CIAO DATE: 10/2010
Volume: 125, Issue: 3
Fall 2010
The United States and the Rise of China: Implications for the Long Haul (PDF)
Robert J. Art
A Modified National Primary: State Losers and Support for Changing the Presidential Nominating Process
Caroline J. Tolbert, Amanda Keller, Todd Donovan
CAROLINE J. TOLBERT, AMANDA KELLER, and TODD DONOVAN examine public opinion data on proposals to reform the presidential nominating process. They argue that one way to preserve a role for grassroots politics and the sequential process that is critical for candidate quality is to combine rotating state primaries and caucuses in a dozen small-population states with a national primary in which voters from all states would cast ballots.
Are Caucuses Bad for Democracy?
Costas Panagopoulos
COSTAS PANAGOPOULOS discusses the behavior, demographic characteristics, and political preferences of caucus and primary voters in the 2008 presidential nominating contests. He finds that primary voters, as compared to caucus participants, are generally more representative of the electorate overall along most dimensions, although the differences observed tend to be substantively small.
Beyond Gridlock: Green Drift in American Environmental Policymaking
Christopher McGrory Klyza, David Sousa
CHRISTOPHER MCGRORY KLYZA and DAVID SOUSA argue that environmental policy in the United States has moved in the direction favored by environmentalists over the last two decades, despite efforts by many conservatives to roll back these policies. This green drift is based on the combination of major environmental laws and institutional structures created in the 1960s and 1970s and frozen in place by the legislative gridlock of the last two decades.
Bush, Blair, and the War in Iraq: Alliance Politics and the Limits of Influence
Kelly McHugh
KELLY McHUGH describes Tony Blair's failed attempts to use his friendship with George W. Bush to influence U.S. foreign policy in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq war. She finds that although Blair was often successful in persuading Bush in private meetings, he was outmaneuvered by Vice President Dick Cheney, who opposed Blair's advocacy of multilateralism and diplomacy.
From Theodore White to Game Change: A Review Essay
Alan Brinkley
ALAN BRINKLEY looks at the evolution of campaign journalism from Theodore White's classic analysis of the 1960 presidential election to John Heilemann and Mark Helperin's recently published Game Change.
Fred I. Greenstein, Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson
Joseph M. Bessette
Stanley Renshon, National Security in the Obama Administration: Reassessing the Bush Doctrine (PDF)
James Goldgeier
Taylor Branch, The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President
Stephen J. Wayne
Ross A. Kennedy, The Will to Believe: Woodrow Wilson, World War I, and America's Strategy for Peace and Security
Meena Bose
B. Dan Wood, The Myth of Presidential Representation
Andrew Rudalevige
David A. Lake, Hierarchy in International Relations (PDF)
Bidisha Biswas
Patricia Moy
Alan Ware, The Dynamics of Two-Party Politics: Party Structures and the Management of Competition (PDF)
Hans Noel
Jennifer Merolla and Elizabeth Zechmeister, Democracy at Risk: How Terrorist Threats Affect the Public
Gregory D. Miller
T.V. Paul, The Tradition of Non-Use of Nuclear Weapons
Nina Tannenwald
John A. Vasquez, The War Puzzle Revisited
Jack S. Levy
Beth A. Simmons, Mobilizing for Human Rights: International Law in Domestic Politics
Elizabeth A. Bloodgood
Campbell Craig and Fredrik Logevall, America's Cold War: The Politics of Insecurity
David S. Painter
Morten G. Ender, American Soldiers in Iraq: McSoldiers or Innovative Professionals?
James H. Lebovic
Barak Mendelsohn, Combating Jihadism: American Hegemony and Interstate Cooperation in the War on Terrorism
Austin Long
Peter J. Munson, Iraq in Transition: The Legacy of Dictatorship and the Prospects for Democracy
Jack J. Porter
Paul Sharp, Diplomatic Theory of International Relations
Richard J. Harknett
David R. Jones and Monika L. McDermott, Americans, Congress, and Democratic Responsiveness: Public Evaluations of Congress and Electoral Consequences
Justin Buchler
Seth McKee, Republican Ascendancy in Southern U.S. House Elections
David M. Brodsky
Lynn Vavreck, The Message Matters: The Economy and Presidential Campaigns
Jonathan Nagler
D. Bradford Hunt, Blueprint for Disaster: The Unraveling of Chicago Public Housing
Robert Chaskin
Richard Alba, Blurring the Color Line: The New Chance for a More Integrated America
Kevin Boyle
R. Sam Garrett, Campaign Crises: Detours on the Road to Congress
James M. Glaser
Kenneth P. Miller, Direct Democracy and the Courts
Joshua J. Dyck
Clement Fatovic, Outside the Law: Emergency and Executive Power
Matthew A. Pauley
Peri E. Arnold, Remaking the Presidency: Roosevelt, Taft, and Wilson, 1901–1916
Steven Doherty
Eileen McDonagh, The Motherless State: Women's Political Leadership and American Democracy
Sarah Elise Willarty
David Ekbladh, The Great American Mission: Modernization and the Construction of an American World Order
Travis Nelson
Marshall Ganz, Why David Sometimes Wins: Leadership, Organization, and Strategy in the California Farm Worker Movement
Tracy Roof
Mahmoud A. El-Gamal and Amy Myers Jaffe, Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crises: The Global Curse of Black Gold
Jeff D. Colgan
Monica Duffy Toft, Securing the Peace: The Durable Settlement of Civil Wars
Richard Frank
Tamar S. Hermann, The Israeli Peace Movement: A Shattered Dream
Mira Sucharov
Giulo M. Gallarotti, The Power Curse: Influence and Illusion in World Politics
Jacob Wobig
Amitav Acharya, Whose Ideas Matter? Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism
Gaspare M. Genna
Wallace Thies, Why NATO Endures
Paul K. MacDonald