American Political Science Review articles from March 1999

American Political Science Review archives from March 1999

The Culture of Intolerance: Chauvinism, Class and Racism in the United States.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Mark Nathan Cohen. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 320p. $27.50. Tony Affigne, Providence College For the most part, political science has held itself well back from the cutting edge of race theory. As a general rule,...

Against Politics.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Anthony de Jasay. New York: Routledge, 1998. 245p. $75.00. Jonathan Wolff, University College London What should one's attitude be toward anarchism? Most of us have a youthful, romantic strain and may think that the ideal of a world...

Reflections of a Would-Be Anarchist: Ideals and Institutions of Liberalism.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Richard E. Flathman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. 199p. $44.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Jonathan Wolff, University College London What should one's attitude be toward anarchism? Most of us have a youthful, romantic...

Counterfeit Community: The Exploitation of Our Longings for Connectedness.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By John F. Freie. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 1998. 212p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. Glenn Tinder, University of Massachusetts, Boston In these times of social disintegration and personal alienation, community is of nearly...

Ethics and Activism: The Theory and Practice of Political Morality.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Michael L. Gross. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 305p. $59.95. Kristen Renwick Monroe, University of California at Irvine Michael Gross's intriguing analysis begins with the assumption that the integrity of modern...

Specters of Liberation: Great Refusals in the New World Order.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Martin J. Beck Matustik. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998. 360p. $23.95 paper. Kurt Burch, University of Delaware Specters of Liberation offers impassioned advocacy, activism, and scholarship. It boldly reconceives critical social...

Rethinking Feminist Identification: The Case for De Facto Feminism.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Patricia S. Misciagno. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 160p. $49.95. Wynne Walker Moskop, Saint Louis University Patricia Misciagno responds to the well-known paradox that large numbers of American women who support "the goals of...

Living Ethically, Acting Politically.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Melissa A. Orlie. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 227p. $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Joan C. Tronto, Hunter College, City University of New York Melissa Orlie has written a thought-provoking and innovative work in...

Jacques Maritain: The Philosopher in Society.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By James V. Schall. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. 233p. $58.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Paul E. Sigmund, Princeton University This study of the political and social thought of Jacques Maritain, the influential French Thomist...

Practices and Principles: Approaches to Ethical and Legal Judgment.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Mark Tunick. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 242p. $35.00. Dennis J. Goldford, Drake University Mark Tunick addresses the question of what force existing practices, customs, and traditions may have in the process of...

The Constitution and Criminal Procedure.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Akhil Reed Amar. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 272p. $35.00 cloth, $16.00 paper. Robert C. Bradley, Illinois State University Akhil Reed Amar's The Constitution and Criminal Procedure is an extremely well-researched,...

Minority Rights, Majority Rule: Partisanship and the Development of Congress.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Sarah A. Binder. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 236p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Evelyn C. Fink, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Sarah Binder provides an impressive review of many reforms in the U.S. House as they...

Making Governments Plan: State Experiments in Managing Land Use.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Raymond J. Burby and Peter J. May, with Philip B. Berke, Steven P. French, and Edward J. Kaiser. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 194p. $32.50. James R. Simmons, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh The American...

The Work of Cities.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gaile. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998. 240p. $47.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Richard C. Feiock, Florida State University Susan E. Clarke and Gary L. Gate have written an interesting and...

The Paradoxes of the American Presidency.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Thomas E. Cronin and Michael A. Genovese. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 438p. $29.95. Robert J. Spitzer, SUNY Cortland Students of the presidency give themselves too little credit. For what seems like decades, presidency...

Rethinking the New Deal Court: The Structure of a Constitutional Revolution.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Barry Cushman. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 320p. $55.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Howard Gillman, University of Southern California Most constitutional historians today acknowledge that the Supreme Court ushered in an...

Congress Under Fire: Reform Politics and the Republican Majority.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By C. Lawrence Evans and Walter J. Oleszek. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. 190p. $16.36. Bruce I. Oppenheimer, Vanderbilt University Writing about congressional reform in the immediate aftermath of major changes is a difficult task....

Politics and Politicians in American Film.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Phillip L. Gianos. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 232p. $59.95. John Orman, Fairfield University This book examines the interaction between the American film business and the political system by focusing on how politicians and...

Competing Principals: Committees, Parties, and the Organization of Congress.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Forrest Maltzman. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1997. 197p. $39.50. William T. Bianco, Pennsylvania State University and Harvard University Forrest Maltzman aims to compare and test theories of legislative committee...

