American Political Science Review articles from June 1993

American Political Science Review archives from June 1993

Messages received: the political impact of media exposure.
June 1, 1993... Wire and on TV. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Wiley, David E., and James A. Wiley. 1970. "The Estimation of Measurement Error in Panel Data." American Sociological Review 35:112-17. Zaller, John. 1992. The Nature and Origins of Mass...

Neighborhood poverty and African American politics.
June 1, 1993... Age. Coded as an 8-category variable: 0 = 0-19 .14 = 20-29 .29 = 30-39 .43 = 40-49 .57 = 50-59 .71 = 60-69 .86 = 70-79 1.0 = 80+. Education. Coded as a 5-category variable: And to this I say, that every man that hath any possession, or...

Citizen activity: who participates? what do they say?
June 1, 1993... living in the household. In the text we shall, in the name of parsimony, refer frequently to "food stamp recipients" or "those who receive veterans' benefits" when, in fact, it may be another family member in the household who receives the...

A signaling model of informative and manipulative political action.
June 1, 1993... negative and is indifferent if equation A-3 holds with equality. Given the political leader's decision rule, it holds that |Mathematical Expression Omitted~ The inequality in equation A-4 implies that the expression in equation A-3 is...

Social construction of target populations: implications for politics and policy.
June 1, 1993... We argue that the social construction of target populations is an important, albeit overlooked, political phenomenon that should take its place in the study of public policy by political scientists. The theory contends that social constructions...

Rawls's "political" philosophy and American democracy. (John Rawls)
June 1, 1993... discussion (with numerous references) of the "reflective equilibrium" method according to which such determinations should be made, see chap. 1, sec. 4. For evidence of widespread agreement about criteria that are used to assess the fairness of...

The politics of virture today: a critique and a proposal.
June 1, 1993... In recent years, political philosophers across the ideological spectrum have rediscovered virtue. In fact, the idea of reinvigorating public life with suitable doses of citizenly devotion has proved so compelling to theorists in recent years that...

Mediated corruption: the case of the Keating five. (Charles Keating, Jr.)
June 1, 1993... 10. Compare Madison's observation in Federalist 51: "Ambition must be made to counteract ambition. . . This policy of supplying, by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human...

Incomplete information and ideological explanations of platform divergence.
June 1, 1993... Cambridge University Press. Rebecca B. Morton is Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242. Most formal models of majority rule voting with two parties or candidates have generally assumed that the...

The political economy of elections in Latin America, 1980-1991.
June 1, 1993... Economic Stagnation, ed. Leon N. Lindberg and Charles S. Maier. Washington: Brookings Institution. Blanco, David, Juan Jose Castro, Ivan Finot, Waiter Gomez, Horts Grebe, and Rolando Morales. 1985. Escenarios del 85: Entre la estabilizacion y...

Power politics and international trade. (prisoner's dilemma representation)
June 1, 1993... Deardorff, Alan V., and Robert M. Stern. 1987. "Current Issues in Trade Policy: An Overview." In U.S. Trade Policies in a Changing World Economy, ed. Robert Stern. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press. Doyle, Michael W. 1986....

Understanding the Challenger disaster: organizational structure and the design of reliable systems.
June 1, 1993... as a whole, not the individual components. Concentrating on component issues raises a whole new set of questions. What factors affect component reliability? To what extent is component reliability influenced by the strategic behavior of agents?...

The dynamics of trade unionism and national economic performance.
June 1, 1993... Cameron and Schmitter each based his measure of union centralization on an earlier study by Headey (1970). Headey, in turn, had used a fourfold index to rank unions by their degree of centralization. This index comprised (1) the confederal role...

Power and Empowerment: A Radical Theory of Participatory Democracy.
June 1, 1993... In this excellent book, Bachrach and Botwinick call for the pursuit of a participatory democracy through the pursuit of workplace democracy. The politics of workplace participation must move beyond "protective rights" to assert "participatory...

Social Division.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1993... For roughly the first third of Social Division, Alan Carling, (following John Roemer's (1982) A General Theory of Exploitation and Class) argues that rational choice (by which, in this case, he means game theoretical modeling) in conjunction with...

Willful Liberalism: Voluntarism and Individuality in Political Theory and Practice.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1993... This is an elegant and studied little volume, rather more difficult than it lets on. Flathman wants to argue that liberals are sorely in need of a more robust understanding of the will and individuality than they now possess, that they (or we)...

