American Political Science Review articles from September 1996

American Political Science Review archives from September 1996

Political inclusion and the dynamics of democratization.
September 1, 1996... Once universal adult citizenship rights have been secured in a society, democratization is mostly a matter of the more authentic political inclusion of different groups and categories, for which formal political equality can hide continued...

Serving God and mammon: the Lockean sympathy in early American political thought.(John Locke)
September 1, 1996... This paper seeks to revive the old theory, of a "Lockean consensus" in early, American political thought against the prevailing "republican" view. The language of "virtue" and "slavery," which was pervasive at the time of the founding, and...

Assessing the dyadic nature of the democratic peace, 1918-88.
September 1, 1996... The literature on the democratic peace has emerged from two empirical claims: (1) Democracies are unlikely to conflict with one another, and (2) democracies are as prone to conflict with nondemocracies as nondemocracies are with one another....

Dynamics of cosponsorship.
September 1, 1996... Electoral-connection theories of legislative politics view bill cosponsorship as low-cost position taking by rational legislators who communicate with target audiences (e.g., constituents) external to the legislature. Legislative signaling...

The dynamics of aggregate partisanship.
September 1, 1996... Despite extensive research on party identification, links between partisanship at the individual and aggregate level have largely been ignored. This leaves a gap in our understanding of the dynamics of aggregate partisanship. To remedy this,...

Strategic policy considerations and voting fluidity on the Burger Court.(reasons for switching of votes by justices)
September 1, 1996... Justices are strategic actors. This is particularly evident when they change their votes between the original conference on the meets and the Court's announcement of the final decision. We predict that such voting fluidity may be unfluenced by...

"Race Coding" and white opposition to welfare.
September 1, 1996... Crime and welfare are now widely viewed as "coded" issues that activate white Americans' negative views of blacks without explicitly raising the "race card." But does the desire of whites to combat crime or curtail welfare really stem from...

History, historiography, and political science: multiple historical records and the problem of selection bias.
September 1, 1996... Social scientists who use history as a laboratory for theory development use the work of historians to construct background narratives which can then be coded according to theoretically relevant categories. Yet, virtually no attention has been...

The Elements of Social Theory.
September 1, 1996... By Barry Barnes. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996. 263p. $29.95. These two recent books, both by respected social theorists, offer a valuable look at the development of classical social theory since the middle of the nineteenth...

Politics, Sociology, and Social Theory: Encounters with Classical and Contemporary Social Thought.
September 1, 1996... By Anthony Giddens. Stanford University Press, 1995. 304p. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. These two recent books, both by respected social theorists, offer a valuable look at the development of classical social theory since the middle of the...

Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist.
September 1, 1996... By Peter Berkowitz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. 336p. $35.00. Peter Berkowitz's Nietzsche: The Ethics of an Immoralist is a brilliantly provocative meditation on Nietzsche as an ethical theorist committed to an account of...

The Politics of Historical Vision: Marx, Foucault, Habermas.
September 1, 1996... By Steven Best. New York: Guilford, 1995. 294p. $23.95. Today we often hear pronouncements of the end of history. Sometimes these come from conservatives, such as Francis Fukuyama, sometimes from postmoderns, such as Jean Baudrillard. However,...

Power in Struggle: Feminism, Sexuality, and the State.
September 1, 1996... By Davina Cooper. New York: New York University Press, 1995. 192p. $50.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Davina Cooper's fine book offers powerful analytic resources to a variety of scholars, including feminist theorists, students of grassroots activism...

Plato's World: Man's Place in the Cosmos.
September 1, 1996... Joseph Cropsey. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1995. 227p. $29.95. In Plato's World, Professor Joseph Cropsey presents interpretations of eight Platonic dialogues. Seven of them are set by Plato at or toward the end of Socrates'...

Reconstructing Political Pluralism.
September 1, 1996... By Avigail I. Eisenberg. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 211p. $16.95. Eisenberg argues that "a reconstructed theory of political pluralism is primarily committed to offering individuals the means to a healthy personal...

The Voice of the People: Public Opinion and Democracy.
September 1, 1996... By James S. Fishkin. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. 204p. $20.00. With his first American "deliberative poll"--the National Issues Convention (NIC), part of which was shown on public television in January 1996--James Fishkin has...

