Polity articles from March 2000

Polity archives from March 2000

The New "Dismal Science"? The Lessons of American Political Development for Politics Today.
March 22, 2000... Introduction: The Problem of a Usable Past The theme of the 1999 APSA Annual Meeting--the role of political science in the world of politics and policy--poses an interesting challenge to scholars across the discipline. Nowhere is this more...

Lions Under the Throne, Dissenters, Prophets, and Plain Academics: What (If Anything) Does American Political Development Have to Say to External Publics?
March 22, 2000... The topic of this roundtable event taps into one of the thorniest problems facing today's political science--its relevance and possible usefulness to the world outside Academe. One could argue, as many natural scientists do, that a better and...

"Not Exactly, Mr. President": Speaking Truth, Sort of, to Power.
March 22, 2000... In 1979 and 1980 I worked as a full time analyst in the Near East and South Asia section of the Bureau of Intelligence and Research in the Department of State. As a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow I was paid from outside the government,...

Politics and History's Lessons.
March 22, 2000... The intellectual vigor of political history informed by social science is obvious in journals such as Studies in American Political Development and the Journal of Policy History, in award-winning books produced by both university and commercial...

History, Agency, and Political Change.
March 22, 2000... Agency Through History Many political scientists have turned to historical research as means of clarifying the constraints shaping contemporary political action. Polsky's self-identified pessimism in this forum captures this view of...

The Conditions of Their Choosing.
March 22, 2000... Answering the question posed by the organizers of this symposium, whether those of us who study history and politics have any wisdom to offer to contemporary political actors, strikes me as a very risky business. If we answer, "Political actors...

Gender and Citizenship after the Nineteenth Amendment.
March 22, 2000... After a seventy-two year struggle, the Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution granted American women the right to vote in 1920. One scholar has called the campaign to secure the franchise "the greatest independent political movement of modern...

Patterns of Political Trust and Mistrust: Three Moments in the Lives of Democratic Citizens.
March 22, 2000... Citizens in Western societies are used to being asked: Do you trust your government? Our goal in this paper is to explore some possible explanations for their answers and for changes in the levels of trust that they have in their government....

Partisans, Proximates, and Poker Players: The Impact of Homophily and Proximity on Communication Patterns of State Legislators(*).
March 22, 2000... In any large group, the nature and frequency of communication among members varies. The size of their communication networks and frequency of communication are affected by both physical and personal closeness, and group affiliation. The present...

The Declining Role of the Frank in House Elections: The Withering Effect of Sunshine?
March 22, 2000... Political scientists and journalists identified the emergence in the mid-1960s of "entrepreneurial" incumbents who rely much less on parties for electoral survival. These incumbents are distinguished, among other things, by the extensive use of...

Economics and Public Support for the European Union: An Analysis at the National, Regional, and Individual Levels.
March 22, 2000... In examining public opinion toward the European Union (EU), the traditional focus has been on the attitudes of the economic and political elites who have been prominent in the functional areas in which EU activities have been concentrated. In...

The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Andrew Moravcisk, The Choice for Europe: Social Purpose and State Power from Messina to Maastricht (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1998). The impact of regional and global markets on the nation-state has fueled a growing and...

Jacques Delors and European Integration.(Review)
March 22, 2000... George Ross, Jacques Delors and European Integration (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995). The impact of regional and global markets on the nation-state has fueled a growing and polarized debate in political science and sociology. At...

Adjusting to Europe: The Impact of the European Union on National Institutions and Policies.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Yves Meny, Pierre Muller, and Jean-Louis Quermonne, eds., Adjusting to Europe: The Impact of the European Union on National Institutions and Policies (London, New York: Routledge, 1996). The impact of regional and global markets on the...

Ideas and Institutions in the European Union: The Case of Social Regulation and its Complex Decision-Making.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Hans Arnum, Ideas and Institutions in the European Union: The Case of Social Regulation and its Complex Decision-Making (Copenhagen: Copenhagen Political Studies Press, 1999). The impact of regional and global markets on the nation-state...

Democracy and the Arts.(Review)
March 22, 2000... Democracy and Art: A Happy Marriage?(*) Arthur M. Melzer, Jerry Weinberger, and M. Richard Zinman, eds., Democracy and the Arts (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1999) The arts' relationship to democracy is an uneasy one. Any claim...