American Political Science Review articles from June 1997

American Political Science Review archives from June 1997

The political foundations of democracy and the rule of law.
June 1, 1997... This paper develops a game-theoretic approach to the problem of political officials' respect for political and economic rights of citizens. It models the policing of rights as a coordination problem among citizens, but one with asymmetries...

The rule of wisdom and the rule of law in Plato's 'Statesman.'
June 1, 1997... Recently, the idea of phronesis has assumed great importance among political theorists. This prominence is due to the perception that, contrary to the application of the methods of naturalscience to polities, phronesis preserves the...

Private property versus markets: democratic and communitarian critiques of capitalism.
June 1, 1997... This essay assesses communitarian and democratic critiques of capitalist economies. Distinguishing them are sharply contrasting evaluations of markets and private property. Communitarian critics of capitalism trace its moral failure to the...

The evolutionary stability of cooperation.
June 1, 1997... Is cooperation without central authority stable? If so, how robust is it? Despite what might be the conventional wisdom, The Evolution of Cooperation did not solve this problem deductively. In fact, results obtained later by others seem to...

The private production of public goods: organizational maintenance, managers' objectives, and collective goals.
June 1, 1997... I reformulate Mancur Olson's by-product theory of collective action as a theory of resource allocation by interest group managers. I then test alternative hypotheses about managers' objectives drawn from exchange theory and commitment theory....

The strategic timing of position taking in Congress: a study of the North American Free Trade Agreement.
June 1, 1997... A critical element of decision making is the timing of choices political actors make; often when a decision is made is as critical as the decision itself We posit a dynamic model of strategic position announcement based on signaling theories...

Crime and punishment: the role of norms in crisis bargaining.
June 1, 1997... In this work I test the proposition that normative standards of behavior can influence state actions in security-related conflicts. Specifically, I examine the construction of norms in the settlements of security-related disputes and the...

Political participation in the Chinese countryside.
June 1, 1997... The topic of grass-roots participation in China has acquired special interest in light of the local economic and political reforms introduced in the post-Mao period. This paper explores some major modes of participation, issues motivating...

The public consequences of private inequality: family life and citizen participation.
June 1, 1997... This study uses ingression analysis of data from a telephone survey of 380 married couples to subject to rare empirical test the contention that, because women are unequal at home, they cannot be equal in the polity. The argument is often made...

The quixotic search for consensus on the U.S. Supreme Court: a cross-judicial empirical analysis of the Rehnquist court justices.
June 1, 1997... In this first systematic and extensive application of cross-judicial methodology, we examine the members of the Rehnquist Court (1986-94 terms) with prior appellate court experience to discern any correlation with their Supreme Court behavior...

Aristotle and the recovery of political judgment.
June 1, 1997... Renewed interest in the concept of political judgment--a mode of reasoning that steers a middle way between abstract, technical reasoning and willful self-assertion-frequently takes the form of a return, qualified in various ways, to...

Reply to reviews. (response to John H. Aldrich, Jane Mansbridge and Jennifer L. Hochschild in this issue, p. 421-427)
June 1, 1997... Your shiny, priceless book, upon this date, Goes forth to meet its anti-climactic fate. . . . The worst reviews of all are those that sigh, "Another book is here. Hello. Bye-bye." - John Updike(1) We appreciate that this review symposium has...

States of Injury, Power and Freedom in Late Modernity.
June 1, 1997... Nancy S. Love, Pennsylvania State University The relationship between particular identities and universal rights is a continuing problem for activists and theorists committed to a feminist and postmodern democratic politics. In States of...

Solidarity of Strangers, Feminism after Identity Politics.
June 1, 1997... Nancy S. Love, Pennsylvania State University The relationship between particular identities and universal rights is a continuing problem for activists and theorists committed to a feminist and postmodern democratic politics. In States of...

War and Its Discontents: Pacifism and Quietism in the Abrahamic Traditions.
June 1, 1997... Jo Renee Formicola, Seton Hall University War and Its Discontents purports to examine "quietism," that is, the restraint of force under specified conditions, and "pacifism," or principled rejection of all coercive force, within the traditions...

Augustine and the Limits of Politics.
June 1, 1997... Glenn Tinder, University of Massachusetts at Boston Jean Elshtain might appropriately have subtitled her book "An Appreciation." She does not attempt a comprehensive presentation of Augustine's political views, nor does she engage very...

