International Social Science Review articles from March 2004

International Social Science Review archives from March 2004

How environmentally-friendly candidates fared in the congressional elections of 2002: a time of green anxiety?
March 22, 2004... Introduction After years of mounting pollution across the American landscape, Congress enacted ambitious environmental legislation, particularly throughout the 1970s. Ensuing decades, however, brought torpid federal environmental policy....

Mercantile communities in the Ceded Islands: the Alexander Bartlet & George Campbell Company.
March 22, 2004... At the conclusion of the Seven Years' War (1756-1763), adventurous entrepreneurs ventured out to Britain's newly acquired West Indian possessions of Grenada, Tobago, St. Vincent, and Dominica. The Ceded Islands, as contemporaries called them,...

The United States and Islmaic radicals: conflict unending?
March 22, 2004... Introduction The events of September 11, 2001 shook the foundations of the world's only superpower. Approximately 3,000 lives were lost in the tragic attacks on American soil. (1) The United States quickly determined that the radical...

The role of lobbying on legislative activity when lawmakers plan to leave office.
March 22, 2004... Introduction In recent years, the U.S. House of Representatives has become less active legislatively. House members are not only submitting fewer bills, they are also enacting fewer laws. One group not experiencing this decline in...

Integrating teaching, learning, and community outreach: Western Carolina's local government youth assembly.
March 22, 2004... Although research and service contributions are important, it is a love for teaching that motivates many college faculty members. Excellent teachers often inspired faculty to pursue careers in higher education, and, for many, working with...

Policy point-counterpoint: state lotteries.
March 22, 2004... In framing this policy debate, one must recognize that lotteries have been a part of American history since the founding of the republic. In their earliest form, lotteries were used to raise money for the Continental Army, local public works...

Point: state lotteries are needed.
March 22, 2004... The current economic climate in the United States has adversely affected almost every corner of the marketplace. With most sectors of the work force experiencing layoffs and hiring freezes, less money is coming into households, and, as a...

Counterpoint: state lotteries are not a viable policy option.
March 22, 2004... State lotteries are undoubtedly big business and an extremely relevant and important public policy. In the United States, thirty-seven states and the District of Columbia hold lotteries; internationally, one hundred countries have legalized...

Calhoun, Charles W., ed. The Human Tradition in America: 1865 to the Present.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Calhoun, Charles W., ed. The Human Tradition in America: 1865 to the Present. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources Inc., 2003. 354 pp. Cloth, $65; paper, $22.95. This is the seventeenth installment in The Human Tradition in America series....

Gerlach, Allen. Indians, Oil, and Politics: a Recent History of Ecuador.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Gerlach, Allen. Indians, Oil, and Politics: A Recent History of Ecuador. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, Inc., 2003. 286 pp. Cloth, $65; paper, $23.95. The anthropologist David E. Stuart describes Ecuador as "like living in a Russian...

Lavergne, Gary M. Worse Than Death: the Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Lavergne, Gary M. Worse Than Death: The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law. Denton, TX: University of North Texas Press, 2003. xii + 257 pp. Cloth, $26.95. Lavergne tells the story of the murder of six patrons of a...

Lowry, Joan A. Pat Schroeder: a Woman of the House.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Lowry, Joan A. Pat Schroeder: A Woman of the House. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2003. vii + 216 pp. Cloth, $24.95. Pat Schroeder: A Woman of the House is a biography of a different style of woman who served in the U.S....

Netanyahu, B[enzion]. The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Netanyahu, B[enzion]. The Origins of the Inquisition in Fifteenth Century Spain. 2nd ed. New York: New York Review of Books, 2001. 1320 pp. Paper, $34.95. Netanyahu has written a definitive history of the Spanish Inquisition. To read this...

Platt, Jennifer. Fifty Years of the International Social Science Council.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Platt, Jennifer. Fifty Years of the International Social Science Council. Paris: International Social Science Council, 2002. 112 pages. Paper, $13.50. Established in the fall of 1952 pursuant to a resolution passed a year earlier by the...

Puchala, Donald J. Theory and History in International Relations.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Puchala, Donald J. Theory and History in International Relations. New York: Routledge, 2003. 271 pages. Paper, $24.95. Donald J. Puchala, Charles J. Jacobsen professor of political affairs at the University of South Carolina, is convinced...

Simon, Rita J., and Lisa Banks. Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Education.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Simon, Rita J., and Lisa Banks. Global Perspectives on Social Issues: Education. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2003. 194+x pp. Cloth, $60. In this thin volume, Simon and Banks have brought together useful information about the educational...

Telleen, Sharon, and Judith V. Sayad, eds. The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Telleen, Sharon, and Judith V. Sayad, eds. The Transition from Welfare to Work: Processes, Challenges, and Outcomes. New York: The Hayworth Press, Inc., 2002. 182 pp. Cloth, $49.95; paper, $24.95. This monograph, published simultaneously as...

Tilly, Charles. Stories, Identities, and Political Change.(Book Review)
March 22, 2004... Tilly, Charles. Stories, Identities, and Political Change. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. 255 pp. Cloth, $79; paper, $29.95. Tilly's search for understanding political processes and changes involves several basic...