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CIAO DATE: 07/04
Volume 119 No. 1 (Spring 2004)
Abstracts
Islam, Democracy, and Constitutional Liberalism
Fareed Zakaria reflects on the factors present in the Middle East that have provided for the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and a complete absence of democracy. He prescribes policy measures for the United States and the leaders of the Middle Eastern regimes in order to best transition the region to one where at least constitutional liberalism may flourish.
Presidential Selection: Electoral Fallacies
Jack N. Rakove examines the conventional arguments made on behalf of preserving the state-based system of presidential elections and concludes that the familiar defenses of the electoral college are fallacious. If one person-one vote is the fundamental norm of modern democracy, there is no persuasive rationale that can legitimate the leveraging effect of the “senatorial bump” on the voting weights of differently sized states.
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Presidential Selection: Complex Problems and Simple Solutions
Judith A. Best analyzes the electoral vote system in terms of six complex and interdependent goals for presidential elections and concludes that the current system, although not perfect, meets them all. She then examines six alternative plans for presidential selection and concludes that they would deform, rather than reform, our presidential elections.
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Palestinian Suicide Bombing: Public Support, Market Share, and Outbidding
Mia M. Bloom demonstrates why Palestinian public opinion increasingly supports suicide terror against Israeli civilians and military personnel. Suicide bombings have become a method of recruitment and mobilization for radical Palestinian organizations. They serve at one and the same time to attack the hated enemy and give legitimacy to outlier militant groups who compete with the Palestinian Authority for leadership.
The Gingrich Effect
Randall Strahan and Daniel J. Palazzolo discuss the leadership style of former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich. They show that Gingrich’s own goals and understanding of leadership significantly influenced his activist leadership style and that he both shaped the context in which he led and altered the expectations of his followers.
Global Security and Legal Restraint: Reconsidering War Powers after September 11
Karl K. Schonberg looks at the congressional authorizations of force since September 11, which he claims are best understood as the latest manifestations of a sixty-year pattern of growth in the president’s power to make war. He argues for a return to the intent of the Framers of the Constitution in the exercise of war powers.
Constitutional Courts and Legislative-Executive Relations: The Case of Ukraine
Trevor L. Brown and Charles R. Wise scrutinize Ukraine’s constitutional court. Their analysis suggests that in order for the constitutional court to work, it must have extensive judicial review powers, its jurisdiction must be broad enough to encompass separation of powers issues, and neither the executive nor the legislative branch should be able to easily control the court through the appointment process.
Civilian Masters and Military Servants: A Review Essay
Richard L. Russell reviews several recent books that put the spotlight on perennial issues in American civil-military relations, especially as they pertain to the threat, use, and management of force. He argues that these books will help inform politicians, soldiers, scholars, and citizens of the inherent tensions in healthy civil-military relations as well as the pitfalls and dangers of imbalanced civil-military relations.
Book Reviews
Philip B. Heymann, Terrorism, Freedom, and Security: Winning Without War
Reviewed by Brigitte L. Nacos
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Rosemary Foot, S. Neil MacFarlane, and Michael Mastanduno, eds., U.S. Hegemony and International Organizations
Reviewed by Julie Webber
Robert J. Art, A Grand Strategy for America
Reviewed by William E. Odom
Walter Laqueur, No End ToWar: Terrorism in the Twenty-First Century
Reviewed by John Prados
Gil Merom, How Democracies Lose Small Wars: State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam
Reviewed by Barry M. Blechman
Neta C. Crawford, Argument and Change in World Politics: Ethics, Decolonization, and Humanitarian Intervention
Reviewed by Mlada Bukovansky
Juan J. Lopez, Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro’s Cuba
Reviewed by Jorge I. Domínguez
[Full Text, PDF, 3 pages, 56.2 kb]
Sahadeo Basdeo and Heather N. Nicols, eds., Canada, the United States, and Cuba: An Evolving Relationship
Reviewed by David M. Stemper
Kim Hopper, Reckoning With Homelessness
Reviewed by Ralph Nunez
[Full Text, PDF, 3 pages, 54.9 kb]
David J. Jackson, Entertainment and Politics: The Influence of Pop Culture on Young Adult Political Socialization
Reviewed by Doris A. Graber
Barbara A. McGraw, Rediscovering America’s Sacred Ground: Public Religion and Pursuit of the Good in a Pluralistic America
Reviewed by John Baumann
William R. Hutchison, Religious Pluralism in America: The Contentious History of a Founding Ideal
Reviewed by Eldon J. Eisenach
Jo Renee Formicola, Mary C. Segers, and Paul Weber, Faith-Based Initiatives and the Bush Administration: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Reviewed by Ronald J. Hrebenar
Ken Conca and Geoffrey D. Dabelko, eds., Environmental Peacemaking
Reviewed by David Leonard Downie
Edward P. Weber, Bringing Society Back In: Grassroots Ecosystem Management, Accountability, and Sustainable Communities
Reviewed by Steven Cohen
Pedro Ibarra, ed., Social Movements and Democracy
Reviewed by David S. Meyer
Ronald Inglehart and Pippa Norris, Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change Around the World
Reviewed by Joyce Gelb
Fred I. Greenstein, ed., The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment
Reviewed by Stephen J. Wayne
[Full Text, PDF, 4 pages, 58.0 kb]
Michael A. Smith, Bringing Representation Home: State Legislators Among Their Constituencies
Reviewed by Gerald Benjamin
Sarah A. Binder, Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock
Reviewed by Norman J. Ornstein
Jamin B. Raskin, Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. The American People
Reviewed by Howard Gillman
Walter Shapiro, One-Car Caravan: On the Road with the 2004 Democrats Before America Tunes In
Reviewed by Costas Panagopoulos
Robert M. Eisinger, The Evolution of Presidential Polling
Reviewed by Lawrence Jacobs
Bruce Bimber, Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power
Reviewed by Richard Davis
Theda Skocpol, Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life
Reviewed by James A. Morone
Eleanor Clift and Tom Brazaitis, Madam President: Women Blazing the Leadership Trail
Reviewed by Kathleen Knight
David A. Bell, The Cult of the Nation in France: Inventing Nationalism, 1680–1800
Reviewed by Mark Kesselman
Jeffrey S. Lantis, Strategic Dilemmas and the Evolution of German Foreign Policy Since Unification
Reviewed by Donald P. Kommers
José Alvarez-Junco, The Emergence of Mass Politics in Spain: Populist Demagoguery and Republican Culture, 1890–1910
Reviewed by Norman A. Graham
Richard J. Samuels, Machiavelli’s Children: Leaders and Their Legacies in Italy and Japan
Reviewed by Frederick R. Dickinson
Hans Mommsen, Alternatives to Hitler: German Resistance Under the Third Reich
Reviewed by Klemens von Klemperer