American Political Science Review articles from September 1998

American Political Science Review archives from September 1998

Individuals, institutions, and public preferences over public finance.
September 1, 1998... Of the many ideas that animate democracy, in both theory and practice, one of the most audacious demands that the preferences of ordinary citizens count for something in the creation of public policy. To this end, democracies contrive that...

A new approach to the study of ticket splitting.
September 1, 1998... The 1990s have witnessed a flurry of research on split-ticket voting and divided government in the United States (Alesina and Rosenthal 1995; Alvarez and Schousen 1993; Beck et al. 1992; Born 1994; Cox and Kernell 1991; Fiorina 1996; Frymer, Kim,...

Information effects in collective preferences.
September 1, 1998... A number of path-breaking studies in recent years have suggested that the mass public's inattention to politics may have less bearing on the quality of its collective opinions than previously thought (e.g., Converse 1990; Page and Shapiro 1992;...

New models for new labour: the political economy of Labour Party support, January 1992-April 1997.
September 1, 1998... Political parties can enjoy, as well as endure, remarkable reversals of fortune. The recent history of the British Labour Party provides an excellent example. In April 1992, Labour suffered its fourth consecutive general election defeat, and...

How does cabinet instability affect political performance? Portfolio volatility and health care cost containment in parliamentary democracies.
September 1, 1998... Does cabinet instability influence political performance in parliamentary democracies? If so, how does this occur? Previous research does not answer these questions because existing studies do not systematically examine instability as an...

Comparative dynamics of parliamentary governments.
September 1, 1998... Formal theories of parliamentary governments typically focus on the formation and duration of governments. This focus reflects the fundamental characteristic of such systems that the government is installed by and continues under the confidence...

Cohesion in legislatures and the vote of confidence procedure.
September 1, 1998... A central difference in legislative behavior between the U.S. Congress and parliamentary systems is the difference in voting cohesion. Members of parliamentary coalitions persistently vote together on different policy issues, while coalitions in...

International crises and domestic politics.
September 1, 1998... In 1990, prior to the Gulf War, President Bush made explicit foreign policy statements regarding Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. In short, he threatened Saddam Hussein. When this failed to cow Hussein into withdrawing, Bush followed through on his...

Hugo Grotius on ethics and war.
September 1, 1998... A certain ambivalence hovers today over the legacy of Hugo Grotius. The publication in 1625 of his great work, The Law of War and Peace (De Jure Belli ac Pacis), almost immediately brought him great renown throughout Europe, and for perhaps two...

The political determinants of international trade: the major powers, 1907-90.
September 1, 1998... Politics shapes international trade. We evaluate and elaborate three broad arguments that seek to explain how international politics shapes trade between states. These arguments explicitly assume that political factors have observable effects on...

Administrative procedures and political control of the bureaucracy.
September 1, 1998... Delegation of policymaking authority from elected officials to unelected bureaucrats is a fact of contemporary American politics. It does not, however, necessarily imply abdication, as officeholders possess instruments that potentially limit...

Freedom and Culture in Western Society.
September 1, 1998... By Hans Blokland. New York: Routledge, 1997. 319p. $74.95. Brent L. Pickett, Chadron State College Hans Blokland revisits the debate between positive and negative freedom. He seeks to defend a chastened version of positive freedom, one which...

Skepticism, Belief, and the Modern: Maimonides to Nietzsche.
September 1, 1998... By Aryeh Botwinick. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. 249p. $39.95. Fredrick Appel, Harvard University Aryeh Botwinick is nothing if not ambitious. In this provocative and occasionally insightful book he proposes...

Hannah Arendt and the Meaning of Politics.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Craig Calhoun and John McGowan. Afterword by Martin Jay. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 376p. $54.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Phillip Hansen, University of Regina This fine collection of essays, prepared...

Nietzsche's Dangerous Game: Philosophy in the Twilight of the Idols.
September 1, 1998... By Daniel W. Conway. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 267p. $54.95. Tracy B. Strong, University of California, San Diego Daniel Conway has written an important book focusing on what he calls Nietzsche's "mature political...

Ways of War and Peace: Realism, Liberalism, and Socialism.
September 1, 1998... By Michael W. Doyle. New York: W. W. Norton, 1997. 557p. $30.00. Steven Forde, University of North Texas This lengthy tome undertakes a truly ambitious project, mining the thought of the past two millenia for guidance on how to approach the...

Leo Strauss and the American Right.
September 1, 1998... By Shadia B. Drury. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 239p. $35.00. James F. Ward, University of Massachusetts Boston Shadia Drury's book is necessary reading for anyone interested in Leo Strauss's political teaching, its significance, and its...