Seedbeds of Virtue: Sources of Competence, Character, and Citizenship in American Society.
June 1, 1997... Mark E. Kann, University of Southern California The contributors to this volume share a consensus. They agree that Americans need to address the question of how to promote virtue and civility in individualistic, liberal-democratic societies....

Fighting Words: Individuals, Communities, and Liberties of Speech.
June 1, 1997... Wayne V. McIntosh, University of Maryland Kent Greenawalt has produced two well-written and exhaustively analytical books, both of which make significant contributions to our collective consideration of some very complex issues. In Fighting...

Private Consciences and Public Reasons.
June 1, 1997... Wayne V. McIntosh, University of Maryland Kent Greenawalt has produced two well-written and exhaustively analytical books, both of which make significant contributions to our collective consideration of some very complex issues. In Fighting...

Chaos Theory in the Social Sciences.
June 1, 1997... Courtney Brown, Emory University Across many disciplines, chaos theory is currently one of the most watched subfields of the more general area of nonlinear dynamics. The social sciences have been similarly influenced by this broader interest...

The Art of Bargaining.
June 1, 1997... I. William Zartman, Johns Hopkins University Since it was named, in the eighteenth century, the field of negotiations has been largely the subject of books of proverbs - wise but often contradictory maxims, unconnected to a conceptual model,...

Revolt Against Modernity: Leo Strauss, Eric Voegelin and the Search for Political Order.
June 1, 1997... Steven R. McCarl, University of Denver McAllister contends that, according to Strauss, political questions are always moral and religious because laws emerge out of authoritative opinion about good and evil, right and wrong, and such opinions...

The Politics of Faith and the Politics of Scepticism.
June 1, 1997... Paul Franco, Bowdoin College Since Michael Oakeshott's death in 1990, Yale University Press has been bringing out a number of his writings which he chose, for whatever reasons, not to publish during his lifetime. This is the third such book to...

Current Issues in Public Choice.
June 1, 1997... Hugh Ward, University of Essex Rational choice theorists have shown that institutions matter because they structure equilibria. This edited volume of papers given at the 1994 Annual Meeting of the European Public Choice Society should reflect...

Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy.
June 1, 1997... Susan Okin, Stanford University Historians of the United States have traced eclipses of community by individualism as far back as the 1650s. In Democracy's Discontent, Michael Sandel presents the last half-century as a period of such civic...

Identities, Politics, and Rights.
June 1, 1997... Nicholas Xenos, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Rights are funny things. Generally thought to be grounded somewhere - historically, rationally, or naturally - rights are the promiscuously spent common coin of U.S. political discourse....

Legal Rights: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives.
June 1, 1997... Nicholas Xenos, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Rights are funny things. Generally thought to be grounded somewhere - historically, rationally, or naturally - rights are the promiscuously spent common coin of U.S. political discourse....

Only Paradoxes ot Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man.
June 1, 1997... Joan B. Landes, Pennsylvania State University No more dramatic case exists of women's paradoxical relationship to modern concepts of citizenship than that of France, which first established universal (male) citizenship and abolished racial...

Plato Rediscovered: Human Value and Social Order.
June 1, 1997... George Klosko, University of Virginia This is not a work of conventional Classical scholarship. T. K. Seung decries Plato scholars for not taking pride in the "power and truth of Plato's philosophy" (p. 302). Their "pedantic . . . logical...

The Embodiment of Reason: Kant on Spirit, Generation, and Community.
June 1, 1997... Steven M. DeLue, Miami University Susan Shell explains what she views as Kant's "novel definition of the world," and she demonstrates how his life's work is an "elucidation" of this definition, informing Kant's entire philosophy (p. 2). Shell...

Edmund Burke: Modernity, Politics, and Aesthetics.
June 1, 1997... Edmund Burke: Modernity, Politics, and Aesthetics. By Stephen K. White. Modernity and Political Thought, vol. 5. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994. 107p. $42.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. Edmund Burke. The name seems strangely out of place...

Labyrinths: Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas.
June 1, 1997... Labyrinths: Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas. By Richard Wolin. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995. 290p. $50.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. In Labyrinths, Richard Wolin reprints a series of previously published essays on...

The New South: 1945-1980.
June 1, 1997... The New South, 1945-1980. By Neuman V. Bartley. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press and The Little field Fund for Southern History of The University of Texas, 1995. 548p. $39.95. This is the eleventh volume in a series published since...

