American Political Science Review articles from September 1997

American Political Science Review archives from September 1997

The correlates of change in international financial regulation.
September 1, 1997... International financial liberalization is well advanced in many countries, but scholarly descriptions and analyses of this form of deregulation are in their infancy. My aim in this paper is to address a basic lacuna in scholarship on the politics...

The effect of dynamic and static choice sets on political decision making: an analysis using the decision board platform.
September 1, 1997... The debate whether heuristic-based cognitive models or holistic rational theories explain decision making or choice is at the crux of social science research (see Green and Shapiro 1994, Grofman 1993, Monroe 1991, Zey 1992). Some scholars argue...

Media framing of a civil liberties conflict and its effect on tolerance.
September 1, 1997... About 50 million Americans watch the CBS, NBC, or ABC network news on an average evening, and an even greater share of the public watches at least a portion of their favorite local news broadcast (Ansolabehere, Behr, and Iyengar 1993). Among...

Voting correctly.
September 1, 1997... The classic texts of democratic theory (such as J. S. Mill and Rousseau) assume that for a democracy to function properly the average citizen should be interested in, pay attention to, discuss, and actively participate in politics. The attention...

Citizenship and ethnicity: an examination of two transition moments in Kenyan politics.
September 1, 1997... The recent political transition in Kenya provoked a debate over which institutions are appropriate to govern a multiethnic democracy. This continuing debate reflects the enduring and problematic relevance of ethnicity to democratic politics there...

Echoes from the past: the relationship between satisfaction with economic reforms and voting behavior in Poland.
September 1, 1997... What accounts for satisfaction with reforms in transitional societies? Does economic dissatisfaction translate into a vote for the return of reconstituted communist parties? Many scholars have hypothesized that as people's suffering intensifies,...

Political constructivism in Rawls's 'Political Liberalism.'
September 1, 1997... In Political Liberalism, John Rawls (1993) employs a distinctive method of "political constructivism" to establish his well-known principles of justice. He argues that his principles are suited to bridge the ineradicable pluralism of liberal...

Christianity and republicanism: from St. Cyprian to Rousseau.
September 1, 1997... In the late twentieth century the relationship between republicanism and Christianity may not be problematic. A common view among intellectual historians (notably Pocock 1975, Skinner 1978, Ullmann [1961] 1966, and their followers) is that in...

Gender and justice in Plato.
September 1, 1997... No part of Plato's outline of the perfectly just society in the Republic has generated more controversy than its arrangements regarding the role of women and the family. Plato's proposals in Book 5 of that work to confer equality on women and...

Mass opposition to the Soviet putsch of August 1991: collective action, rational choice, and democratic values in the former Soviet Union.
September 1, 1997... On August 19, 1991, a small band of leaders of the Soviet Union attempted a coup d'etat against the government of Mikhail Gorbachev. Claiming that the then-president Gorbachev was ill and unable to govern, the eight-man State Committee for the...

The long-run advantages of centralization for collective action: a comment on Bendor and Mookherjee. (response to article by Jonathan Bendor and Dilip Mookherjee, American Political Science Review, vol.81, p.129, Mar 1987)
September 1, 1997... Problems of collective action pervade social and political life. As Mancur Olson (1965) observed three decades ago, self-interest can lead rational individuals to exploit the benefits of cooperative activity without contributing to the collective...

Nationalism and Rationality.
September 1, 1997... In a review of the literature on comparative politics, provocatively entitled "Paradigms and Sand Castles," Barbara Geddes (1991) bemoans the transient nature of the field. Rather than being rejected, theories are being discarded, she declares;...

Radicals, Reformers, and Reactionaries: The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Collapse of Democracy in Latin America.
September 1, 1997... In a review of the literature on comparative politics, provocatively entitled "Paradigms and Sand Castles," Barbara Geddes (1991) bemoans the transient nature of the field. Rather than being rejected, theories are being discarded, she declares;...

