American Political Science Review articles from September 1999

American Political Science Review archives from September 1999

Editor's Notes.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Full information about methods used in empirical research is fundamental to readers' understanding and evaluation of published research reports. Among empirical methods, sample surveys are a major tool in the political scientist's...

Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa: Attributions of Blame and the Struggle over Apartheid.
September 1, 1999... In an effort to put its past firmly behind, the New South Africa created the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to document human rights abuses under apartheid and to grant amnesty to those confessing their nefarious deeds. South Africa's...

The Dynamics of Legislative Gridlock, 1947-96.
September 1, 1999... David Mayhew's Divided We Govern (1991) sparked an industry of scholars who alternately challenge or confirm the work on theoretical and empirical grounds. Still, we lack a definitive account of the proportions and causes of legislative...

"Killer" Amendments in Congress.
September 1, 1999... For more than three decades, social choice theorists and legislative scholars have studied how legislative outcomes in Congress can be manipulated through strategic amendments and voting. I address the central limitation of this research, a...

Mass Public Decisions to Go to War: A Cognitive-Interactionist Framework.(Polling Data)(Statistical Data Included)
September 1, 1999... How do Americans decide whether their country should use military force abroad? We argue they combine dispositional preferences and ideas about the geopolitical situation. This article reports the results of a representative national survey...

Party Systems and Electoral Volatility in Latin America: A Test of Economic, Institutional, and Structural Explanations.
September 1, 1999... Three different theoretical explanations are tested for the exceptionally high level of electoral volatility found in contemporary Latin America: economic voting, institutional characteristics of political regimes and party systems, and the...

Veto Players and Law Production in Parliamentary Democracies: An Empirical Analysis.
September 1, 1999... This article investigates hypotheses generated by the veto players' theory. The fundamental insight of this theory is that an increase in the number of veto players (for all practical purposes, in parliamentary systems the number of parties in...

Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies.
September 1, 1999... Looking at the history of democracies in the developed world, I show that electoral systems derive from the decisions the ruling parties make to maximize their representation according to the following conditions. As long as the electoral arena...

Aristotle on the Conditions for and Limits of the Common Good.
September 1, 1999... Contemporary debates over liberal political theory should encourage renewed investigation of the common good, and it is appropriate to begin by interrogating Aristotle's account. Aristotle argues that injustice stands in the way of the common...

The Effect of Economic Priorities on the Measurement of Value Change: New Experimental Evidence.
September 1, 1999... The Euro-Barometer values battery has provided much of the empirical evidence for the thesis that a shift from materialist to postmaterialist values has occurred in advanced industrial societies over the past two decades. It has been argued,...

Assessing the Validity of the Postmaterialism Index.
September 1, 1999... Inglehart's postmaterialism thesis describes an individual-level process of value change. Little attention has been devoted to validating the responses to his postmaterialist-materialist index. The aggregate-level distributions may appear to...

Measuring Postmaterialism.(response to articles in this issue, pp. 627 and 649)
September 1, 1999... This article responds to two critiques of the value change thesis in this issue. Davis and Davenport claim that the four-item index developed by Inglehart is invalid because respondents' first and second choices are randomly related and that it...

The Empirical Study of Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Politics: Assessing the First Wave of Research.(Review)
September 1, 1999... RePlacing Citizenship: AIDS Activism and Radical Democracy. By Michael P. Brown. New York: Guilford, 1997. 222p. $42.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. Private Lives, Public Conflicts: Battles over Gay Rights in American Communities. By James W....

Nietzsche Contra Democracy.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Nietzsche Contra Democracy. By Fredrick Appel. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1999. 174p. $29.95. An evaluation of the significance of Friedrich Nietzsche's contributions to political philosophy confronts a particularly difficult...

Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Why Movements Succeed or Fail: Opportunity, Culture, and the Struggle for Women's Suffrage. By Lee Ann Banaszak. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996. 29lp. $49.50 cloth, $19.95 paper. Woman Suffrage and the New Democracy. By...

Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion. By Richard H. Bell. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1998. 224p. $58.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. One day in the courtyard of the Sorbonne, Simone de Beauvoir and Simone Weil had their first and...