Justice between Generations: The Growing Power of the Elderly in America.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Matthew C. Price. Westport, CT: Greenwood, 1997. 184p. $55.00. Janie S. Steckenrider, Loyola Marymount University As we enter the new millennium, the issues at the top of the political agenda center on the distribution of public...

The Senior Rights Movement: Framing the Policy Debate in America.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Lawrence A. Powell, John B. Williamson, and Kenneth J. Branco. New York: Twayne, 1996. 259p. $28.95. Janie S. Steckenrider, Loyola Marymount University As we enter the new millennium, the issues at the top of the political agenda...

Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865-1896.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Gretchen Ritter. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 303p. $54.95. Gerald Berk, University of Oregon In 1900 L. Frank Baum penned the Wonderful Wizard of Oz, a parable replete with symbolism about financial politics...

The Decline of Representative Democracy: Process, Participation, and Power in State Legislatures.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Alan Rosenthal. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1997. 369p. $34.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Ronald D. Hedlund, Northeastern University It would be easy to dismiss a book on state legislatures as a treatment of a narrow topic...

Truman and the Democratic Party.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Sean J. Savage. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1997. 259p. $34.95. David K. Nichols, Montclair State University Do we need another book on Harry Truman? Scan Savage distinguishes his book from other histories and...

Public Lands Management in the West: Citizens, Interest Groups, and Values.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Brent S. Steel. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 224p. $55.00. R. McGreggor Cawley, University of Wyoming After reviewing the program for a recent conference, a colleague of mine suggested that the people doing natural resource...

Women and Elective Office: Past, Present, and Future.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Sue Thomas and Clyde Wilcox. New York: Oxford University Press. 1998. 241p. $17.95 paper. Carole Kennedy, San Diego State University This edited volume provides an excellent overview of the current state of research in the...

Made by Hong Kong.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Suzanne Berger and Richard Lester. Hong Kong: Oxford University Press, 1997. 376p. $29.95. Stephen W. K. Chiu, Chinese University of Hong Kong Rather than an edited volume, this is the collaborative product of a research team...

Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters Under Lenin and Stalin.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Victoria E. Bonnell. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997. 385p. $48.00. Jan Kubik, Rutgers University Victoria E. Bonnell's beautifully crafted book deals with a visual facet of the most ambitious of all Soviet projects:...

Working, Shirking, and Sabotage: Bureaucratic Response to a Democratic Public.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By John Brehm and Scott Gates. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 270p. $39.50. Andre Blais, Universite de Montreal Bureaucrats may divide their efforts among three possible forms of activity: working, that is, devoting...

The British General Election of 1997.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By David Buffer and Dennis Kavanagh. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 343p. $55.00. David Denver, Lancaster University (UK) By any standard, the British general election on May 1, 1997, was a remarkable event. After eighteen years in...

Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform?(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by John Esposito. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997. 281p. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Louis J. Cantori, University of Maryland, Baltimore County This volume, emanating from a conference at the Center for Muslim-Christian...

Rationality and Power: Democracy in Practice.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Bent Flyvbjerg. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 290p. $45.00 cloth, $17.00 paper. Ann O'M. Bowman, University of South Carolina The central message of Bent Flyvbjerg's book on the Aalborg Project is unequivocal: Power...

The Politics of Justice and Justice Reform in Latin America: The Peruvian Case in Comparative Perspective.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Linn A. Hammergren. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1998. 342p. $75.00. Philip Mauceri, University of Northern Iowa The judicial system has been one of the most understudied institutions in Latin American politics, receiving far less...

The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Jonathan Hartlyn. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1998. 371p. $49.95 cloth, $17.95 paper. Michael J. Kryzanck, Bridgewater State College Those who study the Dominican Republic, and in particular its political...

The Future of Islam and the West: Clash of Civilization or Peaceful Coexistence?(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Shireen T. Hunter. Westport, CT: Praeger; with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC. 195p. $55.00 cloth. $17.95 paper. As'ad AbuKhalil, California State University, Stanislaus The end of the Cold War...

The Political Economy of Japanese Society, vol 1: The State or the Market?(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Banno Junji. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1997. 361p. $90.00. Gary D. Allinson, University of Virginia These two books are not what they appear to be on the surface. Nonetheless, they warrant attention from political...

The Political Economy of Japanese Society, vol. 2: Internationalization and Domestic Issues.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Banno Junji. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1998. 371p. $85.00. Gary D. Allinson, University of Virginia These two books are not what they appear to be on the surface. Nonetheless, they warrant attention from political...

Network Power: Japan and Asia.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Peter Katzenstein and Takashi Shiraishi. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 399p. $55.00 cloth, $22.50 paper. Yong Deng, Benedictine University This edited volume is aptly titled. Indeed, it examines the informal...

