American Political Science Review articles from December 1998

American Political Science Review archives from December 1998

Fiscal policy outcomes and electoral accountability in American states.
December 1, 1998... Despite the attention given to big government and budget deficits during recent political campaigns, the connection between fiscal policy outcomes and election results in the American states is not well understood. Some studies indicate that...

Organized interests and the decision of whom to lobby in Congress.
December 1, 1998... Organized interests' decisions about whom to lobby in Congress go to the heart of their efforts to influence the legislative process. If opposing or undecided legislators are targeted, then lobbyists can affect overall support for or against a...

The political relevance of political trust.
December 1, 1998... If they think of the government as affecting their lives at all, these Eastport men think of it as giving benefits and protections (Lane 1962, 474). Public sentiment about the government is markedly different today than when Lane made this...

An information rationale for the power of special interests.
December 1, 1998... In many areas of public policy, government favors special interests at the expense of the general public. That favor may take the form of subsidies, tax breaks, or market intervention through regulatory or trade policies. The "rural bias" in...

Domestic opposition and signaling in international crises.
December 1, 1998... The claim that democracies rarely, if ever, fight wars against one another has generated a great deal of research on how democratic institutions and practices affect the outcomes of international crises. Work generally falls into two...

Thoreau's alternative economics: work, liberty, democratic cultivation.(author Henry Thoreau)
December 1, 1998... The constant choices and self-direction entailed in meaningful work enliven all our capacities. On a stroll through New York's Upper East Side as people catch their morning taxi, it is hard not to be impressed by the sleekness and fervor you...

When the party breaks up: exit and voice among Japanese legislators.(political parties)
December 1, 1998... Parties are important agents of political change in contemporary democracies. Some studies focus on interaction and bargaining among parties as catalysts of systemic change (Budge and Keman 1990; Downs 1957; Laver and Schofield 1989); others...

From Abe Fortas to Zoe Baird: why some presidential nominations fail in the senate.
December 1, 1998... The U.S. Congress was designed to make legislating difficult. Fragmented power and multiple decision points afford those opposed to a bill ample opportunities to defeat it. In the Senate more than the House, members have significant...

Macropartisanship: a replication and critique.(response to Michael B. MacKuen, Robert S. Erikson and James A. Stimson, 'American Political Science Review,' vol. 83, p. 1125)
December 1, 1998... Despite the centrality of party identification to explanations of voting behavior, its nature and origins remain the subject of ongoing dispute. The traditional view of partisanship, as presented in The American Voter (Campbell et al. 1960),...

What moves macropartisanship? A response to Green, Palmquist, and Schickler.(response to article by Donald Green, et al., in this issue, p. 883)
December 1, 1998... When "Macropartisanship" was written almost a decade ago (MacKuen, Erikson, and Stimson 1989), we saw our contribution as the following basic points. First, we showed that macrolevel party identification undergoes considerable movement over...

The puzzling case of Christianity and Republicanism: a comment on Black.(response to Antony Black, 'American Political Science Review,' vol. 91, p. 647)
December 1, 1998... Antony Black (1997) has drawn attention to a major lacuna in the present literature on the history of republican thought: its failure to take account of the Christian contribution to the development of Western republicanism. By viewing...

Christianity and Republicanism: a response to Nederman.(response to Cary J. Nederman, in this issue, p. 913)
December 1, 1998... In my article on Christianity and republicanism (Black 1997), I argued that there were a significant number of de facto historical conjunctions between Christianity and republicanism throughout history, not only in the Middle Ages. I concluded...

Correction to "separation-of-powers games in the positive theory of congress and courts.".(article published in the periodical 'American Political Science Review,' vol. 91, p. 28)(Correction Notice)
December 1, 1998... In my article, "Separation-of-Power Games in the Positive Theory of Congress and Courts" (Segal 1997) I compared the theoretical and empirical validity of the separation-of-powers model and the judicial attitudinal model as applied to U.S....

The Limits of Rawlsian Justice.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Roberto Alejandro. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 208p. $39.95. Juliet A. Williams, University of California, Santa Barbara "Liberalism," declares Roberto Alejandro, "is a cry of fatigued souls inhabiting a...