The New Golden Rule: Community and Morality in a Democratic Society.
September 1, 1998... By Amitai Etzioni. New York: Basic Books, 1996. 314p. $27.50. Jeff Spinner-Haley, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Amitai Etzioni has written this book to clarify his version of communitarianism. He was partly prodded by critics of his earlier...

Corrupting Youth: Political Education, Democratic Culture, and Political Theory.
September 1, 1998... By J. Peter Euben. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 272p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. Susan D. Collins, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale In this rich and often moving study of the political and intellectual life of...

Tradition and Modernity: Philosophic Reflections on the African Experience.
September 1, 1998... By Kwame Gyekye. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 338p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Crawford Young, University of Wisconsin-Madison Kwame Gyekye is an ambitious scholar. A philosopher sometime of the University of Ghana, he...

Bodies of Law.
September 1, 1998... By Alan Hyde. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 266p. $49.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Thomas F. Tierney, Concord College Alan Hyde, a law professor at Rutgers, has read widely in the literature of body politics and has brought...

Creatures of Prometheus: Gender and the Politics of Technology.
September 1, 1998... By Timothy V. Kaufman-Osborn. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 292p. $57.50 cloth, $22.95 paper. Ruth Abbey, University of Western Australia Finding a title for this book cannot have been easy. One of Kaufman-Osborn's major concerns...

John Locke and the Origins of Private Property: Philosophical Explorations of Individualism, Community and Equality.
September 1, 1998... By Matthew H. Kramer. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 347p. $59.95. Eduardo A. Velasquez, Washington and Lee University John Locke's vision of the prepolitical and political condition of human beings, of the inherent powers by...

Piety and Humanity: Essays on Religion and Early Modern Political Philosophy.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Douglas Kries. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 286p. $68.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Peter Augustine Lawler, Berry College This excellent book is a most impressive and thorough defense of the relationship between "early modern...

Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment.
September 1, 1998... Edited by John Christian Laursen and Cary J. Nederman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. 288p. $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Occidental College & University of California, Los Angeles The idea of...

Difference and Dissent: Theories of Tolerance in Medieval and Early Modern Europe.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Cary J. Nederman and John Christian Laursen. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Allanheld, 1996. 240p. $62.50 cloth, $23.95 paper. Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Occidental College & University of California, Los Angeles The idea of toleration (of...

Politics and Truth: Political Theory and the Postmodern Challenge.
September 1, 1998... By Theresa Man Ling Lee. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 243p. $17.95. Louis Herman, University of Hawaii at West Oahu Ever since the "polls killed Socrates," those who follow the truth quest have kept a sharp eye on those...

Ecocritique: Contesting the Politics of Nature, Economy, and Culture.
September 1, 1998... By Timothy W. Luke. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1997. 253 p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. Leslie Paul Thiele, University of Florida One can estimate the maturity of a social movement by the caliber of its internal critics. A...

The Racial Contract.
September 1, 1998... By Charles W. Mills. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. 171p. $19.95. Andrew Valls, Morehouse College This is an ambitious little book, as it seeks to place race at the very center of political theory. Mills attempts to...

Liberalism and Its Discontents.
September 1, 1998... By Patrick Neal. New York: New York University Press, 1997. 209p. $40.00. Emily R. Gill, Bradley University Although Neal's book comprises a series of essays that have each appeared independently over the last dozen years, they fit together...

The Art of Being Free: Taking Liberties with Tocqueville, Marx, and Arendt.
September 1, 1998... By Mark Reinhardt. Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1997. 234p. $39.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. Michael Janover, Monash University This impassioned and lucid book proposes to "take liberties" with the reading of three modern...

The Political Consequences of Thinking: Gender and Judaism in the Work of Hannah Arendt.
September 1, 1998... By Jennifer Ring. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997. 358p. $34.50 cloth, $22.95 paper. Lisa Disch, University of Minnesota Jennifer Ring's fine new study of Hannah Arendt deserves a broad audience for, among other reasons, its...

Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity.
September 1, 1998... By Steven B. Smith. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 1997. 288p. $30.00. George M. Gross, Temple University Benedict de Spinoza (1632-77) was a major figure in the formation of liberal political thought and in the emergence...

Machiavelli's Three Romes: Religion, Liberty and Politics Reformed.
September 1, 1998... By Vickie B. Sullivan. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 1996. 249p. $30.00. Benedetto Fontana, Baruch College, CUNY Machiavelli's treatment of religion has sparked numerous controversies and debates among his interpreters. Some,...