Game Theory and the Transition to Democracy: The Spanish Model.
September 1, 1997... In a review of the literature on comparative politics, provocatively entitled "Paradigms and Sand Castles," Barbara Geddes (1991) bemoans the transient nature of the field. Rather than being rejected, theories are being discarded, she declares;...

Structure and Policy in Japan and the United States.
September 1, 1997... In a review of the literature on comparative politics, provocatively entitled "Paradigms and Sand Castles," Barbara Geddes (1991) bemoans the transient nature of the field. Rather than being rejected, theories are being discarded, she declares;...

Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification.
September 1, 1997... In a review of the literature on comparative politics, provocatively entitled "Paradigms and Sand Castles," Barbara Geddes (1991) bemoans the transient nature of the field. Rather than being rejected, theories are being discarded, she declares;...

Making and Breaking Governments: Cabinets and Legislatures in Parliamentary Democracies.
September 1, 1997... In a review of the literature on comparative politics, provocatively entitled "Paradigms and Sand Castles," Barbara Geddes (1991) bemoans the transient nature of the field. Rather than being rejected, theories are being discarded, she declares;...

Origins of a Spontaneous Revolution: East Germany 1989.
September 1, 1997... In a review of the literature on comparative politics, provocatively entitled "Paradigms and Sand Castles," Barbara Geddes (1991) bemoans the transient nature of the field. Rather than being rejected, theories are being discarded, she declares;...

Comparative politics and rational choice: a review essay.
September 1, 1997... In a review of the literature on comparative politics, provocatively entitled "Paradigms and Sand Castles," Barbara Geddes (1991) bemoans the transient nature of the field. Rather than being rejected, theories are being discarded, she declares;...

Norms in International Relations: The Struggle Against Apartheid.
September 1, 1997... Anthropology and comparative politics revel in diversity. International relations theory, especially in the security field, is built on a much narrower empirical foundation. Working within the dominant paradigm of realism, which emphasizes power...

The Cold War on the Periphery: The United States, India, and Pakistan.
September 1, 1997... Anthropology and comparative politics revel in diversity. International relations theory, especially in the security field, is built on a much narrower empirical foundation. Working within the dominant paradigm of realism, which emphasizes power...

Cooperation among Democracies: The European Influence on US Foreign Policy.
September 1, 1997... Anthropology and comparative politics revel in diversity. International relations theory, especially in the security field, is built on a much narrower empirical foundation. Working within the dominant paradigm of realism, which emphasizes power...

Dynamics of Regional Politics: Four Systems on the Indian Ocean Rim.
September 1, 1997... Anthropology and comparative politics revel in diversity. International relations theory, especially in the security field, is built on a much narrower empirical foundation. Working within the dominant paradigm of realism, which emphasizes power...

Small states and big alliances.
September 1, 1997... Anthropology and comparative politics revel in diversity. International relations theory, especially in the security field, is built on a much narrower empirical foundation. Working within the dominant paradigm of realism, which emphasizes power...

Empirical Studies in Institutional Change.
September 1, 1997... Jack Knight, Washington University in St. Louis Institutions matter. The reemergence of institutional analysis as a central research program in the social sciences attests to this fact. This revival of interest in institutions has taken many...

Preferences, Institutions and Rational Choice.
September 1, 1997... Jack Knight, Washington University in St. Louis Institutions matter. The reemergence of institutional analysis as a central research program in the social sciences attests to this fact. This revival of interest in institutions has taken many...

The Theory of Institutional Design.
September 1, 1997... Jack Knight, Washington University in St. Louis Institutions matter. The reemergence of institutional analysis as a central research program in the social sciences attests to this fact. This revival of interest in institutions has taken many...

Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political.
September 1, 1997... Melissa S. Williams, University of Toronto Theoretical understandings of democracy and democratic legitimacy are on the move, and the politics of identity and difference generates a good deal of that motion. Historically, political theory, and...

