American Political Science Review articles from March 1994

American Political Science Review archives from March 1994

Limits of political strategy: a systemic view of the African American experience.
March 1, 1994... NAACP v. Button. 1963. 571 U.S. 415. Nelson, William E., Jr. 1990. "Black Mayoral Leadership: A Twenty Year Perspective." National Political Science Review 2:188-95. Orfield, Gary. 1993. "Racial Transformation and Political...

Democracy and the peaceful settlement of international conflict.
March 1, 1994... The remaining columns of Table 5 rectify this by showing variations in predicted probabilities of settlement under conditions defined by the combined presence or absence of alliance bonds between parties, a prior history of military hostilities,...

Electoral competition with informed and uninformed voters.
March 1, 1994... electorate. 6. Londregan and Romer (1993) consider a model of electoral competition in which parties compete both on a collective policy dimension and on constituent services. The collective policy position is known, but voters receive only a...

The nature of congressional committee jurisdictions.
March 1, 1994... The Case of Oil Shocks." Legislative Studies Quarterly 10:151-79. King, David C. 1992. "Committee Jurisdictions and Institutional Change in the U.S. House of Representatives." Ph.D. diss., University of Michigan. Krehbiel, Keith. 1991....

Shortcuts versus encyclopedias: information and voting behavior in California insurance reform elections.
March 1, 1994... Decades of survey research have provided us with countless examples of voter ignorance. While the existence of the badly informed voter is now a central part of political science's intellectual heritage, the implications of voter ignorance...

The reverse coattails effect: local party organization in the 1989 Brazilian presidential election.
March 1, 1994... 39. In the municipalities along Santa Catarina's western border with Rio Grande do Sul, Brizola averaged 47.4%, and in coastal municipalities, he reached 37.5%. On the central part of the border, however, he averaged only 20%. 40. Note that...

The Presthus debacle: intraparty politics and bargaining failure in Norway.
March 1, 1994... 8. All preference relations are strict unless otherwise indicated. 9. This does not imply that the Center party or the Conservatives prefer voting for their respective programs to not voting. Hence, the Conservatives have no policy incentive to...

The power of the European parliament as a conditional agenda setter.
March 1, 1994... Shapiro Martin. 1992. "The European Court of Justice." In Euro-Politics, ed. Alberta Sbragia. Washington: Brookings Institute. Shepsle, Kenneth A. 1979. "Institutional Arrangements and Equilibrium in Multidimensional Voting Models." American...

Aristotle's science of the best regime.
March 1, 1994... This essay contends that Aristotle's scientific account of the best form of government or "best regime"(1) in the Politics deserves serious reconsideration today because, quite apart from its specific conclusions or prescriptions, it brings to...

Oases in the desert: Hannah Arendt on democratic politics.
March 1, 1994... Mills, C. Wright. 1959. The Sociological Imagination. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Neumann, Franz. 1957. The Democratic and the Authoritarian State. New York: Free Press. Pateman, Carole. 1970. Participation and Democratic Theory....

Multiculturalism and the problem of particularism.
March 1, 1994... Ranke, Otto von. 1881. Weltgeschichte. Leipzig: Duncter & Humblot. Ravitch, Diane. 1992. "Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures." In Debating P.C., ed. Paul Berman. New York: Dell. Schnadelbach, Herbert. 1984. Philosophy in Germany, 1831-1933....

Social choice in a representative democracy.
March 1, 1994... In a representative democracy, citizens stand at two removes from legislation. First, they do not deliberate and vote directly on legislation: rather, they elect assemblies, which enact such legislation in their stead. Second, citizens do not...

Individual and contextual variations in political candidate appraisal.
March 1, 1994... Recent theories of vote choice have focused on the role of information in voters' decision making (see, e.g., Popkin 1991). Today's candidate-centered campaigns supply citizens with ample information. When presented with these data, how do voters...

