American Political Science Review articles from March 1998

American Political Science Review archives from March 1998

'A behavioral approach to the rational choice theory of collective action: presidential address, American Political Science Association, 1997.
March 1, 1998... Let me start with a provocative statement. You would not be reading this article if it were not for some of our ancestors learning how to undertake collective action to solve social dilemmas. Successive generations have added to the stock of...

Convicting the innocent: the inferiority of unanimous jury verdicts under strategic voting.
March 1, 1998... According to Lord Devlin, "Trial by jury is not an instrument of getting at the truth; it is a process designed to make it as sure as possible that no innocent man is convicted" (Klaven and Zeisel 1966, 190). It is commonly thought that requiring...

Rational choice and the dynamics of collective political action: evaluating alternative models with panel data.
March 1, 1998... Perhaps no area in mass political behavior research is beset with such serious methodological difficulties as the study of participation in political protest and other unconventional activities. Some of the problems, such as finding and eliciting...

Democratizing for peace. (democratization and the risk of war)
March 1, 1998... Do polities become more peaceful as they democratize? Alternatively, is political change toward greater political democracy associated with increased likelihood of war? Research following Babst's (1964) observation of an apparent absence of a war...

Constructing a supranational constitution: dispute resolution and governance in the European Community.
March 1, 1998... No international organization in world history has attracted as much scholarly attention as the European Community (EC).(1) The reason is straightforward: The EC has evolved from a relatively traditional (albeit multifaceted) interstate system...

Liberal theory and the idea of communist justice.
March 1, 1998... "Jeder nach seinen Fahigkeiten, jedem nach seinen Bedurfnissen!" (Marx and Engels [1875] 1962, 21).(1) This is the distributive principle advocated by Marx and his followers for communist society. In this society, there is no market for...

Political liberalism, deliberative democracy, and the public sphere.
March 1, 1998... "The recovery of the public realm" might be an appropriate way to characterize a recent trend in democratic political theory. Democratic theorists, in the tradition of Tocqueville, now emphasize the importance of voluntary associations in civil...

Partisan cues and the media: information flows in the 1992 presidential election.
March 1, 1998... Most of what voters learn about the political process and contemporary events is mediated through a variety of institutional and individual information sources. Most people have not met their elected representatives, attended a government...

Minority representation in multimember districts.
March 1, 1998... A fundamental issue in modern democracies is the extent to which the electoral system facilitates representation of multiple interests. In particular, the degree to which the diversity of both the interests and the characteristics of the...

Structure, behavior, and voter turnout in the United States.
March 1, 1998... More than seventy years ago, in distinguishing among types of electoral nonparticipants, Merriam and Gosnell (1924, 252) observed: "Entirely different reasons were emphasized by those who were not registered than by those who were registered but...

Strategy and background in congressional campaigns.
March 1, 1998... Elections are central to American politics. Yet, despite extensive research into campaigns and elections, three central questions remain unresolved. First, do election campaigns follow any generalizable rules? Campaign practitioners often portray...

The dynamics of foreign policy agenda setting.
March 1, 1998... Various theoretical and empirical analyses have focused on understanding how domestic policy issues reach the systemic or institutional agenda in the United States (e.g., Cobb and Elder 1972; Downs 1972; Jones 1977; Walker 1977; Anderson 1978;...

Comparing European publics.
March 1, 1998... This monumental five-volume series, written by leading European political scientists, presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of mass publics in political life. The result of a unique program in cross-national collaborative research, it...

Beliefs in Government, 5 vols.
March 1, 1998... This monumental five-volume series, written by leading European political scientists, presents a comprehensive analysis of the role of mass publics in political life. The result of a unique program in cross-national collaborative research, it...

The doleful dance of politics and policy: can historical institutionalism make a difference?
March 1, 1998... Published in the waning days of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), these books on social policy, poverty, and the welfare state provide reminders that policy studies and political science have been awkward dance partners for the past...

State and Party in America's New Deal.
March 1, 1998... Published in the waning days of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), these books on social policy, poverty, and the welfare state provide reminders that policy studies and political science have been awkward dance partners for the past...

The Poverty of Welfare Reform.
March 1, 1998... Published in the waning days of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), these books on social policy, poverty, and the welfare state provide reminders that policy studies and political science have been awkward dance partners for the past...

Improving Poor People: The Welfare State, the "Underclass," and Urban Schools as History.
March 1, 1998... Published in the waning days of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), these books on social policy, poverty, and the welfare state provide reminders that policy studies and political science have been awkward dance partners for the past...