Fair Division: From Cake-Cutting to Dispute Resolution.
September 1, 1997... Matthew Mulford, London School of Economics There are at least two potential sources of conflict in situations in which a good or goods must be divided between parties. First, the parties may disagree about the proportion of the good(s) to...

Max Weber and Democratic Politics.
September 1, 1997... Lawrence A. Scaff, Pennsylvania State University Max Weber's politics generated substantial controversy during his lifetime. Such contemporaries as Troeltsch and Meinecke detected an increasingly independent and leftward drift as his...

The Ethos of Pluralization.
September 1, 1997... Mark Blasius, City University of New York It is a daunting task to climb into the mind of a theorist and partake of her or his worldview, but this is especially necessary when a writer develops a conceptual vocabulary to architectonically...

Hobbes and Christianity: Reassessing the Bible in 'Leviathan.'
September 1, 1997... Kerry Whiteside, Franklin and Marshall College Paul Cooke criticizes Leviathan from a Christian perspective. This entails, first, rehearsing Hobbes's argument in a lucid, if familiar, way. Cooke maintains that Hobbes deduces man's obligations...

Free Public Reason: Making It Up as We Go.
September 1, 1997... Mark E. Warren, Georgetown University For political liberals it is always better to resolve conflicts through the medium of public reason than through coercion, economic blackmail, or tradition. Instead of stipulating what kinds of political...

Citizenship in a Fragile World.
September 1, 1997... Katherine Fierlbeck, Dalhousie University Recent trials have increasingly illustrated the disturbing gap between the highly technical scientific evidence used in the courtroom and the inability of jurors to comprehend the nature of this...

Michel Foucault and the Politics of Freedom.
September 1, 1997... Brent L. Pickett, Chadron State College The central proposition of Dumm's book is that Foucault elaborated a theory of freedom which escapes traditional categories of negative and positive freedom, and that Foucault achieved this by...

Political Analysis: An Annual Publication of the Methodology Section of the American Political Science Association, vol 5.
September 1, 1997... R. Michael Alvarez, California Institute of Technology In the first review of the state of political methodology, Achen (Christopher H. Achen, "Towards Theories of Data: The State of Political Methodology." In Political Science: The State of...

Isaiah Berlin.
September 1, 1997... Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Harvard University Just as Isaiah Berlin's great essays on Vico, Herder, Machiavelli, Montesquieu, Tolstoy, and Herzen revealed as much about the outlook and opinions of the author writing them as about the figures he was...

Democracy and Disagreement.
September 1, 1997... Daniel M. Weinstock, Universite de Montreal How can controversial items of public policy be justified in politics marked by what John Rawls has called the "fact of pluralism"? Given fundamental moral disagreement on the values which ought to be...

Between Facts and Norms: Contributions to a Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy.
September 1, 1997... Seyla Benhabib, Harvard University Juergen Habermas, postwar Europe's leading social and political philosopher, started his career more than three decades ago with a series of essays that critically examined the ideals of the bourgeois...

Liberalism and Community.
September 1, 1997... Edward B. Portis, Texas A&M University Despite its title, this volume is not an extended discussion of the relationship between liberalism and the notion of political community. Rather, it purports to be a defense of what the author calls...

An Intellectual History of Liberalism.
September 1, 1997... Frank Andreas Sposito, University of Chicago Making sense of the history of liberalism has become as much a part of liberal thought as the more substantive analyses of power and institutions with which it traditionally has been occupied. It is...

The Politics of Presence.
September 1, 1997... Nancy L. Rosenblum, Brown University The olitics of "presence" (also called the politics of "difference," "identity," or "recognition") has become a familiar element of contemporary theories of justice. Political philosophers focus on the...

Unleashing Rights: Law, Meaning, and the Animal Rights Movement.
September 1, 1997... John Brigham, University of Massachusetts, Amherst This book is part of the series "Law, Meaning, and Violence," a source of scholarship that shows how to see law in more than instrumental ways. The preoccupation of lawyers with the law's...