Norm and Nature: The Movements of Legal Thought.
March 1, 1994... The legal system is a major political institution; and it would be a poor theory of politics, whether normative or descriptive, that lacked an account of the law. Most legal theorists writing in English have thought that any such account will...

Moments of Decision: Political History and the Crises of Radicalism.
March 1, 1994... With the emergence of the New Left in the 1960s, the recent fall of communism, and the disconcerting rise of religious fundamentalist and ethnic-based movements around the world, it has become something of a truism to speak of a theoretical...

Virtue Transformed: Political Argument in England, 1688-1740.
March 1, 1994... One of the more remarkable developments in political theory in recent years has been the rediscovery of what J.G.A. Pocock terms the "Atlantic republican tradition." And central to--indeed, constitutive of--republican political thought is the...

The Restless Mind: Alexis de Tocqueville on the Origin and Perpetuation of Human Liberty.
March 1, 1994... The rise and fall of totalitarianism and the renewed appeal of democracy have made Tocqueville seem the most prophetic of the nineteenth-century "grand theorists." He predicted that autocratic Russia and libertarian America would each "hold in...

Political Theory and the Displacement of Politics.
March 1, 1994... Ever since Plato chose to rid his Republic of disruption and dissent, political theorists have attempted to strike a balance between political contestation and the administration of justice. Bonnie Honig's Political Theory and the Displacement of...

Cultural-Political Interventions in the Unfinished Project of Enlightenment.
March 1, 1994... In 1989, Surhkamp came out with a hefty volume of 30 essays in celebration of Jurgen Habermas' sixtieth birthday. The table of contents read like a who's who of German philosophy and social theory, as well as its American reception. The English...

Sharing Responsibility.
March 1, 1994... In the years following World War II, many Europeans were profoundly troubled by the failure of their fellow citizens to prevent or protest the actions of the nazis. Philosophers such as Sartre, Jaspers, and Arendt turned to existentialist thought...

The Anxiety of Freedom: Imagination and Individuality in Locke's Political Thought.
March 1, 1994... Most Lockean scholars, according to Mehta, focus on the circumstances under which individuals agree to and maintain the establishment of peace, order, and authority. Mehta expands this understanding in arguing that "Locke is concerned not merely...

Political Discourse in Early Modern Britain.
March 1, 1994... This is a festschrift for the indefatigable J. G. A. Pocock (indefatigable indeed: the volume closes with a daunting nine-page bibliography of Pocock's work to date, a veritable flood of erudition that shows no signs of ebbing). The essays are...

Moral Responsibility and the Boundaries of Community: Power and Accountability from a Pragmatic Point of View.
March 1, 1994... Marion Smiley has written a very interesting book on moral responsibility that is really three books in one. First, she surveys the history of philosophy, examining the differences between classical, Christian and modern conceptions of free will...

Justice and Interpretation.
March 1, 1994... In her book Justice and Interpretation, Georgia Warnke embarks on a theoretical endeavor attempting to find a way out of the impasse represented by liberal and communitarian arguments on the issues of justice, tradition, and interpretation....

Runoff Elections in the United States.
March 1, 1994... Runoff primary elections are used primarily in the South and in local elections. A runoff primary election follows a primary election in which no candidate receives a majority. Most party primary elections in the United States involve the...

Money Talks: Corporate PACs and Political Influence.
March 1, 1994... Money Talks consists of two books. The first is a fascinating and illuminating set of interviews with 20 directors of corporate political action committees (PACs). The second is an analysis of the sources and scope of corporate political power in...

Renewing Cities.
March 1, 1994... The study of urban politics is in trouble. Strongly influenced by a neo-Marxian perspective, much of the work in the field diverges from the theoretical interests and terms of analysis found in other major subfields of the discipline. Ross...

The Right to Die: Policy Innovation and its Consequences.
March 1, 1994... From time to time, the pitiful plight of a hopelessly dying or vegetative patient dramatically calls attention to our vulnerability to a uselessly prolonged life. There was Karen Quinlan in the mid-1970s and Nancy Cruzan a decade later, both in...

