CIAO DATE: 08/2010
Volume: 125, Issue: 1
Spring 2010
Can Welfare States Be Sustained in a Global Economy? Lessons from Scandinavia
ERIC S. EINHORN, JOHN LOGUE
ERIC S. EINHORN and JOHN LOGUE argue that the European social model can be reformed without sacrificing its gains and that the Scandinavian states have already adapted their welfare state models to meet demographic, social, and economic challenges. They sketch the characteristics of the Scandinavian model, including its underpinnings in encompassing organizations of the less well off, the role of democratic corporatism in policymaking, and the importance of empiricism, social trust, and solidarity in the development of public policy.
Perception, Memory, and Partisan Polarization on the Iraq War
Gary C. Jacobson
GARY C. JACOBSON analyzes four surveys designed to investigate partisan polarization on the Iraq war. He finds that modes of motivated reasoning, including motivated skepticism and selective perception, selective memory, and selective exposure, contributed strongly to the emergence of the unusually wide differences of opinion on the war.
Religion, Divorce, and the Missing Culture War in America (PDF)
MARK A. SMITH
MARK A. SMITH explains why divorce, an issue that sparked heated controversy earlier in American history, is now absent from the culture war. He shows that religious groups gradually accommodated rising rates of marital breakup by changing their biblical interpretations and deemphasizing divorce as a political issue.
Building the New American Nation: Economic Development, Public Goods, and the Early U.S. Army
WILLIAM D. ADLER, ANDREW J. POLSKY
WILLIAM D. ADLER and ANDREW J. POLSKY contend that contrary to traditional notions of a weak national state in our nation's early years, the national state, acting through the Army, was indispensable in shaping the pattern and direction of economic development. They propose a new way of conceptualizing the early American state: a state of the periphery, dominated by the Army, and a state of the center, in which other public institutions also performed key development functions.
Marc the Medici? The Failure of a New Form of Neopatrimonial Rule in Madagascar
RICHARD R. MARCUS
RICHARD R. MARCUS examines the roots of Madagascar's President Marc Ravalomanana's power and how they grew in leadership and regime expression. He argues that the private sector came to substitute for the bureaucracy, military, and other common bases of neopatrimonial rule thus allowing Ravalomanana to create a personalized economic-political fusion in a democratic context. This ultimately contributed to his downfall.
Benjamin I. Page and Lawrence R. Jacobs, Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality
Andrew Gelman
Heather K. Gerken, The Democracy Index: Why Our Election System Is Failing and How to Fix It (PDF)
Lonna Rae Atkeson
John Agnew, Globalization and Sovereignty
Howard H. Lentner
William O. Walker III, National Security and Core Values in American History
Jeffrey A. Engel
Idean Salehyan, Rebels Without Borders: Transnational Insurgencies in World Politics (PDF)
Paul Staniland
James Mann, The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War
James Hershberg
Saul Brenner and Joseph M. Whitmeyer, Strategy on the United States Supreme Court
Jonathan Nash
Jeff Madrick, The Case for Big Government
Max Neiman
Christopher Preble, The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free
Gerard Alexander
Dawn Brancati, Peace by Design: Managing Interstate Conflict through Decentralization
David S. Siroky
David A.J. Richards, The Sodomy Cases: Bowers v. Hardwick and Lawrence v. Texas
Jonathan F. Parent
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., ed., Lincoln on Race & Slavery
Lucas E. Morel
John H. Vinzant, The Supreme Court's Role in American Indian Policy
Jack Rakove
Colleen Sheehan, James Madison and the Spirit of Republican Self-Government
Jack Rakove
Lisa L. Miller, The Perils of Federalism: Race, Poverty, and the Politics of Crime Control
Khalilah L. Brown-Dean
Gaston Alonso, Noel Anderson, Celina Su, and Jeanne Theoharis, Our Schools Suck: Students Talk Back to a Segregated Nation on the Failures of Urban Education
Christopher A. Simon
William L. Benoit
Richard Iton, In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Keith A. Mayes
Mark D. Brewer, Party Images in the American Electorate
Joel David Bloom
Christopher D. O'Sullivan, Colin Powell: American Power and Intervention From Vietnam to Iraq (PDF)
Christopher Paul
Bruce Gilley, The Right to Rule: How States Win and Lose Legitimacy
Vsevolod Gunitskiy
Rodney Bruce Hall, Central Banking as Global Governance: Constructing Financial Credibility
Andrew Baker
Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Forced to Be Good: Why Trade Agreements Boost Human Rights
Dursun Peksen
Chad Rector, Federations: The Political Dynamics of Cooperation
Michael Burgess
Sheldon S. Wolin, Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism
Nadia Urbinati
Galia Press-Barnathan, The Political Economy of Transitions to Peace: A Comparative Perspective
Omar M.G. Keshk
George A. Gonzalez, Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital
Kent E. Portney
Patrick J. McDonald, The Invisible Hand of Peace: Capitalism, the War Machine, and International Relations Theory
Erik Gartzke
Steven Taylor, Voting Amid Violence: Electoral Democracy in Colombia
Nazih Richani
Lee Ann Fujii, Killing Neighbors: Webs of Violence in Rwanda
Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz
David E. Lewis, The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance
William Howell