Adam Smith's System of Liberty, Wealth, and Virtue: The Moral and Political Foundations of The Wealth of Nations.
September 1, 1996... By Athol Fitzgibbons. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 214p. $42.00. Athol Fitzgibbons's excellent work is a most welcome addition to the "new" Smith canon that has emerged over the past few years. His study is addressed to two very...

Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism: The Catholic Intellectual Tradition and the Moral Foundations of Democracy.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Kenneth L. Grasso, Gerard V. Bradley, and Robert P. Hunt. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995. 271p. $64.50 cloth, $26.95 paper. In the forward to Catholicism, Liberalism, and Communitarianism, a collection of 14 essays by...

Feminist Interpretations of Hannah Arendt.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Bonnie Honig. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1995. 383p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. As Elisabeth Young-Bruehl notes in her blurb on the back of this book, it is "startling" that Hannah Arendt should have become...

The Barbarism of Reason: Max Weber and the Twilight of Enlightenment.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Asher Horowitz and Terry Maley. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. 312p. $60.00 cloth, $25.95 paper. Max Weber has left theorists today with two major problems pitched at two different levels of analysis. One problem, at an...

Rights.
September 1, 1996... By Peter Jones. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. 258p. $49.50. Peter Jones's Rights provides a careful and wide-ranging review and assessment of theoretical work on rights, emphasizing human rights. It is one of those rare introductory...

The Handbook of Experimental Economics.
September 1, 1996... Edited by John H. Kagel and Alvin E. Roth. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. 721p. $55.00. This volume, edited by John H. Kagel and Alvin E. Roth, contains an impressive set of essays that summarize the present state of experimental...

Leo Strauss and Nietzsche.
September 1, 1996... By Laurence Lampert. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 239p. $22.50. Laurence Lampert has shared a Dionysian communion cup with Nietzsche; Leo Strauss and Nietzsche is the result of this pious intoxication. It is written with...

Paradoxes of Gender.
September 1, 1996... By Judith Lorber. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996. 424p. $35.00 cloth, $15.00 paper. Lorber constructs an analytically clear, sociologically wideranging, and politically pertinent account of gender. Arguing from a thoroughgoing social...

Pluralism, Justice, and Equality.
September 1, 1996... Edited by David Miller and Michael Walzer. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995. 307p. $19.95. In this volume, eleven leading political theorists evaluate Michael Walzer's notion of complex equality and democratic citizenship in Spheres of...

Poetic Justice: The Literary Imagination and Public Life.
September 1, 1996... By Martha Nussbaum. Boston: Beacon Press 1996. 176p. $20. Literature typically gets short shrift from political scientists. Literature may deal with politics, but it is not science. It is not general or abstract, nor is it orderly, simple, or...

Political Philosophy and the Human Soul: Essays in Honour of Allan Bloom.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Michael Palmer and Thomas L. Pangle. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995. 280p. $34.95. Allan Bloom was a man of letters who had the good fortune to reach both a scholarly and a popular audience--but not on a plane of universal...

Metaphysics as Rhetoric: Alfarabi's Summary of Plato's Laws.
September 1, 1996... By Joshua Parens. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 195p. $54.50 cloth, $17.95 paper. Despite a revival of interest in classical political thought, Plato remains under a cloud. Weighty thinkers accuse Plato of having relied on...

Plato's Statesman: The Web of Politics.
September 1, 1996... By Stanley Rosen. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. 196p. $25.00. Despite a revival of interest in classical political thought, Plato remains under a cloud. Weighty thinkers accuse Plato of having relied on untenable metaphysical dogmas...

The Death of Socrates and the Life of Philosophy.
September 1, 1996... By Peter J. Ahrensdorf. Albany: State University of New York Press. 238p. $59.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Despite a revival of interest in classical political thought, Plato remains under a cloud. Weighty thinkers accuse Plato of having relied on...

The Permanence of the Political: A Democratic Critique of the Radical Impulse to Transcend Politics.
September 1, 1996... By Joseph M. Schwartz. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. 336p. $39.50 cloth, $31.50 paper. Radicals have never had an easy time with politics. Enraged by injustice, drawn to Utopia, seduced by perfection, they too often see in the...

Culture/Flesh: Explorations of Postcivilized Modernity.
September 1, 1996... By Michael A. Weinstein. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1995. 144p. $48.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Michael Weinstein's Culture/Flesh is an extended meditation on the human condition in postcivilized modernity. Weinstein portrays the modern...

