American Political Science Review articles from March 1996

American Political Science Review archives from March 1996

The citizen as respondent: sample surveys and American democracy.(Transcript)
March 1, 1996... The study of political participation and the sample survey are closely linked. The latter is the main method by which the former has been studied (Barnes and Kaase 1979; Rosenstone and Hansen 1993; Verba and Nie 1972; Verba, Nie, and Kim 1979;...

The partisan basis of procedural choice: allocating parliamentary rights in the House, 1789-1990. (US House of Representatives)
March 1, 1996... As it is always in the power of the majority, by their numbers, to stop any improper measures proposed on the part of their opponents, the only weapons by which the minority can defend themselves against similar attempts from those in power are...

Careerism, committee assignments, amd the electoral connection. (US Congress)
March 1, 1996... A common theme in research on congressional institutions is that members of Congress adopt institutions and rules that serve their desire for reelection. Important structural features of the committee system, for example, should be explicable in...

Information aggregation, rationality, and the Condorcet Jury Theorem.
March 1, 1996... Although never achieving the notoriety of his discovery that majority voting can be cyclic, the Jury Theorem proposed by Condorcet ([1785] 1994) has received periodic attention and in the last decade been the subject of substantial interest and...

Deliberative democracy and authority. (political theory)
March 1, 1996... It is remarkable that the topic of authority, so central to political theory, figures only rarely into the literature of radical democratic theory.(1) The reason, I suspect, has to do with the prevailing consensus that authority involves neither...

A new guarantee on Earth: Hannah Arendt on human dignity and the politics of human rights.
March 1, 1996... Human dignity needs a new guarantee which can be found only in a new political principle, in a new law on earth, whose validity this time must comprehend the whole of humanity while its power must remain strictly limited, rooted in and controlled...

Family matters: Aristotle's appreciation of women and the plural structure of society.
March 1, 1996... Courtesy is probably not the first criterion that comes to mind when one ponders the current scholarly debate over Aristotle's view of women. But a similar controversy, reported in Baldassare Castiglione's sixteenth-century dialogue, The...

The ethical individual: an historical alternative to contemporary conceptions of the self.
March 1, 1996... Discerning hitherto hidden forms of domination has become a popular goal of academic investigations. Power, we now see, courses through spatial orientations, language, and bearings of the body. It does not reside solely or primarily in...

Global political order, economic change, and armed conflict: coevolving systems and the use of force.
March 1, 1996... During the past decade many systemic explanations of major power war have concentrated on the association of long-term, repeated cycles in the international system and the coincidence of particular subperiods in these cycles with the onset of...

Culture and preferences in the international cooperation two-step.
March 1, 1996... International cooperation is more like a tango than a shuffle; its complexities make it difficult to follow. One perspective, rational choice/game theory, has offered a powerful simplifying guide: the "cooperation two-step." One step involves the...

Attitudes toward individual responsibility and political reform in the former Soviet Union.
March 1, 1996... In late 1989, the waning days of the former Soviet Union, Ellen Mickiewicz and I conducted one of that country's earliest national in-person opinion surveys. Our article (Finifter and Mickiewicz 1992) reported our findings on attitudes toward...

Understanding political change in post-Soviet societies: A further commentary on Finifter and Mickiewicz. (response to Ada W. Finifter, American Political Science Review, vol. 90, p. 138, March 1996)
March 1, 1996... At the end of the 1980s scholars were challenged to explain the dramatic political changes occurring in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The rapid disintegration of the USSR raised a host of questions about why the collapse occurred...

Group Psychology and Political Theory.
March 1, 1996... By C. Fred Alford. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1994. 248p. $25.00 cloth. Group Psychology and Political Theory is extraordinary for its linking of group psychology to arguments in both traditional and contemporary political theory. C....

After Marxism.
March 1, 1996... Brian Fay, Wesleyan University By Marxism, Aronson does not just mean a theory or a set of analytical tools but a "project of revolutionary social transformation" (p. 51). A project is a practical endeavor by certain historical agents to alter...

Theory of Moves.
March 1, 1996... Michael B. Nicholson, University of Sussex, England Steven Brams's book represents an important step in the development of a version of game theory which is applicable to actual problems. Brams develops a "Theory of Moves" (TOM) largely in the...

Plato's World: Man's Place in the Cosmos.
March 1, 1996... Christopher Bruell, Boston College In Plato's World, Professor Joseph Cropsey presents interpretations of eight Platonic dialogues. Seven are set by Plato at or near the end of Socrates' life and thus "by Plato's explicit indication cohere as...