Eric Voegelin and the Politics of Spiritual Revolt: The Roots of Modern Ideology.
June 1, 1993... Michael Franz has produced a welcome illumination of Eric Voegelin's political philosophy. His book is "an examination of Eric Voegelin's analysis of the spiritual and historical roots of modern ideological politics" (p. ix)--no mean task. Given...

Philosophical Anarchism and Civil Disobedience.
June 1, 1993... The mainstream position on questions of political obligation is that all citizens have obligations to obey the law but that these are of limited force. To employ terminology introduced by W. D. Ross, theorists generally argue that political...

The Constitution of Rights: Human Dignity and American Values.
June 1, 1993... The bicentennial of the Bill of Rights has inspired a number of scholarly reassessments of the nature of rights and their role in the American constitutional order past and present. Among them are the wide-ranging essays of philosophers,...

Liberalism, Citizenship and Autonomy.
June 1, 1993... This volume of 13 essays is informed largely by the "liberalism-communitarianism" debate as instigated by such writers as Michael Sandel and Alistaire MacIntyre. The opening one, "Strangers and Brothers: Liberalism, Socialism and the Concept of...

The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age.
June 1, 1993... Pangle has written a deeply thoughtful book about the theory of republican regimes, which in their modern form have come to be known as democracies. The supreme virtue of the book is its seriousness. Pangle is in no doubt that it matters...

Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution.
June 1, 1993... In Natural Right and History (1950), Leo Strauss argues that modern political theory involves a deliberate lowering of goals. Paul Rahe's Republics Ancient and Modern is an extended and erudite elaboration of that thesis. Weighing in at 15...

On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy.
June 1, 1993... Forty years ago, the name of Martin Heidegger was scarcely to be heard in English-speaking academic circles. It is a story of considerable interest, not the least with respect to what one could call "the inner destiny" of analytical philosophy,...

Fear of Diversity: The Birth of Political Science in Ancient Greek Thought.
June 1, 1993... In his typically pithy way, Freud once commented that a person who could not pull himself or herself together to "form a judgment" was little better than a doormat. Taylor and Saxonhouse display our human capacity for judgment at its most...

Essays on Henry Sidgwick.
June 1, 1993... Henry Sidgwick's life was, even for a nineteenth-century don, tranquil. A propensity to asthmatic attacks kept him in Cambridge--away from the Alps, revolutions, and America--even in the vacations; and a diffidence that may have resulted from...

Inequality Reexamined.
June 1, 1993... Amartya Sen is a distinguished economist and philosopher, probably the world's leading figure straddling these fields. In recent years one of his notable projects has been to apply the analytic techniques of economic theory and contemporary...

Risk and Rationality: Philosophical Foundations for Populist Reforms.
June 1, 1993... This book aims to provide a philosophically respectable populist position to pit against two allegedly antipopulist theories of risk. "Populist" means taking public complaints seriously and giving credit to the people's fears about rising...

Hegel's Political Philosophy: Interpreting the Practice of Legal Punishment.
June 1, 1993... This book is both more and less than the title promises. The title and parts of the author's introduction suggest a study of Hegel's ideas on legal punishment, a rather limiting theme because the issue of crime and punishment is an interesting...

Limiting Legislative Terms.
June 1, 1993... George Will is at his best when he is expressing outrage over silly governmental programs and when he is placing modern events in the context of long-standing philosophical strains of thought. Compared to Will, I dare say, no one is as adept at...

Flying Blind: The Politics of the U.S. Strategic Bomber Program.
June 1, 1993... Defense and foreign policy making are much slighted topics in political science. Americanists seem driven to study almost every aspect of American politics but defense and foreign policy. For their part, defense and foreign policy analysts show...

The Effective Republic: Administration and Constitution in the Thought of Alexander Hamilton.
June 1, 1993... Harvey Flaumenhaft's thoughtful and meticulous study of Alexander Hamilton's political thought demonstrates more than any other work I know, with the exception of Harry Jaffa's Crisis of the House Divided and Martin Diamond's essays on the...

Weapons of Influence: The Legislative Veto, American Foreign Policy, and the Irony of Reform.
June 1, 1993... Martha Liebler Gibson's book assess the impact of the loss of the legislative veto, declared unconstitutional in Immigration and Naturalization Service v. Chadha in 1983, on congressional-executive relations in the area of foreign policy. Most...

What Does the Lord Require? How American Christians Think About Economic Justice.
June 1, 1993... Two encouraging signs of scholarly sophistication and depth mark the developing study of religion and politics: the diversity of research and integration into the body of theoretical work in political science. Stephen Hart's What Does the Lord...

