American Political Science Review articles from March 1997

American Political Science Review archives from March 1997

Trends in the partisan composition of state legislatures: a response to Fiorina.
March 1, 1997... Morris Fiorina (1994) proposes an interesting hypothesis about the trend in the partisan composition of state legislatures since 1946, namely, the increased proportion of Democrats in legislatures outside the South. He argues that the increase is...

Professionalism, realignment, and representation. (reply to Jeffrey M. Stonecash and Anna M. Agathangelou's article in this issue, p. 148)
March 1, 1997... My 1994 article (Fiorina 1994) was a narrowly focused piece, and I thought that the arguments, procedures, and results were clearly presented. Apparently, I was wrong. The critique by Stonecash and Agathangelou (1997) reflects a series of...

Lenin, Hegel and Western Marxism: A Critical Study.
March 1, 1997... G.W. Smith, University of Lancaster In creedal movements, theory frequently becomes an urgently practical matter. This was never more true than for Lenin, when in 1914 the unexpectedly nationalistic behavior of the working classes of the...

Foucault and Political Reason: Liberalism, Neo-liberalism and the Rationalities of Government.
March 1, 1997... Jodi Dean, Hobart and William Smith Colleges Anyone interested in Foucault or the extension of Foucauldian methods of analysis will benefit from sustained engagement with this excellent collection of essays on governmentality. That said, I am...

Serpents in the Sand: Essays on the Nonlinear Nature of Politics and Human Destiny.
March 1, 1997... L. Douglas Kiel, University of Texas at Dallas In any discipline it seems increasingly rare to read a book that genuinely challenges, edifies, and inspires. Courtney Brown's important recent work is an example of that rarity. It is a shame that...

Gender Is Not a Synonym for Women.
March 1, 1997... Christine Di Stefano, University of Washington, Seattle Terrell Carver proposes to redress a deficiency of major proportion in contemporary political theory. While crediting feminists for introducing "gender" into the political theory lexicon,...

The Idea of an Ethical Community.
March 1, 1997... Steven Kautz, Emory University In this antirealist defense of Rawlsian contractarianism, John Charvet's starting point is the "abandonment of the realist perspective on the good" that characterizes much of contemporary moral and political...

The History of Political Theory and Other Essays.
March 1, 1997... Stephen L. Esquith, Michigan State University This collection of previously published essays from the first half of the 1990s, some translated into English for the first time, has three notable strengths. Once again, Dunn demonstrates his firm...

Natural Law and Moral Philosophy: From Grotius to the Scottish Enlightenment.
March 1, 1997... Martha K. Zebrowski, Columbia University Modern theories of natural law are of two essential types. Fundamental to one are the natural rights of individuals. In a theory of this type it follows that the bearers of subjective rights create human...

Reason in Action: Essays in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences.
March 1, 1997... Harold Kincaid, University of Alabama at Birmingham Martin Hollis has written perceptively and eloquently about the philosophy of social science for many years. This book brings together various of his essays spanning three decades, but it is...

Reading Marx Writing: Melodrama, the Market and the Grundrisse.
March 1, 1997... Brian J. Shaw, Davidson College Two decades ago Perry Anderson (Considerations on Western Marxism, 1976) argued that the triple catastrophe of Stalinism, Nazism, and Keynesianism had prompted the fatal retreat of Marxism from the revolutionary...

Tocqueville and the Nature of Democracy.
March 1, 1997... Sanford Kessler, North Carolina State University Pierre Manent's book illuminates the core of Tocqueville's political philosophy as it appears in Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution. Manent defines his interpretive task,...

The Liberal Political Tradition: Contemporary Reappraisals.
March 1, 1997... Margaret Canovan, Keele University Twenty years ago there were wide tracts of British and U.S. academia in which "liberal" was a term of abuse, just as it had long been in the German political and intellectual circles whose lack of a liberal...

Reclaiming Democracy: The Sixties in Politics and Memory.
March 1, 1997... Joseph M. Schwartz, Temple University Reclaiming Democracy contends that the hegemonic conservatism of contemporary U.S. political life rests upon a dominant "politics of memory" that conceives the politics of the 1960s to have been an...

Nature, Justice, and Rights in Aristotle's Politics.
March 1, 1997... Judith A. Swanson, Boston University While Fred Miller argues the increasingly popular thesis that Aristotle defends a doctrine of rights, he does so far more straightforwardly and painstakingly than any book presently available. Miller, does...

Eric Voegelin and the Good Society.
March 1, 1997... Steven R. McCarl, University of Denver This extraordinary work is the best single volume in existence on Voegelin as a political philosopher. It stands out because of the way Ranieri clarifies the connections in Voegelin's writings between...

