American Political Science Review back issues from December 2000:
Editor's Notes.(protests against the American Political Science Association and the American Political Science Review.)
Dec 01, 2000 ... By now most readers will know of the New York Times article on November 4, 2000, reporting a protest against the American Political Science Association in general and the American Political Science Review in particular. The protestors generated a letter signed by 124 scholars, which they ...
International Peacebuilding: A Theoretical and Quantitative Analysis.(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2000; ... International peacebuilding can improve the prospects that a civil war will be resolved. Although peacebuilding strategies must be designed to address particular conflicts, broad parameters that fit most conflicts can be identified. Strategies should address the local roots of hostility, ...
Cluster-Based Early Warning Indicators for Political Change in the Contemporary Levant.(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2000; ... We use cluster analysis to develop a model of political change in the Levant as reflected in the World Event Interaction Survey coded event data generated from Reuters between 1979 and 1998. A new statistical algorithm that uses the correlation between dyadic behaviors at two times ...
International Law and State Behavior: Commitment and Compliance in International Monetary Affairs.(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Why do sovereign governments make international legal commitments, and what effect does international law have on state behavior? Very little empirical research tries to answer these questions in a systematic way. This article examines patterns of commitment to and compliance with ...
Decentralization and Inflation: Commitment, Collective Action, or Continuity?(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Do political and fiscal decentralization make it easier or harder to control inflation? Statistical analysis of average annual inflation rates in a panel of 87 countries in the 1970s and 1980s found no clear relationship between decentralization and the level of inflation. Political ...
Legislative Professionalism and Incumbent Reelection: The Development of Institutional Boundaries.(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2000; ... It is well established that legislators from highly professionalized bodies are more likely to win reelection than members of less professionalized legislatures. We find that the effect of professionalization on incumbent electoral success is far more pervasive. As the level of ...
Xenophon's Philosophic Odyssey: On the Anabasis and Plato's Republic.
Dec 01, 2000; ... Xenophon's Anabasis, a military adventure interwoven with a story of philosophical self-discovery, is a companion piece to Plato's Republic. The Anabasis takes up in deed the two great political problems treated in speech in the Republic, namely, how a just community can come into being ...
Disaggregating and Explaining Corporate Political Activity: Domestic and Foreign Corporations in National Politics.(Statistical Data Included)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Corporate political activity is usually operationalized and analyzed as financial contributions to candidates or political parties through political action committees (PA Cs). Very little attention has been paid to other dimensions, such as lobbying, in a systematic way. On a theoretical ...
Recovering the Political Aristotle: A Critical Response to Smith.(Thomas Smith )
Dec 01, 2000; ... Thomas Smith presents an Aristotelian view of the common good that resembles much contemporary political theory in that it focuses on ethics rather than politics. Smith contends that Aristotle is a potent remedy to a society in crisis due to its unconcern about the common good. Against ...
Ethics and Politics: A Response to Terchek and Moore.
Dec 01, 2000; ... I respond to Terchek and Moore by investigating the interrelationship of ethics to politics in Aristotle's thought. To this end I defend two claims. First, doing ethics requires understanding politics. Second, politics requires practical wisdom and ethics. Since even the politics wanted by ...
Democracy, Real and Ideal: Discourse Ethics and Radical Politics.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Democracy, Real and Ideal: Discourse Ethics and Radical Politics. By Ricardo Blaug. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. 229p. $65.50 cloth, $21.95 paper. Democracy in Dark Times. By Jeffrey C. Isaac. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 250p. $45.00 cloth, ...
Democratic Devices and Desires.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Geoffrey Brennan and Alan Hamlin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 267p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. The central argument of this book is that the standard rational actor model is an impoverished representation of individual motivation. To replace it, the authors ...
Republican Theory in Political Thought: Virtuous or Virtual?(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Bill Brugger. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 211p. $59.95. At a time when communitarians are moderating their once radical critique of liberalism by an embrace of individual rights and liberals are calling for more robust community, Bill Brugger offers to satisfy both groups ...
Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Rousseau, Nature, and the Problem of the Good Life. By Laurence D. Cooper. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. 264p. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. (Un)Manly Citizens: Jean-Jacques Rousseau's and Germaine de Stael's Subversive Women. By Lori Jo Marso ....