Hollow Mandates: American Public Opinion and the Conservative Shift.
March 1, 1994... It would be hard to imagine a more dramatic transformation in American politics than that which occurred between 1964 and 1984. There are probably few more telling illustrations of this change than the fortunes of Ronald Reagan, the era's central...

Feminist Jurisprudence: The Difference Debate.
March 1, 1994... "A shared concern with the legal significance of difference, that is, the difference between men and women" unites the contributors to this volume, according to its editor, Leslie Friedman Goldstein. The authors are linked in another important...

Latina Politics, Latino Politics: Gender, Culture, and Political Participation.
March 1, 1994... The steady increase in the Latino populations assures that cities that have not traditionally had politically organized or visible Latino populations now do. A case in point is Boston. Over the past decade, Boston's Latinos have elected a Latino...

The Promise and Paradox of Civil Service Reform.
March 1, 1994... The Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (CSRA) is one piece of legislation for which the Carter administration will long be remembered. Patricia Ingraham and David Rosenbloom's book grew out of a conference marking the tenth year of the reform held...

The Color-Blind Constitution.
March 1, 1994... Andrew Kull traces the history of an idea--that our Constitution is, or should be, color blind. Despite the persistence of this idea, he points out, there is no ban per se on racial classification anywhere in the Constitution, nor has the Supreme...

Markets and Majorities: The Political Economy of Public Policy.
March 1, 1994... According to Steven M. Sheffrin, in the United States "when markets fail, governments intervene and impose regulations on the economy". But not all market failures are political magnets for regulations. Market failures, he argues, become...

Political and Economic Interactions in Economic Policy Reform.
March 1, 1994... This is a true work of comparative political economy. Each of the case studies is the collaborative product of a political scientist and an economist. The authors seriously analyze how politics shape economic policies and economic policies shape...

Merchant Capital and the Roots of State Power in Senegal, 1930-1985.
March 1, 1994... The political roots of Africa's current economic crisis have become a favorite research topic for Africanist political scientists. The general conclusion of most of this work is that economic growth has been sacrificed at the altar of state...

The Post-Soviet Nations: Perspectives on the Demise of the USSR.
March 1, 1994... Reading these three books completed in the fall of 1991 only reminds us how much has changed in less than two years and how quickly has faded the euphoria that the end of the Soviet Union would usher in a new era of world democracy and peace. As...

Immigrants, Markets, and States: The Political Economy of Postwar Europe.
March 1, 1994... What a good idea to present a political theory of immigration not based on strictly economic (Marxist or liberal) theory or on international relations theory! These theories are clearly and very well presented at the beginning of the book....

Latin America's Christian Democratic Parties: A Political Economy.
March 1, 1994... Edward A. Lynch has uncovered an important and underexplored theme in his treatment of Christian Democracy in Latin America. His ambitious effort constitutes one of the few attempts to analyze one of contemporary Latin America's largest political...

Issues in Democratic Consolidation: The New South American Democracies in Comparative Perspective.
March 1, 1994... This volume presents some of the recent research emanating from the increasingly prominent Hellen Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. While much has been written of late on the issue of democratization,...

Thinking Theoretically about Soviet Nationalities: History and Comparison in the Study of the USSR.
March 1, 1994... The unraveling of the Soviet system as a consequence of perestroika and the transformation of the 15 constituent republics of the Soviet Union into independent states was largely unanticipated by scholars and policymakers alike. In Moscow, as in...

Argentine Workers: Peronism and Contemporary Class Consciousness.
March 1, 1994... Peter Ranis's book is a valuable contribution to the literatures on Argentine politics and on workers and their consciousness. The book examines Argentine workers' perceptions of a range of interesting questions, including work and labor...

The Limits of Social Democracy: Investment Politics in Sweden.
March 1, 1994... During the late 1970s and early 1980s, the efforts of a handful of left-wing Swedish intellectuals and their talented allies in Britain and North America revitalized the study of parliamentary socialism. Against the currents of both pluralism...