Words of Welfare: The Poverty of Social Science and the Social Science of Poverty.
March 1, 1998... Published in the waning days of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), these books on social policy, poverty, and the welfare state provide reminders that policy studies and political science have been awkward dance partners for the past...

Social Policy in the United States: Future Possibilities in Historical Perspective.
March 1, 1998... Published in the waning days of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), these books on social policy, poverty, and the welfare state provide reminders that policy studies and political science have been awkward dance partners for the past...

Left and Right: The Significance of a Political Distinction.
March 1, 1998... Thomas W. Gold, New School for Social Research This is an important book for the field of political science and of particular interest to those whose work lies in the area of political ideology, European party politics, or contemporary Italian...

Dancing in Chains: Narrative and Memory in Political Theory.
March 1, 1998... Jonathan N. Badger, St. John's College One of the many paradoxes in Nietzsche is his insistence on the primary status of historical horizons for human self-understanding coupled with his prescription for the deliberate construction of those...

Hypocrisy and Integrity: Machiavelli, Rousseau, and the Ethics of Politics.
March 1, 1998... Ronald J. Terchek, University of Maryland Ruth Grant has written an exciting and provocative work reassessing the role of hypocrisy and integrity in politics. Relying primarily on Rousseau but also reaching to Machiavelli and some of Moliere's...

Endgames: Questions in Late Modern Political Thought.
March 1, 1998... Harlan Wilson, Oberlin College Much of John Gray's published work engages political theory with real political life. Endgames is no exception. This extremely varied collection of essays addresses such topics and themes as critique of New Right...

The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson: 1742-1798.
March 1, 1998... George W. Carey, Georgetown University Mark David Hall observes at the outset that "James Wilson is perhaps the most underrated founder" (p. 1). Many, if not most, familiar with Wilson's contributions to our founding and our political...

Our Elusive Constitution: Silences, Paradoxes, Priorities.
March 1, 1998... Austin Sarat, Amherst College One indicator of the continuing viability of the American Constitution as a force in our political and culture life is the ongoing preoccupation of scholars with figuring it out, getting it right, producing new...

Greed, Chaos, and Governance: Using Public Choice to Improve Public Law.
March 1, 1998... Lee Epstein, Washington University in St. Louis For well over a year now, political scientists have been engaged in a serious debate over the value of rational choice theory for the study of law and courts. On the one extreme are those who...

Machiavelli, Leonardo, and the Science of Power.
March 1, 1998... Albert Somit, Southern Illinois University Roger Masters argues quite a few theses in this impressively erudite and wide-ranging book. Space being limited, I will focus on the four I regard as most important. First (chap. 1), and in my mind...

Democratic Temperament: The Legacy of William James.
March 1, 1998... Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn, Whitman College Joshua Miller's Democratic Temperament is a welcome addition to the revival of American pragmatism. For the most part, that resurgence has concentrated on the work of John Dewey and his suspect heir,...

The Last Word.
March 1, 1998... Ruth Lessl Shively, Texas A&M University In disputes about justification, some theorists would give the last word to the relativistic qualifier, making statements of truth valid only from the perspective of the person or group. Others would...

Foucault's Discipline: The Politics of Subjectivity.
March 1, 1998... Michael Mahon, Boston University Michel Foucault called a 1978 Sorbonne lecture "What Is Critique?" because it would have been immodest of him to dare to entitle it "What Is Aufklarung?" John S. Ransom in his excellent new interpretation...

The Anglo-Marxists: A Study in Ideology and Culture.
March 1, 1998... Bradley J. Macdonald, Colorado State University For students of British Marxism, Edwin Roberts's book will be a welcome historical study of generally overlooked Marxist theorists. Focusing primarily on the period between the 1930s and 1950s,...

Nomos XXXVIII: Political Order.
March 1, 1998... Brian Barry, London School of Economics My picture of the way in which books in the Nomos series come into existence is this. The editor starts off with a vision of a sleek, unified volume in which all the contributions will relate in...

The Quest of Evolutionary Socialism: Eduard Bernstein and Social Democracy.
March 1, 1998... Edwin A. Roberts, California State University, Long Beach The best scholarship often serves a dual purpose, in helping to place ideas and events in a proper context for those who have not done research in a particular area and in challenging...

Free Markets and Social Justice.
March 1, 1998... Peter Berkowitz, Harvard University In politics as in political science and legal scholarship, the world sometimes seems to be divided into those who think that for the sake of efficiency as well as justice markets must be free from regulation...

