American Political Science Review articles from March 1995

American Political Science Review archives from March 1995

A way of life and law. (American Political Science Ass'n address) (Transcript)
March 1, 1995... The American way is first a way of life and then of law - and then of life as the final object of government. - T.V. Smith, The Legislative Way of Life Otto von Bismarck is believed to have said, "If you like laws and sausages, you should...

The concept of a critical realignment, electoral behavior, and political change.
March 1, 1995... In his seminal article on critical elections, V. O. Key (1955) attempted to formulate a partial theory of elections. Intrigued by the broad implications of his formulation, scholars quickly transformed it into a "democratic" theory of political...

Party cleavages and welfare effort in the American states.
March 1, 1995... One of the most enduring goals of state politics scholars has been to understand the impact of political parties on policy outputs. The vast amount of research in this area is without doubt related directly to the extreme importance of this issue...

Shaping Mexico's electoral arena: the construction of partisan cleavages in the 1988 and 1991 national elections.
March 1, 1995... Basanez, Miguel. 1992. "Encuestas de opinion en Mexico." In Mexico: auge, crisis y ajuste. Eds. Carlos Bazdresch, Nisso Bucay, Soledad Loaeza, and Nora Lustig. Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica. Butler, Edgar W., James B. Pick, and Glenda...

Modeling negative campaigning.
March 1, 1995... chooses whether or not to fire and, if so, on whom to fire. (For several other variations, see Dresher 1981.) With respect to truels, the questions that can be asked are (1) What is each duelist's optimal strategy, that is, when would they shoot...

Political control versus expertise: Congressional choices about administrative procedures.
March 1, 1995... Kathleen Bawn is Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90024-1472. By delegating policy decisions to the bureaucracy, Congress creates a control problem for itself. Of course,...

Choosing the best social order: new principles of justice and normative dimensions of choice.
March 1, 1995... different ways: ABC BCA A-BC AB-C A-B-C ACB CAB A-CB BA-C BAC CBA B-CA CA-B Note that it is possible to make verdicts where equivalent prizes are awarded to two or three candidates. All such verdicts are recorded...

Economic and referendum voting: a comparison of gubernatorial and senatorial elections.
March 1, 1995... Americans live in a complex democracy in which institutions within and across federated levels have separate, yet interdependent, policymaking powers. Interconnections are created not only by constitutional arrangements but by the party system as...

Disentangling patterns of state debt financing.
March 1, 1995... Fiorina, Morris. 1992. Divided Government. New York: MacMillan. Garand, James. 1988. "Explaining Government Growth in the U.S. States." American Political Science Review 82:837-49. Gramlich, Edward M. 1987. "Subnational Fiscal Policy." In...

Avarice and ambition in Congress: representatives' decisions to run or retire from the U.S. House. (House of Representatives)
March 1, 1995... the conversion of campaign contributions to the personal wealth of the retiring member. That the timing of retiring from one's job is affected by the calculation of one's pos-tretirement income, however, is a tendency to which we are all quite...

Condorcet winners and the paradox of voting: probability calculations for weak preference orders.
March 1, 1995... As conventionally understood, democracy implies a process of reaching social decisions via the principle of majority rule. Political decisions are putatively made in accordance with the preferences of citizens as a collective entity. Collective...

Civic virtue and self-interest. (response to Shelley Burtt, American Political Science Review, vol. 87, p. 360, 1993)
March 1, 1995... COMMENT Shelley Burtt (1990, 1993) has constructed a very interesting and insightful critique of the politics of virtue as practiced among contemporary theorists of republicanism and communitarianism.(1) Unfortunately - and despite what seem...

Aristotle's science of the best regime. (response to Robert C. Bartlett, American Political Science Review, vol. 88, p. 143, 1994)
March 1, 1995... In "Aristotle's Science of the Best Regime," Robert C. Bartlett (1994) analyzes Aristotle's political science in light of the age-old problem of the relation between reason and faith, arguing that Aristotle offers a defense of reason against...

The Civic Culture at 30.
March 1, 1995... The field of political culture has been, by Lakatos' criteria (The Methodology of Scientific Research Programs, 1978), a "degenerate research program." The books under review give us a sense of why this is so and a model that can guide this...

Manipulation and Consent: How Voters and Leaders Manage Complexity.
March 1, 1995... The field of political culture has been, by Lakatos' criteria (The Methodology of Scientific Research Programs, 1978), a "degenerate research program." The books under review give us a sense of why this is so and a model that can guide this...