The Kingfish and the Constitution: Huey Long, the First Amendment, and the Emergence of Modern Press Freedom in America.
June 1, 1997... The Kingfish and the Constitution: Huey Long, the First Amendment, and the Emergence of Modern Press Freedom in America. By Richard C. Cortner. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1996. 196p. $55.00. To introduce students to the subject of the...

America Unequal.
June 1, 1997... America Unequal. By Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. 220p. $26.00. Sheldon Danziger and Peter Gottschalk present a rather bleak picture of the U.S. economy in this provocative book. They...

What Americans Know About Politics and Why It Matters.
June 1, 1997... What Americans Know about Politics and Why It Matters. By Michael X. Delli Carpini and Scott Keeter. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 397p. $38.50. Since the beginning of democratic thought, scholars have debated the ability of citizens...

The Ninth Amendment and the Politics of Creative Jurisprudence.
June 1, 1997... The Ninth Amendment and the Politics of Creative Jurisprudence. By Marshall L. DeRosa. New Brunswick, NJ, and London: Transaction Publishers, 1996. 216p. $29.95. It is difficult to state exactly the argument of this book, because it is not...

Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos as a New Electorate.
June 1, 1997... Counting on the Latino Vote: Latinos as a New Electorate: By Louis DeSipio. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1996. 221p. $35.00. Scholarly as well as popular discussions of Latinos and politics in the United States are often...

Presidential War Power.
June 1, 1997... Presidential War Power. By Louis Fisher. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. 245p. $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. Louis Fisher, prize-winning scholar and the nation's leading authority on separation of powers, has produced a trenchant and...

Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems.
June 1, 1997... Studying Public Policy: Policy Cycles and Policy Subsystems. By Michael Howlett and M. Ramesh. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995. 239p. $28.00. This book, coauthored by a Canadian and an Australian political scientist, is one of the most...

Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America.
June 1, 1997... Science at the Bar: Law, Science, and Technology in America. By Sheila Jasanoff. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. 285p. $29.95. A book-length narrative that explores in an analytically provocative way the interrelations among...

The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point.
June 1, 1997... The System: The American Way of Politics at the Breaking Point. By Hynes Johnson and David S. Broder. Boston: Little Brown and Company, 1996. 668p. $25.95. Social science research is typically driven either by real-world problems and...

Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn against Government in U.S. Politics.
June 1, 1997... Boomerang: Clinton's Health Security Effort and the Turn against Government in U.S. Politics. By Theda Skocpol. New York: W.W. Norton, 1996. 230p. $27.50. Social science research is typically driven either by real-world problems and...

Divided by Color: Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals.
June 1, 1997... Divided by Color: Racial Politics and Democratic Ideals. By Donald R. Kinder and Lynn M. Sanders. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 393p. $27.50. Divided by Color is an important book. It examines why white and black Americans hold...

David Duke and the Politics of Race in the South.
June 1, 1997... David Duke and the Politics of Race in the South. Edited by John C. Kuzenski, Charles S. Bullock III, and Ronald Keith Gaddie. Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1995. 161p. $19.95. Do we really need a book of short, rather...

The High Priest of American Politics: The Role of Lawyers in American Political Institutions.
June 1, 1997... The High Priests of American Politics: The Role of Lawyers in American Politics Institutions. By Mark C. Miller. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1995. 228p. $30.00. Does it make any difference that nearly half the U.S. Congress and...

The Local State: Public Money and American Cities.
June 1, 1997... The Local State: Public Money and American Cities. By Eric H. Monkkonen. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1995. 191p. $39.50. Cities, it is argued in much of the urban literature of the past decade, have become entrepreneurial,...

Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government.
June 1, 1997... Creating Public Value: Strategic Management in Government. By Mark H. Moore. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996. 402p. $45.00. Although this book was not written to prove that public administration can be intellectually interesting,...

Removing College Price Barriers.
June 1, 1997... Removing College Price Barriers. By Michael Mumper. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 304p. $24.95. Highly publicized increases in tuition charges over the past 15 years, a fundamental shift in federal policy from grants to...

Congress and the Rent-Seeking Society.
June 1, 1997... Congress and the Rent-Seeking Society. By Glenn R. Parker. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996. 172p. $39.50. U.S. election campaigns often attack corrupt Washington politicians, charging that they have been bought by special...