Utilitarianism, Institutions, and Justice.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By James Wood Baily. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 203p. $49.95. Itai Sened, Tel Aviv University and Washington University in St. Louis Baily starts his argument with the claim that utilitarianism raises two related...

Rethinking Generosity: Critical Theory and the Politics of Caritas.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Romand Coles. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. Contestations Series. 246p. $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Melissa A. Orlie, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign According to Romand Coles, there is an intrinsic...

Emancipation and Illusion: Rationality and Gender in Habermas's Theory of Modernity.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Marie Fleming. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1997. 243p. $40.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Robert W. T. Martin, Hamilton College In this insightful and much-needed book, Marie Fleming notes that feminists have done too...

Social Darwinism in European and American Thought: 1860-1945, Nature as Model and Nature as Threat.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Mike Hawkins. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 344p. $69.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. Gary R. Johnson, Lake Superior State University "Social Darwinism" is a moral and political indictment in contemporary discourse. Use of...

Seeds of Virtue and Knowledge.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Maryanne Cline Horowitz. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 1998. 373p. $49.50. Alan Levine, American University This book has impressive breadth. It traces the use of vegetation as an image for human development through...

Shakespeare and the Good Life: Ethics and Politics in Dramatic Form.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By David Lowenthal. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 274p. $68.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. J. Scott Johnson, Saint John's University On a lazy summer afternoon, political theorists who love Shakespeare will enjoy perusing David...

Socrates' Education to Virtue: Learning the Love of the Noble.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Mark J. Lutz. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1998. 214p. $19.95. Judith A. Swanson, Boston University If liberal democracy stands above all for freedom, then should it promote virtue? Lutz's very readable book not...

Natural Causes - Essays in Ecological Marxism.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By James O'Connor. New York: Guilford, 1998. 350p. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Eric Darier, Lancaster University This book is the synthesis of James O'Connor's lifetime attempt to explain why Marxism is relevant to an analysis of...

W.E.B. du Bois and American Political Thought: Fabianism and the Color Line.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Adolph L. Reed Jr. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 282p. $35.00. Lawrie Balfour, Babson College W. E. B. Du Bois's declaration that "the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line" has become a...

The Cambridge Companion to Mill.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by John Skorupski. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 591p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Robert Devigne, Tufts University In the winter of 1854 coughing fits and the spitting of blood convinced John Stuart Mill that he...

Ecofeminist Natures: Race, Gender, Feminist Theory and Political Action.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Noel Sturgeon. New York and London: Routledge, 1997. 260p. $69.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Cynthia Halpern, Swarthmore College In his article "Love Thy Neighbour? No Thanks!" in The Plague of Fantasies (London: Verso, 1997, p. 45),...

The Fetishism of Modernities: Epochal Self-Consciousness in Contemporary Social and Political Thought.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Bernard Yack. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. 182p. $28.00. Stephen K. White, Virginia Tech The polemical tone of this book is evident all the way from the title to the back of the dusk jacket, where the blurb...

Intersecting Voices: Dilemmas of Gender, Political Philosophy, and Policy.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Iris Marion Young. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 195p. $49.50 cloth, $12.95 paper. Nancy J. Hirschmann, Cornell University This collection of previously published essays by a leading figure in feminist philosophy...

The Price of American Foreign Policy: Congress, the Executive, and International Affairs Funding.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By William I. Bacchus. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1997. 343p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. Heidi H. Hobbs, North Carolina State University The success of American foreign policy initiatives are dependent on the...

Presidential Responsiveness and Public Policy-Making: The Public and the Policies that Presidents Choose.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Jeffrey E. Cohen. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 289p. $49.50. Michael Margolis, University of Cincinnati Those who would develop theories that relate public opinion to the policy leadership role of the American...

Muffled Echoes: Oliver North and the Politics of Public Opinion.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Amy Fried. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 308p. $49.50 cloth, $19.50 paper. Barry J. Balleck, Georgia Southern University This book raises a question that some have been wondering about for years - What is the true...