America's Bachelor Uncle: Thoreau and the American Polity.
March 1, 1998... Michael A. Mosher, University of Tulsa Although the author says he was often exasperated with Thoreau, he seems to have cured himself of any lingering irritation. The attitudes that make others cross are downplayed. Even the appeal to an...

Republican Paradoxes and Liberal Anxieties: Retrieving Neglected Fragments of Political Theory.
March 1, 1998... Joseph M. Knippenberg, Oglethorpe University Surveys of contemporary political theory often dwell on the so-called debate between liberals and communitarians. Drawing - sometimes loosely - upon the tradition that is usually said to begin with...

Social Justice in a Diverse Society.
March 1, 1998... Grant Reeher, Syracuse University This book is a cumulation and synthesis of extant social psychological research on the beliefs and feelings about social justice held by persons as individuals and as members of groups, as well as the...

Randolph Bourne and the Politics of Cultural Radicalism.
March 1, 1998... Manfred B. Steger, Illinois State University In the raging controversies of our time over issues of social and political identity, difference, and cultural pluralism, currency often trumps historical memory. To be sure, it would be foolish to...

The Career of Toleration: John Locke, Jonas Proast, and After.
March 1, 1998... Barry Alan Shain, Colgate University Intellectual history and political theory are hard to differentiate, and when each is done well, they are mutually supportive. At their core, however, are goals which distinguish them and place their...

Renewing Presidential Politics: Campaigns, Media, and the Public Interest.
March 1, 1998... Emmett H. Buell, Jr., Denison University This book derives from Buchanan's work with the John and Mary Markle Foundation on media coverage of presidential politics. It should appeal to critics of the often mean-spirited, dishonest, and vapid...

(Dis)Entitling the Poor: The Warren Court, Welfare Rights, and the American Political Tradition.
March 1, 1998... Wayne D. Moore, Virginia Tech According to the author, "the central argument of this book is that the Warren Court declined to 'constitutionalize' a right to welfare primarily because of the impact of legal doctrines" (pp. 157-8). More...

Cheap Seats: The Democratic Party's Advantage in U.S. House Elections.
March 1, 1998... Mark E. Rush, Washington and Lee University This is unquestionably a book that any scholar of American politics and, perhaps, electoral systems more generally ought to read. It presents clear evidence that the Democratic Party has benefited...

Roosevelt's Warrior: Harold L. Ickes and the New Deal.
March 1, 1998... Matthew J. Dickinson, Harvard University Jeanne Nienaber Clarke's biography of Harold L. Ickes focuses primarily on 1933-39, when he served not only as Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Secretary of the Interior but also as director of the Public...

Party Decline in America: Policy, Politics, and the Fiscal State.
March 1, 1998... William Crotty, Northeastern University The Coleman and Patterson books are alike in that both approach an explanation of political party performance from distinctive policy perspectives, employing these to develop innovative and broadly...

Political Parties and the Maintenance of Liberal Democracy.
March 1, 1998... William Crotty, Northeastern University The Coleman and Patterson books are alike in that both approach an explanation of political party performance from distinctive policy perspectives, employing these to develop innovative and broadly...

Bureaucracy and Self-Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics.
March 1, 1998... Richard T. Green, University of Wyoming Brian Cook offers readers in public administration and political science an important new work on the problem of reconciling bureaucracy with democracy. In Bureaucracy and Self-Government, he addresses...

Home Team: Professional Sports and the American Metropolis.
March 1, 1998... Charles C. Euchner, Boston Redevelopment Authority For almost two decades, cities in North America have confronted a problem that seems like a unique crisis but in fact is part of a pervasive trend in modern sports: A professional franchise...

Networks of Champions: Leadership, Access, and Advocacy in the U.S. House of Representatives.
March 1, 1998... Robin Kolodny, Temple University Christine deGregorio has assumed a major task in this work, which explores the relationship between Congress and the organized interests who wish to influence its work. To do this, DeGregorio undertakes a...

Disunited States: What's at Stake as Washington Fades and the States Take the Lead.
March 1, 1998... Richard Piper, University of Tampa John Donahue's book is the latest contribution to what the author accurately describes as the "endless argument" over the proper balance between the national government and the states in the federal system of...