Political Theory, Modernity, and Postmodernity.
March 1, 1997... Mark Reinhardt, Williams College Given the spate of recent works on questions of modernity and postmodernity, the theory market that this book enters may well be nearing its saturation point. N.J. Rengger aims to turn that potential liability...

Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity.
March 1, 1997... Ronald Beiner, University of Toronto Do postmodernists take seriously enough the "post" in postmodernity? This is a reasonable question, and it is posed quite acutely in this ambitious study by Gregory Bruce Smith. What would count as a...

The Limits of Lockean Rights in Property.
March 1, 1997... John W. Danford, Loyola University Chicago John Locke's account of the origins and foundation of private property has been the focus of a surprising amount of attention over the past two decades and more. This is partly no doubt because "Of...

The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism: 1945-1968.
March 1, 1997... Stephen Amberg, The University of Texas at San Antonio The transformation of American governance has been stalemated in one area central to capitalist economies, namely, employment relations. A possible reason is that the dominant labor...

North American Auto Unions in Crisis: Lean Production as Contested Terrain.
March 1, 1997... Stephen Amberg, The University of Texas at San Antonio The transformation of American governance has been stalemated in one area central to capitalist economies, namely, employment relations. A possible reason is that the dominant labor...

The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics.
March 1, 1997... Charles W. Dunn, Clemson University Etched like an epitaph on a tombstone are Dan T. Carter's central conclusion and closing words about George Corley Wallace: "He was the most influential loser in twentieth-century American politics" (p....

The Politics of Child Abuse in America.
March 1, 1997... Douglas J. Besharov and Jacob W. Dembosky, University of Maryland News stories daily remind us of the horrors of child abuse and of the seeming inability of public agencies to protect even the children already reported to them. What is to be...

Roads to Dominion: Right-Wing Movements and Political Power in the United States.
March 1, 1997... Michael P. Federici, Mercyhurst College The rise of the Right in the latter half of the twentieth century has gained the attention of scholars in a variety of academic disciplines as well as that of the popular media. The conservative movement...

Unions and Public Policy: The New Economy, Law, and Democratic Policies.
March 1, 1997... Ruth O'Brien, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY With U.S. labor unions still in a sixteen-year decline, historians and political scientists alike are searching for causes and explanations. The book by James Gross and the edited...

Broken Promise: The Subversion of U.S. Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994.
March 1, 1997... Ruth O'Brien, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY With U.S. labor unions still in a sixteen-year decline, historians and political scientists alike are searching for causes and explanations. The book by James Gross and the edited...

On the Limits of the Law: The Ironic Legacy of Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
March 1, 1997... Stephen L. Wasby, SUNY at Albany In this major addition to the literature on civil rights policy-making, Stephen Halpern focuses on an understudied section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Title VI, which forbade discrimination on the basis of...

The Higher Civil Service in the United States: Quest for Reform.
March 1, 1997... B. Guy Peters, University of Pittsburgh Political appointment as a means of selecting top management and policy positions in the executive branch of the U.S. government is a familiar target for reformers. The failure to develop a cadre of...

Diversity and Citizenship: Rediscovering American Nationhood.
March 1, 1997... Richard C. Sinopoli, University of California, Davis This collection of six essays was originally presented as lectures commemorating the bicentennial of the founding of Williams College. Its purpose, the editors tell us, is to explore the...

Midterm: The Elections of 1994 in Context.
March 1, 1997... Herbert F. Weisberg, The Ohio State University The unexpected election of a Republican Congress in 1994 was the equivalent of a political earthquake. Therefore, it is appropriate that this election is the exception to the usual rule that...

Secret and Sanctioned: Covert Operations and the American Presidency.
March 1, 1997... Loch K. Johnson, University of Georgia The chief purpose of this book is to convey an understanding of how the United States has often relied on secret activities to achieve policy objectives. Stephen Knott reminds us that some of the gods in...

American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword.
March 1, 1997... Sidney Verba, Harvard University Like the children of Lake Wobegon, all nations are exceptional, but the United States is more exceptional than most. Foreign visitors from the beginning of the Republic - Tocqueville and many others - found the...

Intensive Care: How Congress Shapes Health Policy.
March 1, 1997... Mark Carl Rom, University of California, Berkeley, and Georgetown University Intensive care. The image is of a critically ill patient - probably on a respirator - who needs constant and perhaps aggressive treatment from a staff of skilled...

Children in Court: Public Policymaking and Federal Court Decisions.
March 1, 1997... Susan E. Lawrence, Rutgers University, New Brunswick Tuning in to the 1996 Republican and Democratic national conventions after a hiatus from national politics, one gets the impression that the American family has replaced the Red Menace as the...