Religion and Contemporary Liberalism.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Paul J. Weithman. Notre Dame, IN: Notre Dame University Press, 1997. 315p. $48.00 cloth, $23.00 paper. Robert Lowry Clinton, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale These 11 papers were presented at an interdisciplinary...

Making Crime Pay.
September 1, 1998... By Katherine Beckett. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 158p. $27.50. William E. Kelly, Auburn University The effects of crime on American society are quite interesting for the serious student of our criminal justice system. They...

Fortress America: Gated Communities in the United States.
September 1, 1998... By Edward J. Blakely and Mary Gall Snyder. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press; Cambridge, MA: Lincoln Institute of Land Policy, 1997. 209p. $24.95. John McGeady, Purdue University America's social fabric has begun to rip. Our sense...

The Other Elites: Women, Politics, and Power in the Executive Branch.
September 1, 1998... Edited by MaryAnne Borrelli and Janet M. Martin. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997. 265p. $55.00. Susan J. Carroll, Rutgers University As scholars of women and politics have gained a stronger foothold in the discipline of political science,...

Justice Antonin Scalia and the Conservative Revival.
September 1, 1998... By Richard A. Brisbin, Jr. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 474p. $39.95. Sue Davis, University of Delaware Books on sitting justices of the Supreme Court have grown more common in the last ten years with the publication...

The International Origins of the Federal Reserve System.
September 1, 1998... By J. Lawrence Broz. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 269p. $35.00. Andrew J. Taylor, North Carolina State University For J. Lawrence Broz, the sources of the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 can be found in the internationalization of...

Bitter Harvest: FDR, Presidential Power and the Growth of the Presidential Branch.
September 1, 1998... By Matthew J. Dickinson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 267p. $49.95. Joseph A. Pika, University of Delaware Analysts of presidential stalling and presidents themselves have long ignored the administrative strategy of Franklin...

The Color of Politics: Race and the Mainsprings of American Politics.
September 1, 1998... By Michael Goldfield. New York: New Press, 1997. 404p. $19.95. Mamie E. Locke, Hampton University Studs Terkel has argued that race is the "American obsession" that permeates every facet of our social existence. There are not many issues...

African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Ann D. Gordon, with Bettye Collier-Thomas, John H. Bracey, Arlene Voski Avakian, and Joyce Avrech Berkman. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. 217p. $45.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College This...

How Long? How Long? African-American Women in the Struggle for Civil Rights.
September 1, 1998... By Belinda Robnett. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 256p. $35.00 cloth, $18.97 paper. Carol Nackenoff, Swarthmore College This monograph and a collection of essays effectively argue that to treat gender in the history of African...

The Bully Pulpit: The Politics of Protestant Clergy.
September 1, 1998... By James L. Guth, John C. Green, Corwin E. Smidt, Lyman A. Kellstedt, and Margaret M. Poloma. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. 221p. $35.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. Laura R. Olson, Clemson University Like other types of social...

Enforcing the Law: The Case of the Clean Water Acts.
September 1, 1998... By Susan Hunter and Richard W. Waterman. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1996. 248p. $66.95 cloth, $28.95 paper. James P. Lester, Colorado State University The implementation of environmental policy in the United States over the past two decades is...

New York Politics and Government: Competition and Compassion.
September 1, 1998... By Sarah F. Liebschutz, with Robert W. Bailey, Jeffrey M. Stonecash, Jane Shapiro Zacek, and Joseph F. Zimmerman. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 234p. $45.00 cloth, $20.00 paper. Robert F. Pecorella, St. John's University The...

Left Out: Pragmatism, Exceptionalism, and the Poverty of American Marxism, 1890-1922.
September 1, 1998... By Brian Lloyd. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 461p. $45.00. Clyde W. Barrow, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth Brian Lloyd's Left Out presents a direct challenge to the generally accepted histories of U.S....

Welfare as We Knew It: A Political History of the American Welfare State.
September 1, 1998... By Charles Noble. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 210p. $45.00. Gretchen Ritter, University of Texas at Austin Why is the American welfare state so different? It is a question which has engaged students of American politics for much...

Women, Media, and Politics.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Pippa Norris. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 269p. $19.95 paper. Laurie A. Rhodebeck, Oberlin College Pippa Norris describes the objective of her edited volume as an attempt to "see whether the media frame gender politics...

Race, Politics, and Governance in the United States.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Huey L. Perry. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 1997. 240p. $49.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Georgia A. Persons, Georgia Institute of Technology Huey Perry has produced an interesting anthology on black politics that is focused...