Citizens and Community: Political Support in a Representative Democracy.
March 1, 1995... The field of political culture has been, by Lakatos' criteria (The Methodology of Scientific Research Programs, 1978), a "degenerate research program." The books under review give us a sense of why this is so and a model that can guide this...

Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy.
March 1, 1995... The field of political culture has been, by Lakatos' criteria (The Methodology of Scientific Research Programs, 1978), a "degenerate research program." The books under review give us a sense of why this is so and a model that can guide this...

Compliance Ideologies: Rethinking Political Culture.
March 1, 1995... The field of political culture has been, by Lakatos' criteria (The Methodology of Scientific Research Programs, 1978), a "degenerate research program." The books under review give us a sense of why this is so and a model that can guide this...

New horizons in institutional analysis.
March 1, 1995... When Melissa P. Collie, as Book Review Editor for the American Political Science Review, asked me to write a book review essay including the above books she wrote that: "As a set, these books address issues relating to the significance of...

Health Politics: Interests and Institutions in Western Europe.
March 1, 1995... When Melissa P. Collie, as Book Review Editor for the American Political Science Review, asked me to write a book review essay including the above books she wrote that: "As a set, these books address issues relating to the significance of...

Institutions and Social Conflict.
March 1, 1995... When Melissa P. Collie, as Book Review Editor for the American Political Science Review, asked me to write a book review essay including the above books she wrote that: "As a set, these books address issues relating to the significance of...

Governments at Work: Canadian Parliamentary Federalism and Its Public Policy Effects.
March 1, 1995... When Melissa P. Collie, as Book Review Editor for the American Political Science Review, asked me to write a book review essay including the above books she wrote that: "As a set, these books address issues relating to the significance of...

Structuring Politics: Historical Institutionalism in Comparative Analysis.
March 1, 1995... When Melissa P. Collie, as Book Review Editor for the American Political Science Review, asked me to write a book review essay including the above books she wrote that: "As a set, these books address issues relating to the significance of...

Do Institutions Matter? Government Capabilities in the United States and Abroad.
March 1, 1995... When Melissa P. Collie, as Book Review Editor for the American Political Science Review, asked me to write a book review essay including the above books she wrote that: "As a set, these books address issues relating to the significance of...

Opinion and representation.
March 1, 1995... "Public opinion," in modern political science, usually appears before a conjunction. Part of "public opinion and elections," "public opinion and voting," or "public opinion and political behavior," it has been well in the middle of much of the...

Talking Politics.
March 1, 1995... "Public opinion," in modern political science, usually appears before a conjunction. Part of "public opinion and elections," "public opinion and voting," or "public opinion and political behavior," it has been well in the middle of much of the...

Numbered Voices: How Opinion Polling Has Shaped American Politics.
March 1, 1995... "Public opinion," in modern political science, usually appears before a conjunction. Part of "public opinion and elections," "public opinion and voting," or "public opinion and political behavior," it has been well in the middle of much of the...

The Changing American Mind: How and Why American Public Opinion Changed Between 1960 and 1988.
March 1, 1995... "Public opinion," in modern political science, usually appears before a conjunction. Part of "public opinion and elections," "public opinion and voting," or "public opinion and political behavior," it has been well in the middle of much of the...

The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion.
March 1, 1995... "Public opinion," in modern political science, usually appears before a conjunction. Part of "public opinion and elections," "public opinion and voting," or "public opinion and political behavior," it has been well in the middle of much of the...

Fundamental Feminism: Contesting the Core Concepts of Feminist Theory.
March 1, 1995... In Fundamental Feminism, Judith Grant articulates and develops a provocative set of claims regarding Anglo-American feminism and the contemporary feminist project. Anglo-American feminist theory, she argues, is far more unified than divided....

The General Will: Rousseau, Marx, Communism.
March 1, 1995... The collapse of actually existing socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union has exacerbated a longstanding "crisis of Marxism," but it has simultaneously reopened new paths of speculation about alternative models of socialism. Andrew...

Micro-Politics: Agency in a Postfeminist Era.
March 1, 1995... "A postmodern, postfeminist era has begun," declares Patricia Mann in her ambitious attempt to articulate a feminist theory of social and political agency for our times (p. 25). In Mann's account, the social enfranchisement of women, the demise...

Technology in the Western Political Tradition.
March 1, 1995... Technology (i.e., the intellectual-practical revolution that defines modernity as a global project of subduing and instrumentalizing nature) is widely if not universally conceived as marking a decisive watershed in the history of Western...

Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources.
March 1, 1995... This is an unusual book. Ostrom, Gardner, Walker, and their colleagues analyze commons problems via both formal and informal theory and study them empirically via experiments and field research. Doing all this is difficult. It requires bringing...

Intuition and Construction: The Foundation of Normative Theory.
March 1, 1995... In his dialogue Theaetetus, Plato argues for transcendental standards of knowledge - Ideas, or Forms - indirectly. Without invoking such standards, Socrates and his interlocutors run through a number of possible accounts of knowledge, all of...

Values and Public Policy.
March 1, 1995... The shared premise of these two books is that despite the expenditure of hundreds of millions of research dollars and the best efforts of many, policy-oriented social science has fared badly. Social scientists have produced few policy-relevant...

Public Policy for Democracy.
March 1, 1995... The shared premise of these two books is that despite the expenditure of hundreds of millions of research dollars and the best efforts of many, policy-oriented social science has fared badly. Social scientists have produced few policy-relevant...

Creating the Constitution: The Convention of 1787 and the First Congress.
March 1, 1995... Thornton Anderson's book is a provocative analysis of the drafting of the Constitution and how the governing document was interpreted during the First Congress. Anderson's thesis is that members of the Constitutional Convention who argued in...

Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement.
March 1, 1995... During the 1980s, political scientists and sociologists debated the role of the Christian Right in American politics. Some saw the Christian Right as a threat to civil liberties, while others viewed the movement as mobilizing previously...

Alternative Tracks: The Constitution of American Industrial Order, 1865-1917.
March 1, 1995... While both of these books ostensibly deal with the genesis of railroad regulation in late nineteenth-century America, they are, in fact, very different. Moreover, it is fair to say that neither Berk nor Cortner is interested in railroad...

The Iron Horse and the Constitution: The Railroads and the Transformation of the Fourteenth Amendment.
March 1, 1995... While both of these books ostensibly deal with the genesis of railroad regulation in late nineteenth-century America, they are, in fact, very different. Moreover, it is fair to say that neither Berk nor Cortner is interested in railroad...

The State Roots of National Politics: Congress and the Tax Agenda, 1978-1986.
March 1, 1995... Despite the telling signs revealing the limits of policy options in Washington, a focus on national political institutions and policies continues to dominate the study of American politics. This focus has addressed many important issues, but many...

Public Opinion and Policy Leadership in the American States.
March 1, 1995... Despite the telling signs revealing the limits of policy options in Washington, a focus on national political institutions and policies continues to dominate the study of American politics. This focus has addressed many important issues, but many...

The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government.
March 1, 1995... In The Mild Voice of Reason (a lovely title, from Federalist 42, by Madison) Joseph M. Bessette has set himself a daunting task. He seeks both to set forth a normative view of the proper place of deliberation in congressional policymaking and to...

The Dynamics of American Politics: Approaches and Interpretations.
March 1, 1995... The contributors to this collection of essays, originally presented at a conference at the University of Colorado, are intellectually ambitious. The study of American politics, the editors argue, has become so theoretically argumentative and...

Statehouse Democracy.
March 1, 1995... This book brings to completion an ambitious project by Erikson, Wright, and McIver. The book integrates, refines, and elaborates their earlier work on partisanship and ideology across the states. This work presents numerous analyses that make a...

The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis and Planning.
March 1, 1995... This collection of essays is largely directed to faculty in schools of policy analysis, public administration, and planning. Among the recurring themes are (1) that successful policy analysis is not simply a matter of utilizing a set of...

The Fatal Embrace: Jews and the State.
March 1, 1995... Put two Jews in a room, it is said, and an argument will soon rage among three opinions. In recent years, several prominent social scientists have undertaken major analyses of the political culture of American Jewry, and it should occasion no...

Seducing America: How Television Charms the Modern Voter.
March 1, 1995... This is a seductive book. Part polemic and part interpretive essay, Seducing America attempts to explain a package of changes that have decentered the American participatory experience over the last thirty years. Roderick Hart tackles a...

Rethinking School Choice: Limits of the Market Metaphor.
March 1, 1995... In the last year, at least four books have come out on educational choice. Jeffrey Henig's book is among the best of these, partly because it is more than a book about educational choice. It deserves a much wider audience than those drawn to...

LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War.
March 1, 1995... Although George Herring is a historian, this book is not simply a historical description of the Vietnam War during the Johnson presidency. Such an overview (to include other presidents) already exists in Herring's America's Longest War (1986)....