Rediscovering China: Dynamics and Dilemmas of Reform.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Cheng Li. Lanham, MD: Rowan & Littlefield, 1997. $54.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Yan Sun, Queens College, City of New York Cheng Li has written a book that many Chinese-born social scientists have wanted to write but have not had a...

Han Unbound: The Political Economy of South Korea.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By John Lie. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998. 255p. $39.50. Aie-Rie Lee, Texas Tech University This book is a sophisticated interdisciplinary analysis of the political economy of South Korea from the 1950s to the late...

From State to Market? The Transformation of French Business and Government.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Vivien A. Schmidt. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 476p. $74.95 cloth, $29.95 paper. Frank R. Baumgartner, Pennsylvania State University Vivien Schmidt has written an important new book, rich with information on a wide...

Challenges to Political Parties: The Case of Norway.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Kaare Strom and Lars Svasand. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 408p. $49.50. Hanne Marthe Narud, Institute for Social Research, Oslo The central questions of this interesting and rather extensive book relate to...

Citizenship, Participation and Democracy: Changing Dynamics in Chile and Argentina.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Lucy Taylor. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 204p. $65.00. Ronaldo Munck, University of Liverpool Certain fields in political science are obviously interrelated but seem to have spawned discrete literatures. Thus, Lucy Taylor is able...

Fantasies of Salvation: Democracy, Nationalism and Myth in Post-Communist Europe.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Vladimir Tismaneanu. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 216p. $29.95. Arista Maria Cirtautas, University of Virginia Fantasies of Salvation well conveys the current mood of concern among East European intellectuals as...

Bicameralism.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By George Tsebelis and Jeannette Money. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 250p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Michael Laver Trinity College Dublin This book is an excellent example of what is in effect a new wave of...

Beyond Beijing: Liberalization and the Regions in China.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Dali L. Yang. London and New York: Routledge, 1997. 199p. $75. Jean C. Oi, Stanford University Behind China's economic success story lies significant regional disparity. The most obvious is the lag in development and wealth between...

National Diversity and Global Capitalism.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Suzanne Berger and Ronald Dore. Ithaca, NY, and London, UK: Cornell University Press, 1996. 387p. $62.50 cloth, $17.95 paper. Jeffrey Hart, Indiana University The main question posed in this excellent edited volume is whether...

The Price of Peace: Incentives and International Conflict Prevention.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by David Cortright. New York: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 347p. $68.50 cloth, $26.95 paper. Daniel W. Drezner, University of Colorado at Boulder The Carnegie Commission on Preventing Deadly Conflict had good theoretical and...

Face Off: China, the United States, and Taiwan's Democratization.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By John W. Garver. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1997. 206p. $18.95. Adam H. Arkel, University of Chicago John Garver's book analyzes the background to and significance of the Taiwan Strait crisis of 1996. To summarize, this...

Nations at War: A Scientific Study of International Conflict.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Daniel Geller and J. David Singer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 242p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Paul F. Diehl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Literature surveys are not usually the central focus of...

The International Organization of Credit: States and Global Finance in the World-Economy.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Randall D. Germain, Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 203p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Andrew Sobel, Washington University in St. Louis Randall Germain contributes to a growing body of scholarship on...

The Wealth of States: A Comparative Sociology of International Economic and Political Change.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By John Hobson. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 338p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Bob Jessop, Lancaster University (UK) This book is an exercise in fiscal sociology informed by a neo-Weberian historical sociology...

Changing Course: Ideas, Politics, and the Soviet Withdrawal from Afghanistan.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Sarah E. Mendelson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998. 140p. $35.00. William Maley, University of New South Wales The completion of the withdrawal of Soviet combat forces from Afghanistan in February 1989 was a...

Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Leonard J. Schoppa. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 406p. $49.50 cloth, $17.50 paper. Michael F. Thies, University of California, Los Angeles Leonard Schoppa's new book represents an important advance in the study of...

Deadly Imbalances: Tripolarity and Hitler's Strategy of World Conquest.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Randall L. Schweller. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 267p. $49.50 cloth, $18.50 paper. Dan Reiter, Emory University Randall Schweller is in line with the development of the realist theory of international relations,...

The Decline of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Middle East Politics and the Quest for Regional Order.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Avraham Sela. Albany: SUNY Press, 1998. 423p. $24.95 Gad Barzilai, Tel Aviv University Most studies about the Middle East have focused on system analysis of a single state. Few scholarly works have conceptualized the region as a...