Fugitive Theory: Political Theory, the Southern Agrarians, and America.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Christopher M. Duncan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 1999. 244p. $65.00. The American South is unique. As Christopher Duncan notes in this provocative volume, only the South inspires true love or true hate (p. 4). He addresses the ideas of one set of ardent defenders of the ...
Law as Politics: Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Edited by David Dyzenhaus. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1998. 318p. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. This is an excellent collection of articles, both from German and Anglo-American commentators, on one of the most controversial and influential critics of liberalism. Focusing ...
Marxism and Social Science.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Edited by Andrew Gamble, David Marsh, and Tony Tant. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1999. 381p. $42.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Engels after Marx. Edited by Manfred B. Steger and Terrell Carver. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. 294p. $55.00 ...
Freedom of Association.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Edited by Amy Gutmann. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 382p. $77.50 cloth, $20.95 paper. The morning I began writing this review, the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Boy Scouts of America v. Dale. James Dale, an Eagle Scout and assistant ...
The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Nancy C. M. Hartsock. Boulder, GO: Westview, 1998. 262p. $18.00 paper. This collection by Nancy Hartsock traces the increasing theoretical sophistication of a leading American feminist scholar. The breadth, seriousness, and occasionally anecdotal style of these pieces make ...
Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World: Althusius on Community and Federalism.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Thomas O. Hueglin. Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1999. 28Op. $39.95. Johannes Althusius (1557-1638) spent his life defending the prerogatives of small political entities against the encroachments of large political entities. As the syndic of the seaport ...
Postmodernism Rightly Understood: The Return to Realism in American Thought.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Peter Augustine Lawler. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999. l93p. $60.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. This deeply serious and richly thought-provoking book opposes a "postmodernism rightly understood" to "postmodernism as it is usually understood." The latter, as ...
Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Mark Mattern. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 240p. $50.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Political scientists have long been ambivalent about including some particular cultural and social modes of action into their standard inventory of political acts. Street ...
Ruling Passion: The Erotics of Statecraft in Platonic Political Philosophy.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Waller R. Newell. Lanham/Boulder, New York/Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, 2000. 205p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. This extremely interesting book contains a subtle and finely detailed reflection on one of the main problems in Plato: the relation between eros and thumos ...
The Dominion of Voice: Riot, Reason, and Romance in Antebellum Politics.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Kimberly K. Smith. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. 320p. $40.00. Through this learned and imaginative theoretical excursion into American political history, Kimberly Smith issues a challenge to deliberative democrats and their fellow travelers. The book is a ...
The Common Law Mind: Medieval and Early Modern Conceptions.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By J. W. Tubbs. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000. 253p. $42.50. Legal scholars of the modern era have attempted vigorously and with varying degrees of success to find in late medieval and early modern jurisprudence a single "common law mind." The ...
The Third Millennium: Reflections on Faith and Reason.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By David Walsh. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999. 256p. $65.00 cloth. $22.95 paper. "Without war," Rousseau writes in the First Discourse (1750), "there would be no history." What, then, is the place of political philosophy in a cosmopolitan world, in which ...
Taking Language Seriously: The Narrative Foundations of Public Administration Research.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Jay D. White. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999. 2l7p. $65.00. This serious, demanding book provides a valuable service to advanced students of public administration and their professors. They will not always like what they read, especially when Jay White ...
Gay Politics, Urban Politics: Identity and Economics in the Urban Setting.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Robert W. Bailey. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 396p. $49.50 cloth, $22.50 paper. The theoretical goal of Gay Politics, Urban Politics is to demonstrate how traditional economic or political economy approaches to urban politics are incomplete, especially when ...
California in the New Millennium: The Changing Social and Political Landscape.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Mark Baldassare. Berkeley: University of California Press and Public Policy Institute of California, 2000. 283p. $27.50. In a recent essay in the Los Angeles Times (July 9, 2000), Richard Rodriguez notes that times are changing when the newly elected president of Mexico, ...
Creative Politics: Taxes and Public Goods in a Federal System.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Glenn Beamer. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 174p. $39.50. The premise of Creative Politics is that federalism matters. It matters for all the familiar reasons. It creates both horizontal (interstate) and vertical (federal-state-local) political relationships ...
Race, Money, and the American Welfare State.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Michael K. Brown. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. 381p. $55.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. A sound understanding of the formulation and legitimation of social welfare policy in the United States involves making some sense of the interplay of the following set of factors: ...
