CIAO DATE: 09/2008
Volume: 123, Issue: 2
Summer 2008
Incumbency Advantage in U.S. Presidential Elections: The Historical Record
David R. Mayhew
David R. Mayhew examines U.S. presidential elections from 1788 through 2004. He highlights the importance of incumbency advantage. He concludes that in-office parties have kept the White House two-thirds of the time when they have run incumbent candidates, but they have fared only 50-50 in open-seat elections.
Fairness Considerations in World Politics: Lessons from International Trade Negotiations
Ethan B. Kapstein
Ethan B. Kapstein argues that in recent years a growing number of activists, scholars, and policymakers have claimed that the global economy and, specifically, the current international trade regime have been ‘‘unfair'' to the developing countries. He concludes that, while the trading system can hardly be considered a level playing field for each and every state, fairness considerations do appear to play a role in shaping trade agreements.
Intelligence Failure Reframed
John A. Gentry
John A. Gentry discusses the nature of U.S. intelligence ‘‘failures.'' He argues that excessive expectations for the performance of intelligence agencies mean that many charges of intelligence failure are misplaced and many reform proposals are misdirected. He concludes that policymakers and policy-implementing agencies often cause intelligence-related failures.
Brian C. Rathbun
Brian C. Rathbun looks at whether we can speak meaningfully of an ideological ‘‘right'' in foreign policy. Through a brief historical review and an analysis of a survey of American political elites, he argues that there are in fact three ideological rights, bound together by an egoistic pursuit of the national interest but utilizing very different strategies.
Anti-Americanism and Electoral Politics in Korea
Byong-Kuen Jhee
Byong-Kuen Jhee analyzes Korean public attitudes toward the United States and whether and how voters' anti-American perceptions affect their electoral choices. He concludes that the surge of anti-Americanism in Korea may have a marginal impact on the country's existing favorable relationship with the United States.
Book Reviews: Why Taiwan? Geostrategic Rationales for China’s Territorial Integrity, Alan M. Wachman; China: Fragile Superpower, Susan L. Shirk; Imagined Enemies: China Prepares for Uncertain War, John Wilson Lewis and Xue Litai
Andrew J. Nathan
Book Reviews: Mohammed M. Hafez, Suicide Bombers in Iraq: The Strategy and Ideology of Martyrdom (PDF)
Mia Bloom
Book Reviews: F. Ugboaja Ohaegbulam, A Culture of Deference: Congress, the President, and the Course of the U.S.-Led Invasion and Occupation of Iraq
Louis Fisher
Book Reviews: David C. Kang, China Rising: Peace, Power, and Order in East Asia
Andrew Scobell
Book Reviews: Eric A. Posner and Adrian Vermeule, Terror in the Balance: Security, Liberty, and the Courts
Matthew Gerke
Book Reviews: Tanisha M. Fazal, State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation
Douglas Lemke
Book Reviews: Darren W. Davis, Negative Liberty: Public Opinion and the Terrorist Attacks on America
Michael L. Gross
Book Reviews: Paul Krugman, The Conscience of a Liberal
James A. Morone
Book Reviews: Robert Vitalis, America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
Magnus T. Bernhardsson
Book Reviews: Steven Johnston, The Truth about Patriotism
Peter A. Furia
Book Reviews: James R. Holmes, Theodore Roosevelt and World Order: Police Power in International Relations
Peter Trubowitz
Book Reviews: Gerard N. Magliocca, Andrew Jackson and the Constitution: The Rise and Fall of Generational Regimes
Nicole Mellow
Book Reviews: Joseph P. Viteritti, The Last Freedom: Religion from the Public School to the Public Square
Clyde Wilcox
Book Reviews: Patricia Strach, All in the Family: The Private Roots of American Public Policy
Philip Abbott
Book Reviews: Martha Joynt Kumar, Managing the President's Message: The White House Communications Operation
Brandon Rottinghaus
Book Reviews: James H. Fowler and Oleg Smirnov, Mandates, Parties, and Voters: How Elections Shape the Future
Scott McClurg
Book Reviews: Erin K. Jenne, Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment
Ray Taras
Book Reviews: Helena Silverstein, Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors
Carter Snead
Book Reviews: Cathy Marie Johnson, Georgia Duerst-Lahti, and Noelle H. Norton, Creating Gender: The Sexual Politics of Welfare Policy
Sarah Elise Wiliarty
Book Reviews: Todd Gitlin, The Intellectuals and the Flag
Simon Stow
Book Reviews: Debra L. Dodson, The Impact of Women in Congress (PDF)
Georgia Duerst-Lahti
Book Reviews: Sally Friedman, Dilemmas of Representation: Local Politics, National Factors, and the Home Styles of Modern U.S. Congress Members
Burdett Loomis
Book Reviews: Susan Gluck Mezey, Queers in Court: Gay Rights Law and Public Policy
Ellen Ann Andersen
Book Reviews: Dan Lindley, Promoting Peace with Information: Transparency as a Tool of Security Regimes
Nancy Gallagher
Book Reviews: Johann Graf Lambsdorff, The Institutional Economics of Corruption and Reform: Theory, Evidence and Policy
Andrew Wedeman
Book Reviews: Sarwar A. Kashmeri, America and Europe after 9/11 and Iraq: The Great Divide (PDF)
Thomas Alan Schwartz
Book Reviews: Ian Hurd, After Anarchy: Legitimacy & Power in the United Nations Security Council
C. Cora True-Frost
Book Reviews: Maria Lorena Cook, The Politics of Labor Reform in Latin America: Between Flexibility and Rights
Andrew Schrank
Book Reviews: Ellen Carnaghan, Out of Order: Russian Political Values in an Imperfect World
Peter Rutland
Book Reviews: David M. Farrell and Roger Scully, Representing Europe's Citizens? Electoral Institutions and the Failure of Parliamentary Representation
Achim Hurrelmann