The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates.
June 1, 1997... The Psychological Assessment of Presidential Candidates. By Stanley Renshon. New York: New York University Press, 1996. 515p. $34.95. In an innovative and pathbreaking book, Stanley Renshon provides a detailed analysis of how psychological...

Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics.
June 1, 1997... Second Coming: The New Christian Right in Virginia Politics. By Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 285p. $32.95. This book is a valuable contribution to the growing literature on the Christian...

Representation in Crisis: The Constitution, Interest Groups, and Political Parties.
June 1, 1997... Representation in Crisis: The Constitution, Interest Groups, and Political Parties. By David K Ryden. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 309p. $21.95. David Ryden's book is about representation, the proper and constitutional...

Black Mayors and School Politics: The Failure of Reform in Detroit, Gary, and Newark.
June 1, 1997... Black Mayors and Social Politics: The Failure of Reform in Detroit, Gary, and Newark. By Wilbur C. Rich. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. 240p. $35.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. At times it seems the nation's public schools are beset by the...

From the Outside In: World War II and the American State.
June 1, 1997... From the Outside In: World War II and the American State. By Bartholomew H. Sparrow. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 354p. $45.00. It is a truism that war forges the parts of states central to prosecuting it. In From the...

Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam.
June 1, 1997... Shame and Humiliation: Presidential Decision Making on Vietnam. By Blema S. Steinberg. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. 397p. $40.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Shame and Humiliation is a well-written and well-organized analysis of...

Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy.
June 1, 1997... Religion in Public Life: A Dilemma for Democracy. By Ronald F. Thiemann. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press for the Twentieth Century Fund, 1996. 186p. $17.95. One of the more notable achievements of the Christian Coalition and other...

Israel in Comparative Perspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom.
June 1, 1997... Israel in Comparative Perspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom. Edited by Michael N. Barnett. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996. 296p. $59.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. This book grew out of the conference "Is Israel Unique?"...

Business and Democracy in Latin America.
June 1, 1997... Business and Democracy in Latin America. Edited by Ernest Bartell and Leigh A. Payne. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 292p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Scholarly interest in regime transitions and consolidation has...

The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933.
June 1, 1997... The Logic of Evil: The Social Origins of the Nazi Party, 1925-1933. By William Brustein. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 235p. $27.50. Why did people become Nazis? Based on a mammoth sample of pre-1933 National Socialist Party members...

Term Limits and Legislative Representation.
June 1, 1997... Term Limits and Legislative Representation. By John M. Carey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 216p. $59.95. Term Limits is a wonderful example of the value of comparative political analysis. Textbooks addressing the question "why...

The Green Rainbow: Environmental Groups in Western Europe.
June 1, 1997... The Green Rainbow: Environmental Groups in Western Europe. By Russell J. Dalton. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1994. 305p. $34.00. Long before Mancur Olson formulated the illogic of collective action from the perspective of an...

Green Networks: A Structural Analysis of the Italian Environmental Movement.
June 1, 1997... Green Networks: A Structural Analysis of the Italian Environmental Movement. By Mario Diani. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1995. 221p. $75.00. Long before Mancur Olson formulated the illogic of collective action from the perspective...

The Power of Politics: New Social Movements in France.
June 1, 1997... The Power of Politics: New Social Movements in France. By Jan Willem Duyvendak. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. 251p. $60.00. A wave of new social movements based on environmental anti-nuclear, peace, squatters' rights, women's rights, and...

Enterprise and the State in Korea and Taiwan.
June 1, 1997... Enterprise and the State in Korea and Taiwan. By Karl J. Fields. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995. 269p. $35.00. These books, as their title indicates, compare Taiwan with Korea and the Philippines. They have other things in common...

Global Competitiveness and Industrial Growth in Taiwan and the Philippines.
June 1, 1997... Global Competitiveness and Industrial Growth in Taiwan and the Philippines. By Cheng-Tian Kuo. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 267p. $49.95. These books, as their title indicates, compare Taiwan with Korea and the...

States and Anti-Nuclear Movements.
June 1, 1997... States and Anti-Nuclear Movements. Edited by Helena Flam. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1994. 427p. $85.00. This book studies the interaction between states and antinuclear movements in eight Western European countries in order to...

Gender and Politics in Contemporary Canada.
June 1, 1997... Gender and Politics in Contemporary Canada. Edited by Francois-Pierre Gingras. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1995. 271p. $28.00. The purpose of this edited collection is to "show a few of the very diverse ways in which gender is related to...

