating Aristotle's account. Aristotle argues that injustice stands in the way of the common good. Injustice is motivated by both ...
The Effect of Economic Priorities on the Measurement of Value Change: New Experimental Evidence.
Sep 01, 1999; ... The Euro-Barometer values battery has provided much of the empirical evidence for the thesis that a shift from materialist to postmaterialist values has occurred in advanced industrial societies over the past two decades. It has been argued, however, that this widely used instrument is ...
Assessing the Validity of the Postmaterialism Index.
Sep 01, 1999; ... Inglehart's postmaterialism thesis describes an individual-level process of value change. Little attention has been devoted to validating the responses to his postmaterialist-materialist index. The aggregate-level distributions may appear to reflect a postmaterialist-materialist dimension, ...
Measuring Postmaterialism.(response to articles in this issue, pp. 627 and 649)
Sep 01, 1999; ... This article responds to two critiques of the value change thesis in this issue. Davis and Davenport claim that the four-item index developed by Inglehart is invalid because respondents' first and second choices are randomly related and that it fails to predict respondents' positions on ...
The Empirical Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Politics: Assessing the First Wave of Research.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... RePlacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy. By Michael P. Brown. New York: Guilford, 1997. 222p. $42.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Private Lives, Public Conflicts: Battles over Gay Rights in American Communities. By James W. Button, Barbara A. Rienzo, and Kenneth D ....
Nietzsche Contra Democracy.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Nietzsche Contra Democracy. By Fredrick Appel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. 174p. $29.95. An evaluation of the significance of Friedrich Nietzsche's contributions to political philosophy confronts a particularly difficult challenge: the politics of ...
Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage. By Lee Ann Banaszak. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 29lp. $49.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. By Sara Hunter Graham. New Haven, CT: Yale ...
Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion. By Richard H. Bell. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. 224p. $58.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. One day in the courtyard of the Sorbonne, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil had their first and last conversation. A great famine had ...
On Democracy.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... On Democracy. By Robert A. Dahl. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. 217p. $20.00. Robert Dahl offers a masterful distillation of his views on democratic theory and practice, views that have developed over five decades of influential work. The merit of this book ...
Micro-Macro Dilemmas in Political Science: Personal Pathways Through Complexity.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Micro-Macro Dilemmas in Political Science: Personal Pathways Through Complexity. By Heinz Eulau. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. 542p. $37.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Heinz Eulau's book on micro-macro dilemmas in political analysis combines several very different ...
Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory. By John Finnis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 385p. $52.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. It has been four decades since the publication of the last book-length study in English of the social thought of St. Thomas Aquinas (Thomas ...
Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan. By Charles Hersch. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 232p. $19.95 paper. Any attention to art and popular culture by a political theorist is a welcome addition to the discipline. This book is no ...
Democracy, Risk, and Community: Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Democracy, Risk, and Community: Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism. By Richard P. Hiskes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 197p. $45.00. The politics of risk have changed with the nature of the risks being run. Isolated frontier folk ran risks ...
The Virtues of Liberalism.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... The Virtues of Liberalism. By James T. Kloppenberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 240p. $35.00. James Kloppenberg is a distinguished historian of American ideas. His latest book brings together essays, published over the past decade, that offer a rich tableau of ...
Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy. Edited by Jane Kneller and Sidney Axinn. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998. 334p. $21.95 paper. Among the more exciting recent developments in Kant scholarship is a new attention to the meaning and importance ...
Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada. By Will Kymlicka. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998. 220p. $24.95 paper. Over the last ten years, Will Kymlicka has tried to fashion a liberal theory of cultural rights. In Liberalism, Community and Culture ...
Medieval Aristotelianism and Its Limits: Classical Traditions in Moral and Political Philosophy, 12th--15th Centuries.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Medieval Aristotelianism and Its Limits: Classical Traditions in Moral and Political Philosophy, 12th--15th Centuries. By Cary J. Nederman. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. 334p. $94.95. This is a collection of seventeen articles written by Cary ...
Market Socialism: The Debate among Socialists.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Market Socialism: The Debate among Socialists. Edited by Bertell Ollman. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. 200p. $65.00 cloth, $19.99 paper. The time is ripe for a reassessment of market socialism. Soaring to influence across much of the intellectual Left throughout the ...
The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social. By Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 365p. $30.00. The 1958 film The Blob is not the Ur-narrative of the alien invasion flick, but it may be this genre's most Arendtian offering, an ...
