American Political Science Review articles from June 1998

American Political Science Review archives from June 1998

Democracy, equality, and eide: a radical view from Book 8 of Plato's Republic.
June 1, 1998... An elitist Plato, opposed to democracy and hostile to the masses, fills the literature. In the midst of an extensive philological and grammatical commentary on Plato's Republic, James Adam (1902, 2.24, ad loc. 494a) includes the following brief...

The illusion of power and the disruption of moral norms: Thycydides' critique of Periclean policy.
June 1, 1998... Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is punctuated by the incongruous appearance of a tall, polished metal shaft in the midst of an otherwise natural setting, portending doom or perhaps hiding secrets, the knowledge of which confers...

The public's conditional response to Supreme Court decisions.
June 1, 1998... In the years leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Roe v. Wade (1973), debates over abortion became quite heated, but judicial scholars would have predicted a diminution in the high level of public controversy after the Court ruled....

A political explanation of variations in Central Bank independence.
June 1, 1998... Across the industrial democracies, central banks perform a similar function: to implement the government's monetary policy by regulating the supply of money and credit to the economy. Nevertheless, the structures of these bureaucratic...

Party aggregation and the number of parties in India and the United States.
June 1, 1998... Prominent explanations for differences in the number of political parties across countries, most notably Duverger's Law and the literature related to it, have focused on the role of electoral systems. Differences in district magnitude, electoral...

On the legitimacy of national high courts.
June 1, 1998... Perhaps the most neglected subfield within comparative politics is law and courts. Despite impressive progress in understanding many aspects of cross-national politics, comparativists know precious little about the judicial and legal systems in...

Attitudes toward economic reform in Mexico: the role of political orientations.
June 1, 1998... Since the debt crisis of 1982, Mexico has experienced a series of stabilization efforts, trade liberalization, privatization, and other market-oriented reforms, but economic performance has fluctuated markedly.(1) In the early 1990s, after a long...

Democracy, war initiation, and victory.
June 1, 1998... Recent empirical scholarship has noted that democracies are significantly more likely to win the wars they fight than are other types of regimes. Though this finding refutes the general realist claim that regime type is unrelated to foreign...

Explaining divided U.S. senate delegations, 1788-1996: a realignment approach.
June 1, 1998... Divided government has become one of the most studied topics in political science in recent years, and it has even been suggested as an organizing principle of American politics research (Fiorina 1992, 3). Since World War II, from the state to...

Estimating the effect of campaign spending on senate election outcomes using instrumental variables.
June 1, 1998... In American congressional elections incumbents routinely win reelection. Even in the 1994 Republican landslide, change in the partisan makeup of Congress occurred mainly through open seats switching from the Democrats to the Republicans. A common...

Consequences of the Condorcet jury theorem for beneficial information aggregation by rational agents.
June 1, 1998... In addition to his contributions to the theory of elections in which the various agents have different preferences, Condorcet ([1785] 1994) established a result, known as the Condorcet Jury Theorem, giving certain conditions under which majority...

Civility, enlightenment, and society: conceptual confusions and Kantian remedies.
June 1, 1998... Writing in the Berlinische Monatsschrift in 1784, Immanuel Kant speculated that the "hidden plan of nature" was to bring about justice in civil society and peaceful relations between nations by means of the very antagonism that seemed to promise...

Opera and Politics: From Monteverdi to Henze.
June 1, 1998... By John Bokina. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1997, 240p. $25.00. Donald Henderson, Converse College In the words of the author, Opera and Politics is "the work of a political scientist, a political theorist who loves opera....

Cornerstones of Peace: Jewish Identity Politics and Democratic Theory.
June 1, 1998... By Marla Brettschneider. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. 201p. $48.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Jennifer Ring, University of Nevada, Reno Each of these volumes addresses the often overlooked place of American Jews as a complex...

The Narrow Bridge: Jewish Views on Multiculturalism.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Marla Brettschneider, with an introduction by Cornel West. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996. 291p. $48.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. Jennifer Ring, University of Nevada, Reno Each of these volumes addresses the often...

God and Man in the Law: The Foundations of Anglo-American Constitutionalism.
June 1, 1998... By Robert Lowry Clinton. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. 293p. $35.00. Robert P. Kraynak, Colgate University The opposition to judicial activism is a growing movement that no longer can be ignored by politicians and legal...

Habermas and the Unfinished Project of Modernity: Critical Essays on 'The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity.'
June 1, 1998... Edited by Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves and Seyla Benhabib, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. 305p. $35.00 cloth, $17,00 paper. Marie Fleming, University of Western Ontario This volume of essays takes its title from Jurgen Habermas's well-known...