Recent Marxian Theory: Class Formation and Social Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism.
September 1, 1997... Gavin Kitching, University of New South Wales This is an extremely good book. That is to say, it is among that rare group of academic books in which the author actually keeps his promise to the reader and does what he sets out to do. Sitton...

Reason and Rhetoric in the Philosophy of Hobbes.
September 1, 1997... David van Mill, University of Chicago Professor Skinner tries to show (1) that his historical approach is the best method for understanding the intentions of an author and (2) that this method allows us to see how Hobbes's work changed over...

Reading Aristotle's 'Ethics': Virtue, Rhetoric, and Political Philosophy.
September 1, 1997... Germaine Paulo Walsh, Texas Lutheran University Aristide Tessitore enters into the ongoing debate among students of Aristotle's "political" works by providing a detailed and probing analysis of the Nicomachean Ethics. As Tessitore discusses in...

Exploitation.
September 1, 1997... Robert E. Goodin, Australian National University Wertheimer rightly warns, right up front, that his is an odd treatment of exploitation. Most examinations are rooted in Marxian economics; Wertheimer's is rooted in bourgeois liberal...

The Problem That Won't Go Away: Reforming US Health Care Financing.
September 1, 1997... Richard Himelfarb, Hofstra University A growing senior citizen population, rapidly escalating costs for medical services, and rising numbers of uninsured Americans have focused the attention and energies of politicians and the public alike on...

License to Steal: Why Fraud Plagues America's Health Care System.
September 1, 1997... Richard Himelfarb, Hofstra University A growing senior citizen population, rapidly escalating costs for medical services, and rising numbers of uninsured Americans have focused the attention and energies of politicians and the public alike on...

Governing Health: The Politics of Health Policy.
September 1, 1997... Richard Himelfarb, Hofstra University A growing senior citizen population, rapidly escalating costs for medical services, and rising numbers of uninsured Americans have focused the attention and energies of politicians and the public alike on...

Strong Presidents: A Theory of Leadership.
September 1, 1997... Richard J. Ellis, Willamette University Phillip Abbott's newest book, Strong Presidents, is a fresh and often fascinating examination of a neglected topic: how presidents wrestle with the public image of their important predecessors. Building...

Serious Money: Fundraising and Contributing in Presidential Nominating Campaigns.
September 1, 1997... Candice J. Nelson, American University While PAC contributions to federal candidates have long received attention from political scientists, individual contributors have received much less attention from the scholarly community. Serious Money...

Extraordinary Politics: How Protest and Dissent Are Changing American Democracy.
September 1, 1997... David S. Meyer, CUNY/City College Our discipline has fallen down on the job of understanding the causes and effects of political protest movements in the United States. Political scientists have produced several important case studies of...

Senators on the Campaign Trail: The Politics of Representation.
September 1, 1997... Thomas A. Kazee, Davidson College Few political scientists have been as resourceful or successful as Richard Fenno in demonstrating the connections between elections and policy-making. He has argued, for example, that to understand Congress in...

Against the Imperial Judiciary: The Supreme Court vs. the Sovereignty of the People.
September 1, 1997... Frank Guliuzza III, Weber State University Robert Bork failed to secure confirmation to the Supreme Court in no small part because he could not persuade most Americans that, despite their fears to the contrary, he was indeed a friend of...

Improper Influence: Campaign Finance Law, Political Interest Groups, and the Problem of Equality.
September 1, 1997... Daniel M. Shea, University of Akron It is rare to find a book that affords a truly fresh perspective on the role of special interest groups in the financing of U.S. elections. It is also uncommon to find a theoretically rigorous essay...

The Population Ecology of Interest Representation.
September 1, 1997... Jeffrey M. Berry, Tufts University At the beginning of this rigorous and pathbreaking book, Virginia Gray and David Lowery pose a riddle about rabbits. In England the population of rabbits is rather modest, but when some of the animals were...