Public Lands and Private Rights: The Failure of Scientific Management.
March 1, 1997... Paul J. Culhane, Northern Illinois University Two federal public lands agencies, the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM), are the principal targets of Robert Nelson's book. These agencies manage 41% of the land in the eleven...

Classifying by Race.
March 1, 1997... Charles S. Bullock III, University of Georgia In 1909 the Harvard Classics, a "five-foot shelf of books," was published. Classifying by Race might well be considered the Harvard book on race. Although published by Princeton University Press,...

God at the Grassroots: The Christian Right in the 1994 Elections.
March 1, 1997... Lyman A. Kellstedt, Wheaton College God at the Grassroots demonstrates once again the decentralized nature and the great diversity of the U.S. political system. This book shows that the Christian Right was active in the 1994 congressional...

The Ironies of Affirmative Action: Politics, Culture and Justice in America.
March 1, 1997... Kate Greene, University of Southern Mississippi The Ironies of Affirmative Action is not just another polemic in the thirty-year affirmative action debate. Instead, it is fine scholarship which offers its readers a rich, nonideological cultural...

State Trust Lands: History, Management, and Sustainable Use.
March 1, 1997... Charles Davis, Colorado State University Jon Souder and Sally Fairfax analyze a substantive policy area that has received surprisingly little attention from students of U.S. state politics or public lands policy. School grant lands were...

The Theory and Practice of Political Communication Research.
March 1, 1997... Doris A. Graber, University of Illinois at Chicago The moral of Mary Stuckey's collection of eleven disparate political communication essays is that there is more than one good way to skin the political communication research cat but that the...

Constitutional Policies in the States: Contemporary Controversies and Historical Patterns.
March 1, 1997... Bradley C. Canon, University of Kentucky Few people are interested in what state constitutions say, how they are amended, or how state supreme courts interpret them. This includes political scientists. Although my research focuses on the U.S....

Rivals for Power: Presidential-Congressional Relations.
March 1, 1997... Robert J. Spitzer, SUNY Cortland As a growing political science literature accustomed itself to a new, seemingly permanent partisan schism between the presidency and Congress, Bill Clinton came along and abruptly reintroduced the discipline,...

Powersharing: White House-Cabinet Relations in the Modern American Presidency.
March 1, 1997... Thomas J. Weko, University of Puget Sound Since its creation, the modern White House Office has intermittently found itself at the center of conflict in U.S. politics, most importantly during the Watergate and Iran-Contra affairs of the Nixon...

Race Relations Litigation in an Age of Complexity.
March 1, 1997... Susan M. Olson, University of Utah This book pulls together Stephen Wasby's long-time research on civil rights litigation, some of which has appeared in articles and papers over the past decade and a half. Based on secondary sources and...

War Powers: The President, the Congress, and the Question of War.
March 1, 1997... Louis Fisher, Congressional Research Service This book focuses on the constitutional and political allocation of the war power between Congress and the president, concentrating particularly on the period from the Vietnam War to the Gulf War....

Abortion Rates in the United States: The Influence of Opinion and Policy.
March 1, 1997... Ted G. Jelen, Benedictine University Scholarly works which set the intellectual agenda for subsequent analyses are often termed "seminal." If I may be permitted to extend the reproductive metaphor, Wetstein's Abortion Rates in the United...

State, Labor, Capital: Democratizing Class Relations in the Southern Cone.
March 1, 1997... Ben Ross Schneider, Northwestern University If book jackets had warning labels, the one for this book might caution that the prose of the first three chapters is dyspeptic, but, for hardy digestions, the rest of the book offers a wholesome mix...

Divided Sun: MITI and the Breakdown of Japanese Hightech industrial Policy, 1975-1993.
March 1, 1997... Maurice Wright, University of Manchester The role and influence of bureaucrats in Japanese policymaking have been debated for the past three decades. Progressing from oversimplified explanations of Japan, Inc., and a triadic power elite of the...

The Role of the State in Economic Change.
March 1, 1997... Chung H. Lee, University of Hawaii at Manoa This volume, containing an introductory chapter and a paper by Chang and Rowthorn as well as nine papers by eight other writers, addresses one of the most important questions in economics and...

Economic Transition and Political Legitimacy in Post-Mao China.
March 1, 1997... Marc Blecher, Oberlin College These volumes approach the structural reform of China's political economy from radically divergent analytical perspectives. Moreover, for reasons not necessarily related to their approaches, they also offer...