Our Politics, Our Selves? Liberalism, Identity, and Harm.
March 1, 1996... Ronald Beiner, University of Toronto Plato's question of the relation between the polis and the psyche has been at the heart of contemporary debates about the wonders or woes of liberalism. Critics of liberalism like Michael Sandel want to put...

Regime and Discipline: Democracy and the Development of Political Science.
March 1, 1996... James W. Ceaser, University of Virginia Most political scientists today go about the task of practicing political science - conducting research, taking polls, interviewing leaders - without concerning themselves very much with the effect of...

Values Education and Technology: The Ideology of Dispossession.
March 1, 1996... Elizabeth A. Kelly, DePaul University It is perhaps appropriate that this book appeared in a year marking the fiftieth anniversary of the first and to date last military deployment of nuclear weapons. The five decades since Hiroshima and...

Beyond Left and Right: The Future of Radical Politics.
March 1, 1996... Timothy Fuller, Colorado College What is radicalism now if emancipatory Socialism is as dead as Old Conservatism? The Left/Right divide must be re-thought and surmounted under dramatically altering conditions. What are these conditions? What...

Democratic Theory: The Philosophical Foundations.
March 1, 1996... Ross Harrison, King's College, Cambridge, England Like others before him Hyland observes that "everyone purports to be in favour of democracy, but there is little agreement over what democracy is" (p. 36). Part of his answer is to produce what...

Critical Legal Theory and the Challenge of Feminism: A Philosophical Reconception.
March 1, 1996... Kristin Bumiller, Amherst College This book challenges both critical legal theory and feminism for their failure to encounter what the author calls a paradox-focused metaphysics. While Kramer commends both fields of scholarship for offering...

John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Responsibility.
March 1, 1996... Ian C. Harris, University of Leicester This ambitious book aims to provide a "contextual account of the development of John Locke's political, religious, social and moral thought," including "many of Locke's unpublished manuscripts" (p. i)....

History and the Idea of Progress.
March 1, 1996... George Klosko, University of Virginia The papers in this volume were delivered originally at Michigan State University between October 1990 and May 1991. They present a series of reflections on the well-known "end of history" thesis of Francis...

The Missing Child in Liberal Theory: Towards a Covenant Theory of Family, Community, Welfare and the Civic State.
March 1, 1996... Shelley Burtt, Yale University To appreciate the merits of this ambitious, frustrating book, it is important to understand what it is not. It is not a work in political theory or the history of political thought. It is an unevenly written...

Rational Choice and Moral Agency.
March 1, 1996... Gerald F. Gaus, University of Minnesota, Duluth At the heart of this book is an important insight: A purely instrumental conception of rationality is incomplete and is unable to make sense of our moral practices. David Schmidtz, quite rightly,...

Timely Meditations: Martin Heidegger and Postmodern Politics.
March 1, 1996... Hans Sluga, University of California at Berkeley Martin Heidegger continues to be a writer of profound fascination to philosophers and those concerned with philosophical matters; but because of his radical challenges to the philosophical...

Heidegger's Political Thinking.
March 1, 1996... Hans Sluga, University of California at Berkeley Martin Heidegger continues to be a writer of profound fascination to philosophers and those concerned with philosophical matters; but because of his radical challenges to the philosophical...

Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism: The Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question.
March 1, 1996... William E. Connolly, The Johns Hopkins University Everybody takes issue with Charles Taylor, if not on one crucial theme, then another. Why, then, has he been such a compelling and inspiring political theorist in North America over the last...

Edmund Burke and International Relations: The Commonwealth of Europe and the Crusade Against the French Revolution.
March 1, 1996... Thom Kuehls, Weber State University The works of Edmund Burke, the political theorist, have long been analyzed; the works of Edmund Burke, the international political theorist, have not. On one level, Jennifer Welsh has sought to remedy this...

Forced Justice: School Desegregation and the Law.
March 1, 1996... Michael Strine, University of Colorado, Boulder Essentialists have argued that one characteristic of the judicial process is the polarization of the parties in dispute. Perhaps because courts often are the locus for resolving disputes over...

Human Reproduction, Emerging Technologies and Conflicting Rights.
March 1, 1996... Cynthia R. Daniels, Rutgers University In Human Reproduction, Emerging Technologies and Conflicting Rights, Robert Blank and Janna C. Merrick provide us with a much-needed overview of the complex public policy questions raised by emerging...

Cultivating Congress: Constituents, Issues, and Interests in Agriculture Policymaking.
March 1, 1996... Scott H. Ainsworth, University of Georgia As someone who teaches introductory American politics to sections with over three hundred students, I find the iron triangle concept quite handy for pedagogical purposes. Browne, however, has little use...