On Democracy.(Review)
September 1, 1999... On Democracy. By Robert A. Dahl. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1998. 217p. $20.00. Robert Dahl offers a masterful distillation of his views on democratic theory and practice, views that have developed over five decades of...

Micro-Macro Dilemmas in Political Science: Personal Pathways Through Complexity.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Micro-Macro Dilemmas in Political Science: Personal Pathways Through Complexity. By Heinz Eulau. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1996. 542p. $37.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. Heinz Eulau's book on micro-macro dilemmas in political analysis...

Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Aquinas: Moral, Political, and Legal Theory. By John Finnis. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. 385p. $52.00 cloth, $18.95 paper. It has been four decades since the publication of the last book-length study in English of the social...

Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan. By Charles Hersch. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. 232p. $19.95 paper. Any attention to art and popular culture by a political theorist is a welcome...

Democracy, Risk, and Community: Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Democracy, Risk, and Community: Technological Hazards and the Evolution of Liberalism. By Richard P. Hiskes. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 197p. $45.00. The politics of risk have changed with the nature of the risks being run....

The Virtues of Liberalism.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Virtues of Liberalism. By James T. Kloppenberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 240p. $35.00. James Kloppenberg is a distinguished historian of American ideas. His latest book brings together essays, published over the past...

Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Autonomy and Community: Readings in Contemporary Kantian Social Philosophy. Edited by Jane Kneller and Sidney Axinn. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1998. 334p. $21.95 paper. Among the more exciting recent developments in Kant scholarship is a new...

Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Finding Our Way: Rethinking Ethnocultural Relations in Canada. By Will Kymlicka. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998. 220p. $24.95 paper. Over the last ten years, Will Kymlicka has tried to fashion a liberal theory of cultural rights....

Medieval Aristotelianism and Its Limits: Classical Traditions in Moral and Political Philosophy, 12th--15th Centuries.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Medieval Aristotelianism and Its Limits: Classical Traditions in Moral and Political Philosophy, 12th--15th Centuries. By Cary J. Nederman. Variorum Collected Studies Series. Brookfield, VT: Ashgate, 1997. 334p. $94.95. This is a...

Market Socialism: The Debate among Socialists.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Market Socialism: The Debate among Socialists. Edited by Bertell Ollman. New York and London: Routledge, 1998. 200p. $65.00 cloth, $19.99 paper. The time is ripe for a reassessment of market socialism. Soaring to influence across much of...

The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Attack of the Blob: Hannah Arendt's Concept of the Social. By Hanna Fenichel Pitkin. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 365p. $30.00. The 1958 film The Blob is not the Ur-narrative of the alien invasion flick, but it may be...

Integrity and Conscience: Nomos XL.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Integrity and Conscience: Nomos XL. Edited by Ian Shapiro and Robert Adams. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 340p. $50.00. This most recent volume in the Nomos series explores what is meant by conscience and integrity (Part I) and...

George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy.(Review)
September 1, 1999... George Ball: Behind the Scenes in U.S. Foreign Policy. By James A. Bill. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997. 274p. $16.00 paper. James A. Bill of the College of William and Mary examines the career of a well-known member of the U.S....

Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest. By Amy Bridges. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 244p. $35.00. In this elegantly written book, Amy Bridges makes a major contribution to our understanding of the evolution...

Lawmaking by Initiative: Issues, Options, and Comparisons.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Lawmaking by Initiative: Issues, Options, and Comparisons. By Philip L. Dubois and Floyd Feeney. New York: Agathon, 1998. 268p. $30.00. We are in the midst of a boom in scholarship about direct democracy in general and the initiative...

The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Struggle for Water: Politics, Rationality, and Identity in the American Southwest. By Wendy Nelson Espeland. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998. 28lp. $19.00 paper. This book is a case study of how a small tribe of Indians and...

The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Reagan Reversal: Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold War. By Beth A. Fischer. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1997. 176p. $27.50. Ronald Reagan's role in ending the Cold War is the focus of this engaging and contributory...

Gender Dynamics in Congressional Elections.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Gender Dynamics in Congressional Elections. By Richard Logan Fox. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997. 229p. $54.00 cloth, $24.95 paper. Research approaches that have examined electoral behavior by candidates and by voters have...