Growing Out of the Plan: Chinese Economic Reform, 1978-1993.
March 1, 1997... Marc Blecher, Oberlin College These volumes approach the structural reform of China's political economy from radically divergent analytical perspectives. Moreover, for reasons not necessarily related to their approaches, they also offer...

The Chinese Reassessment of Socialism: 1979-1992.
March 1, 1997... Marc Blecher, Oberlin College These volumes approach the structural reform of China's political economy from radically divergent analytical perspectives. Moreover, for reasons not necessarily related to their approaches, they also offer...

The Bosnian Muslims: Denial of a Nation.
March 1, 1997... Zachary Irwin, Pennsylvania State University of Erie This is one of many recent works that places the current Yugoslav tragedy in a broader context. Friedman's account of the Bosnian Muslims is exceptionally valuable because it provides a...

Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust.
March 1, 1997... Kristen R. Monroe, University of California at Irvine The Holocaust, more than other political phenomena, should be approached with great care. Incalculable suffering and loss, too much blame to go around, and a legacy of grief all produce an...

Democratization in Russia: The Development of Legislative Institutions.
March 1, 1997... Terry D. Clark, Creighton University Numerous appeals have been made for scholars of Russia to break out of their isolation from political science by thinking theoretically in the post-Soviet era (e.g., see Alexander J. Motyl, Thinking...

The Legacy of the French Revolution.
March 1, 1997... John A Rohr, Virginia Polytechnic Institute A certain uneasiness takes hold of me as I review this book, for which a far more extensive and searching review is already in print. It appears as the tenth and final essay in this very volume, under...

Votes and Budgets: Comparative Studies in Accountable Governance in the South.
March 1, 1997... Goran Hyden, University of Florida As the title indicates, this book is concerned with the relationship between democratic politics, on the one hand, and accountable governance, on the other. The broader research question that the contributors...

Constitutional Policy and Change in Europe.
March 1, 1997... Michel Rosenfeld, Yeshiva University Europe is at the center of a veritable proliferation of major constitutional developments which began after World War II and have vastly accelerated since the collapse of the communist regimes of Eastern...

Courts, Law, and Politics in Comparative Perspective.
March 1, 1997... Martin Shapiro, University of California, Berkeley Published shortly before Herbert Jacob's death, this book could well serve as a memorial to his enormous achievements. It will allow those who have offered a general course on U.S. courts based...

Gendering the Middle East: Emerging Perspectives.
March 1, 1997... As'ad AbuKhalil, California State University, Stanislaus In the products of the culture industry in the West, Middle Eastern women remain passive, subservient, and changeless. Their oppression and exclusion are assumed, not researched or...

Actively Seeking Work? The Politics of Unemployment and Welfare Policy in the United States and Great Britain.
March 1, 1997... Sanford F. Sehram, University of Hawaii at Manoa For years, many welfare policy analysts bemoaned the inability of the United States to develop a European welfare state. Countries such as England were held up as models that the United States...

To Dream of Dreams: Religious Freedom and Constitutional Politics in Postwar Japan.
March 1, 1997... Daniel A. Metraux, Mary Baldwin College On June 8, 1789, James Madison fulfilled the Federalists' promise to constitutional critics by proposing several amending articles to the Constitution. The unsettled separation of church and state in the...

Human Rights in the West Bank and Gaza: Legacy and Politics.
March 1, 1997... David P. Forsythe, University of Nebraska, Lincoln In this slim volume of 129 text pages, Ilan Peleg of Lafayette College takes on the daunting task of evaluating the status of human rights in the West Bank and Gaza between 1967 and the early...

Socialism After Communism: The New Market Socialism.
March 1, 1997... David Schweickart, Loyola University Chicago Is there socialism after communism? Christopher Pierson, a reader in politics at the University of Stirling, centers his book on this question. Curiously, one puts down this on-the-whole careful and...

Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo.
March 1, 1997... Robert Bianchi, Attorney-at-Law, Chicago, Illinois Avenues of Participation argues that many residents of Cairo's older neighborhoods rely on informal networks to advance economic and political interests in a manner that partially compensates...

Social Revolutions in the Modern World.
March 1, 1997... John Foran, University of California, Santa Barbara Along with Charles Tilly, Theda Skocpol is the doyen(ne) of scholars of revolution in the English-speaking world. While Tilly's name has been associated with the resource mobilization...

What Was Socialism, and What Comes Next?(Brief Article)
March 1, 1997... Sabrina P. Ramet, University of Washington As with all too many books being published today, this one is mistitled. Why is anyone's guess, but the mislabelling inevitably has consequences for how one reads the book. Had it been titled "Aspects...