Congress' Permanent Minority: Republicans in the U.S. House.
March 1, 1996... Christopher J. Bailey, Keele University, United Kingdom For five decades, political scientists have taken to heart Speaker Reeds's admonition that: "The right of the minority is to draw its salaries and its function is to make a quorum." Formal...

Quiet Revolution in the South: The Impact of the Voting Rights Act 1965-1990.
March 1, 1996... Mark E. Rush, Washington and Lee University Davidson and Grofman have assembled a superior and comprehensive work on voting rights, which certainly belongs on the bookshelf of every political scientist who has an interest in the field....

The Lost Promise of Progressivism.
March 1, 1996... R. Jeffrey Lustig, California State University, Sacramento The Progressive Era continues to spark intense debate because it saw not only broad political protest and economic transformation but also the forging of the modern American political...

Party Conflict and Community Development: Postwar Politics in Ann Arbor.
March 1, 1996... William Crotty, Northeastern University What can you say about Ann Arbor, Michigan, a relatively small university town in the Midwest that could be of interest to political scientists? Quite a bit it turns out if you are Samuel J. Eldersveld,...

Regulatory Takings: Law, Economics and Politics.
March 1, 1996... David A. Schultz, University of Minnesota Land use politics and regulatory takings issues are often ignored by political scientists. As recently as the late 1980s, this topic was confined mainly to lawyers and law reviews, leaving scholars such...

To Secure These Rights: The Declaration of Independence and Constitutional Interpretation.
March 1, 1996... Mark A. Graber, University of Maryland at College Park Constitutional interpretation is the most mined region of contemporary legal scholarship. Hardly a week goes by without a new article or book laying claim to a new nugget of wisdom, an ore...

Democracy in the Fifty States.
March 1, 1996... Gerald C. Wright, Indiana University This short book seeks to measure the level of democracy in the states. It shows how democracy has changed over a forty-year period, and it demonstrates that state differences in democratization have policy...

Citizens, Politics, and Social Communication: Information and Influence in an Election Campaign.
March 1, 1996... Alan S. Zuckerman, Brown University This is an extraordinarily powerful book, synthesizing and subverting paradigms of knowledge in political science and offering an alternative framework for the analysis of citizen politics in democracies and...

To Build a Wall: American Jews and the Separation of Church and State.
March 1, 1996... H. Frank Way, University of California, Riverside Gregg Ivers has presented us with a splendid study of how three Jewish organizations - the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, and the Anti-Defamation League - used the...

The New American Politics: Reflections on Political Change and the Clinton Administration.
March 1, 1996... Nicol C. Rae, Florida International University Of late "gridlock" has become the standard characterization of the American political process by the news media, politicians, and the general public. By way of contrast, the theme of this worthy...

The New Politics of Public Policy.
March 1, 1996... Robert F. Rich, University of Illinois This volume, edited by Marc Landy and Martin Levin and dedicated to the memory of Aaron Wildavsky, is an impressive set of essays focusing on the "new politics of public policy" (p. ix). The book is the...

The Politics of Disappointment: American Elections 1976-94.
March 1, 1996... Bryan D. Jones, Texas A&M University The Politics of Disappointment gathers together five essays written by McWilliams about presidential elections over a span of eighteen years, along with three briefer essays on the 1994 election, also...

Fighting for Jobs: Case Studies of Labor-Community Coalitions Confronting Plant Closings.
March 1, 1996... John Portz, Northeastern University Political responses to economic restructuring have captured considerable attention in recent years. The federal plant closing law passed in 1988 is a prominent example. Even more significant, however, are...

Property Taxes and Tax Revolts.
March 1, 1996... David Lowery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill The authors set out three tasks for themselves in this short work: providing an overview of property tax systems in the United States and around the world, analyzing the causes of the...

Democratic Dilemmas in the Age of Ecology: Trees and Toxics in the American West.
March 1, 1996... Douglas J. Amy, Mount Holyoke College Daniel Press is interested in the issues that lie at the intersection of democratic theory and environmental politics. In particular, he argues that our environmental crisis creates dilemmas for...

The Constitution as Political Structure.
March 1, 1996... William Gangi, St. John's University, New York Redish challenges those constitutional scholars who contend, on the one hand, that the Supreme Court should not intervene in political structure and separation of powers issues (p. 17) but, on the...

Divorce Lawyers and Their Clients: Power and Meaning in the Legal Process.
March 1, 1996... Roy B. Flemming, Texas A&M University Law takes shape and form in everyday life through encounters between legal officials and citizens and as citizens employ law or legal concepts in their relationships with one another. The contours of these...