Empowering Exporters: Reciprocity, Delegation, and Collective Action in American Trade Policy.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Empowering Exporters: Reciprocity, Delegation, and Collective Action in American Trade Policy. By Michael J. Gilligan. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 186p. $42.50. Although the field of international political economy (IPE)...

Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Emergence of a Euro-American Radical Right. By Jeffrey Kaplan and Leonard Weinberg. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 238p. $52.00 cloth, $22.00 paper. The April 1995 tragedy in Oklahoma City has spawned a number of books...

Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Dealing with Risk: Why the Public and the Experts Disagree on Environmental Issues. By Howard Margolis. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. 236p. $27.95. Why, in cases that are especially contentious, do the perceptions of...

Super Optimum Solutions and Win-Win Policy: Basic Concepts and Principles.(includes another review)(Review)
September 1, 1999... Super Optimum Solutions and Win-Win Policy: Basic Concepts and Principles. By Stuart S. Nagel. Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1997. 238p. $65.00. Public Policy Evaluation: Making Super-Optimum Decisions. By Stuart S. Nagel. Aldershot, UK...

Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Mexican American Women Activists: Identity and Resistance in Two Los Angeles Communities. By Mary S. Pardo. Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998. 282p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. The topic of Chicana/Mexican American feminism...

Race and Representation: Affirmative Action.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Race and Representation: Affirmative Action. Edited by Robert Post and Michael Rogin. New York: Zone Books, 1998. 424p. $20.00 paper. Few topics have caused more debate over the past 30 years than affirmative action. Adding fuel to the...

When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures.(Review)
September 1, 1999... When Women Lead: Integrative Leadership in State Legislatures. By Cindy Simon Rosenthal. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 240p. $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper. There is a huge and growing literature that seeks to explain variation in...

Television News and the Supreme Court: All the News That's Fit to Air.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Television News and the Supreme Court: All the News That's Fit to Air. By Elliot E. Slotnick and Jennifer A. Segal. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 264p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. The least visible and most misunderstood...

American Foreign Policy: Consensus at Home, Leadership Abroad.(Review)
September 1, 1999... American Foreign Policy: Consensus at Home, Leadership Abroad. By Karl von Vorys. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1997. 392p. $59.95. The world is at a critical juncture: Either mankind will progress toward the development of a common sense of...

Affirmative Action and Minority Enrollments in Medical and Law Schools.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Affirmative Action and Minority Enrollments in Medical and Law Schools. By Susan Welch and John Gruhi. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1998. 221p $39.50. I assumed this book would be yet another in the growing collection of texts...

Fault Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Fault Lines of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America. Edited by Felipe Ag[ddot{u}ero and Jeffrey Stark. Miami, FL: North-South Center Press, 1998. 407p. $25.95 paper. The editors offer this volume as an alternative framework for...

Commissioning Ideas: Canadian National Policy Innovation in Comparative Perspective.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Commissioning Ideas: Canadian National Policy Innovation in Comparative Perspective. By Neil Bradford. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998. 226p. $29.95. In the years following the 1867 British North America Act, which created Canada as...

Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective. By Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. 3O7p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. The authors, who are two leading...

Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Secularism and Revivalism in Turkey: A Hermeneutic Reconsideration. By Andrew Davison. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1998. 270p. $37.50. Despite its title, this book is neither about religious revivalism (except for a few passing...

Human Rights and Democratization in Latin America: Uruguay and Chile.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Human Rights and Democratization in Latin America: Uruguay and Chile. By Alexandra Barahona de Brito. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 401p. $65.00. A great issue for democracies recovering from years of authoritarian rule is what...

Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives.(includes another volume)(Review)
September 1, 1999... Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives. Edited by Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 343p. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper. ...

Post-Communist States in the World Community.(includes another review)(Review)
September 1, 1999... Post-Communist States in the World Community. Edited by William E. Ferry and Roger E. Kanet. Selected papers from the Fifth World Congress of Central and East European Studies, Warsaw, 1995. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 305p. $69.95.Elites and...

Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States. Edited by Christian Joppke. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 360p. $75.00. The eight European and American scholars who contributed to this volume...