Conflicts of Divided Nations: The Cases of China and Korea.
March 1, 1997... George T. Crane, Williams College Writing on Chinese politics is a tricky business. Events have a way of changing just in time to shatter the argument of a new book. The military exercises in the Taiwan Straits by the People's Republic of...

The New Struggle for Democracy in Africa.
March 1, 1997... Matthew J. Costello, Saint Xavier University John Wiseman attempts to analyze the processes of democratization in African states from a comparative perspective (p. 15), an ambitious endeavor. Wiseman admits that the process is ongoing and thus...

Mobilizing the Masses: Building Revolution in Henan.
March 1, 1997... Tang Tsou, University of Chicago In retrospect, the article by Roy Hofheinz, Jr., "The Ecology of Chinese Communist Success: Rural Influence Patterns, 1923-45," stands out as a landmark in the study of the Chinese revolution, or more...

Indigenous Peoples in International Law.
March 1, 1997... Alison Brysk, Stanford University Like politics itself, the evolution of political science proceeds in repeating cycles rather than as a linear progression. While the study of international law served as one of the foundations of our...

A Genealogy of Sovereignty.
March 1, 1997... Cynthia Weber, Purdue University Jens Bartelson's book is an intellectual tour de force through numerous political and philosophical representations of sovereignty and the configurations of knowledge that make them possible. His main thesis,...

Beyond Sovereignty: Territory and Political Economy in the Twenty-First Century.
March 1, 1997... Saul H. Mendlovitz, Rutgers School of Law David Elkind asks: How might the territorial nation-state and its inhabitants be affected by the technological revolution's influence on the world's political economy and culture (floods of money,...

The Practice of Power: U.S. Relations with China Since 1949.
March 1, 1997... Samuel S. Kim. Columbia University Sino-American relations in recent years have fallen into the serious state of disrepair that recalls, once again, the wild mood swings of the historic U.S. love-hate relationship with China. With the clarity...

The Age of Terrorism and the International Political System.
March 1, 1997... Martha Crenshaw, Wesleyan University This book makes the argument that the perception of an "age of terrorism" is fading away with the Cold War: "The multitude of challenges that exist to the stability of the international political system...

Afrocentrism and World Politics: Towards a New Paradigm.
March 1, 1997... Molefi Kete Asante, Temple University When I was a child growing up in Georgia, I would often bruise my knees playing football on the dirt roads of our town. My mother would look at the bruises, clean them up, and send me on my way. But when I...

Theories of Dependent Foreign Policy and the Case of Ecuador in the 1980s.
March 1, 1997... Carl Bromley and Howard J. Wiarda, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Compared to its neighbors, Ecuador has seldom been party to the political and ideological conflagrations that have characterized much of the rest of Latin America since...

The Negotiation Process and the Resolution of International Conflicts.
March 1, 1997... Russell Leigh Moses, University of Minnesota No one leaves negotiation for very long. And with the passing of the Cold War, H. Terrence Hopmann argues, nonmilitary means of resolving disputes will be at the forefront of international relations...

The Genesis of Chinese Communist Foreign Policy.
March 1, 1997... Xiaobo Hu, Morehead State University China's opening up has provided a virtual social laboratory for studying political, economic, and social transformation and has given researchers unprecedented opportunities for a fundamental reappraisal of...

Local Commons and Global Interdependence: Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains.
March 1, 1997... Barry B. Hughes, University of Denver The editors of this volume identified two bodies of literature that have much to offer each other: (1) the search for generally local solutions to problems of common pool resources (CPR) and (2) the...

Currency and Coercion: The Political Economy of International Monetary Power.
March 1, 1997... Philip G. Cerny, University of Leeds International monetary power has always been at the heart of international relations, from Thucydides to Jacob Viner and beyond. The very foundations of state sovereignty and power in both domestic and...

World Cities in a World System.
March 1, 1997... Susan Clarke, University of Colorado As a heuristic, globalization threatens to become an intellectual Rashomon in which each sees just what s/he wishes. While it is clear that economic, social, and cultural trends manifested on a global scale...

The Return of Culture and Identity in IR Theory.
March 1, 1997... Mark Neufeld, Trent University "When I hear the word culture," Joseph Goebbels is said to have remarked, "I reach for my revolver." While it would be excessive to suggest that the relationship of the discipline of international relations (IR)...

Nuclear Designs: Great Britain, France, and China in the Global Governance of Nuclear Arms.
March 1, 1997... Weixing Hu, University of Detroit Mercy The dramatic nuclear reduction measures taken by the United States and Russia after the Cold War has prompted a great deal of interest in studying the global governance of nuclear arms. Bruce Larkin's...