Labour and the Political Economy in Israel.
March 1, 1994... Many Israelis mourn the collapse of their country's idealism. Once, their national enterprise was characterized by the determination to create not only a Jewish state but also a just society. Now political leaders proclaim their allegiance to...

Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics.
March 1, 1994... Since the mid-1970s, dozens of countries have become democratic, some for the first time and some after an authoritarian interlude of long or short duration. In each of these countries, many choices about the large and small details of the...

The Political Economy of Foreign Investment in Mexico: Nationalism, Liberalism, and Constraints on Choice.
March 1, 1994... Van Whiting seeks to illuminate the past two difficult decades in Mexico, the dynamics of foreign investment in industrializing countries, the determinants of policy choices by governments in newly industrializing countries, and the character of...

Singular Europe: Economy and Polity of the European Community after 1992.
March 1, 1994... Singular Europe is a collection of articles dealing with issues of European Community integration that arose out of a series of seminars hosted by the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations in 1991. The collection includes articles on a variety of...

States and Provinces in the International Economy.
March 1, 1994... Although federalism in Canada and the United States might seem an obvious topic for comparative research, it has not been a fashionable one in recent years. Canadians, preoccupied with Quebec nationalism and its challenge to the viability of the...

The Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism and Structural Realism.
March 1, 1994... This is an impressive but also, in a way, a curious book. It is impressive because it represents one the most serious sustained theoretical efforts of the last few years in regard to the structural realist paradigm. It is curious because many a...

When the Third World Matters: Latin America and the United States Grand Strategy.
March 1, 1994... This book should more appropriately be titled "When Latin America Matters," for that is its essential concern. Michael Desch examines four episodes in the U.S. relationship with Latin America in order to demonstrate the connection between that...

Japan's Foreign Aid: Power and Policy in a New Era.
March 1, 1994... Japanese foreign aid programs merit examination for a host of reasons. Some involve treating them as a window to look into motives and mechanisms of Japan's foreign policy and international role. From this perspective, changes, continuities, and...

The Paradox of Continental Production: National Investment Policies in North America.
March 1, 1994... As the political debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) heats up, some insight into the agreement's political foundations provides an important perspective and helps one to evaluate the NAFTA's future prospects. Barbara...

Security Without Nuclear Weapons? Different Perspectives on Non-Nuclear Security.
March 1, 1994... This book, filled with creativity, imagination, and wisdom, moves well beyond most existing scholarship on national security policy. The authors encourage us to think about what has become almost unthinkable among security policy...

Foreign Military Intervention: The Dynamics of Protracted Conflict.
March 1, 1994... This book represents the collective effort of more than a dozen scholars to understand and describe aspects of modern military interventions. Drawing principally on six case studies developed around a standard analytic framework, the goal is to...

Traditions and Values in Politics and Diplomacy: Theory and Practice.
March 1, 1994... Though the contrasts between Robert W. McElroy's Morality and American Foreign Policy and Kenneth W. Thompson's Traditions and Values in Politics and Diplomacy are both real and apparent, that the contrasts between these two readable and...

Democracy and Foreign Policy: The Fallacy of Political Realism.
March 1, 1994... In this book, Miroslav Nincic examines, explores, and refutes a notion promulgated by such proponents of classical "realism" as Hans J. Morganthau and George F. Kennan. The notion holds, in Nincic's words, that "democratic foreign policy suffers...

From Confrontation to Cooperation: Resolving Ethnic and Regional Conflict.
March 1, 1994... In the late 1960s and early 1970s several scholars of international relations developed conflict management training workshops, the purpose of which was to sup port a process towards peace in the context of intractable conflicts. John Burton,...

China's Just World: The Morality of Chinese Foreign Policy.
March 1, 1994... Shih, of National Taiwan University, endeavors in this book to shed light on why the People's Republic of China does what it does in foreign policy. Shih's argument rests upon the premise that up until the 1980s, the Chinese government based its...