Liberalism Without Illusions: Essays on Liberal Theory and the Political Vision of Judith N. Shklar.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Bernard Yack. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 292p. $42.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. This is a welcome collection of sixteen essays responding to and attempting to continue the investigations and lines of reflection of one of...

Proportional Representation and Election Reform in Ohio.
September 1, 1996... By Kathleen L. Barber. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1995. 383p. $45.00 Kathleen Barber has written a book that makes a substantial contribution to our knowledge about electoral systems and proportional representation. The book...

Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP.
September 1, 1996... By Mary C. Brennan. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995. 210p. $29.95. Mention of the 1960s typically evokes thoughts of JFK and LBJ, the Great Society and the counterculture, the Civil Rights movement and antiwar protests....

The Growth of American Government: Governance from the Cleveland Era to the Present.
September 1, 1996... By Ballard C. Camp bell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995. 289p. $35.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. The author is an historian at Northeastern University. He comes to a topic that has long interested political science--the growth of...

The Clinton Presidency: First Appraisals.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Colin Campbell and Bert A. Rockman. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1996. 408p. $32.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Assessing presidential performance is a favorite sport of scholars, journalists, and other political junkies. When undertaken by...

Experts and Politicians: Reform Challenges to Machine Politics in New York, Cleveland, and Chicago.
September 1, 1996... By Kenneth Finegold. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. 264p. $39.50. The study of urban political development has come a long way since the days when city politics was treated as a clash between a machine orientation based in...

Regulation in the Reagan-Bush Era: The Eruption of Presidential Influence.
September 1, 1996... By Barry D. Friedman. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 261p. $59.95. Barry Friedman's new book is a solid contribution to the literature on presidential influence of the bureaucracy. It is one of the few books, along with the...

Saving the Constitution from the Courts.
September 1, 1996... By William Gangi. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995. 326p. $45.00. On the eve of his controversial nomination to the United States Supreme Court, Judge Robert H. Bork wrote that there was a torrent of constitutional theorizing pouring...

Everybody's Children: Child Care as a Public Problem.
September 1, 1996... By William T. Gormley, Jr. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1995. 243p. $38.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. William Gormley accomplishes three very important things in Everybody's Children: He makes a compelling case for government intervention in...

Candidate Images in Presidential Elections.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Kenneth L. Hacker. New York: Praeger, 1995. 201p. $18.95. Candidate Images in Presidential Elections is based on the beliefs that elections are central to the maintenance of American democracy and that political images--especially...

The Future of the Space Industry: Private Enterprise and Public Policy.
September 1, 1996... By Roger Handberg. Westport, CT: Quorom Books, 1995. 192p. $55.00. The Future of Space Industry is twice an excellent book--once as a piece of original research and twice as an important volume in the growing subdiscipline of space policy...

The Foundation of Merit: Public Service in American Democracy.
September 1, 1996... By Patricia Wallace Ingraham. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 170p. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. As political science and public administration drifted apart, knowledge of the American federal public service became the province...

Can Democracies Fly in Space? The Challenge of Revitalizing the U.S. Space Program.
September 1, 1996... By W. D. Kay. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995. 256p. $59.95. Early in the space era Defense Department official Herb York said, "Space is a place, not a mission." This remark epitomizes a continuing tension in the space program. On the one hand,...

Presidential Polls and the News Media.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Paul J. Lavrakas, Michael W. Traugott, and Peter V. Miller. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995. 275p. $65.00. This is a book that fails in the task it sets for itself and yet succeeds in a larger intellectual sense. The editors have...

Political Judgement: Structure and Process.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Milton Lodge and Kathleen McGraw. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. 313p. $39.50. In 1989 Bob Luskin, John Bolland, and I wrote an article in the American Political Science Review that raised questions about schema...

In Pursuit of the White House: How We Choose Our Presidential Nominees.
September 1, 1996... Edited by William G. Mayer. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1996. 368p. $17.95. In the old story about several blind observers and an elephant, each one who touched a separate part of the beast concluded that he had encountered a different kind of...

Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas.
September 1, 1996... By Armando Navarro. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995. 288p. $40.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. One topic in critical need of scholarly attention is the role that Mexican-Americans played in the Civil Rights movement. The political upheaval...

Narrative Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice.
September 1, 1996... By Emery Roe. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994. 199p. $39.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. Emery Roe hopes to illustrate how policy analysts would benefit from applying literary theory to intractable policy problems. As Roe sees it, traditional...