Driving Forces: The Automobile, Its Enemies, and the Politics of Mobility.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By James A. Dunn, Jr. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 1998. 230p. $44.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. America's enduring romance with the automobile is one of the great love stories of the twentieth century. It is a tale of fulfillment for many, disappointment for some, and ...
The Choices Justices Make.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Lee Epstein and Jack Knight. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1998. $21.95 paper. Choices questions the presumption, prevalent among many law and political science scholars, that decision making by justices is based either exclusively on legal issues (as assumed by ...
Why Americans Hate Welfare: Race, Media, and the Politics of Antipoverty Policy.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Martin Gilens. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999. 296p. $25.00. Why Americans Hate Welfare is a lucid and provocative investigation of how Americans think about poverty and what they believe government should do in its efforts to help the poor. Readers who hope to ...
Organizational Report Cards.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By William T. Gormley, Jr., and David L. Weimer. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1999. 272p. $39.95. Despite all the changes implemented within the public sector during the past several decades, accountability remains the central political question for public ...
Something Within: Religion in African American Political Activism.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Fredrick C. Harris. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 227p. $35.00. Within the study of African American polities there has been a debate over whether religion is the opiate or the inspiration for political activism. Those who suggest that it is the opiate focus on the ...
Campaign Talk: Why Elections Are Good for Us.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Roderick P. Hart. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 328p. $29.95. The United States has just concluded another presidential nominating season. Judging from television ratings for the conventions, comments of pundits, and public opinion polls, America's utter ...
Presidential Greatness.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Marc Landy and Sidney M. Milkis. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 2000. 278p. $34.95. This work is part of a broad tradition that addresses a central dilemma of democratic leadership: how leaders, especially bold, visionary, "great" leaders, can resolve contemporary ...
International Politics and Civil Rights Policies in the United States, 1941-1960.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Azza Salama Layton. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 217p. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. This engaging book approaches the dynamic relationship between policymaking and interested publics by analyzing the issues from which policies arise in a specific temporal ...
Eco-Wars: Political Campaigns and Social Movements.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Eco-Wars: Political Campaigns and Social Movements. By Ronald T. Libby. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 254p. $45.00 cloth, $21.50 paper. Voices and Echoes for the Environment. By Ronald G. Shaiko. New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. 299p. $49.50 cloth, $21.00 ...
Stuck in Neutral: Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Cathie Jo Martin. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000. 262p. $49.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Cathie Jo Martin makes a novel contribution to our understanding of business preferences and political behavior. She argues that a considerable number of American firms ...
Controlling Technocracy: Citizen Rationality and the NIMBY Syndrome.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Gregory E. McAvoy. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1999. l84p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. The emergence of the United States as a postindustrial society has led to an increasing array of social and political problems that confound government's ability to make ...
A Unified Theory of Voting: Directional and Proximity Spatial Models.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Samuel Merrill III and Bernard Grofman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 213p. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. A Unified Theory of Voting is a "must read" for anyone wishing to stay current with the controversies in modern spatial theory. The book is somewhat uneven in ...
Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, 1986-1998.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Marion Orr. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1999. 242p. $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. School reform has been near the top of the public agenda for more than fifteen years. Federal, state, and local policymakers have launched numerous reform initiatives, ranging from ...
Citizen Participation in Resource Allocation.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By William Simonsen and Mark D. Robbins. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2000. 179p. $59.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. Simonsen and Robbins examine Eugene Decisions, an effort to engage citizens in the local decision-making process in Eugene, Oregon. The community participation movement was an ...
Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Edited by Cynthia J. Arnson. Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1999. 216p. $60.00 cloth, $24.00 paper. This important book examines how negotiation processes have contributed to effots to terminate guerrilla insurgencies in six ...
Why Governments Waste Natural Resources: Policy Failures in Developing Countries.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By William Ascher. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 333p. $65.00. William Ascher examines a fundamental puzzle in the politics of natural resource exploitation: Why do governments waste natural resources? For him, this question is most troublesome for ...
Community Conflicts and the State in India.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Community Conflicts and the State in India. Edited by Amrita Basu and Atul Kohli. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998. 363p. $34.95. Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India. By Ashutosh Varshney. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995 ....
Environmental Politics in Japan: Networks of Power and Protest.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Jeffrey Broadbent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 440p. $64.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Japan experienced several decades of astounding postwar economic expansion, but the many Japanese who lived near sites of concentrated industrial production were well aware of ...
