International Social Science Review articles from September 2007

International Social Science Review archives from September 2007

"Those white guys are working for me": Dizzy Gillespie, jazz, and the cultural politics of the cold war during the Eisenhower administration.(influence of jazz and culture in international politics)
September 22, 2007... Convinced that cultural influence was linked to political and economic power, the Eisenhower administration (1953-61) sponsored America's premier jazz musicians' goodwill tours abroad as part of its cultural foreign policy agenda. These tours...

Spain and the Nazi occupation of Poland, 1939-44.
September 22, 2007... Spain was not a great power in World War II, or even a belligerent, and its ability to influence the course of that conflict was very limited. Given the devastation of its own civil war (1936-39) and its difficult economic and diplomatic...

Multinational corporations and economic development: the lessons of Singapore.
September 22, 2007... Introduction Today, multinational corporations (MNCs) comprise a central place in the world economy. Before World War II, terms such as "multinational" or "transnational" were seldom used to describe international economic relations....

Citizen involvement in the county budget process in Georgia.
September 22, 2007... Introduction and Literature Review This study addresses a simple research question: How involved are citizens in the county budget process in the state of Georgia? It also addresses some secondary research questions: To what degree are...

Policy point-counterpoint: electoral college reform.
September 22, 2007... Although most Americans learned about the Electoral College in high school and it was not the first time a candidate with fewer popular votes had won the presidency--John Quincy Adams vs. Andrew Jackson (1824), Rutherford B. Hayes vs. Samuel...

Point: abolishing the Electoral College.
September 22, 2007... The United States was founded on a movement that stressed the importance of representation of people in government. "Taxation without Representation" still adorns the license plates of vehicles in the District of Columbia, which serves as a...

Counterpoint: preserving the Electoral College.
September 22, 2007... Imagine it is 1787. You are a delegate at the Constitutional Convention representing one of the original thirteen states. You have been charged with solving the multitude of problems facing the young nation by revising the Articles of...

Bauer, Gretchen, and Hannah E. Britton, eds. Women in African Parliaments.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Bauer, Gretchen, and Hannah E. Britton, eds. Women in African Parliaments. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2006. viii + 237 pages. Cloth, $49.95. Most African democracies are young--less than fifty years old--yet some of them have...

Bowen, John R. Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Bowen, John R. Why the French Don't Like Headscarves: Islam, the State, and Public Space. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 290 pages. Cloth, $27.95. Using a historical-sociological approach, Why the French Don't Like...

Chung, Young-Iob. Korea Under Siege, 1876-1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Chung, Young-Iob. Korea Under Siege, 1876-1945: Capital Formation and Economic Transformation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 390 pages. Cloth, $74.00. According to economist Young-Iob Chung, the "Korea of today is built on the...

de Blij, Harm. Why Geography Matters--Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... de Blij, Harm. Why Geography Matters--Three Challenges Facing America: Climate Change, the Rise of China, and Global Terrorism. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007 (originally published in hardcover in 2005). 320 pages. Paper, $16.95. ...

Diamond, Michael J. My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Diamond, Michael J. My Father Before Me: How Fathers and Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 2007. xxi + 239 pages. Cloth, $24.95. In this book, Michael J. Diamond, a practicing clinical...

Dyckman, Martin A. Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Dyckman, Martin A. Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor LeRoy Collins. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006. xii + 332 pages. Cloth, $29.95. Martin A. Dyckman, retired associate editor and commentator on Florida...

Fauntroy, Michael K. Republicans and the Black Vote.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Fauntroy, Michael K. Republicans and the Black Vote. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007. xi + 180 pages. Cloth, $49.95. In current American politics, black voters are unique among most voting groups; they offer an undying...

Frijda, Nico H. The Laws of Emotion.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Frijda, Nico H. The Laws of Emotion. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Publishers, 2007. 352 pages. Cloth, $99.95; paper, $34.50. Nico Frijda's The Laws of Emotion deals with important theoretical issues in the study of emotion....

McIntyre, Lee. Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... McIntyre, Lee. Dark Ages: The Case for a Science of Human Behavior. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. xx + 144 pages. Cloth $24.95. Dark Ages is a slender but ambitious book that tackles a number of large and complex issues. The basic...

Nag, Moni. Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Nag, Moni. Sex Workers of India: Diversity in Practice of Prostitution and Ways of Life. New Delhi, India: Allied Publishers Private Limited, 2006. vii + 346 pages. Cloth, $35.00. In what is presented here as the first attempt at a...

Ortner, Sherry B. Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Ortner, Sherry B. Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power, and the Acting Subject. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 188 pages. Cloth, $74.95; paper, $21.95. In her latest collection of heavily theoretical essays, Sherry...

Pfaff, Steven. Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany: The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Pfaff, Steven. Exit-Voice Dynamics and the Collapse of East Germany: The Crisis of Leninism and the Revolution of 1989. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 333 pages. Paperback, $23.95. A popular consensus is emerging that the collapse...

Warber, Adam L. Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency: Legislating from the Oval Office.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Warber, Adam L. Executive Orders and the Modern Presidency: Legislating from the Oval Office. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2006. 175 pages. Cloth, $49.95. Because the president of the United States is the chief manager of the...

Zimring, Francis E. The Great American Crime Decline.(Book review)
September 22, 2007... Zimring, Francis E. The Great American Crime Decline. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. xiv + 258 pages. Cloth, $29.95. An amazing thing happened in the United States in the 1990s--the crime rate declined. No one was expecting this....