Flirting with Disaster: Public Management in Crisis Situations.
September 1, 1996... By Saundra K. Schneider. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1995.187p. $55.00 cloth, $21.95 paper. With the waning of the Cold War, governmental response to disaster has emerged as a major issue in public policy. Natural disasters have historically...

Democracy and Technology.
September 1, 1996... By Richard E. Sclove. New York: Guilford, 1995. 338p. $42.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. The second half of the twentieth century has produced its share of influential voices decrying the impact of technology on political life. Work in this vein...

Democracy, Education, and the Schools.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Roger Soder. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996. 293p. $29.95. How do young people become good citizens of a democratic polity? What is the role of the public schools in effecting this outcome? These classic questions are addressed...

Perpetuating the Pork Barrel: Policy Subsystems and American Democracy.
September 1, 1996... By Robert M. Stein and Kenneth N. Bickers. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995. 232p. $49.95. Consider a simple legislative system in which rational, elected legislators represent individual districts and want to remain in the...

Post-Passage Politics: Bicameral Resolution in Congress.
September 1, 1996... By Stephen D. Van Beek. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 227p. $49.95. Citizens and commentators regularly talk about "the Congress" as if it were a unicameral rather than a bicameral body. Often forgotten is that the House...

Communication in Congress: Members, Staff, and the Search for Information.
September 1, 1996... By David Whiteman. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1995. 252p. $35.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. In Communication in Congress, David Whiteman takes on a question that has lingered in the background of Congress studies for two decades: What is...

The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient.
September 1, 1996... By Donald Wittman. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 240p. $29.95. On the whole, economists are known in political science for their pessimistic views about democratic politics and the performance of public programs. Nearly all...

Abortion Politics in the Federal Courts: Right versus Right.
September 1, 1996... By Barbara M. Yarnold. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995. 156p. $49.95. Examining the decisions, litigants, and interest groups involved as amicus curiae in 145 federal district court cases from 1973 to 1990 that cite to Roe v. Wade (1973), Barbara...

Value Change in Global Perspective.
September 1, 1996... By Paul R. Abramson and Ronald Inglehart. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 1995. 180p. $44.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Over the last three decades, Ron Inglehart's theory of Postmaterialism has had a major influence on the study of comparative...

Towards Illiberal Democracy in Pacific Asia.
September 1, 1996... By Daniel A. Bell, David Brown, Kanishka Jayasuriya, and David M. Jones. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 197p. $59.95. Daniel Bell and his colleagues have put together a valuable contribution to the scholarly debate over Asian democracy,...

Fragile Democracies: The Legacies of Authoritarian Rule.
September 1, 1996... By Gretchen Casper. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 202p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Using a number of cases in Latin America and the Philippines as recent exemplars, this book seeks to demonstrate that the aftermath of...

The Workers' Movement in Russia.
September 1, 1996... By Simon Clarke, Peter Fairbrother, and Vadim Borisov. Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1995. 431p. $79.95. Worker unrest was one of the many factors contributing to the collapse of Gorbachev's reforms and ultimately the Soviet Union itself. The...

Soviet Workers and the Collapse of Perestroika: The Soviet Labour Process and Gorbachev's Reforms, 1985-1991.
September 1, 1996... By Donald Filtzer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 295p. $54.95. Worker unrest was one of the many factors contributing to the collapse of Gorbachev's reforms and ultimately the Soviet Union itself. The number and intensity of...

Embedded Autonomy: States and Industrial Transformation.
September 1, 1996... By Peter Evans. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995. 323p. $49.50 cloth, $17.95 paper This is a wonderful book, a real tour de force. It is essential reading for students of the political economy of development. It is also highly...

Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Identity: Cross-National and Comparative Perspectives.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Russell F. Farnen. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1994. 538p. $49.95 This collection of essays, written by members of a research committee of the International Political Science Association, deals with ethnicity and a number of...

The Italian Revolution: The End of Politics Italian Style?
September 1, 1996... By Mark Gilbert. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1995. 204p. $44.95 cloth, $14.95 paper.

The Crisis of the Italian State: From the Origins of the Cold War to the Fall of Berlusconi.
September 1, 1996... By Patrick McCarthy. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. 230p. $39.95 Evaluations by Anglo-American observers of Italy's democratic political system seem to have gone through three stages. The earliest judgments, dating from the 1950s and...