The Dual Agenda: Race and Social Welfare Policies of the Civil Rights Organizations.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Dona Cooper Hamilton and Charles V. Hamilton. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 335p. $24.95 cloth, $17.50 paper. Todd C. Shaw, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign From a recurring debate within African-American...

Congressional Caucuses in National Policy Making.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Susan Webb Hammond. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 257p. $39.95. Burdett A. Loomis, University of Kansas Over the past twenty-five years, informal groupings of representatives and senators, usually labeled...

Modern Manors: Welfare Capitalism since the New Deal.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Sanford M. Jacoby. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 345p. $35.00. Charles Noble, California State University, Long Beach As Sanford M. Jacoby's important and timely book about welfare capitalism reminds us, there are...

The War for America's Natural Resources.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By William R. Nester. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 256p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Evan J. Ringquist, Florida State University In The War for America's Natural Resources, William Nester attempts to explain the dynamics of...

State Devolution in America: Implications for a Diverse Society.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Lynn A. Staeheli, Janet E. Kodras, and Colin Flint. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1997. 286p. $58.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Sarah F. Liebschutz, State University of New York, Brockport, and University of Rochester The 1994...

Presidents as Candidates: Inside the White House for the Presidential Campaign.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Kathryn Dunn Tenpas. New York: Garland, 1997. 191p. $49.00. Ken Goldstein, Arizona State University Presidential elections may well be the most studied topic in American political science. Still, although journalists have chronicled...

Defining the National Interest: Conflict and Change in American Foreign Policy.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Peter Trubowitz. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 353p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. William O. Chittick, University of Georgia Just when the democratic peace has focused most of our attention on domestic values and...

Changing Public Sector Values.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Montgomery Van Wart. New York: Garland, 1998. 328p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. John S. Robey, University of Texas-Brownsville This volume is intended to provide a theoretical base for the analysis of changing values in public...

State, Nation and Ethnicity in Contemporary South Asia.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Ishtiaq Ahmed. London and New York: Pinter, 1996. 326p. $110.00. Ted Robert Gurr, University of Maryland, College Park The new literature on ethnopolitics includes a growing number of regional comparative studies, but most are edited...

Democracy and the Marketplace of Ideas: Communication and Government in Sweden and the United States.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Erik Asard and W. Lance Bennet. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 243p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Jan-Erik Lane, University of Geneva Can one do imaginative political theory without using rational choice? The hard-core...

Tethered Deer: Government and Economy in a Chinese County.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Marc Blecher and Vivienne Shue. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1996. 265p. $39.50. Dali L. Yang, University of Chicago The research for this book started in the late 1970s when China finally opened to American social...

Desenvolvimento: Politics and Economy in Brazil.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Wilber Albert Chaffee. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 231p. $49.95. Elizabeth McQuerry, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Looking at the case of Brazil across a period spanning military dictatorship to elected civilian government,...

Hot Coal, Cold Steel: Russian and Ukrainian Workers from the End of the Soviet Union to the Post-Communist Transformations.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Stephen Crowley. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 277p. $42.50. Lisa A. Baglione, St. Joseph's University Stephen Crowley has written an excellent book on worker activism in Soviet and post-Soviet politics. He examines two...

Mr. Smith Goes to Ottawa: Life in the House of Commons.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By David C. Docherty. Vancouver: UBC Press, 1997. 295p. $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Herman Bakvis, Dalhousie University Reelection rates to the U.S. Congress that typically are well in excess of 90% are seen by many as a major...

Principles of Electoral Reform.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Michael Dummett. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1997. 189p. $65.00. Vernon Bogdanor, Brasenose College, Oxford University Michael Dummett is a leading philosopher and logician of his generation, and his work on Frege has...

Electoral Change since 1945.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Pippa Norris. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1997. 254p. $59.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Vernon Bogdanor, Brasenose College, Oxford University Michael Dummett is a leading philosopher and logician of his generation, and his work on Frege has...

French Presidentialism and the Election of 1995.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by John Gaffney and Lorna Milne. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. 305p. $76.95. Roy Pierce, University of Michigan This collective work on the French presidential election of 1995 is in the vein of the earlier volume edited by...