Pursing Power: Latinos and the Political System.
March 1, 1998... Jose E. Cruz, SUNY-Albany F. Chris Garcia's Pursuing Power is an excellent and useful contribution to the scholarship on Latino politics. It covers the most significant issues that Latinos face in their pursuit of power, and it offers...

Religion and the Culture Wars: Dispatches from the Front.
March 1, 1998... Christopher P. Gilbert, Gustavus Adolphus College This volume compiles nearly fifteen years of research by four of the most respected scholars in the field of religion and politics. While the title may suggest a narrow focus on the Christian...

The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security.
March 1, 1998... Mary E. Guy, Florida State University Yet the methodology of policy analysis has come to embody an emaciated conception of politics and policymaking. It is fixated on policy solutions, with solutions understood as rational choices to achieve...

Congress as Public Enemy: Public Attitudes Toward Political Institutions.
March 1, 1998... Stephen C. Craig, University of Florida Following the Republican sweep in the 1994 midterm, as Bill Clinton was awkwardly proclaiming his continued "relevance" to the process of national policymaking, few would have predicted not only that the...

Gender, Families, and State: Child Support Policy in the United States.
March 1, 1998... Deborah McFarlane, University of New Mexico This book is about child support policy in the United States. Since 1974, the United States has developed and implemented a comprehensive federal child support policy. "What kind of solution is this?"...

Kinship and Politics.
March 1, 1998... S. Sidney Ulmer, University of Kentucky This book is properly placed in the context of social background studies, though, as might be expected, it has its own particular twist. The belief that drives such work is that we are all the product of...

Crisis and Political Beliefs: The Case of Colt Firearms Strike.
March 1, 1998... Laura R. Woliver, University of South Carolina Fortunately for the scholarly community, Marc Lendler was around the Hartford, Connecticut, area during a lengthy labor strike at the Colt Firearms plant, and he had the insights, skills, and...

The Future of Governing: Four Emerging Models.
March 1, 1998... John D. Donahue, Harvard University Government seems to be in trouble throughout the industrial democracies. Citizens tell pollsters (and affirm at the polls) that they do not trust their government and do not believe it works very well. While...

Ideologies and Institutions: American Conservative and Liberal Governance Since 1933.
March 1, 1998... Nicol C. Rae, Florida International University This interesting volume addresses a neglected but highly significant issue in contemporary American political science, namely, the relationship between political ideologies and political...

New Schools for a New Century: The Redesign of Urban Education.
March 1, 1998... Kevin B. Smith, University of Nebraska-Lincoln The list of contributors to this volume of essays reads as a who's who of conservative intellectual firepower supporting the campaign for educational reform. And, as befits a book stuffed with...

Narratives of Justice: Legislators' Beliefs About Distributive Justice.
March 1, 1998... Paul Schumaker, University of Kansas Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted in 1988 with 35 state senators from Connecticut, Grant Reeher provides an impressive and engaging account of elite belief systems, focusing on attitudes concerning...

Public Spirit in the Thrift Tragedy.
March 1, 1998... Gary Mucciaroni, Temple University The spectacular failure of the savings and loan industry during the 1980s, resulting in losses to taxpayers of approximately $180 billion, is the subject of this volume by Mark Carl Rom. It will undoubtedly...

The American Presidency Under Siege.
March 1, 1998... James P. Pfiffner, George Mason University The premise of this book is that the contemporary presidency is under siege from a number of debilitating factors that have developed over the past 25 years and that it is "incapable of creative...

Medicaid and the Limits of State Health Reform.
March 1, 1998... Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, University of Texas Today, the federal-state balance leans to the states, and in the absence of national leadership on health policy, the states have gone in different directions. Michael Sparer offers a much...

The Politics of Social Welfare: The Collapse of the Center and the Rise of the Right.
March 1, 1998... Stathis N. Kalyvas, New York University How did the Right win the battle of ideas surrounding the welfare state? How did liberals allow the debate to shift from social justice and poverty to dependency? In other words, how did important parts...

Don't Burn it Here: Grassroots Challenges to Trash Incinerators.
March 1, 1998... A. B. Villanueva, Western Illinois University As more social scientists with their sophisticated research methods get involved in the study of the environment, they provide us with fresh insights on the dynamics of citizen groups who play the...

Iranian Intellectuals and the West: The Tormented Triumph of Nativism.
March 1, 1998... Gawdat Bahgat, Indiana University of Pennsylvania Unlike many developing countries, Iran has never been under foreign occupation for a long period. But, like many other Muslim states, the Iranian culture has experienced close contact with...