God at the Grass Roots: The Christian Right in the 1996 Election.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Mark J. Rozell and Clyde Wilcox. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1997. 292p. $60.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. Stuart A. Lille, University of Central Florida In quite different ways these books increase our understanding of the...

The Christian Coalition: Dreams of Restoration, Demands for Recognition.
September 1, 1998... By Justin Watson. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 295p. $35.00. Stuart A. Lille, University of Central Florida In quite different ways these books increase our understanding of the dynamics of the Christian Right. The Watson book studies the...

Race, Law and Culture: Reflections on Brown v. Board of Education.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Austin Sarat. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 238p. $45.00 cloth, $16.95 paper. Elliot E. Slotnick, The Ohio State University Race, Law and Culture is a collection of diverse essays commemorating the 40th anniversary of...

The Betrayal of the Urban Poor.
September 1, 1998... By Helene Slessarev. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1997. 204p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Michele Hoyman, University of Missouri-St. Louis In Betrayal of the Urban Poor, Slessarev asks a central and compelling question in urban...

Pasteur's Quadrant: Basic Science and Technological Innovation.
September 1, 1998... By Donald E. Stokes. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution, 1997. 196p. $38.95 cloth, $14.95 paper. James A. Desveaux, University of California at Los Angeles In Pasteur's Quadrant, the author calls for a complete reassessment of the linear...

Faces of Feminism: An Activist's Reflections on the Women's Movement.
September 1, 1998... By Sheila Tobias. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997. 332p. $24.00. Martha A. Ackelsberg, Smith College Right at the beginning of this fascinating analysis of the contemporary U.S. women's movement, Sheila Tobias notes that it is "not a scholar's...

Still Seeing Red: How the Cold War Shapes the New American Politics.
September 1, 1998... By John Kenneth White. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997. 386p. $29.95. Howard L. Reiter, University of Connecticut Most attempts to explain changes in American party politics over the past several decades have focused on domestic trends, such as...

The Recall: Tribunal of the People.
September 1, 1998... By Joseph F. Zimmerman. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 194p. $55.00. Charles Press, Michigan State University Zimmerman's study of recall at the state and local level supplements his previous works on participatory democracy, populism, and the...

Dilemmas of Democracy in Nigeria.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Paul A. Beckett and Crawford Young. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 1997. 450p. $65.00. John A. Wiseman, University of Newcastle upon Tyne It is a central paradox of Nigerian politics that, despite a military...

The Russian Parliamentary Elections of 1995: The Battle for the Duma.
September 1, 1998... By Laura Belin and Robert W. Orttung. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 1997. 203p. $62.95. Steven L. Solnick, Columbia University The Russian parliamentary elections of 1995 and presidential elections of 1996 were milestones. For the first time, a...

Russia's 1996 Presidential Election: The End of Polarized Politics.
September 1, 1998... By Michael McFaul. Stanford, CA: Hoover Institution Press, 1997. 169p. $17.95. Steven L. Solnick, Columbia University The Russian parliamentary elections of 1995 and presidential elections of 1996 were milestones. For the first time, a...

Theft of an Idol: Text and Context in the Representation of Collective Violence.
September 1, 1998... By Paul R. Brass. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 317p. $55.00 cloth, $17.95 paper. Sumit Ganguly, Hunter College of the City University of New York Paul Brass, one of this country's leading political scientists working on...

Political Parties and Democracy in Portugal: Organizations, Elections, and Public Opinion.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Thomas C. Bruneau. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997. 145p. $55.00. Howard J. Wiarda, University of Massachusetts Portugal in 1974 was the first country in the so-called third wave of late-twentieth-century democratizations. The...

European Portugal: The Difficult Road to Sustainable Democracy.
September 1, 1998... By Jose M. Magone. London: Macmillan, 1997; New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 217p. $59.95. Howard J. Wiarda, University of Massachusetts Portugal in 1974 was the first country in the so-called third wave of late-twentieth-century...

Manufacturing Insecurity: The Rise and Fall of Brazil's Military-Industrial Complex.
September 1, 1998... By Ken Conca. Boulder, CO, and London: Lynne Rienner, 1997. 281p. $55.00. Wendy Hunter, Vanderbilt University Between 1970 and 1985, Brazil became a Third World leader in military research and development and a major producer and exporter of...

Making Votes Count: Strategic Coordination in the World's Electoral System.
September 1, 1998... By Gary Cox. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 340p. $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Melvin J. Hinich, University of Texas at Austin Every serious scholar of political systems should read this book. Gary Cox has superbly organized the...