The Crisis in Kashmir: Portents of War, Hopes of Peace.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Sumit Ganguly. New York and Washington, DC: Cambridge University Press, co-published with the Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 1997. 182p. $49.95. Robert G. Wirsing, University of South Carolina Heightened tension between India and...

The Disenchantment of the World: A Political History of Religion.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Mark Gauchet. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 272p. $24.95. Adam B. Seligman, Boston University The subtitle of Peter Gay's seminal book on the Enlightenment was, for those who do not recall, "the rise of modern...

The Kurdish Question and Turkey: An Example of a Trans-State Ethic Conflict.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Kemal Kirisci and Gareth M. Winrow. London and Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 1997. 216p. $45.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. Frank Tachau, University of Illinois at Chicago The Kurds present an intriguing case study of frustrated nationalism....

The Kurds and the Future of Turkey.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Michael M. Gunter. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 184p. $45.00. Frank Tachau, University of Illinois at Chicago The Kurds present an intriguing case study of frustrated nationalism. They are often cited as the largest ethnic group,...

The Captive Republic: A History of Republicanism in Australia 1788-1996.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Mark McKenna. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 334p. $64.95. James Jupp, Australian National University Australia was a pioneer in the development of mass democracy, with manhood suffrage from the late 1850s, votes...

From Subject to Citizen: Australian Citizenship in the Twentieth Century.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Alastair Davidson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 341p. $64.95. James Jupp, Australian National University Australia was a pioneer in the development of mass democracy, with manhood suffrage from the late 1850s,...

Educating Australia: Government, Economy and Citizen since 1960.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Simon Marginson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 286p. $59.95. James Jupp, Australian National University Australia was a pioneer in the development of mass democracy, with manhood suffrage from the late 1850s,...

The Fragmentation of Yugoslavia: Nationalism in a Multinational State.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Aleksandar Pavkovic. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 222p. $59.95. Sabrina P. Ramet, University of Washington The Preface promises "to avoid a discourse of moral indignation and condemnation" (p. x) in discussing the 1991-95 war in...

Through Corridors of Power: Institutions and Civil-Military Relations in Argentina.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By David Pion-Berlin. University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 1997. 241p. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Paul W. Zagorski, Pittsburgh State University At a certain level, Through Corridors of Power and Incomplete Transition...

Incomplete Transition: Military Power and Democracy in Argentina.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By J. Patrice McSherry. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 408p. $45.00. Paul W. Zagorski, Pittsburgh State University At a certain level, Through Corridors of Power and Incomplete Transition might be considered complementary. They cover...

Redefining Mexican "Security": Society, State, and Region under NAFTA.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By James F. Rochlin. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997. 217p. $49.95. Maria Lorena Cook, Cornell University Observers of Mexican politics may have longed for a study that joins under a single explanatory framework the diverse problems...

Democracy in Asia.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Michele Schmiegelow. Frankfurt: Campus Verlag; New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 555p. $55.00. James Cotton, University of New South Wales The views of Michele Schmiegelow on the way democracy in Asia should be understood are...

The Soviet Experiment: Russia, the USSR, and the Successor States.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Ronald Grigor Suny. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 540p. $35.00. Eugene Huskey, Stetson University "Stalinist culture established what was acceptable or possible, but within that permissible range art could provide...

Economic Strategy and the Labour Party: Politics and Policy-Making, 1970-83.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Mark Wickham-Jones. New York: St. Martin's, 1996. 294p. $65.00. Mark D. Harmon, University of California-Santa Cruz From 1973 until 1983, the British Labour Party articulated and advocated a series of radical economic policy...

War and the Red Cross: The Unspoken Mission.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Nicholas O. Berry. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 159p. $35.00 cloth. Larry Minear, Brown University The central issue in today's widely ranging but still jumbled debate about humanitarianism involves its relationship to politics....

Africa and the International System: The Politics of State Survival.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Christopher Clapham. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 340p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. William J. Foltz, Yale University In this major contribution both to our understanding of African politics and to our understanding...