The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Conscription Society: Administered Mass Organizations. By Gregory J. Kasza. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995. 217p $27.50. Much scholarly attention has been directed toward how political parties and interest groups work to...

The Reordering of British Politics: Politics after Thatcher.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Reordering of British Politics: Politics after Thatcher. By Dennis Kavanagh. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 265p. $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. If constitution is construed in any narrow sense, Margaret Thatcher was a...

Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany after Unification. Edited by Hermann Kurthen, Werner Bergmann, and Rainer Erb. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 318p. $65.00 cloth, $29.95 paper. Shortly after unification in Germany, there was...

The Conspicuous Corporation: Business, Public Policy, and Representative Democracy.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Conspicuous Corporation: Business, Public Policy, and Representative Democracy. By Neil J. Mitchell. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 249p. $42.50. Neil Mitchell's book about the role of business in democratic politics...

Islamism, Secularism, and Human Rights in the Middle East.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Islamism, Secularism, and Human Rights in the Middle East. By Mahmood Monshipouri. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 259p. $53.00. The fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1998 produced a spate of books and...

China's Transition.(Review)
September 1, 1999... China's Transition. By Andrew J. Nathan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1997. 336p. $27.50. This book is a collection of essays by Andrew J. Nathan, almost all of which have been published before. They range from a series of review...

Building Democracy in Latin America.(Power and Responsibility: Politics, Identity and Technology in Music)(Review)
September 1, 1999... Building Democracy in Latin America. By John Peeler. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 240p. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper. John Peeler provides a wide-ranging reflection on a multiplicity of factors conducive to democratization in the region....

Germany's Second Chance: Trust, Justice, and Democratization.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Germany's Second Chance: Trust, Justice, and Democratization. By Anne Sa'adah. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. 352p. $39.95. How can democracy succeed in a country that experienced years of tyranny and dictatorship? Is it...

China's Military in Transition.(Review)
September 1, 1999... China's Military in Transition. Edited by David Shambaugh and Richard H. Yang. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 378p. $24.95. Shambaugh and Yang have gathered writings from seventeen of the most knowledgeable and prominent analysts...

Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Local Heroes: The Political Economy of Russian Regional Governance. By Kathryn Stoner-Weiss. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997. 227p. $40.00. Local Heroes is an important contribution to an understanding of the transition...

Deliberative Democracy in Australia: The Changing Place of Parliament.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Deliberative Democracy in Australia: The Changing Place of Parliament. By John Uhr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 265p. $64.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. Lost among the hysteria in anticipation of the Sydney 2000 Olympics and the...

Prospects of Democracy: A Study of 172 Countries.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Prospects of Democracy: A Study of 172 Countries. By Tatu Vanhanen. New York: Routledge, 1997. 374p. $85.00 cloth, $25.99 paper. The study of regime changes, especially the emergence and collapse of democratic systems, has captivated many...

Governing Ideas: Strategies for Innovation in France and Germany.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Governing Ideas: Strategies for Innovation in France and Germany. By J. Nicholas Ziegler. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997. 255p. $35.00. How explain contrasting national responses to technological change? The question itself...

Political Capacity and Economic Behavior.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Political Capacity and Economic Behavior. Edited by Marina Arbetman and Jacek Kugler. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1997. 338p. $70.00 cloth, $25.00 paper. The Economic Basis of Peace: Linkages between Economic Growth and International Conflict....

State Sovereignty as Social Construct.(Review)
September 1, 1999... State Sovereignty as Social Construct. Edited by Thomas J. Biersteker and Cynthia Weber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. 298p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. The title of this edited volume announces its ambition to treat two...

Green Parties and Politics in the European Union.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Green Parties and Politics in the European Union. By Elizabeth Bomberg. New York: Routledge, 1998. 225p. $75.00 cloth, $25.99 paper. Green parties in Europe have now been struggling with issues of identity, organization and strategy for...

A Study of Crisis.(Review)
September 1, 1999... A Study of Crisis. By Michael Brecher and Jonathan Wilkenfeld. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1997. 1,088p. $115.00. The late Karl Deutsch was fond of describing data collection as "the Lord's work" in social science. Expensive,...