The Politics and Economics of Privatization: The Case of Wastewater Treatment.
June 1, 1993... In their book, The Politics and Economics of Privatization, John Heilman and Gerald W. Johnson have successfully staged an intellectual coup. They have been able to make theory (sophisticated, multifaceted theory, at that) applicable to the...

The Dynamics of Conflict Between Bureaucrats and Legislators.
June 1, 1993... Cathy Marie Johnson has written a book that explores conflict between congressional committees and federal agencies. She has a mix of conceptual, empirical, and normative concerns in which she sets her analysis of "the relationships between four...

The Myth of the Independent Voter.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1993... The title of this book tells much of its story. The all but universal agreement of scholars and journalists that the last decades have marked the emergence of the independent American voter is, the authors assert, simply wrong. What has emerged,...

Information and Legislative Organization.
June 1, 1993... Three decades ago Robert Dahl observed in A Preface to Democratic Theory that Madison's worry about tyranny of the majority should be turned on its head. In the United States, Dahl wrote, intense minorities, not majorities, typically control the...

Let's Make A Deal: Understanding the Negotiation Process in Ordinary Litigation.
June 1, 1993... The tendency of political scientists to focus on the official output of courts, especially appellate courts, obscures an important reality about litigation in America: the vast majority of disputes never get to court, and the vast majority of...

The Dimensions of Federalism: State Governments and Pollution Control Policies.
June 1, 1993... As an integral part of the American political system, federalism has never suffered from neglect from scholars. Yet some students of federalism have been dissatisfied with the largely descriptive nature of the work. Particularly troublesome to...

Spin Control: The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News.
June 1, 1993... Now that William Jefferson Clinton has found out that the relationship between the American press and the presidency is not so much an adversarial relationship but a symbiotic one, it is important to examine how this relationship came to develop....

The Meaning of American Federalism: Constituting a Self-Governing Society.
June 1, 1993... Vincent Ostrom's over three decades of contribution to political theory has had merit in both the consistency of its core and the evolving and expanding insights it has provided on a number of levels. The Meaning of American Federalism offers an...

The Rise of the Therapeutic State.
June 1, 1993... Issues regarding how society treats citizens deemed at variance with commonly held norms of behavior are addressed by virtually all of the social sciences on a recurring, sometimes frequent, basis. So it is with the poor. Among the questions at...

The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis.
June 1, 1993... This volume celebrates more than a decade's successful effort to breathe new life into the institutional analysis of formal organizations. It reprints four now-classic foundational articles and a new set of conference papers (written almost...

The Third House: Lobbyists and Lobbying in the States.
June 1, 1993... Interest group scholars have begun to pay increasing attention to patterns of lobbying and representation in the 50 states. Projects by Ronald Hrebenar and Clive Thomas, and by Virginia Gray and David Lowery are among those which have pushed...

Common Law and Liberal Theory: Coke, Hobbes, and the Origins of American Constitutionalism.
June 1, 1993... Common Law and Liberal Theory is a welcome addition to the sclerotic literature on the origins of judicial review. It offers a fresh perspective, for we have something to learn about the beginnings of judicial review by seeing it within the...

The Disappearing American Voter.
June 1, 1993... Revising and extending his research on patterns, causes, and consequences of low voting participation in presidential elections, Ruy Teixeira examines voting turnout from 1960 to 1988. The focus is on why turnout rates were so low during that...

The Search for Rational Drug Control.
June 1, 1993... Zimring and Hawkins offer a devastating critique of the premises and tactics of U.S. antidrug policy. The authors begin by outlining three different ideologies of drug control (legalists, public health generalists, and cost-benefit specifists),...

Comparative Health Policy and the New Right: From Rhetoric to Reality.
June 1, 1993... The single most problematic area of social policy to face each of the advanced, industrial democracies as they prepare to end the century is health care. Both Susan Bartlett Foote and Stephen Uttley show how technological "progress" has gone hand...

Bureaucracy, Economy, and Leadership in China: The Institutional Origins of the Great Leap Forward.
June 1, 1993... Is China's policymaking tightly controlled by a few top leaders, who, in essential agreement, make all major decisions, which are then carried out by a highly centralized bureaucracy? Or are there much more complicated political processes at...

Citizenship and Nationhood in France and Germany.
June 1, 1993... During the 1980s, political science and sociology discovered citizenship. Yet the seminal work to which much of the current literature refers first appeared over 40 years ago, with Marshall's Citizenship and Social Class (1950); and other notable...