The Power of Identity: Politics in a New Key.
June 1, 1998... By Kenneth Hoover. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers, 1997. 160p. $19.95. Mary Caputi, California State University, Long Beach The field of psychology has much to offer political theory, for it makes possible a venue of analysis which,...

The Self at Liberty: Political Argument and the Arts of Government.
June 1, 1998... By Duncan Ivison. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 213p. $39.95. Peter C. Myers, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire Duncan Ivison sets out to accomplish two general tasks in The Self at Liberty. First, he means to challenge Sir...

Finding a New Feminism: Rethinking the Woman Question for Liberal Democracy.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Pamela Grande Jensen. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1996. 304p. $67.50 cloth. $24.95 paper. Renee J. Heberle, University of Toledo The first collection under review, Finding a New Feminism, offers a series (interrupted only by...

Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Mary Lyndon Shanley and Uma Narayan. University Park: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997. 246p. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Renee J. Heberle, University of Toledo The first collection under review, Finding a New Feminism,...

The Holy War Idea in Western and Islamic Traditions.
June 1, 1998... By James Turner Johnson. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. 185p. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. David R. Mapel, University of Colorado, Boulder This study compares the development of Christian and Islamic conceptions...

The Reign of Law: Marbury v. Madison and the Construction of America.
June 1, 1998... By Paul W. Kahn. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 324p. $35.00. Helena Silverstein, Lafayette College One might think that a book with this subtitle would be largely devoted to an exploration of that paramount case. One might also...

Liberalism's Crooked Circle: Letters to Adam Michnik.
June 1, 1998... By Ira Katznelson. Princeton, N J: Princeton University Press, 1996. 192p. $19.95. William A. Galston, University of Maryland, College Park Liberalism's Crooked Circle is not (in any of the usual senses) an academic book, and it does not...

Against Liberalism.
June 1, 1998... By John Kekes. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 244p. $29.95. Aryeh Botwinick, Temple University These two books in different ways seek to chart the shortcomings and limitations of liberalism, and their critiques are worthwhile...

The Growth of the Liberal Soul.
June 1, 1998... By David Walsh. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. 386p. $39.95. Aryeh Botwinick, Temple University These two books in different ways seek to chart the shortcomings and limitations of liberalism, and their critiques are worthwhile...

A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem: Reconstructing Individual Behavior from Aggregate Data.
June 1, 1998... By Gary King. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 342p. $55.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Douglas Rivers, Stanford University A Solution to the Ecological Inference Problem was published with much fanfare. The NSF, which funded the...

Overcoming Tradition and Modernity: The Search for Islamic Authenticity.
June 1, 1998... By Robert D. Lee. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1997. 216p. $62.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. Roxanne L. Euben, Wellesley College Against the assumption that "only the West has produced political theory," (M. Henningsen, "The New Politics of...

The Principles of Representative Government.
June 1, 1998... By Bernard Manin. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 243p. $54.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. John Gerring, Boston University This book provides a conceptual and historical overview of the development of representative democracy in the...

Carl Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism: Against Politics as Technology.
June 1, 1998... By John P. McCormick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 352p. $39.95. Andrew Norris, Duquesne University We have recently witnessed a striking rise of interest in the political and legal philosophy of erstwhile Nazi Carl Schmitt....

The Morality of Nationalism.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Robert McKim and Jeff McMahan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 371p. $45.00. Glyn Morgan, Harvard University Nationalism in one form or another constitutes the most potent and ubiquitous political force of the late twentieth...

Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and Government.
June 1, 1998... By Philip Pettit. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 304p. $29.95. Laura J. Scalia, University of Houston For generations, scholars understood classical liberalism as including nonarbitrary governments that were relatively unobtrusive...

Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Character: Founding Thought.
June 1, 1998... By William D. Richardson. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. 202p. $29.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Brian J. Cook, Clark University In Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Character, William Richardson has successfully packed considerable...

Athenian Democracy: Modern Mythmakers and Ancient Theorists.
June 1, 1998... By Arlene W. Saxonhouse. Notre Dame and London: Notre Dame University Press, 1996. 192p. $26.95. Harvey C. Mansfield, Harvard University We today have embraced the view that democracy is the only legitimate form of government. Political...

Beyond Neutrality: Perfectionism and Politics.
June 1, 1998... By George Sher. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 251p. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Richard Dagger, Arizona State University George Sher begins this important, argument-packed book with the following confession: "I am ambivalent...

Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class and Justice in the Origins of America.
June 1, 1998... By Thomas G. West. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 218p. $24.95. James H. Read, College of St. Benedict The aim of this book is to defend the founders against the charge that they were racist, sexist, and biased toward the interests...

A Trumpet of Sedition: Political Theory and the Rise of Capitalism, 1509-1688.
June 1, 1998... By Ellen Meiksins Wood and Neal Wood. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 150p. $30.00. Edward J. Harpham, University of Texas at Dallas Over the past twenty years, our understanding of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century political...

Postmodern Platos: Nietzche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Strauss, Derrida.
June 1, 1998... By Catherine H. Zuckert, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 351p. $56.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Bernard Yack, University of Wisconsin, Madison Catherine Zuckert's new book is a comparative study of the interpretations of Plato's...

The Natural Rights Republic.
June 1, 1998... By Michael Zuckert. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. 304p. $32.95. Robert Webking, University of Texas at El Paso The republic of which Zuckert writes is the United States as created in the final quarter of the...

Democracy and the Policy Sciences.
June 1, 1998... By Peter DeLeon. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 160p. $18.95. Matthew A. Cahn, California State University, Northridge Policy studies have emerged as an increasingly important subfield within the discipline over the past...

Policy Design for Democracy.
June 1, 1998... By Anne Larason Schneider and Helen Ingram. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. 241p. $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. Matthew A. Cahn, California State University, Northridge Policy studies have emerged as an increasingly important...

Gender Power, Leadership, and Governance.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Georgia Duerst-Lahti and Rita Mac Kelly. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. 305p. $47.50 cloth, $17.95 paper. Sue Thomas, Georgetown University The literature on women officeholders - elected and appointed-has evolved...

Women's Political Voice: How Women are Transforming the Practice and Study of Politics.
June 1, 1998... By Janet A. Flammang. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1997. 419p. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Mary Hawkesworth, University of Louisville In characterizing our scholarly investigations as a mode of scientific inquiry, political...

Everson Revisited: Religion Education, and Law at the Crossroads.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Jo Renee Formicola and Hubert Morken. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Little field, 1997. 242p. $63.00 cloth, $23.95 paper. Lief H. Carter, Colorado College In 1947 the U.S. Supreme Court announced, in Everson v. Board of Education, that the...

Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection from Roosevelt through Reagan.
June 1, 1998... By Sheldon Goldman. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 488p. $45.00. Susan B. Haire, University of Georgia The delay in filling the record number of federal judicial vacancies in the 1990s has led many scholars to reexamine the...

The New Majority: Toward a Popular Progressive Politics.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Stanley B. Greenberg and Theda Skocpol. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 333p. $30.00. L. Sandy Maisel, Colby College This book emerged from more than a year of discussions among a distinguished group of scholars and...

Organizing for Foreign Policy Crises: Presidents, Advisers, and the Management of Decision Making.
June 1, 1998... By Patrick J. Haney. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 183p. $39.50. James M. Scott, University of Nebraska at Kearney Patrick J. Haney examines "the ways that U.S. presidents since World War II have organized and managed...

Executive Governance: Presidential Administrations and Policy Change in the Federal Bureaucracy.
June 1, 1998... By Cornell G. Hooton. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1997. 274p. $63.95. Francis E. Rourke, Johns Hopkins University This book challenges the principal explanations offered in the past for the rift that commonly divides a new president and his...

The Manipulation of the American Voter: Political Campaign Commercials.
June 1, 1998... By Karen S. Johnson-Cartee and Gary A. Copeland. Westport, CT: Praeger. 1997. 232p. $55.00. Karen M. Kedrowski, Winthrop University Johnson-Cartee and Copeland attempt an important task. Their purpose is to bring together the disparate...

Budgeting Democracy: State Building and Citizenship in America, 1890-1928.
June 1, 1998... By Jonathan Kahn. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 222p. $42.50. Charles Stewart III, Massachusetts Institute of Technology For the same reasons a fish does not know it is wet, the modern American political observer is probably...

Liberty, Property, and Privacy: Toward a Jurisprudence of Substantive Due Process.
June 1, 1998... By Edward Keynes. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. 238p. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Keith E. Whittington, Princeton University This is a work of advocacy, but advocacy of a peculiar kind. The author is ultimately...

Turf Wars: How Congressional Committees Claim Jurisdiction.
June 1, 1998... By David C. King. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997. 207p. $34.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. Bryan D. Jones, University of Washington In graduate school, I swore that I would NEVER, but NEVER, study two topics: urban services ("count...

