CIAO DATE: 07/2010
Volume: 125, Issue: 2
Summer 2010
Why Intelligence and Policymakers Clash (PDF)
Robert Jervis
ROBERT JERVIS argues that friction between intelligence agencies and policymakers is an inevitable product of their conflicting missions and needs. Policymakers need political and psychological support, while intelligence generally raises doubts, points to problems, and notes uncertainties. Relations do not have to be as strained as they were under President George W. Bush, but they will always be difficult.
The Primary Purpose of Presidential Primaries
Dennis F. Thompson
DENNIS F. THOMPSON analyzes the capacity of presidential primaries to provide a test of the constitutional character of candidates. He argues that the primary process should be judged to be more or less democratic on the basis of the effective opportunities it gives voters to assess the democratic commitments of the candidates.
Creating Better Heuristics for the Presidential Primary: The Citizen Assembly
Heather K. Gerken, Douglas B. Rand
HEATHER K. GERKEN and DOUGLAS B. RAND propose creating citizen assemblies to vet presidential hopefuls in order to give low-information voters a useful heuristic for casting their votes. Their conceptual claim is that citizen assemblies should be of interest to the vast swaths of political science preoccupied with making representative democracy work. By shearing away the deliberative baggage that has long accompanied proposals like this one, the authors highlight the role that citizen assemblies can play in helping low-information voters make sensible choices.
Lilliputian in Fluid Times: New Zealand Foreign Policy after the Cold War
Paul G. Buchanan
PAUL G. BUCHANAN looks at the evolution of New Zealand's foreign policy after the Cold War. He argues that New Zealand's ability to "punch above its weight" in contemporary international affairs was as much a product of fortuna as it was of policymaking virtu. It was only toward the end of the 1990s that a heterodox approach mixing realist, idealist, and constructivist ideas was confirmed as the basis for New Zealand's engagement with the world.
Friends Don't Let Friends Proliferate
Scott Helfstein
SCOTT HELFSTEIN examines the efficacy of economic sanctions as a tool to counter nuclear proliferation. He argues that contrary to conventional wisdom, international cooperation is not a key determinant in sanction success. Instead, empirical evidence shows that sanctions have been effective at altering nuclear policies only when the sanction sender and target have had friendly relations.
Thomas P. Bernstein
Benjamin Kleinerman, The Discretionary President: The Promise and Peril of Executive Power
Louis Fisher
Paul G. Lewis and Max Neiman, Custodians of Place: Governing the Growth and Development of Cities
Wilbur Rich
Richard K. Betts, Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security (PDF)
James Igoe Walsh
Nathan Kelly, The Politics of Income Inequality in the United States (PDF)
Ruy Teixeira
Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism
Yoshiko M. Herrera
Sidney Milkis, Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy
Ann-Marie Szymanski
Vincent Phillip Munoz, God and the Founders: Madison, Washington, and Jefferson
Ellis M. West
Marc J. Hetherington and Jonathan D. Weiler, Authoritarianism and Polarization in American Politics
Paul R. Abramson
Anne L. Clunan, The Social Construction of Russia's Resurgence: Aspirations, Identity, and Security Interests
Rawi Abdelal
Gregory F. Treverton, Intelligence for an Age of Terror
Mark Phythian
Jeffrey Crouch, The Presidential Pardon Power
Jody C. Baumgartner
Michael Liu, Kim Geron, and Tracy Lai, The Snake Dance of Asian American Activism: Community, Vision, and Power
Wendy K. Tam Cho
Gordon Silverstein, Law's Allure: How Law Shapes, Constrains, Saves, and Kills Politics
Michael Gerhardt
Frank R. Baumgartner, Jeffrey M. Berry, Marie Hojnacki, David C. Kimball, and Beth L. Leech, Lobbying and Policy Change: Who Wins, Who Loses, and Why
Susan Webb Yackee
Peter C. Myers, Frederick Douglass: Race and the Rebirth of American Liberalism
Larry E. Hudson, Jr.
Roy L. Brooks, Racial Justice in the Age of Obama
Andrew Valls
John Kenneth White, Barack Obama's America: How New Conceptions of Race, Family, and Religion Ended the Reagan Era
Evelyn M. Simien
Christopher Kam, Party Discipline and Parliamentary Politics
Christine De Clercy
Elizabeth Theiss-Morse, Who Counts as an American? The Boundaries of National Identity
Ronald Schmidt, Sr.
Frank Ridzi, Selling Welfare Reform: Work-First and the New Common Sense of Employment
Rodd Freitag
Alec C. Ewald, The Way We Vote: The Local Dimension of American Suffrage
Mary P. McGuire
Graham Smith, Democratic Innovations: Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation
Maria Escobar-Lemmon
Mikhail Myagkov, Peter C. Ordeshook, and Dimitri Shakin, The Forensics of Election Fraud: Russia and Ukraine
Robert Orttung
Anders Aslund and Andrew Kuchins, The Russia Balance Sheet
Dmitry Gorenburg
David H. Ucko, The New Counterinsurgency Era: Transforming the U.S. Military for Modern Wars
Andrea M. Lopez
William Hale and Ergun Özbudun, Islamism, Democracy, and Liberalism in Turkey: The Case of the AKP; Ergun Özbudun and Ömer Faruk Gençkaya, Democratization and the Politics of Constitution Making in Turkey
Ahmet T. Kuru
Keith A. Darden, Economic Liberalism and Its Rivals: The Formation of International Institutions among the Post-Soviet States
Anders Åslund
Dan G. Cox, John Falconer, and Brian Stackhouse, Terrorism, Instability, and Democracy in Asia and Africa
Binnur Ozkececi-Taner
David T. Johnson and Franklin E. Zimring, The Next Frontier: National Development, Political Change, and the Death Penalty in Asia
Klaus Mühlhahn
David Kilcullen, The Accidental Guerrilla: Fighting Small Wars in the Midst of a Big One
Kalev I. Sepp
Glen S. Krutz and Jeffrey S. Peake, Treaty Politics and the Rise of Executive Agreements: International Commitments in a System of Shared Powers
Matthew C. Zierler