Mediation, Citizen Empowerment, and Transformational Politics.
March 1, 1996... Richard J. Maiman, University of Southern Maine "Transformational politics" is a social and scholarly movement whose adherents share an interest in building a political community based on norms that include personal empowerment, cooperation,...

A Year in the Life of the Supreme Court.
March 1, 1996... David M. O'Brien, University of Virginia Journalists, in one charitable view, write the first drafts of history. This is a view taken seriously by Rodney Smolla, a professor at the College of William and Mary's Marshall-Wythe School of Law and...

The Founders, the Constitution, and Public Administration: A Conflict in World Views.
March 1, 1996... Donald J. Maletz, The University of Oklahoma This book begins with the author's distinguishing between two views about the proper powers and extent of government. One is the "distinctively optimistic and frankly almost utopian view" of...

Ethics in Congress: From Individual to Institutional Corruption.
March 1, 1996... Charles Stewart III, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology Congressional corruption is one of those topics that members of the public assume are central to political science, but are actually relegated to the professional periphery. Thus,...

Democracy's Feast: Elections in America.
March 1, 1996... Carol A. Cassel, University of Alabama As editor Herb Weisberg writes in the introduction, Democracy's Feast: Elections in America is really about the 1992 election. The broader title fits because the volume also serves as a primer on American...

The Politicizing Presidency: The White House Personnel Office, 1948-1994.
March 1, 1996... G. Calvin MacKenzie, Colby College Bemused and befuddled followers of President Clinton's efforts to staff his administration should read this book. They will find many clues to the difficulties that all our recent presidents have encountered...

Comparative Political Finance Among the Democracies.
March 1, 1996... Arthur B. Gunlicks, University of Richmond This book consists of 13 chapters on the political finances of 14 countries (one chapter deals briefly with certain features of U.S. and Canadian political financing) and an introductory essay by the...

The French Communist Party in the Fifth Republic.
March 1, 1996... George Ross, Brandeis University David Bell and Byron Criddle have produced a competent historical institutionalist review of scholarship on the Parti Communiste Francais (PCF). After a general introduction, they review the party's political...

Radical Right-wing Populism in Western Europe.
March 1, 1996... Peter H. Merkl, University of California, Santa Barbara On the face of it, this book is a rather successful attempt to categorize and examine radical right populist parties in eight countries (not including Britain, Iberia, and Greece), much as...

Paths of Emancipation.
March 1, 1996... Benjamin Ginsberg, Johns Hopkins University This collection of excellent and stimulating essays examines the emancipation of the Jews in eight different national settings. Far from being a parochial topic, Jewish emancipation is an important...

Democracy Within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico.
March 1, 1996... Judith Gentleman, U.S. Air War College Miguel Angel Centeno has written an important study of the rise of President Carlos Salinas de Gortari's regime in Mexico that seeks to explain the people, organization, and ideology that lay behind what...

Legislatures and the New Democracies in Latin America.
March 1, 1996... Scott Mainwaring, University of Notre Dame This short book provides case studies of the legislatures in seven Latin American countries, as well as an introduction by the editor and a conclusion. The overall rationale for the book is that...

National Identity and Democratic Prospects in Socialist China.
March 1, 1996... Michael Dillon, University of Durham, England Seventeen essays, some of them previously published elsewhere, make up this enquiry into the present and future of China. They are arranged in three sections headed National Identity Crisis, After...

The Collapse of a Single-Party System: The Disintegration of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
March 1, 1996... John P. Willerton, University of Arizona, Tucson This volume explores the collapse of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) through an examination of institutional, political elite, and policy changes of the Gorbachev period (1985-91)....

The State in the Modernization Process: The Case of Norway 1850-1970.
March 1, 1996... Christine Ingebritsen, University of Washington Thorvald Gran has written an important book on the evolution of the modern Norwegian state. Gran analyzes the role of the state in Norway's economic development, from a peasant society to a...

The State, Identity, and the National Question in China and Japan.
March 1, 1996... Suzanne Ogden, Northeastern University This is a book in comparative political philosophy. It is richly comparative of the views of individual thinkers and political activists in the anarchist and socialist/communist movements of Japan and...

Contemporary Politics in japan.
March 1, 1996... T. J. Pempel, University of Washington Masumi is one of Japan's most prolific writers about that country's modern politics. His principal work has centered on the history and evolution of Japanese political parties and political leaders. The...