The Days of Wine and Roses Are Over.
June 1, 1998... By Daniel C. Kramer. Lanham, MD, and London: University Press of America, 1997. 340p. $64.50 cloth, $37.50 paper. Jeffrey Kraus, Wagner College Kramer offers us a biography of Hugh Carey, a governor who had a significant influence on the...

The President's Call: Executive Leadership from FDR to George Bush.
June 1, 1998... By Judith E. Michaels. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. 348p. $50.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. M. Stephen Weatherford, University of California, Santa Barbara Among the president's greatest and most inscrutable challenges is...

FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Mark J. Rozell and William D. Pederson. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 242p. $59.95. M. Stephen Weatherford, University of California, Santa Barbara Among the president's greatest and most inscrutable challenges is shaping the...

Federalism and Environmental Policy: Trust and the Politics of Implementation.
June 1, 1998... By Denise Scheberle. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1997. 224p. $58.00 cloth, $20.95 paper. Susan J. Buck, University of North Carolina, Greensboro This book is one in a series edited by Barry Rabe and John Tierney, American...

Ambition and Accommodation: How Women View Gender Relations.
June 1, 1998... By Roberta S. Sigel. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 240p. $48.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Linda L. Fowler, Dartmouth College Roberta Sigel examines the consequences of the women's movement for the daily lives and perceptions of...

The Farrakhan Phenomenon: Race, Reaction, and the Paranoid Style in American Politics.
June 1, 1998... By Robert Singh. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1997. 352p. $60.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Richard A. Keiser, Carleton College Robert Singh has written a peculiar book. it makes lengthy and determined, but flawed, arguments for...

The Rise of Baptist Republicanism.
June 1, 1998... By Oran P. Smith. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 320p. $38.50. Mark J. Rozell, American University This study, a revision of the author's doctoral dissertation, is a worthy addition to the rapidly growing literature on religion...

America in Black and White: One Nation, Indivisible.
June 1, 1998... By Stephan Thernstrom and Abigail Thernstrom. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997. 704p. $32.50. Edith J. Barrett, University of Texas at Arlington Much of the scholarly literature on race and race relations over the past thirty years has...

The Politics of Social Welfare: The Collapse of the Center and the Rise of the Right.
June 1, 1998... By Alex Waddan. Cheltenham, UK, and Brookfield, MA: Edward Elgar, 1997. 204p. $70.00. Stathis N. Kalyvas, New York University How did the Right win the battle of ideas surrounding the welfare state? How did liberals allow the debate to shift...

"We Ain't What We Was": Civil Rights in the New South.
June 1, 1998... By Frederick M. Wirt. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1997. 286p. $49.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Richard L. Engstrom, University of New Orleans In 1970 Frederick Wirt published The Politics of Southern Equality, a case study of the initial...

Latino Politics in California.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Anibal Yanez-Chavez. San Diego: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1996. 142p. $12.95. Christine Marie Sierra, University of New Mexico The Latino presence in California is formidable and growing....

Determinants of Economic Growth: A Cross-Country Empirical Study.
June 1, 1998... By Robert J. Barro. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997. 145p. $22.50. Robert W. Jackman, University of California, Davis The study of economic growth has enjoyed a considerable resurgence over the past decade, inspired in good measure by Robert...

Voting and Political Attitudes in Denmark: A Study of the 1994 Election.
June 1, 1998... By Ole Borre and Jorgen Goul Andersen. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press and Oakville, CT: David Brown, 1997. 352p. $33.00. Peter Nannestad, Aarhus University Outside the ranks of country specialists, knowledge of voting behavior in Denmark is...

The Stasi: The East German Intelligence and Security Service, 1917-89.
June 1, 1998... By David Childs and Richard Popplewell. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 320p. $45.00. Henry Krisch, University of Connecticut, Storrs A central characteristic of modern dictatorships is a "political" (often misleadingly called...

Women and Power in Parliamentary Democracies: Cabinet Appointments in Western Europe.
June 1, 1998... By Rebecca Howard Davis. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. 137p. $32.00. Wilma Rule, University of Nevada, Reno The times are changing. While the twentieth was a century of women's equal suffrage, the twenty-first promises to be...

Passages to Power: Legislative Recruitment in Advanced Democracies.
June 1, 1998... Edited by Pippa Norris. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 259p. $59.95. Wilma Rule, University of Nevada, Reno The times are changing. While the twentieth was a century of women's equal suffrage, the twenty-first promises to be...