The Two Churches: Catholicism and Capitalism in the World System.
June 1, 1993... Rethinking longstanding traditions of interpretation within mainstream social science, many recent efforts to understand the place of religion in the process of social and political development stress its role as an independent variable. Michael...

The Radiant Past: Ideology and Reality in Hungary's Road to Capitalism.
June 1, 1993... In the aftermath of communism's precipitous collapse in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, social scientists are rethinking their conceptions of state socialism and trying to construct theories to assess the region's political and economic...

Patriarch and Folk: The Emergence of Nicaragua, 1798-1858.
June 1, 1993... A historian and a political scientist may draw on the same material to write their books, but each enterprise has a different purpose. The political scientist aims to derive from his data general principles of human political behavior; the...

Political Change in Taiwan.
June 1, 1993... If democracy is defined by competitive elections with a real possibility of changing ruling groups, then Taiwan is well on its way to becoming a democracy. In the December 1992 national legislative elections, the ruling party, the Kuomintang...

Conflict and Competition: The Latin American Church in a Changing Environment.
June 1, 1993... The edited-volume format, with contributions assessing circumstances in many countries, has become a mainstay in studies of the Latin American Church and politics. In this field, the multiple-contributor form serves to extend the ongoing...

States or Markets? Neo-Liberalism and the Development Policy Debate.
June 1, 1993... Anyone trying to portray states as generically efficacious agents for betterment of the human condition was an easy target for aspiring "neoliberal" theorists in the 1970s and 1980s. Neoliberalism reunited neoclassical economic thinking and...

Central Bank Strategy, Credibility, and Independence: Theory and Evidence.
June 1, 1993... This is a contribution to the "new political economy," that is, the application of economic methodology to political questions. It is also a contribution to classical political economy in that it examines the economics and politics of monetary...

The Making of Social Movements in Latin America: Identity, Strategy, and Democracy.
June 1, 1993... Study of the recent global wave of transitions to elected civilian rule stressed the role of political parties. Now that the agenda is shifting to the prospects for democratic consolidation, research questions about the process of representation...

The Brazilian Workers' ABC: Class Conflict and Alliances in Modern Sao Paulo.
June 1, 1993... At last, we have solid analyses in English of the Workers' party--the definitive study by Margaret Keck plus the overview by Emir Sader and Ken Silverstein. Even before its candidate, Luis Ign'cio Lula da Silva--known simply as Lula--came within...

Rethinking the Third World: Contributions Toward a New Conceptualization.
June 1, 1993... This multi-authored volume reflects a profound concern regarding the relevance of the social sciences, both liberal and Marxist, to the explanation of contemporary social change in the Third World. This book was begun with a highly ambitious...

The Price of Health: Australian Governments and Medical Politics, 1910-1960.
June 1, 1993... With health care now planted firmly atop the American domestic policy agenda and reform proposals sprouting like dandelions, we obviously need to think hard about both the substance of innovation and the political context in which it occurs. And...

Bargaining for Change: Union Politics in North America and Europe.
June 1, 1993... This collection of eight comparative studies dwells largely on union "fragmentation," brought on mainly by economic change, recession, restructuring, and new technologies. The fragmentations cited include the decentralization of union bargaining...

Radicalism and Social Change in Jamaica, 1960-1972.
June 1, 1993... As the title implies, this book covers the development of radical social movements and thought in Jamaica during the first decade of independence. In this period, the Jamaica Labour party (JLP) government continued the dependent development...

An Institutional Theory of Communist Regimes: Design, Function, and Breakdown.
June 1, 1993... These two books have rather different concerns and foci. Kaminski sets his sights clearly on the institutional components of the communist social order, examining their points of emphasis, oversights, and consequences. This task inevitably...

Marxism and the City.
June 1, 1993... In this contribution to the series of Marxist Introductions published by Oxford University Press, Ira Katznelson analyzes what urbanists can learn from Marxism and also considers how Marxist theory can be enriched by paying greater attention to...

The Charismatic Bond: Political Behavior in Time of Crisis.
June 1, 1993... This book constitutes an important effort to develop a framework for studying charisma that has cross-cultural applicability. In it, Madsen and Snow have charted a new course for the study of political leadership. It is a brave book in that the...

Policy Networks: Empirical Evidence and Theoretical Considerations.
June 1, 1993... Policy Networks in British Government can be read as a statement of the current state of policy analysis practised by British political scientists, providing a clear statement of their theoretical concerns, and the concepts used to construct...

Revolution and Genocide: On the Origins of the Armenian Genocide and the Holocaust.
June 1, 1993... The subject matter of genocide and the Holocaust is of such enormous and awesome scope that it can rightfully claim to be a field of investigation unto itself. Certainly, the volume of work done in this area since the mid-1940s attests to the...