Participation in Congress.
September 1, 1997... E. Scott Adler, University of Colorado Richard Hall has undertaken a tremendous task in his book on legislative participation in Congress. Not only does he seek to explain when and why legislators play an active role in policymaking, but also...

New Deal Justice: The Constitutional Jurisprudence of Hugo L. Black, Felix Frankfurter, and Robert H. Jackson.
September 1, 1997... William Lasser, Clemson University Jeffrey D. Hockett's interesting study of the three leading lights of the Roosevelt Court is not really about "New Deal Justice"; the title, as the author admits, is subtly misleading. Given the three...

Crosstalk: Citizens, Candidates, and the Media in a Presidential Campaign.
September 1, 1997... Audrey A. Haynes, Georgia State University Anyone conducting research in media and politics knows the difficulties that abound in the endeavor. Studies in this area require large quantities of resources - particularly time, effort, and skill....

Federalism and Rights.
September 1, 1997... Michael Esler, Ohio Wesleyan University One promise of the recent discovery of state constitutional law by state courts, the so-called judicial federalism, is that states would take a more active role in protecting rights. This volume...

The Amerasia Spy Case: Prelude to McCarthyism.
September 1, 1997... Gary J. Schmitt, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies Although more and more is written each year on subjects related to intelligence, the scholarly quality of these works continues to be mixed. In part, this remains the case because...

Massachusetts Congregationalist Political Thought: 1760-1790.
September 1, 1997... Carson Holloway, Northern Illinois University John West examines the arguments surrounding "evangelical," or traditional Protestant, political activism in the United States from 1800 to 1835 with a view to enlightening the contemporary...

The Politics of Revelation and Reason: Religion and Civic Life in the New Nation.
September 1, 1997... Carson Holloway, Northern Illinois University John West examines the arguments surrounding "evangelical," or traditional Protestant, political activism in the United States from 1800 to 1835 with a view to enlightening the contemporary...

The Collapse of the Democratic Presidential Majority: Realignment, Dealignment, and Electoral Change from Franklin Roosevelt to Bill Clinton.
September 1, 1997... Byron E. Sharer, Oxford University Both of these books begin with the same basic puzzle. What is it that changed in American electoral politicking as the New Deal era ebbed, so as to yield such noticeably different outcomes? And how should we...

The Divided Democrats: Ideological Unity, Party Reform, and Presidential Elections.
September 1, 1997... Byron E. Sharer, Oxford University Both of these books begin with the same basic puzzle. What is it that changed in American electoral politicking as the New Deal era ebbed, so as to yield such noticeably different outcomes? And how should we...

The Irony of Reform: Roots of American Political Disenchantment.
September 1, 1997... William Lunch, Oregon State University G. Calvin Mackensie has written a volume that Charles Merriam or V. O. Key would like, if they were still with us, but that William Riker probably would not. That is because the book reflects the...

Farm and Factory: Workers in the Midwest, 1880-1990.
September 1, 1997... David Plotke, New School for Social Research Regions are making a comeback as analytical and empirical reference points. One reason is their function as centers of economic growth. Another is their significance as arenas where a degree of...

The Right and the Righteous: The Christian Right Confronts the Republican Party.
September 1, 1997... Matthew C. Moen, University of Maine For two decades, scholars have chronicled the rise and institutionalization of the Christian Right in American politics, as well as examined its fractures and future. The Right and the Righteous is the most...

Hollywood's America: Social and Political Themes in Motion Pictures.
September 1, 1997... Richard M. Merelman, University of Wisconsin, Madison These two books are important chapters in their authors' long-term investigations into U.S. political culture. As an oddly matched pair, they demonstrate there is far more to the recent...

