CIAO DATE: 05/2011
Volume: 126, Issue: 1
Spring 2011
The Domestic Politics of Irrational Intelligence Oversight
Amy B. Zegart
AMY B. ZEGART examines the roots of weak congressional intelligence oversight and challenges the view that ineffectual oversight stems from executive branch secrecy. Instead, she finds that Congress has tied its own hands by failing to consolidate its budgetary power or to develop robust expertise in intelligence.
The Republican Resurgence in 2010 (PDF)
Gary C. Jacobson
GARY C. JACOBSON analyzes the 2010 midterm election as a referendum on the Obama administration, driven fundamentally by the economy, but intensified by the deep animosity of the President's opponents, the Republicans' success in nationalizing the election, and the political failure of Obama's legislative successes.
Nuclear Forensics: False Hopes and Practical Realities
Richard Weitz
RICHARD WEITZ looks at the international politics of nuclear forensics—a scientific technique that employs various investigatory methods to reveal the source and history of nuclear material. He worries that many governments and analysts underestimate the difficulties in constructing an effective nuclear forensics regime that can pinpoint those responsible for a nuclear incident and thus weakens the ability to deter by threatening nuclear retaliation.
Managing Fear: The Politics of Homeland Security
Benjamin H. Friedman
BENJAMIN H. FRIEDMAN argues that the United States has spent excessively on homeland security since September 11. He outlines psychological and political explanations for this overreaction and concludes that these factors make some overreaction to terrorism unavoidable but offers four strategies to mitigate it.
America's Cultural Challenge Abroad
Harvey B. Feigenbaum
HARVEY B. FEIGENBAUM discusses the economic and cultural reasons for the spread of American pop culture and finds that political complaints by many countries about “Americanization” are well founded.
Why Intelligence Fails: Lessons from the Iranian Revolution and the Iraq War (PDF)
Loch K. Johnson
Richard A. Posner, The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
Vinod K. Aggarwal
David Remnick, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
Fred I. Greenstein
Rodolfo O. De La Garza
Thomas J. Sugrue, Not Even Past: Barack Obama and the Burden of Race
Robert C. Lieberman
Frances E. Lee, Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate
Jason M Roberts
Eleonora Pasotti, Political Branding in Cities: The Decline of Machine Politics in Bogota, Naples, and Chicago
Peter Eisinger
Leslie Gates, Electing Chávez: The Business of Anti-neoliberal Politics in Venezuela
Kirk A. Hawkins
Florence Faucher-King and Patrick Le Gales, The New Labour Experiment: Change and Reform Under Blair and Brown
George Breckenridge
Sally Neighbour, The Mother of Mohammed: An Australian Woman's Extraordinary Journey into Jihad
Mia Bloom
Marcelo Bergman, Tax Evasion and the Rule of Law in Latin America: The Political Culture of Cheating and Compliance in Argentina and Chile
Maria Victoria Murillo
Anthony Reid, Imperial Alchemy: Nationalism and Political Identity in Southeast Asia
Dan Slater
Matthew Kroenig, Exporting the Bomb: Technology Transfer and the Spread of Nuclear Weapons
Alexander H. Montgomery
Jeffrey E. Cohen, Going Local: Presidential Leadership in the Post-Broadcast Age (PDF)
Martin Johnson
Joseph Luders, The Civil Rights Movement and the Logic of Social Change
Daniel Kato
Mark C. Miller, The View of the Courts from the Hill: Interactions Between Congress and the Federal Judiciary
Gerald N. Rosenberg
Todd C. Shaw, Now is the Time! Detroit Black Politics and Grassroots Activism
Cynthia Jackson-Elmoore
Jeffrey D. Grynaviski, Partisan Bonds: Political Reputations and Legislative Accountability
David R. Jones
John P. Burke, Honest Broker? The National Security Advisor and Presidential Decision Making
Matthew J. Dickinson
Scott Melzer, Gun Crusaders: The NRA's Culture War
Clyde Wilcox
N. Soroka and Christopher Wlezien, Degrees of Democracy: Politics, Public Opinion, and Policy
Gerald Wright
Tamara Metz, Untying the Knot: Marriage, the State, and the Case for Their Divorce
Linda McClain
James Habyarimana, Macartan Humphreys, Daniel N. Posner, and Jeremy M. Weinstein, Coethnicity: Diversity and the Dilemmas of Collective Action
Thad Dunning
Monika Nalepa, Skeletons in the Closet: Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Europe
Sonia Cardenas
Matthew R. Cleary, The Sources of Democratic Responsiveness in Mexico
Stephen D. Morris
Carmen Sirianni, Investing in Democracy: Engaging Citizens in Collaborative Governance
Gerald Benjamin
Claire Metelits, Inside Insurgency: Violence, Civilians, and Revolutionary Group Behavior (PDF)
Paul R. Pillar
Simon Bornschier, Cleavage Politics and the Populist Right: The New Cultural Conflict in Western Europe
David Art
Chris Coulter, Bush Wives and Girl Soldiers: Women's Lives Through War and Peace in Sierra Leone
Laura Sjoberg
Eduardo Silva, Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America
Kurt Weyland
Leonardo Avritzer, Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil
Kathleen Bruhn