Women and the State in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Cynthia Chavez Metoyer. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2000. 149p. $40.00. When the conservative Violeta Chamorro became Nicaragua's first woman president after defeating the Sandinista revolutionary government in 1990 elections, the implications for women seemed mixed. In one ...
Democracy without Associations: Transformation of the Party System and Social Cleavages in India.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Pradeep K. Chhibber. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1999. 287p. $18.00 paper. Political scientists have generally focused on one of two variables to explain the nature of party systems. Following Duverger, many have analyzed electoral rules to account for the number ...
Leadership Selection in Six Western Democracies.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By James W. Davis. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1998. 232p. $65.00. The aim of this book is to fill an information gap concerning leadership selection in the United States, Canada, Britain, Germany, France, and Australia. In this respect, the author is no doubt successful. After ...
Reconstructing the State: Personal Networks and Elite Identity in Soviet Russia.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Gerald M. Easter. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 221p. $54.95. The collapse of Soviet communism intensified the long simmering debate over the nature of Soviet political reality and prompted a reexamination of the major models of the Soviet system. Although many ...
The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Robert E. Goodin, Bruce Headey, Ruud Muffels, and Henk-Jan Dirven. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999. 358p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. The first two sentences of the preface succinctly state both the breadth of analysis and the goals of this study: "This book ...
The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century. By A. James Gregor. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. 256p. $30.00. Phoenix: Fascism in Our Time. By A. James Gregor. New Brunswick: Transaction, 1999. 208p. $32.95. A. James Gregor occupies ...
Political Corruption.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Edited by Paul Heywood. London: Blackwell, 1997. 230p. $75.00 cloth, $35.00 paper. This collection of twelve articles is the product of a workshop held at the University of Nottingham to which British political scientists invited contributors from several other countries and ...
In the Name of Liberalism: Illiberal Social Policy in the United States and Britain.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Desmond King. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. 340p. $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Desmond King is a British policy historian who focuses on British and American work and welfare programs. In Actively Seeking Work? (1995), he argued that government agencies in both ...
Crafting Coalitions for Reform: Business Preferences, Political Institutions, and Neoliberal Reform in Brazil.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Peter R. Kingstone. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1999. 284p. $60.00 cloth, $22.50 paper. An enduring puzzle for Latin Americanists is how free-market, neoliberal economic reform was possible. To the extent that such reforms harm labor or the poor, ...
Bicycle Citizens: The Political World of the Japanese House-wife.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Robin M. LeBlanc, with a Foreword by Saskia Sassen. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, 1999. 263p. $40.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Few commentators on the politics of Japan are impressed by the intensity of engagement with politics of Japanese ...
Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Scott P. Mainwaring. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999. 390p. $60.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Scott Mainwaring combines a terrific description of the current Brazilian party system with an argument that classifying party systems in terms of their level of ...
Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America. Edited by Scott Mainwaring and Matthew Soberg Shugart. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 493p. $74.95, cloth, $29.95 paper. Presidential Institutions and Democratic Politics: Comparing Regional and National Contexts ....
On the Fringe: Gays and Lesbians in Politics.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By David Morton Rayside. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 384p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. David Rayside adds to a growing literature on lesbian and gay politics and policy. His comparative study of lesbian and gay politics in England, Canada, and the United States ...
Comparative Democratization and Peaceful Change in Single-Party-Dominant Countries.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Edited by Marco Rimanelli. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 454p. $49.50 cloth, $18.50 paper. Democracies enjoyed banner years during the last decade of the twentieth century. Worldwide, both military and communist dictatorships were in retreat, while numerous countries on all ...
People's Power: Cuba's Experience with Representative Government.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... By Peter Roman. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1999. 284p. $70.00. Against all odds, Cuba escaped the domino collapse of Soviet bloc communism, despite its heavy dependence on the superpower for trade and aid. Although Peter Roman provides little information on the dramatic effects of ...
Participation and Democracy, East and West: Comparisons and Interpretations.(Review)
Dec 01, 2000; ... Edited by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Marilyn Rueschemeyer, and Bjorn Wittrock. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1998. 304p. $73.00 cloth, $32.95 paper. The aim of this volume is to provide a "fresh" theoretical and empirical approach to the study of participation in democratic settings by ...