Blackface, White Noise: Jewish Immigrants in the Hollywood Melting Pot.
September 1, 1997... Richard M. Merelman, University of Wisconsin, Madison These two books are important chapters in their authors' long-term investigations into U.S. political culture. As an oddly matched pair, they demonstrate there is far more to the recent...

Drawing the Line: Legislative Ethics in the States.
September 1, 1997... Gerald Benjamin, SUNY, New Paltz "Sit down," the Speaker gestured. (A bad sign. She stayed behind her desk.) "I've been looking over your mileage. Don't you car-pool with a couple of other members?" "Sure," the freshman legislator said. "But I...

Transforming Democracy: Legislative Campaign Committees and Political Parties.
September 1, 1997... John Frendreis, Loyola University Chicago The development of state legislative campaign committees has been much discussed but seldom studied systematically. With the exception of Gierzynski's Legislative Party Campaign Committees in the...

Imbalance of Powers: Constitutional Interpretation and the Making of American Foreign Policy.
September 1, 1997... Edward Keynes, Pennsylvania State University "There is an imbalance of powers in the making of American foreign policy," writes Gordon Silverstein, "instigated by presidents of both parties, acquiesced to by legislators of both parties, and...

Whose Welfare? AFDC and Elite Politics.
September 1, 1997... Charles Barrilleaux, Florida State University Steven Teles is distressed with the current state of welfare policy and politics in the United States. His analysis is the product of a self-acknowledged liberal ideological stance, albeit one...

Civil Service Systems in Comparative Perspective.
September 1, 1997... Bert A. Rockman, University of Pittsburgh This book is the result of an international conference held at Leiden and Rotterdam in October 1991. Its purpose is to extend comparative knowledge of civil service systems, and it seeks to do so by...

Negotiating Democracy: Transitions from Authoritarian Rule.
September 1, 1997... Terry Lynn Karl, Stanford University The appearance of more than 50 new democracies since 1974 has focused attention on why democracies arise and whether they will endure. Answers provided by scholars tend to fall into two categories: a...

Muslim Politics.
September 1, 1997... John L. Esposito, Georgetown University Given the proliferation of studies on political Islam, the challenge in recent years has been to determine which publications are more than a duplication of previous works. In Muslim Politics, James...

Revolution and the Multiclass Coalition in Nicaragua.
September 1, 1997... Alfred G. Cuzan, University of West Florida This book is a detailed examination of the probable motivations and actions taken by key Nicaraguan political players who in 1977-79 entered a cross-class alliance to overthrow the nearly...

Class and Conservative Parties: Argentina in Comparative Perspective.
September 1, 1997... Alberto Ciria, Simon Fraser University Edward Gibson has written a most interesting book on conservatism in Argentina and, subsidiarily, in Latin America. In this author's estimation, the work has three major objectives. First, develop concepts...

Time and Revolution: Marxism and the Design of Soviet Institutions.
September 1, 1997... Alfred B. Evans, Jr., California State University, Fresno This book views the history of Soviet Marxism-Leninism from a unique perspective. In a novel adaptation of a familiar typology authored by Max Weber, Hanson delineates contrasting...

Trying to Make Law Matter: Legal Reform and Labor Law in the Soviet Union.
September 1, 1997... Linda J, Cook, Brown University Kathryn Hendley shows that, despite protective legislation, Soviet workers could be easily and arbitrarily dismissed or transferred by management. On the face of it this may hardly seem surprising. We know that...

The Kuomintang and the Democratization of Taiwan.
September 1, 1997... Peter R. Moody, Jr., University of Notre Dame Taiwan was long ignored by students of comparative politics. What attention it did attract came from China specialists, who tended to regard the island as an uninteresting substitute for the real...

Electoral Laws and the Survival of Presidential Democracies.
September 1, 1997... John M. Carey, University of Rochester As Mark P. Jones points out in this new book, most analyses on the effects of electoral laws on political party systems have drawn on the experience, and the data, of the longstanding European democracies....