The Arms Dynamic in World Politics.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Arms Dynamic in World Politics. By Barry Buzan and Eric Herring. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 325p. $59.95 cloth, $22.50 paper. Barry Buzan and Eric Herring have written an ambitious, noteworthy, and integrative book. It is a...

The Politics of Hong Kong's Reversion to China.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Politics of Hong Kong's Reversion to China. By David Wen-Wei Chang and Richard Y. Chuang. New York: St. Martin's, 1998. 274p. $49.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. A considerable literature is emerging on the last years of British rule in Hong...

From Revolution to War: State Relations in a World of Change.(Review)
September 1, 1999... From Revolution to War: State Relations in a World of Change. By Patrick J. Conge. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996. l75p. $37.50. Revolutionary States, Leaders, and Foreign Relations: A Comparative Study of China, Cuba, and...

The Dynamics of Enduring Rivalries.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Dynamics of Enduring Rivalries. Edited by Paul F. Diehl. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. 248p. $49.95 cloth, $21.95 paper. From Greece and Sparta to the Cold War, international rivalries have shaped our understanding of...

The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Foreign Policy of Russia: Changing Systems, Enduring Interests. By Robert H. Donaldson and Joseph L. Nogee. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1998. 326p. $62.95 cloth, $23.95 paper. The strengths and weaknesses of this book become apparent quite...

National Interests in International Society.(Review)
September 1, 1999... National Interests in International Society. By Martha Finnemore. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1996. l54p. $35.00 cloth, $13.95 paper. Cultural Internationalism and World Order. By Akira Iriye. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins...

The Lost Art of Declaring War.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Lost Art of Declaring War. By Brien Hallett. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1998. l9lp. $36.95 cloth, $16.95 paper. As the Clinton administration continues to use force abroad with unilateral claims of constitutional authority,...

Zionism and the Creation of a New Society.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Zionism and the Creation of a New Society. By Ben Halpern and Jehuda Reinharz. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 293p. $35.00. Zionism and the Foundations of Israeli Diplomacy. By Sasson Safer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,...

Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Activists beyond Borders: Advocacy Networks in International Politics. By Margaret Keck and Kathryn Sikkink. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998. 228p. $45.00 cloth, $15.95 paper. Activists beyond Borders presents a perspective on...

Institutions for Environmental Aid: Pitfalls and Promise.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Institutions for Environmental Aid: Pitfalls and Promise. Edited by Robert O. Keohane and Marc A. Levy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996. 4l9p. $69.50. As we head into the next century the major environmental challenges will be in the...

Domestic Society and International Cooperation: The Impact of Protest on U.S. Arms Control Policy.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Domestic Society and International Cooperation: The Impact of Protest on U.S. Arms Control Policy. By Jeffrey W. Knopf. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. 287p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. One million people marched in the streets...

The Global Economy and Democracy in South Africa.(Review)
September 1, 1999... The Global Economy and Democracy in South Africa. By Thomas A. Koelble. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1998. 236p. $50.00 cloth, $23.00 paper. Reviewing events in South Africa since the 1994 election, this text argues that...

Interpreting NAFTA: The Science and Art of Political Analysis.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Interpreting NAFTA: The Science and Art of Political Analysis. By Frederick W. Mayer. New York: Columbia University Press, 1998. 374p. $47.50 cloth, $17.50 paper. Frederick Mayer has set a new standard for research on NAFTA. He provides a...

Human Rights and International Political Economy in Third World Nations: Multinational Corporations, Foreign Aid, and Repression.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Human Rights and International Political Economy in Third World Nations: Multinational Corporations, Foreign Aid, and Repression. By William H. Meyer. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998. 240p. $65.00 cloth, $22.95 paper. The globalization process...

From Post-War to Post-Wall Generations: Changing Attitudes Toward the National Question and NATO in the Federal Republic of Germany.(Review)
September 1, 1999... From Post-War to Post-Wall Generations: Changing Attitudes Toward the National Question and NATO in the Federal Republic of Germany. By Joyce Marie Mushaben. Boulder, GO: Westview, 1998. 420p. $75.00. Russia and Germany Reborn: Unification,...