America/Americas: Myth in the Making of U.S. Policy Toward Latin America.
March 1, 1996... Martha Cottam, Washington State University America/Americas: Myth in the Making of U.S. Policy toward Latin America by Eldon Kenworthy will interest, intrigue, and frustrate those who study U.S. policies toward Latin America. The book is a...

Venezuelan Democracy Under Stress.
March 1, 1996... Sylvia Maxfield, Yale University This book tries to place recent changes in Venezuelan politics in comparative Latin America perspective. McCoy and Smith, who have written the summarizing chapters, argue that Venezuela is not exceptional in...

The Paradox of Revolution: Labor, the State, and Authoritarianism in Mexico.
March 1, 1996... Charles L. Davis, University of Kentucky This study examines the role of organized labor in Mexican politics from the immediate postrevolutionary period in the 1920s to the era of economic crisis and neoliberal restructuring in the 1980s and...

Brazilian Industrialists and Democratic Change.
March 1, 1996... Frances Hagopian, Tufts University One of the most intractable questions about capitalist democracies confronting political scientists has been how to assess the political power of industrial elites. For students of developing countries in...

Choosing the Chief: Presidential Elections in France and the United States.
March 1, 1996... Michael S. Lewis-Beck, University of Iowa The work at hand compares presidential elections in France and the United States. The idea is a good one. While institutions, candidates, and processes are described, the focus is on voting behavior. In...

The Challenge of Institutional Reform in Mexico.
March 1, 1996... Kevin J. Middlebrook, University of California, San Diego This collection of essays examines the political implications of economic restructuring and social policy change in Mexico during the 1980s and early 1990s. During this period,...

Constitutionalism, Identity, Difference, and Legitimacy: Theoretical Perspectives.
March 1, 1996... John E. Finn, Wesleyan University Originally published as a symposium issue of the Cardozo Law Review, this volume is a collection of essays produced for a conference on comparative constitutionalism in 1991. Conference and book alike claim as...

Gender and Development: Rethinking Modernization and Dependency Theory.
March 1, 1996... Anne Marie Goetz, University of Sussex, England Catherine V. Scott's analysis of modernization and dependency theories in development studies stands theory on its head to shake the biases out of its assumptions, and to scrutinize it from a...

Democratization in South Africa: The Elusive Social Contract.
March 1, 1996... Timothy Shaw, Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia The "remarkable convergence" (p. 6) in the early 1990s in South Africa away from legalized apartheid toward a new "social contract" (chap. 7) has been welcomed for both reasons of development...

True Blues: The Politics of Conservative Party Membership.
March 1, 1996... Ivor Crewe, University of Essex, England One of the minor curiosities of British political science is that until very recently virtually no serious empirical research had been undertaken on the organization of the Conservative Party, even...

Comparative Economic Transformations: Mainland China, Hungary, the Soviet Union, and Taiwan.
March 1, 1996... Cal Clark, Auburn University For almost two decades now since the beginning of Deng Xiaoping's economic reforms, the People's Republic of China has had one of the most dynamic economies in the world with an average growth rate of over 10% a...

The African Colonial State in Comparative Perspective.
March 1, 1996... Nicolas Van de Walle, Overseas Development Council Professor Young's impressive new work attempts to trace certain characteristics of contemporary African politics back to the colonial era. His central argument is that the political structures...

Intelligence Intervention in the Politics of Democratic States: The United States, Israel, and Britain.
March 1, 1996... James J. Wirtz, Naval Postgraduate School The relationship between policymakers and intelligence officials is a delicate one. To maintain their analytical detachment, intelligence officers must not become too involved in the day-to-day...

American Hegemony: Political Morality in a One-Superpower World.
March 1, 1996... Bruce Russett, Yale University As any student of Gramsci knows, the exercise of hegemony depends not solely on raw physical power, but also on shared normative perceptions about legitimate action. The less the disparity in physical power...

The Political Economy of Power: Hegemony and Economic Liberalism.
March 1, 1996... Kathleen R. McNamara, Princeton University Hegemonic stability theory (HST) has been one of the most influential approaches in the contemporary field of international political economy, yet recently its academic popularity has waned. One reason...

Contexts of International Politics.
March 1, 1996... Harvey Starr, University of South Carolina On the first page the author says simply: "This book examines some contexts and how they influence the way states act." The rich, complex, and important analyses that follow belie the simplicity of...

When Opponents Cooperate: Great Power Conflict and Collaboration in World Politics.
March 1, 1996... Stephen R. Rock, Vassar College Whither the post-Cold War world? Neorealists, citing changes in the structure of the international system, especially the breakdown of bipolarity, predict increasing turmoil and conflict. Liberals, focusing...