The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Regime: Prospects for the 21st Century.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by Raju G. C. Thomas. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 359p. $69.95. George H. Quester, University of Maryland Whether one agrees with the general drift of this book or not, it will surely come across as timely, in the wake of the...

Cosmopolis: Prospects for World Government.(Review)
March 1, 1999... By Danilo Zolo. Translated by David McKie. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 1997. 197p. $64.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Gerard Elfstrom, Auburn University Danilo Zolo takes issue with the array of politicians, theorists, activists, and...

International Law and Ethnic Conflict.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Edited by David Wippman. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 1998. 354p. $39.95. Milton J. Esman, Cornell University What has international law to say - and what should it have to say - about the demands of ethnic communities within...

Political responses to pain and loss: presidential address, American Political Science Association, 1998.
March 1, 1999... As a discipline we often ask ourselves if what we study is relevant to the lives of the people we study, an especially compelling question for those who study mass publics and public policy. In this article I argue that pain and loss...

A statistical model for multiparty electoral data.
March 1, 1999... We propose the first internally consistent statistical model for analyzing multiparty, district-level aggregate election data. Our model can be applied directly to explain or predict how the geographic distribution of electoral results depends...

Comparing interest group scores across time and chambers; adjusted ADA scores for the U.S. Congress.(Americans for Democratic Action)
March 1, 1999... Without question, the 1974 House elections that brought an influx of "Watergate babies" caused the House to become more liberal. Despite this, however, both the median and mean rating of House members by the conservative interest group...

Information asymmetries and simultaneous versus sequential voting.
March 1, 1999... Sequential voting occurs when some voters make choices with knowledge of earlier decisions in the same election. Historically, voting in U.S. presidential primaries is sequential; voters in states with later primaries know the outcomes in...

Political confederation.
March 1, 1999... Episodes of political confederation or the opposite, political dissolution, are widely observed and important phenomena. Yet, the forces underlying the processes of confederation are not well understood. There are many different levels of...

Minority voting rights can maximize majority welfare.
March 1, 1999... The most immediate criterion of democratic decision making is fairness. But Condorcet (1785) in his "jury theorem" argued on welfarist grounds, showing that if each individual has an equal chance of having the correct opinion, then majority...

Has cable ended the golden age of presidential television?.
March 1, 1999... "The President is not irrelevant here." Bill Clinton's response to a reporter's pointed question during a nationally televised prime-time news conference on April 8, 1995, came across as little more than a desperate denial of the truth. Having...

The political economy of voting rights enforcement in America's Gilded Age: electoral college competition, partisan commitment, and the Federal Election Law.
March 1, 1999... With the close of the Civil War, the radical wing of the Republican Party began a concerted drive to secure citizenship rights for African Americans, including the right to vote on terms extended to white males. This commitment to black...

Machiavelli's imagination of excellent men: an appraisal of the lives of Cosimo de' Medici and Castruccio Castracani.
March 1, 1999... In The Prince Machiavelli recommends that princes read histories and consider the actions of "excellent men" because men learn by imitation. Just as Achilles was the model for Alexander, and Alexander for Julius Caesar, new princes should...

Jury aversion and voter registration.
March 1, 1999... Many election officials are convinced that aversion to jury duty, combined with a widespread belief that jury lists are drawn from voter registration records, significantly depresses turnout.(1) Stories occasionally appear in the press about...

Prospecting for participants: rational expectations and the recruitment of political activists.
March 1, 1999... Who among us has not undertaken some kind of activity in politics because someone asked? In this article we consider the process by which citizens are asked by others to take part in political life.(1) We construe the process of citizen...

Liberal democratic and responsibilities to refugees.
March 1, 1999... Writing in the aftermath of World War II the emigre political theorist Hannah Arendt (1986, 277) suggested that stateless refugees were "the most symptomatic group in contemporary politics." For Arendt the emergence of refugees across Europe...

Racial redistricting and African-American representation: a critique of 'Do Majority-Minority Districts maximize substantive black representation in Congress?'.(response to Charles Cameron, David Epstein and Sharyn O'Halloran, American Political Science Review, vol. 90, p 794, Dec 1996)
March 1, 1999... The methodologically sophisticated analysis of race and redistricting by Cameron, Epstein, and O'Halloran (1996) has already been cited in support of claims that racial redistricting undermines black representation (e.g., Thernstrom and...

A social science approach to race, redistricting, and representation.(response to David Lublin, in this issue, p 183)
March 1, 1999... The debate over race and redistricting lies at the intersection of a number of charged issues in contemporary American politics. Most directly, it addresses minorities' right to vote, to elect candidates of their choice, and to participate...