Less Than Meets the Eye: Foreign Policy Making and the Myth of the Assertive Congress.
March 1, 1995... In a book that repeatedly cuts beneath the surface, Barbara Hinckley explores the rivalry between Congress and the president in the realm of foreign policy. Her judgments are sharp, perceptive, and revealing. She takes us beyond the conventional...

The Presidency in a Separated System.
March 1, 1995... Charles O. Jones is a wise scholar; and his new book, The Presidency in a Separated System, although not flawless is a work of wisdom. Increasingly in recent years - and in tandem with their hope of emulating the natural sciences and the more...

The Supreme Court and Constitutional Theory: 1953-1993.
March 1, 1995... The comedian Woody Alien observes that "relationships are like sharks: they either move forward or they die." The same is true for scholars of constitutional theory and the Supreme Court: there are no good insights, only new insights. Ronald...

The Capacity for Wonder: Preserving National Parks.
March 1, 1995... "Today, decisions are made for politics instead of for the resource." William Lowry uses this quote from Yosemite superintendent Mike Finley to open the first chapter of his fine book, The Capacity for Wonder: Preserving National Parks. The...

Rights at Work: Pay Equity Reform and the Politics of Legal Mobilization.
March 1, 1995... Michael McCann's Rights at Work is a book of broad scope and great theoretical sophistication. It examines the origins, development, and accomplishments of the movement for pay equity in the United States and its use of the legal system. The Pay...

Privatopia: Homeowner Associations and the Rise of Residential Private Government.
March 1, 1995... By 1992, an estimated 32 million Americans lived in common interest developments (CIDs). This represents more than 11% of the population, and the number is growing. Common interest developments include condominiums, coops, and planned unit...

Between the Lines: Interpreting Welfare Rights.
March 1, 1995... This is a very straightforward book about a very complicated - not to say crooked - topic. Between the Lines is tidily organized into introduction, three case studies, and conclusion. Within each part, the chapters, sections, and even sentences...

Policy and Opinion in the Gulf War.
March 1, 1995... This book belongs on the book shelves of students of public opinion and policymaking, especially those interested in foreign affairs. Mueller has provided a definitive sourcebook of U.S. public opinion on the war against Iraq. Its 289 tables...

The Decline of Comity in Congress.
March 1, 1995... This is an interesting, provocative, rather daring book, written in an easy, straightforward, lively style. I enjoyed reading The Decline of Comity in Congress despite its litany of the deterioration of civility in public life. The book is...

Political Dynamics in Contemporary Japan.
March 1, 1995... This valuable collection of essays present and debate the political changes since 1970 in Japan. Its writers provide explicit examples (particularly about labor and finance) illustrating specific cases of public policies and private interests...

The Political Ecology of the Modern Peasant: Calculation and Community.
March 1, 1995... Traditional studies of Latin America all too often assume that "peasants" are the passive victims of capitalism who are structurally incapable of effective strategic and collective action. Indeed, even studies influenced by the notions of a...

Welfare Policy and Politics in Japan: Beyond the Developmental State.
March 1, 1995... National elections in 1993 marked the end of 38 years of continuous Liberal Democratic party (LDP) rule in Japan. Few political experts anticipated the maneuverings, intrigue, and bizarre alliances that followed. Within a year, three prime...

The Japanese Prime Minister and Public Policy.
March 1, 1995... National elections in 1993 marked the end of 38 years of continuous Liberal Democratic party (LDP) rule in Japan. Few political experts anticipated the maneuverings, intrigue, and bizarre alliances that followed. Within a year, three prime...

Conflict and Change in Cuba.
March 1, 1995... Humbled by the failure of fellow scholars to predict the cataclysmic collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Cubanologists have been straining ever since to foresee Fidel Castro's future. Despite prophecies of...

Cuba After the Cold War.
March 1, 1995... Humbled by the failure of fellow scholars to predict the cataclysmic collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, Cubanologists have been straining ever since to foresee Fidel Castro's future. Despite prophecies of...

The West and Eastern Europe: Economic Statecraft and Political Change.
March 1, 1995... The collapse of European communism in 1989-91 made faculty libraries, university courses, and an entire subdiscipline in political science obsolete. Western policymakers, slowly freeing themselves of Cold War stereotypes but alarmed by the...

Utopia Unarmed: The Latin American Left After the Cold War.
March 1, 1995... Whether or not the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new order implied "the end of history" as Francis Fukuayama's much- cited article suggested ("The End of History?" National Interest, Summer 1989), those developments seemed to many...

