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CIAO DATE: 08/07
Volume 122 No. 1 (Spring 2007)
Articles
Referendum: The 2006 Midterm Congressional Elections (PDF, 25 pages, 379 KB)
GARY C. JACOBSON analyzes the 2006 midterm election as a referendum on the performance of President Bush, the war in Iraq, and the Republican Congress. He argues that the Democrats won control of Congress by nationalizing the election and exploiting widespread public discontent with the Republican regime to overcome the Republicans’ formidable structural advantage in present-day electoral politics.
Do Counterproliferation and Counterterrorism Go Together?
DANIEL BYMAN challenges the view that proliferation and terrorism are similar problems and that the policies to combat them necessarily operate in harmony. Policymakers concerned about nuclear terrorism should focus on helping potential leakers improve security and on guarding against the rise of hostile ideological states.
The Detention and Trial of Enemy Combatants: A Drama in Three Branches
MICHAEL C. DORF describes the interactions among the three branches of the federal government in addressing the detention and trial of captives in the war in Afghanistan and the broader ‘‘war on terror.’’ He explains that the Supreme Court’s repeated rejections of the Bush administration’s sweeping assertions of wartime authority have erected few insurmountable obstacles to administration policy. Instead, the Court has required the administration to seek authority from Congress, which in turn has shown little appetite for reining in the President.
Is America a Christian Nation?
HUGH HECLO argues that both secular and religious political activists have found it advantageous to demonize each other by using the idea of America as a Christian nation. Citizens can gain a more mature understanding of the relationship between Christianity and American nationhood by considering different domains of variation in America’s alleged Christian-ness.
Between Passion and Deliberation: The Christian Right and Democratic Ideals
JON A. SHIELDS unearths a surprising relationship between the Christian right and democratic ideals. Although Christian right leaders are strident in the context of mobilization, they also encourage their activists to embrace civility and public reason in the public square. This fact highlights a deeper tension between the democratic ideals of participation and deliberation.
The Basis of Puerto Rico’s Constitutional Status: Colony, Compact, or ‘‘Federacy’’?
DAVID A. REZVANI examines the controversy surrounding Puerto Rico’s constitutional status and rejects both of the traditional views on this issue. Puerto Rico is neither an American colony nor are its powers legally safeguarded by its 1952 ‘‘compact’’ with the United States. Instead, mirroring the historic British dominions, unwritten constitutional rules defend Puerto Rico’s constitutional status, making it into a partially sovereign polity known as a ‘‘federacy.’’
Book Reviews
Constructing the U.S. Rapprochement with China, 1961-1974: From ‘‘Red Menace’’ to ‘‘Tacit Ally,’’ Evelyn Goh; China and Vietnam: The Politics of Asymmetry, Brantly Womack; Sino-Japanese Relations: Interaction, Logic, and Transformation, Ming Wan
Reviewed by Andrew J. Nathan
Money and Free Speech: Campaign Finance Reform and the Courts, Melvin I. Urofsky; Money, Power, & Elections: How Campaign Finance Reform Subverts American Democracy, Rodney A. Smith
Reviewed by J. Mark Wrighton
Jeffrey T. Richelson, Spying on the Bomb: American Nuclear Intelligence from Nazi Germany to Iran and North Korea (PDF, 3 pages, 130 KB)
Reviewed by Robert Jervis
Matthew D. Lassiter, The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South
Reviewed by Charles W. Eagles
Barbara Sinclair, Party Wars: Polarization and the Politics of National Policy Making
Reviewed by Nolan McCarty
Michael Malbin, The Election After Reform: Money, Politics, and the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act
Reviewed by Costas Panagopoulos
Gary Mucciaroni and Paul J. Quirk, Deliberative Choices: Debating Public Policy in Congress
Reviewed by Katrina L. Gamble
Michael B. Berkman and Eric Plutzer, Ten Thousand Democracies: Politics and Public Opinion in America’s School Districts
Reviewed by Kenneth K. Wong
John Arquilla, The Reagan Imprint: Ideas in American Foreign Policy from the Collapse of Communism to the War on Terror
Reviewed by Stuart Gottlieb
Gary Hart, The Shield and the Cloak: The Security of the Commons
Reviewed by Jakub Grygiel
George Michael, The Enemy of My Enemy: The Alarming Convergence of Militant Islam and the Extreme Right
Reviewed by Eric Larson
Philip Smith, Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War, and Suez
Reviewed by Marc Lynch
P. Edward Haley, Strategies of Dominance: The Misdirection of U.S. Foreign Policy (PDF, 4 pages, 131 KB)
Reviewed by David V. Edwards
Robert M. Cassidy, Counterinsurgency and the Global War on Terror: Military Culture and Irregular War
Reviewed by Dessie P. Zagorcheva
Gabriel Weimann, Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges
Reviewed by Benjamin H. Friedman
Bruce Kuklick, Blind Oracles: Intellectuals and War from Kennan to Kissinger
Reviewed by David Greenberg
Keith A. Hansen, The Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty: An Insider’s Perspective
Reviewed by George H. Quester
David W. Lesch, The New Lion of Damascus: Bashar al-Asad and Modern Syria
Reviewed by Steven Heydemann
Yitzhak Nakash, Reaching for Power: The Shi’a in the Modern Arab World
Reviewed by Magnus T. Bernhardsson
David J. Francis, Uniting Africa: Building Regional Peace and Security Systems
Reviewed by Kevin C. Dunn
Jason Scott Smith, Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956 (PDF, 3 pages, 130 KB)
Reviewed by Gary Mucciaroni
Charles Peters, Five Days in Philadelphia: 1940, Wendell Willkie, and the Political Convention that Freed FDR to Win World War II
Reviewed by Edwin Amenta
Patrick J. McGuinn, No Child Left Behind and the Transformation of Federal Education Policy, 1965-2005
Reviewed by Paul Manna
Paul Manna, School’s In: Federalism and the National Education Agenda
Reviewed by Christopher A. Simon
John Baughman, Common Ground: Committee Politics in the U.S. House of Representatives
Reviewed by C. Lawrence Evans
David S. Allen, Democracy, Inc.: The Press and Law in the Corporate Rationalization of the Public Sphere
Reviewed by Roger L. Sadler
D. Sunshine Hillygus, Norman H. Nie, Kenneth Prewitt, and Heili Pals, The Hard Count: The Political and Social Challenges of Census Mobilization
Reviewed by John Mark Hansen
Stephen L. Elkin, Reconstructing the Commercial Republic: Constitutional Design after Madison
Reviewed by Keith E. Whittington
Julia Lynch, Age in the Welfare State
Reviewed by Greg M. Shaw
John Gillingham, Design for a New Europe
Reviewed by George Ross
Saskia Sassen, Territory, Authority, Rights: From Medieval to Global Assemblages
Reviewed by Paul Kantor