International Social Science Review articles from September 2008

International Social Science Review archives from September 2008

Lobbying unorthodox lawmaking.
September 22, 2008... Introduction When the 107th Congress (2001-02) passed the largest tax cut in American history, no hearings were held to consider the proposed bill. Observers of the legislative process might have expected an outcry over the failure of the...

Antonio Diaz Soto y Gama and changing Mexico: a twentieth-century political journey.
September 22, 2008... When Vicente Fox Quesada became president of Mexico on December 1, 2000, conservatives celebrated the ascendancy of the Partido Accion Nacional (National Action Party, or PAN). For the first time since 1929, a political organization other than...

America's first golf hero: Francis Ouimet and the 1913 U.S. Open.
September 22, 2008... Introduction Golf is currently riding a crest of popularity in the United States. In 2006, 28.7 million golfers played the game on nearly 16,000 courses across the country. (1) The golf economy in 2005 was $76 billion, including $6 billion...

'Dining with the devil': the unique secularization of American evangelical churches.
September 22, 2008... Introduction It has often been said that imitation is the highest form of flattery. When one cultural group begins to imitate the way of life of another, however, they are, to some degree, disavowing their past and assuming a new identity....

The effects of conspicuous traffic enforcement on speeding behaviors: a study of speed reduction response.
September 22, 2008... Purpose In law enforcement, it is the purpose of speed enforcement, commonly referred to as "traffic radar enforcement," not only to detect motorists engaged in speeding and issue citations, or tickets, when appropriate, but to use this...

Arel, Dominique, and Blair A. Ruble, eds. Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Arel, Dominique, and Blair A. Ruble, eds. Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. xii + 365 pages. Cloth, $55. Dominique Arel, a specialist in Ukrainian...

Bohman, James. Democracy across Borders: From Demos to Demoi.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Bohman, James. Democracy across Borders: From Demos to Demoi. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. 232 pages. Cloth, $35. A fascinating and thought-provoking contribution to political philosophy, Bohman's book presents a framework in which to...

Calloway, Colin G. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Calloway, Colin G. The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. xvii + 219 pages. Cloth, $28. Key years in modern history mark important departures from the past. In Western...

Cinar, Alev, and Thomas Bender, eds. Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Cinar, Alev, and Thomas Bender, eds. Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2007. 336 pages. Cloth, $75; paper, $25. Thomas Bender, a New York University history professor, has been...

Csanadi, Maria. Self-Consuming Evolutions: A Model on the Structure, Self-reproduction, Self-destruction and Transformation of Party-state Systems Tested in Romania, Hungary and China.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Csanadi, Maria. Self-Consuming Evolutions: A Model on the Structure, Self-reproduction, Self-destruction and Transformation of Party-state Systems Tested in Romania, Hungary and China. Budapest, Hungary: Akadamiai Kiado, 2006. xv + 341 pages....

Foxman, Abraham H. The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Foxman, Abraham H. The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 256 pages. Cloth, $24.95. Abraham H. Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League, offers the reader...

Haring, Kristen. Ham Radio's Technical Culture.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Haring, Kristen. Ham Radio's Technical Culture. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. xviii + 220 pages. Paper, $14.95. Directed by the theories of the great mathematicians and physicists Michael Faraday (1791-1867), James Clerk Maxwell...

Hytrek, Gary, and Kristine M. Zentgraf. America Transformed: Globalization, Inequality, and Power.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Hytrek, Gary, and Kristine M. Zentgraf. America Transformed: Globalization, Inequality, and Power. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. xvi + 238 pages. Paper, $29.95. Globalization is one of the big ideas, maybe even the big idea, of...

Mazur, Allan. Global Social Problems.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Mazur, Allan. Global Social Problems. New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2007. vii + 237 pages. Cloth, $75; paper, $21.40. Global Social Problems is a short book clearly intended for an undergraduate audience. It begins with a...

Nichols, David A. A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Nichols, David A. A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007. 353 pages. Cloth, $27. Early in his study of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's civil-fights policies,...

Oestreich, Joel E. Power and Principle: Human Rights Programming in International Organizations.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Oestreich, Joel E. Power and Principle: Human Rights Programming in International Organizations. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 2007. ix + 243 pages. Cloth, $59.95; paper, $29.95. Power and Principle describes how three...

Parchman, Frank. Echoes of Fury: The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens & the Lives It Changed Forever.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Parchman, Frank. Echoes of Fury: The 1980 Eruption of Mount St. Helens & the Lives It Changed Forever. Kenmore, WA: Epicenter Press, 2005. 432 pages. Cloth, $24.95. Frank Parchman's Echoes of Fury chronicles the experiences of eight...

Pratt, Nicola. Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Pratt, Nicola. Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007. 236 pages. Paper, $22. Democracy & Authoritarianism in the Arab World attempts to debunk the oft-bandied notion that the Arab-Muslim...

Salerno, Roger A. Sociology Noir: Studies at the University of Chicago in Loneliness, Marginality and Deviance, 1915-1935.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... Salerno, Roger A. Sociology Noir: Studies at the University of Chicago in Loneliness, Marginality and Deviance, 1915-1935. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, 2007. 196 pages. Paper, $39.95. While Robert Park served as chair of the...