Integrity and Conscience: Nomos XL.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Integrity and Conscience: Nomos XL. Edited by Ian Shapiro and Robert Adams. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 340p. $50.00. This most recent volume in the Nomos series explores what is meant by conscience and integrity (Part I) and some of the ways in which the ...
George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy. By James A. Bill. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 274p. $16.00 paper. James A. Bill of the College of William and Mary examines the career of a well-known member of the U.S. foreign policy establishment, once ...
Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest. By Amy Bridges. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 244p. $35.00. In this elegantly written book, Amy Bridges makes a major contribution to our understanding of the evolution of urban politics in the United States ....
Lawmaking by Initiative: Issues, Options, and Comparisons.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Lawmaking by Initiative: Issues, Options, and Comparisons. By Philip L. Dubois and Floyd Feeney. New York: Agathon, 1998. 268p. $30.00. We are in the midst of a boom in scholarship about direct democracy in general and the initiative process (which allows voters to act on ...
The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest. By Wendy Nelson Espeland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 28lp. $19.00 paper. This book is a case study of how a small tribe of Indians and an alienated group of number-crunching ...
The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War. By Beth A. Fischer. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. 176p. $27.50. Ronald Reagan's role in ending the Cold War is the focus of this engaging and contributory study. Its subject is of significance to ...
Gender Dynamics in Congressional Elections.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Gender Dynamics in Congressional Elections. By Richard Logan Fox. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997. 229p. $54.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Research approaches that have examined electoral behavior by candidates and by voters have found few differences between the campaigns ...
Empowering Exporters: Reciprocity, Delegation, and Collective Action in American Trade Policy.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Empowering Exporters: Reciprocity, Delegation, and Collective Action in American Trade Policy. By Michael J. Gilligan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 186p. $42.50. Although the field of international political economy (IPE) studies economic behavior and economic ...
Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right. By Jeffrey Kaplan and Leonard Weinberg. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 238p. $52.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. The April 1995 tragedy in Oklahoma City has spawned a number of books about the extreme Right, many of which ...
Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues. By Howard Margolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 236p. $27.95. Why, in cases that are especially contentious, do the perceptions of environmental risk by lay persons vary so ...
Super Optimum Solutions and Win-Win Policy: Basic Concepts and Principles.(includes another review)(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Super Optimum Solutions and Win-Win Policy: Basic Concepts and Principles. By Stuart S. Nagel. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1997. 238p. $65.00. Public Policy Evaluation: Making Super-Optimum Decisions. By Stuart S. Nagel. Aldershot, UK Ashgate, 1998. 361p. $89.95. In ...
Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities. By Mary S. Pardo. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998. 282p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. The topic of Chicana/Mexican American feminism and political activism is not new, but in ...
Race and Representation: Affirmative Action.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Race and Representation: Affirmative Action. Edited by Robert Post and Michael Rogin. New York: Zone Books, 1998. 424p. $20.00 paper. Few topics have caused more debate over the past 30 years than affirmative action. Adding fuel to the debate are two recent developments: ...
When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures. By Cindy Simon Rosenthal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 240p. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. There is a huge and growing literature that seeks to explain variation in the representation of women in ...
Television News and the Supreme Court: All the News That's Fit to Air.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Television News and the Supreme Court: All the News That's Fit to Air. By Elliot E. Slotnick and Jennifer A. Segal. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 264p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. The least visible and most misunderstood institution in American national government ...
American Foreign Policy: Consensus at Home, Leadership Abroad.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... American Foreign Policy: Consensus at Home, Leadership Abroad. By Karl von Vorys. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 392p. $59.95. The world is at a critical juncture: Either mankind will progress toward the development of a common sense of shared humanity and identity or it will ...
Affirmative Action and Minority Enrollments in Medical and Law Schools.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Affirmative Action and Minority Enrollments in Medical and Law Schools. By Susan Welch and John Gruhi. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 221p $39.50. I assumed this book would be yet another in the growing collection of texts that weigh in on the controversy over ...
Fault Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Fault Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America. Edited by Felipe Ag[ddot{u}ero and Jeffrey Stark. Miami, FL: North-South Center Press, 1998. 407p. $25.95 paper. The editors offer this volume as an alternative framework for analysis of "democracy" and "democratization" ...
Commissioning Ideas: Canadian National Policy Innovation in Comparative Perspective.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Commissioning Ideas: Canadian National Policy Innovation in Comparative Perspective. By Neil Bradford. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998. 226p. $29.95. In the years following the 1867 British North America Act, which created Canada as a new state, the federal government ...
Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective. By Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 3O7p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. The authors, who are two leading scholars of political and economic reform ...
Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration. By Andrew Davison. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 270p. $37.50. Despite its title, this book is neither about religious revivalism (except for a few passing references) nor exclusively a case study ...
Human Rights and Democratization in Latin America: Uruguay and Chile.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Human Rights and Democratization in Latin America: Uruguay and Chile. By Alexandra Barahona de Brito. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 401p. $65.00. A great issue for democracies recovering from years of authoritarian rule is what to do about past human rights abuses. In ...
Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives.(includes another volume)(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives. Edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 343p. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Regional ...
Post-Communist States in the World Community.(includes another review)(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Post-Communist States in the World Community. Edited by William E. Ferry and Roger E. Kanet. Selected papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 305p. $69.95.Elites and Leadership in Russian Politics. Edited by ...
Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States. Edited by Christian Joppke. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 360p. $75.00. The eight European and American scholars who contributed to this volume are among the best known in this field ...
The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations. By Gregory J. Kasza. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. 217p $27.50. Much scholarly attention has been directed toward how political parties and interest groups work to mobilize mass publics. The result is a ...
The Reordering of British Politics: Politics after Thatcher.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... The Reordering of British Politics: Politics after Thatcher. By Dennis Kavanagh. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 265p. $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. If constitution is construed in any narrow sense, Margaret Thatcher was a constitutional conservative. She revered the ...
Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification. Edited by Hermann Kurthen, Werner Bergmann, and Rainer Erb. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 318p. $65.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Shortly after unification in Germany, there was a surge in violence against ...
The Conspicuous Corporation: Business, Public Policy, and Representative Democracy.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... The Conspicuous Corporation: Business, Public Policy, and Representative Democracy. By Neil J. Mitchell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 249p. $42.50. Neil Mitchell's book about the role of business in democratic politics belongs on the same shelf as the works by ...
Islamism, Secularism, and Human Rights in the Middle East.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Islamism, Secularism, and Human Rights in the Middle East. By Mahmood Monshipouri. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 259p. $53.00. The fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1998 produced a spate of books and articles assessing the origin, ...
China's Transition.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... China's Transition. By Andrew J. Nathan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 336p. $27.50. This book is a collection of essays by Andrew J. Nathan, almost all of which have been published before. They range from a series of review essays originally published in The New ...
Building Democracy in Latin America.(Power and Responsibility: Politics, Identity and Technology in Music)(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Building Democracy in Latin America. By John Peeler. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 240p. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. John Peeler provides a wide-ranging reflection on a multiplicity of factors conducive to democratization in the region. His book succeeds primarily as an ...
Germany's Second Chance: Trust, Justice, and Democratization.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Germany's Second Chance: Trust, Justice, and Democratization. By Anne Sa'adah. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. 352p. $39.95. How can democracy succeed in a country that experienced years of tyranny and dictatorship? Is it factually possible or morally desirable ...
China's Military in Transition.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... China's Military in Transition. Edited by David Shambaugh and Richard H. Yang. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 378p. $24.95. Shambaugh and Yang have gathered writings from seventeen of the most knowledgeable and prominent analysts working on Chinese security policy ....
Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance. By Kathryn Stoner-Weiss. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 227p. $40.00. Local Heroes is an important contribution to an understanding of the transition away from Soviet rule in Russia--especially ...
Deliberative Democracy in Australia: The Changing Place of Parliament.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Deliberative Democracy in Australia: The Changing Place of Parliament. By John Uhr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 265p. $64.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Lost among the hysteria in anticipation of the Sydney 2000 Olympics and the impending rash of millennium parties is ...
Prospects of Democracy: A Study of 172 Countries.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Prospects of Democracy: A Study of 172 Countries. By Tatu Vanhanen. New York: Routledge, 1997. 374p. $85.00 cloth, $25.99 paper. The study of regime changes, especially the emergence and collapse of democratic systems, has captivated many social scientists. Starting with Seymour ...
Governing Ideas: Strategies for Innovation in France and Germany.(Review)
Sep 01, 1999; ... Governing Ideas: Strategies for Innovation in France and Germany. By J. Nicholas Ziegler. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 255p. $35.00. How explain contrasting national responses to technological change? The question itself runs counter to the conventional wisdom. In ...