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The War Powers Resolution: Time to Say Goodbye
Louis Fisher and David Gray Adler examine the legislative history and operation of the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and conclude that it fails to satisfy its stated purpose to fulfill the intent of the Framers and to insure that the "collective judgment" of both Congress and the president apply to the use of military force. They argue that the legislation should be repealed.
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Congressional Leadership of Public Opinion
Lawrence R. Jacobs, Eric D. Lawrence, Robert Y. Shapiro, and Steven S. Smith analyze the paradox of previous research finding that public opinion has a strong influence on the collective behavior of Congress but a quite modest one on the substantive policy decisions of individual members. Focusing on the debate over health care reform in 1993 and 1994, they suggest that congressional leaders drive public opinion to resemble the collective decisions of Congress.
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Is Anyone Listening? International Relations Theory and the Problem of Policy Relevance
Joseph Lepgold discusses how theories of international relations can be made more relevant to policy makers. He argues that better specified arguments would allow both theorists and practitioners to evaluate competing causal claims more easily.
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The Internet and Political Control in Singapore
Garry Rodan investigates the political implications of the Internet in Singapore, where authorities have embarked on an ambitious attempt to restrain the liberalizing impact of the new technology. His findings contradict popular expectations of the Internet necessarily aiding the erosion of authoritarian rule.
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The Joint Chiefs of Staff: From Service Parochialism to Jointness
Peter J. Roman and David W. Tarr review the changes in the Joint Chiefs of Staff that have occurred since the passage of the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Act. They show how the increased authority of the JCS chairman has transformed the dominant JCS norm from service parochialism to a cross-service or joint perspective.
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Party Politics and International Economic Activism: The Reagan-Bush Years
James Shoch examines the partisan roots of the turn toward a more aggressive U.S. trade policy during the Reagan-Bush years. He argues that Democratic efforts to exploit the trade issue for partisan advantage during this period forced Presidents Reagan and Bush to take tougher trade policy actions than they would otherwise have chosen in order to defuse the threat from the Democrats.
Book Reviews
- Schaller, Michael, Altered States: The United States and Japan since the Occupation
Reviewed by Akira Iriye
- Gartner, Scott Sigmond, Strategic Assessment in War
Reviewed by Robert Jervis
- Bert, Wayne, The Reluctant Superpower: United States' Policy in Bosnia, 1991-95
Reviewed by James Ron
- Sinclair, Barbara, Unorthodox Lawmaking: New Legislative Processes in the U.S. Congress
Reviewed by Colton C.Campbell
- Mansfield, Edward D. and Helen V. Milner, eds., The Political Economy of Regionalism
Reviewed by David M. Andrews
- Christensen, Thomas J., Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Conflict, 1947-1958
Reviewed by Nancy Bernkopf Tucker
- Page, Benjamin I., Who Deliberates?
Reviewed by Brigitte L. Nacos
- Nye, Joseph S., Jr., Philip D. Zelikow, and David C. King, eds., Why People Don't Trust Government
Reviewed by Gary Wasserman
- Grovogui, Siba N'Zatioula, Sovereigns, Quasi Sovereigns, and Africans
Reviewed by Linda J. Beck
- Clapham, Christopher, Africa and the International System: The Politics of Survival
Reviewed by Thomas M. Callaghy
- Moise, Edwin E., Tonkin Gulf and the Escalation of the Vietnam War
Reviewed by James J. Wirtz
- Larson, Deborah Welch, Anatomy of Mistrust: U.S.-Soviet Relations During the Cold War
Reviewed by Kimberly Marten Zisk
- Beckett, Katherine, Making Crime Pay: Law and Order in Contemporary American Politics
Reviewed by Shmuel Lock
- Apter, David E., ed., The Legitimation of Violence
Reviewed by James B. Rule
- Brown, Archie, The Gorbachev Factor
Reviewed by Katheryn Stoner-Weiss
- White, Stephen, Richard Rose, and Ian McAllister, How Russia Votes
Reviewed by Stephen Wegren
- Wenger, Andreas, Living with Peril: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Nuclear Weapons
Reviewed by Richard Ned Lebow
- Noble, Charles, Welfare As We Knew It
Reviewed by David Dodenhoff
- Lukacs, Yehuda, Israel, Jordan, and the Peace Process
Reviewed by Laurie A. Brand
- Offe, Claus, Varieties of Transition: The East European and East German Experience
Reviewed by Anders Åslund
- Thomas, Raju G. C., Democracy, Security, and Development in India
Reviewed by Stephen Philip Cohen
- Wirt, Frederick M., "We Ain't What We Was": Civil Rights in the New South
Reviewed by Peter Petrakis
- Kahn, Jonathan, Budgeting Democracy: State Building and Citizenship in America, 1890-1928
Reviewed by James D. Savage
- Vedung, Evert, Public Policy and Program Evaluation
Reviewed by Kenneth J. Meier
- Wiarda, Howard, Iberia and Latin America: New Democracies, New Policies, New Models
Reviewed by Gerard Alexander
- Barber, William J., Designs within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945
Reviewed by Donald R. Brand
- Mello, Michael, Against the Death Penalty: The Relentless Dissents of Justices Brennan and Marshall
Reviewed by Laurence A. Benner
- Ottosen, Garry K., and Douglas N. Thompson, Reducing Unemployment: A Case for Government Deregulation
Reviewed by Gary Mucciaroni
- Bennett, Michael J., When Dreams Came True: The GI Bill and the Making of Modern America
Reviewed by Christopher Howard
- Osborne, David and Peter Plastrik, Banishing Bureaucracy: The Five Strategies for Reinventing Government
Reviewed by Cheryl M. Miller
- Hochschild, Arlie Russell, The Time Bind: When Work Becomes Home and Home Becomes Work
Reviewed by Monica McDermott
- Button, James W., Barbara A. Rienzo, and Kenneth D. Wald, Private Lives, Public Conflicts: Battles over Gay Rights in American Communities
Reviewed by Tony Affigne