The Politics of Democratic Consolidation: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Richard Gunther, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, and Hans-Jurgen Puhle. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 493p. $60.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. This anthology about Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain is the first in a series...

Policymaking for Conservation in Latin America: National Parks, Reserves, and the Environment.
September 1, 1996... By Jack W. Hopkins. Westport, CI,: Praeger, 1995. 216p. $55.00. The general literature on environment and development focuses heavily on the diagnosis of specific problems in order to advance prescriptions for their solution. Yet, few studies...

Professionals Against Populism: The Peres Government and Democracy.
September 1, 1996... By Michael Keren. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 147p. $16.95. Michael Keren has written a first-rate, bold, and (in the best sense) provocative work of scholarship and argumentation on the appropriate role of the knowledge...

Social Justice and Political Change: Public Opinion in Capitalist and Post-Capitalist States.
September 1, 1996... Edited by James R. Kluegel, David S. Mason, and Bernard Wegener. New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1995. $55.95 cloth, $27.95 paper. The editors and contributors to Social Justice and Political Change have made a significant addition to our...

Cash, Crisis, and Corporate Governance: The Role of National Financial Systems in Industrial Restructuring.
September 1, 1996... By Victoria Marklew. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995. 260p. $44.50. This book explores how national finance affects firm survival and adaptation in times of crisis. The idea is not new; it was first systematically explored by...

Fundamentalism Comprehended.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Martin E. Marty and R. Scott Appleby. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995. 522p. Vol. 5 of The Fundamentalism Project. $45.00. The American Academy of Arts and Sciences commissioned the Fundamentalism Project in 1988, and this...

Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Valentine M. Moghadam. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994. 366p. $60.00. Democratic Reform and the Position of Women in Transitional Economies is the product of a conference entitled "Perestroika, the 1989 Revolutions and Women,"...

The Rebirth of Russian Democracy: An Interpretation of Political Culture.
September 1, 1996... By Nicolai N. Petrol Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1995. 225p. $39.95. However questionable many of Nicolai Petro's assumptions and his account of Russian political culture are, the author has made a useful contribution to the...

Mexico Faces the 21st Century.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Donald E. Schulz and Edward J. Williams. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995. 218p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Schulz and Williams have put together an edited volume of essays about contemporary Mexican politics that is neither the best nor...

Immigrants and Nationalists: Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation in Catalonia, the Basque Country, Latvia, and Estonia.
September 1, 1996... By Gershon Shafir. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995. 279p. $19.95 paper. The phenomena the author examines and seeks to explain are the migration to industrialized regions by culturally diverse citizens of the same state and...

Deng Xiaoping: Portrait of a Chinese Statesman.
September 1, 1996... Edited by David Shambaugh. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. 172p. $16.95 paper. Contemporary Chinese politics can be divided primarily into two periods: the era of Mao Zedong from 1949 to 1976 and the era of Deng Xiaoping...

The Global Expansion of Judicial Power.
September 1, 1996... Edited by C. Neal Tate and Torbjorn Vallinder. New York: New York University Press, 1995. 556p. $45.00. Not many years ago if you told someone at a political science convention that your interest was comparative judicial politics, it...

Political Culture and Civil Society in Russia and the New States of Eurasia.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Vladimir Tismaneanu. Ar monk, N.Y.: M. E. Sharpe, 1995. 384p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. The role of political culture in the transition to and consolidation of new democratic regimes remains a source of some disagreement among...

Indigenous Peoples and Democracy in Latin America.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Donna Lee Van Cott. New York: St. Martin's, 1994. 274p. $45.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. This book is an important and valuable contribution to both the increasingly crowded literature on democratization in Latin America (and elsewhere)...

The Legacies of Communism in Eastern Europe.
September 1, 1996... Edited by Ivan Volgyes and Zoltan Barany. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995. 338p. $48.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. This book comprises several extensively researched and well-written chapters that trace political (both domestic and...

The Brazilian Voter: Mass Politics in Democratic Transition, 1974-1986.
September 1, 1996... By Kurt von Mettenheim. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1995. 289p. $49.95. Why do people vote the way they do? Specialists in electoral behavior and party systems no longer seem to know. Once-stable patterns of voter...

Government Survival in Parliamentary Democracies.
September 1, 1996... By Paul V. Warwick. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994. 182p. $49.95. Our knowledge of government coalitions in parliamentary democracies used to be much like the proverbial Hollywood films of the 1950s: Much was made of the process...