The Latin American Left: From the Fall of Allende to Perestroika.
March 1, 1995... Whether or not the end of the Cold War and the emergence of a new order implied "the end of history" as Francis Fukuayama's much-cited article suggested ("The End of History?" National Interest, Summer 1989), those developments seemed to many...

The Soviet Social Contract and Why It Failed: Welfare Policy and Workers' Politics from Brezhnev to Yeltsin.
March 1, 1995... Linda Cook argues that over the four decades following Joseph Stalin's death, a tacit agreement between the communist party leadership and the Soviet working class shaped social policy and working-class politics. In this purported contract, the...

Industrial Relations and European State Traditions.
March 1, 1995... Contemporary students of comparative politics may be excused for assuming that they are alone in grappling with the complexities of the comparative method. Their Americanist colleagues are firmly protected by "exceptionalism"; their International...

The State and the Poor: Public Policy and Political Development in India and the United States.
March 1, 1995... This book shows the value of comparative political analysis that is more than analysis of politics within a major world area. It compares in detail three important programs to alleviate rural poverty, one in the United States and two in India....

The Anti-Politics Machine: "Development," Depoliticization, and Bureaucratic Power in Lesotho.
March 1, 1995... With his volume The Anti-politics Machine, James Ferguson has given the critique of conventional development theory a new and imaginative dimension. Drawing on Foucault's notion that ideas are not just "innocent" abstractions but do have real...

The Politics of Finance in Developing Countries.
March 1, 1995... The Politics of Finance in Developing Countries contains 10 original essays that explore the political determinants of preferential credit allocation and financial liberalization in eight East Asian and Latin American countries. The editors...

Democracy for the Privileged: Crisis and Transition in Venezuela.
March 1, 1995... Venezuelan democracy has fallen on hard times lately. Once this political system seemed a happy exception to the tides of authoritarianism and civil violence that swept Latin America in the past quarter century. With a strong party system,...

The Comparative Political Economy of the Welfare State.
March 1, 1995... Variation in vitro is by no means the same thing as variation in natural history, much less in social history. After laying out his famous "methods of agreement and of differences," as well as his often-ignored "methods of residues and of...

Indebted Development: Strategic Bargaining and Economic Adjustment in the Third World.
March 1, 1995... Indebted Third World states face two conflicting sets of demands. On the one hand, they need to satisfy key domestic constituencies in order to maintain political stability and their hold on power. On the other hand, they need to convince their...

The German Left: Red, Green, and Beyond.
March 1, 1995... The German Left seeks to explain the evolution of the traditional German "red" Left of socialist and communist activists in the 1950s into a "red-green" Left in the 1980s that has crystallized around the Green party. While Markovits and Gorski...

Washington, Somoza, and the Sandinistas: State and Regime in U.S. Policy Toward Nicaragua, 1969-1981.
March 1, 1995... These two outstanding books are similar in that both employ a case study approach and are concerned, in one way or another, with Nicaragua. In addition, in their introductory chapters both provide dear conceptual frameworks as well as detailed...

Capitalists and Revolution in Nicaragua: Opposition and Accommodation, 1979-1993.
March 1, 1995... These two outstanding books are similar in that both employ a case study approach and are concerned, in one way or another, with Nicaragua. In addition, in their introductory chapters both provide dear conceptual frameworks as well as detailed...

Interests of State: The Politics of Language, Multiculturalism, and Feminism in Canada.
March 1, 1995... Why would a government directly fund advocacy organizations, and continue to do so even when these groups are critical of its policies? When the state financially supports advocacy organizations, what are the consequences for the groups...

Lesson-Drawing in Public Policy: A Guide to Learning Across Time and Space.
March 1, 1995... This is a timely, intelligent, and pioneering book in a new field. It frames questions about learning that expand the intellectual range of public policy curricula. And it offers to increase the practical contribution of professional graduates....

Westminster's World: Understanding Political Roles.
March 1, 1995... Donald Searing has written a splendid book, a book that can be produced by his fellow political scientists as an example to refute many of the allegations against our profession. In an era when we are accused of rushing out works for spurious...

The Irish Constitutional Tradition: Responsible Government and Modern Ireland, 1782-1992.
March 1, 1995... This is a precise elegant constitutional history of Ireland, north and south. It is an impressive, and even definitive, work. If there is a problem with the book, it lies in the fact that for the southern Republic, at any rate, a parliamentary...