Public Management: The New Zealand Model.
March 1, 1998... Michael Mintrom, Michigan State University New Zealand seems so far-flung. As the poet Charles Brasch wrote in the 1940s, "distance looks our way." Yet, since 1984 the country has gone through unprecedented transformations in its politics and...

Social Policy in Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Critical Introduction.
March 1, 1998... Michael Mintrom, Michigan State University New Zealand seems so far-flung. As the poet Charles Brasch wrote in the 1940s, "distance looks our way." Yet, since 1984 the country has gone through unprecedented transformations in its politics and...

New States, New Politics: Building the Post-Soviet Nations.
March 1, 1998... Paul Kubicek, Koc University New States, New Politics is the successor to the editors' highly acclaimed Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States (1993). Many of the same distinguished contributors have been invited to share their...

The Price of Wealth: Economics and Institutions in the Middle East.
March 1, 1998... Manochehr Dorraj, Texas Christian University Amid a sea of descriptive and redundant accounts of Middle Eastern politics by instant "experts" and journalists that has appeared in the last two decades, Kiren Aziz Chaudhry's book is a life raft....

Libya's Qaddafi: The Politics of Contradiction.
March 1, 1998... Dirk Vandewalle, Dartmouth College During the last decade, the literature on the rentier - or allocative or distributive - state has produced a growing number of works investigating the effect of commodity booms on the political and economic...

The Rise of Christian Democracy in Europe.
March 1, 1998... Kees van Kersbergen, University of Nijmegen Christian democracy has been one of Western Europe's most successful political movements, yet it has long been neglected in comparative politics. This book is a welcome and innovative contribution to...

The Radical Right in Western Europe: A Comparative Analysis.
March 1, 1998... Ekkart Zimmermann, Dresden University of Technology Kitschelt deals with three variants of the radical right in seven countries: France with the National Front as the "prototype of the New Radical Right"; Austria and Italy ("blending new right...

Japan's Postwar Party Politics.
March 1, 1998... William W. Grimes, Boston University In 1993, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost its parliamentary majority in Japan and entered the opposition for the first time since its formation in 1955; the following year, a non-LDP coalition...

The Japanese Election System: Three Analytical Perspectives.
March 1, 1998... William W. Grimes, Boston University In 1993, the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) lost its parliamentary majority in Japan and entered the opposition for the first time since its formation in 1955; the following year, a non-LDP coalition...

The End of Peasantry: The Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil, 1961-1988.
March 1, 1998... Kurt Weyland, Vanderbilt University Recent analyses of Latin American politics - even studies of popular sectors - have focused almost exclusively on urban areas. Anthony Pereira's fine book helps fill this gap through an in-depth case study...

The Counter-Insurgent State: Guerrilla Warfare and State Building in the Twentieth Century.
March 1, 1998... Marc V. Simon, Bowling Green State University The central issue explored in this edited volume is the relationship between counterinsurgency wars and the evolution of the institutional state in developing countries during the latter half of the...

Restrained Trade: Cartels in Japan's Basic Materials Industries.
March 1, 1998... H. Richard Friman, Marquette University These three books challenge the increasing polarization of the literature on Japanese politics between developmental state and rational choice approaches. The authors do so through seeking a more nuanced...

Troubled Industries: Confronting Economic Change in Japan.
March 1, 1998... H. Richard Friman, Marquette University These three books challenge the increasing polarization of the literature on Japanese politics between developmental state and rational choice approaches. The authors do so through seeking a more nuanced...

Japan Under Construction: Corruption, Politics, and Public Works.
March 1, 1998... H. Richard Friman, Marquette University These three books challenge the increasing polarization of the literature on Japanese politics between developmental state and rational choice approaches. The authors do so through seeking a more nuanced...

How Russia Votes.
March 1, 1998... John Anderson, University of Nebraska at Kearney These books read together represent a complementary effort to explain democratization in post-Soviet Russia. Together, the studies do much to enlighten us about the nature of Russian politics...

Public Opinion in Postcommunist Russia.
March 1, 1998... John Anderson, University of Nebraska at Kearney These books read together represent a complementary effort to explain democratization in post-Soviet Russia. Together, the studies do much to enlighten us about the nature of Russian politics...

We Now Know: Rethinking Cold War History.
March 1, 1998... Miroslav Nincic, University of California, Davis Not only is John Lewis Gaddis one of the most influential historians of the Cold War, but also he is a frequent critic of our own discipline. Almost as often correctly as not, he takes political...