Political Recruitment: Gender, Race and Class in the British Parliament.
June 1, 1998... By Pippa Norris and Joni Lovenduski. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 280p. $19.95. Wilma Rule, University of Nevada, Reno The times are changing. While the twentieth was a century of women's equal suffrage, the twenty-first...

Sovereignty as Responsibility: Conflict Management in Africa.
June 1, 1998... By Francis M. Deng, Sadikiel Kamaro, Terrence Lyons, Donald Rothchild, and I. William Zartman. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1996. 265p. $42.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. John W. Harbeson, City University of New York The argument of this...

Representation from Above: Members of Parliament and Representative Democracy in Sweden.
June 1, 1998... By Peter Esaiasson and Soren Holmberg. Aldershot, United Kingdom: Dartmouth. 1996. 360p. $67.95. Jacques Thomassen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Representation from Above is an impressive and important book, based on an equally...

Bureaucracy and Race: Native Administration in South Africa.
June 1, 1998... By Ivan Evans. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 416p. $55.00. Anthony W. Marx, Columbia University Ivan Evans has provided an impressive historical analysis of the administrative emergence of apartheid. He ably argues that...

Threats to Democracy: The Radical Right in Italy After the War.
June 1, 1998... By Franco Ferraresi. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 311p. $35.00. William Safran, University of Colorado at Boulder Of the making of books on right-wing extremism there seems to be no end. The persistence of radical-Right...

The French National Front: The Extremist Challenge to Democracy.
June 1, 1998... By Harvey G. Simmons. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1996. 285p. $19.95. William Safran, University of Colorado at Boulder Of the making of books on right-wing extremism there seems to be no end. The persistence of radical-Right political...

The Cost of Being Female.
June 1, 1998... By Sue Headlee and Margery Elfin. Westport, CT, and London: Praeger, 1996. 229p. $65.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. V. Spike Peterson, University of Arizona As their eye-catching title suggests, Sue Headlee and Margery Elfin set out to demonstrate...

The Social Psychology of Protest.
June 1, 1998... By Bert Klandermans. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell. 1997. 257p. $21.95. John D. McCarthy, Pennsylvania State University During the last two decades we have witnessed the emergence of an immense and vigorous scholarship on collective action....

Out from Underdevelopment Revisited: Changing Global Structures and the Remaking of the Third World.
June 1, 1998... By James H. Mittelman and Mustapha Karnal Pasha. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 289p. $55.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Bruce E. Moon, Lehigh University Few policy areas have witnessed the rapid swings of sentiment, the fierce ideological...

Understanding Development: Theory and Practice in the Third World.
June 1, 1998... By John Rapley. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1996. 203p. $42.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Bruce E. Moon, Lehigh University Few policy areas have witnessed the rapid swings of sentiment, the fierce ideological divisions, and the technical...

A Morbid Fascination: White Prose and Politics in Apartheid South Africa.
June 1, 1998... By Richard Peck. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 216p. $57.95. Audie Klotz, University of Illinois at Chicago For those only aware of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Nadine Gordimer, or Alan Paton's consciousness-raising classic, Cry the Beloved...

The Grand Experiment: Debating Shock Therapy. Transition Theory, and the East German Experience.
June 1, 1998... By Andreas Pickel and Helmut Wiesenthal. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997. 262p. $53.00. Anders Aslund, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace The subtitle of this book describes its contents accurately. It deals with the postcommunist...

Overlooking Nazareth: The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee.
June 1, 1998... By Dan Rabinowitz. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 222p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Sammy Smooha, University of Haifa Rabinowitz's study has two levels. On the micro level, it is a well-documented, insightful, and readable...

The Dynamics of Conflict in Northern Ireland: Power, Conflict and Emancipation.
June 1, 1998... By Joseph Ruane and Jennifer Todd. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 365p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Arthur Aughey, University of Ulster This book achieves a rare distinction in studies of the political conflict in Northern...

Parties and Their Members: Organizing for Victory in Britain and Germany.
June 1, 1998... By Susan E. Scarrow. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. 277p. $72.00. Alan Ware, Oxford University During the 1990s, the findings of a number of major research projects on party members and activists in Great Britain have...

Rituals of Conflict: Religion, Politics and Public Policy in Israel.
June 1, 1998... By Ira Sharkansky. Boulder, CO: Lynne Ricnner, 1996. 172p. $49.95. Eliezer Don-Yehiya, Bar-Ilan University The stated aim of Sharkansky's book is to analyze patterns of conflict on the role of religion in Israeli politics. The author argues...