Confidence Regained: Economics, Mrs. Thatcher, and the British Voter.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1993... Confidence Regained is an important book. It is a sophisticated attempt to link the ups and downs of opinion polls and election results with the ups and downs of the economy in 1980s Britain. It explores whether Thatcher's radical approach to the...

Localism and Centralism in Europe: The Political and Legal Bases of Local Self-Government.
June 1, 1993... Unfortunately, few persons are likely to spend $52 for such a thin book. They will miss one of the more original and coherent efforts to plumb the mysteries of center-local relations in Western Europe. Page's study is a synthesis of the work of...

Shining Path of Peru.
June 1, 1993... This anthology is a timely addition to the English-language literature on what is unquestionably the most enigmatic revolutionary movement in the Western Hemisphere, Peru's Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). The multidisciplinary list of authors...

Agriculture and the State: Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Developing Countries.
June 1, 1993... The two dominant ideologies of the century--capitalism and socialism--spawned different conceptions of how agriculture should be organized and what role the state should play in initiating and sustaining that preferred organization. The Red and...

Contrasting Styles of Industrial Reform: China and India in the 1980s.
June 1, 1993... This is an ingenious book that uncovers a surprising number of similarities in the baseline conditions in India and China as of the start of their respective reform programs (ca. 1980), in the obstacles these programs met, and in their outcomes,...

Labour's Grass Roots: The Politics of Party Membership.
June 1, 1993... The internal organization and electoral appeal of the British Labour party have fascinated social scientists for over 30 years. Studies range from Abrams, Rose, and Hinden's Must Labour Lose? (1960) and McKenzie's British Political Parties (1964)...

Democracy at Work: Changing World Markets and the Future of Labor Unions.
June 1, 1993... Democracy at Work is a splendid contribution to a burgeoning literature seeking to bring workers and the workplace back into the study of political economy--a refreshing antidote to a dominant trend in social science which bids farewell to labor....

Learning from Gal Oya: Possibilities for Participatory Development and Post-Newtonian Social Science.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1993... It is a particularly interesting experience to read Norm Uphoff's book on Gal Oya while visiting Sri Lanka. It has deeply enriched my first trip to this country and my capacity to discuss various aspects of rural development and irrigation...

Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China: The View from Shanghai.
June 1, 1993... This study focuses on student protest movements during China's republican period (1912-49). The movements covered range from the pivotal May Fourth movement of 1919, which was sparked by opposition to the Versailles Treaty, to the anti-Civil War...

Guerrillas and Revolution in Latin America: A Comparative Study of Insurgents and Regimes Since 1956.
June 1, 1993... The unexpected success of the Sandanista revolution has generated an almost romantic fascination with guerrilla movements throughout Latin America. Yet much of the discussion of such movements has remained at the level of polemical harangues,...

Explorations at the Edge of Time: The Prospects for World Order.
June 1, 1993... These are two important books from major peace theorists. Richard Falk remains very much a moral and intellectual force. His long association with the World Order Models Project informs the current work, whose themes are also reminiscent of...

Debt, Development, and Democracy: Modern Political Economy and Latin America, 1965-1985.
June 1, 1993... As the title attests, this book aims to be broader in both its theoretical and empirical aims than many recent studies of Latin American political economy. Frieden endeavors to develop a parsimonious explanation of cross-national variation in...

Globalizing the GATT: The Soviet Union's Successor States, Eastern Europe, and the International Trading System.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1993... The title of this interesting work is somewhat deceiving, in that the author says little about the Soviet successor states and even less about globalizing the GATT per se. The objective of this work is to show patterns in the way the West has...

Refugees from Revolution: U.S. Policy and Third-World Migration.
June 1, 1993... Mass population movements are a prominent feature of international relations in the post-Cold War era. The growing internationalization of nation-states' economies, including the creation of regional free-trade zones, the transnational impact of...

Energy and the Soviet Bloc: Alliance Politics After Stalin.(Brief Article)
June 1, 1993... When it came to levers of control that the USSR was able to exert over Eastern Europe in the communist period, Moscow brought to bear its military might, its security network, its ideological preeminence, and its nomenklatura system, which...

Governance Without Government: Order and Change in World Politics.
June 1, 1993... There is no doubt that the distinguished editors of this volume are sensitive to the shifting priorities of a post-Cold War world. By focusing on the newly fashionable idea of governance, there is intended a disjunctive look at the evolution of...