New Thinking in International Relations Theory.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by Michael W. Doyle and G. John Ikenberry. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997. 296p. $69.00 cloth $25.00 paper. Robert W. Cox, York University This book implicitly reaffirms what Stanley Hoffmann wrote over two decades ago, that...

Strategic Assessment in War.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Scott Sigmund Gartner. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 256p. $30.00. James J. Wirtz, Naval Postgraduate School Although operations research often shapes how militaries conduct war, scholars have not paid much attention...

China's Security: The New Roles of the Military.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Mel Gurtov and Byong-Moo Hwang. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 349p. $59.95. David Lai, University of Colorado China is determined to regain its national strength, national unity, and international prestige. This book is about...

Sovereigns, Quasi Sovereigns, and Africans: Race and Self-Determination in International Law.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Siba N'Zatioula Grovogui. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1996. 282p. $54.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Leonardo A. Villalon, University of Kansas and Universite Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar The ambiguities in the notion of...

The Future's Back: Nuclear Rivalry, Deterrence Theory, and Crisis Stability after the Cold War.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Frank P. Harvey. Montreal and Buffalo: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997. 193p. $55.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Walter W. Hill, St. Mary's College of Maryland The immediate reaction of many analysts to the collapse of the Soviet...

What If They Gave a Crisis and Nobody Came?: Interpreting International Crises.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Ron Hirschbein. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 223p. $59.95. Michael J. Shapiro, University of Hawaii According to Ron Hirschbein, most of those seeking to make sense of "international reality" have yet to hear the good news about...

Anarchy and Order: The Interplay of Politics and Law in International Relations.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By James C. Hsiung. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997. 245p. $55.00. Stephen A. Kocs, College of the Holy Cross There is a wide gap in international politics between states' everyday foreign policy concerns, which revolve to a large...

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Samuel P. Huntington. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996. 368p. $25.00. Richard Rosecrance, University of California, Los Angeles Samuel Huntington has made many important contributions to the fields of international relations and...

Gatekeepers of Growth: The International Political Economy of Central Banking in Developing Countries.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Sylvia Maxfield. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 192p. $35.00. Sofia A. Perez, Boston University The role of central banks in the political economy has been a subject of theoretical debate and empirical...

Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Dan Reiter. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. 232p. $35.00. Patricia A. Weitsman, Ohio University It is often said that military strategists are constantly preparing to fight the last war. They draw on lessons of the past,...

Winning the Peace: America and the World Order in the New Era.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By John G. Ruggie. New York: Columbia University Press, a Twentieth Century Fund book, 1996. 237p. $27.95. Tony Smith, Tufts University For the purpose of charting the course of American foreign policy after the Cold War, the Twentieth...

War or Peace? Nationalism, Democracy, and American Foreign Policy in Post-Communist Europe.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Steven L. Burg. New York: New York University Press, a Twentieth Century Fund book, 1996. 258p. $35.00. Tony Smith, Tufts University For the purpose of charting the course of American foreign policy after the Cold War, the Twentieth...

Sovereignty over Natural Resources: Balancing Rights and Duties.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Nico Schrijver. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 452p. $89.95. Elizabeth R. DeSombre, Colby College In this impeccably documented volume Nico Schrijver paints a thorough picture of the evolution of the principle of...

Rogue Regimes: Terrorism, and Proliferation.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Raymond Tanter. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 260p. $29.95. Beau Grosscup, California State University, Chico Raymond Tanter's Rogue Regimes, using a case study approach, offers a few sound insights into how and why American...

Risk Taking and Decisionmaking: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions.(Review)
December 1, 1998... By Yaacov Y. I. Vertzberger. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. 519p. $69.50 cloth, $24.95 paper. Edward Rhodes, Rutgers University As critics of rational-choice modeling have long observed, when confronted with risk and...

The Implementation and Effectiveness of International Environmental Commitments: Theory and Practice.(Review)
December 1, 1998... Edited by David G. Victor, Kal Raustiala, and Eugene B. Skolnikoff. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998. 737p. $27.50. Juliann Emmons Allison, University of California, Riverside The process of implementing international agreements is a highly...