Cabinet Ministers and Parliamentary Government.
June 1, 1997... Cabinet Minister and Parliamentary Government. Edited by Michael Laver and Kenneth A. Shepsle. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 318p. $59.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. These two books represent a tandem assault upon the...

Making and Breaking Governments.
June 1, 1997... Making and Breaking Governments. By Michael Laver and Kenneth A. Shepsle. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 301p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. These two books represent a tandem assault upon the status quo in the study...

Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru.
June 1, 1997... Peasant and Nation: The Making of Postcolonial Mexico and Peru. By Florencia E. Mallon. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1995. 472p. $55.00. Florencia Mallon's book is more than a comparative analysis of rural popular movements in...

Poverty, Inequality, and the Future of Social Policy: Western States in the New World Order.
June 1, 1997... Poverty, Inequality, and the Future of Social Policy: Western States in the New World Order. Edited by Katherine McFate, Roger Lawson, and William Julius Wilson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1995. 723p. $70.00. Advanced industrial...

Civil Society and State Relations in Sweden.
June 1, 1997... Civil Society and State Relations in Sweden. By Michele Micheletti. Aldershot: Avebury, 1995. 200p. $59.95. Michele Micheletti does three things in this short book. She begins with an introduction to the study of collective action organizations...

World Military Leaders: A Comparative and Collective Analysis.
June 1, 1997... World Military Leaders: A Comparative and Collective Analysis. By Mostafa Rejai and Kay Phillips. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996. 164p. $55.00. An enduring question of leadership studies is whether certain individuals possess...

Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive Reform.
June 1, 1997... Agrarian Reform in the Philippines: Democratic Transitions and Redistributive Reform. By Jeffrey M. Riedinger. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. 366p. $45.00. Debates about the "dilemmas of simultaneity"--dual transitions to democracy...

Founding Republics in France and America: A Study in Constitutional Governance.
June 1, 1997... Founding Republics in France and America: A Study in Constitutional Governance. By John A. Rohr. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1995. 370p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. This is an engaging and rewarding book because it takes an unusual...

Israel and Its Bible: A Political Analysis.
June 1, 1997... Israel and Its Bible: A Political Analysis. By Ira Sharkansky. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996. 313p. $45.00. Ira Sharkansky follows the tradition of such political scientists as Steven A. Brams, Daniel J. Elazar, Michael Walzer, and Aaron...

Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining: Designing Nuclear Industries in Argentina and Brazil.
June 1, 1997... Industrial Policy, Technology, and International Bargaining: Designing Nuclear Industries in Argentina and Brazil. By Etel Solingen. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995. 311p. $47.50. Nuclear energy programs in Brazil and Argentina have...

Parties and Politics in Post-1989 Poland.
June 1, 1997... Parties and Politics in Post-1989 Poland. By Hubert Tworzecki. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. 219p. $54.00. Anyone trying to follow the post-1989 development of parties and politics in Poland from North America using the English-language...

Judicial Misconduct: A Cross-National Comparison.
June 1, 1997... Judicial Misconduct: A Cross-National Comparison. By Mary L. Volcansek, with Maria Elisabetta de Franciscis and Jacqueline Lucienne Lafon. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1996. 163p. $39.95. As the case of Mexico indicates, a...

An Agenda for Peace 1995.
June 1, 1997... An Agenda for Peace 1995. By Boutros Boutros-Ghali. 2d ed. New York: United Nations, 1995. 159p. $7.50. The first two documents reprint reports initially issued in 1992 and 1994, respectively, with the subsequent addition of related materials...

An Agenda for Development 1995.
June 1, 1997... An Agenda For Development 1995. By Boutros Boutros Ghali. New York: United Nations, 1995. 132p. $7.50. An Agenda for Democratization. By Boutros Boutros-Ghali. New York: United Nations, 1996. 56p. $5.00. The first two documents reprint reports...

Red Flag Over Hong Kong.
June 1, 1997... Red Flag over Hong Kong. By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, David Newman, and Alvin Rabushka. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers, 1996. 189p. $25.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Sometimes described as the "miracle on the rock," Hong Kong's economy has...

A Legislature Comes of Age: Hong Kong's Search for Influence and Stability.
June 1, 1997... A Legislature Comes of Age: Hong Kong's Search for Influence and Stability. By Kathleen Cheek-Milby. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1995. 317p. $55.00. Sometimes described as the "miracle on the rock," Hong Kong's economy has performed...