The State Against Society: Political Crises and Their Aftermath in East Central Europe.
September 1, 1998... By Grzegorz Ekiert. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 435p. $59.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Michael Bernhard, Pennsylvania State University This is one of those rare works that combines a rich comparative historical understanding...

The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru.
September 1, 1998... By Michael Fleet and Brian H. Smith. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. 378p. $45.00. Philip J. Williams, University of Florida These two books add to the growing literature on religion and politics in Latin America. Fleet...

Contradiction and Conflict: The Popular Church in Nicaragua.
September 1, 1998... By Debra Sabia. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1997. 256p. $34.95. Philip J. Williams, University of Florida These two books add to the growing literature on religion and politics in Latin America. Fleet and Smith's comparative...

Ethnic Conflict: Commerce, Culture, and the Contact Hypothesis.
September 1, 1998... By H. D. Forbes. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 304p. $30.00. Milton J. Esman, Cornell University The academic literature on ethnic conflict addresses two problems: the causes of ethnic conflict and how they can be managed or...

Russian Civil-Military Relations.
September 1, 1998... By Dale R. Herspring. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997. 272p. $35.00. Mark Kramer, Harvard University Civil-military relations in newly democratizing states of the Third World and in the former dictatorships of southern Europe,...

Post-Marcos Politics: A Geographical and Statistical Analysis of the 1992 Presidential Election.
September 1, 1998... By Carl H. Lande. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies; New York: St. Martin's, 1996. 171p. $49.95. Jeffrey M. Riedinger, Michigan State University Carl Lande offers Southeast Asian scholars another seminal contribution in this...

Capital Ungoverned: Liberalizing Finance in Interventionist States.
September 1, 1998... By Michael Loriaux, Meredith Woo-Cumings, Kent E. Calder, Sylvia Maxfield, and Sofia Perez. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 234p. $39.95 cloth, $15.95 paper. Ethan B. Kapstein, University of Minnesota Now that reregulation of...

Russia's Politics of Uncertainty.
September 1, 1998... By Mary McAuley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 351p. $64.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Alfred B. Evans, Jr., California State University, Fresno McAuley has undertaken an ambitious enterprise, since her study delineates changes in...

Peronism Without Peron: Unions, Parties, and Democracy in Argentina.
September 1, 1998... By James W. McGuire. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. 388p. $55.00. J. Patrice McSherry, Long Island University/Brooklyn What explains Argentina's recurrent failure to consolidate a democratic political system? This political...

Democracy and Dictatorship in Ghana and Tanzania.
September 1, 1998... By Robert Pinkney. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 230p. $59.95. James R. Scarritt, University of Colorado at Boulder Using a conceptual framework developed in his 1994 book, Democracy in the Third World, Pinkney compares Ghana and Tanzania...

Political Participation in Beijing.
September 1, 1998... By Tianjian Shi. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 334p. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Yang Zhong, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Empirical and systematic study of mass political culture and behavior in communist countries has...

Remembering Stalin's Victims: Popular Memory and the End of the USSR.
September 1, 1998... By Kathleen E. Smith. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. 219p. $29.95. Jeffrey W. Hahn, Villanova University One of the most troubling questions for societies making a transition from authoritarian rule is how those in power will...

The Clash of Rights: Liberty, Equality, and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy.
September 1, 1998... By Paul M. Sniderman, Joseph F. Fletcher, Peter H. Russell, and Phillip E. Tetlock. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1996. 291p. $35.00 cloth, $18.00 paper. Patrick Malcolmson, St. Thomas University Perhaps it is less the case now than...

Post-Communist Presidents.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Ray Taras. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 250p. $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Timothy Frye, The Ohio State University Ray Taras and his coauthors have produced a useful work that captures the intricacy of creating...

Demanding Democracy: Reform and Reaction in Cost Rica and Guatemala, 1870s-1950s.
September 1, 1998... Deborah J. Yashar. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1997. 319p. $49.50 cloth, $17.95 paper. Mitchell A. Seligson, University of Pittsburgh Deborah Yashar's richly detailed and nuanced case studies of Guatemala and Costa Rica should...

Post-Realism: The Rhetorical Turn in International Relations.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Francis A. Beer and Robert Hariman. East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1996. 429p. $35.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. Ronald J. Deibert, University of Toronto It is now commonplace to note that we live in a world of...

Friends in Need: Burden Sharing in the Gulf War.
September 1, 1998... Edited by Andrew Bennett, Joseph Lepgold, and Danny Unger. New York: St. Martin's, 1997. 362p. $55.00. Gerald Steinberg, BESA Center, Bar Ilan University In 1991, the Bush administration went to war against Saddam Hussein, claiming to be...