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CIAO DATE: 11/01
Volume 116 No. 1 (Spring 2001)
Abstracts
Editor's Opinion: Why Americans Need a Constitutional Right to Vote for Presidential Electors
Demetrios James Caraley your editor argues that the Constitution needs to be amended to give Americans the constitutional right they believed they had but the Supreme Court in Bush v. Gore denied—the right to vote for and select the president.
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A House and Senate Divided: The Clinton Legacy and the Congressional Elections of 2000
Gary C. Jacobson asserts the 2000 election and its bizarre aftermath in Florida accurately reflected the configuration of partisan politics that crystallized during the Clinton administration: close partisan balance in Congress and in the electorate; distinct regional, cultural, and ideological divisions between the parties' respective electoral coalitions; and a sharp partisan polarization among political elites, echoed, though more faintly, in the broader public. The trends that produced this political configuration predated the 1990s, but they accelerated during the Clinton years, and Clinton himself was a catalyst in their development.
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The 2000 Presidential Election in Historical Perspective
Robert S. Erikson presents a look back on the 2000 presidential campaign and election, using data from campaign polls and the VNS exit polls. He examines the forecaster's error in predicting a Gore victory and follows the campaign horse race in national and state polls.
Civil Society and the Consolidation of Democracy in Spain
Omar G. Encarnación challenges the widespread conventional wisdom that holds a vibrant and robust civil society to be a crucial precondition for the successful consolidation of democracy. He explores the politics of democratization of post-Franco Spain, a case that possesses the curious distinction of being an historical paradigm of civil society underdevelopment, and also the most striking example of democratic consolidation among so-called Third Wave democracies.
The Cuban Missile Crisis and the Limits of Crisis Management
Richard M. Pious challenges the belief that President John Kennedy was able to manage the Cuban Missile Crisis and end it on favorable terms. He examines the records of the deliberations of the ExComm and Politburo in the midst of the Cuban Missile Crisis and concludes that only when Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev abandoned gamesmanship and turned to select negotiations and bargaining were the two leaders able to defuse the crisis.
The Building of a Bifactional Structure: The Democrats in the 1940s
Howard L. Reiter examines the development of the north-south split within the Democratic party in the United States and dates it from the era of the New Deal. He emphasizes the interplay of economics and race as casual factors, concluding that cohort replacement was the means by which the congressional party changed.
Book Reviews
Fred I. Greenstein, The Presidential Difference: Leadership Styles from FDR to Clinton
Reviewed by Thomas S. Langston
Timothy J. Colton, Transitional Citizens: Voters and What Influences Them in Russia
Reviewed by Anders Åslund
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T. V. Paul, Power versus Prudence: Why Nations Forgo Nuclear Weapons
Reviewed by George H. Quester
Russell J. Leng, Bargaining and Learning in Recurring Crises: The Soviet-American, Egyptian-Israeli, and Indo-Pakistani Rivalries
Reviewed by oseph Lepgold
Avi Shlaim, The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World
Reviewed by Jerome Slater
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Richard Davis, The Web of Politics: The Internet's Impact on the American Political System
Reviewed by David L. Paletz
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Ellis S. Krauss, Broadcasting Politics in Japan: NHK and Television News
Reviewed by Nathaniel B. Thayer
Nina M. Moore, Governing Race: Policy, Process, and the Politics of Race
Reviewed by Charles C. Turner
Joel D. Aberbach and Bert A. Rockman, In the Web of Politics: Three Decades of the U.S. Federal Executive
Reviewed by Stephen J. Wayne
Ronald Tiersky, François Mitterrand: The Last French President
Reviewed by Michael Curtis
Michael E. Latham, Modernization as Ideology: American Social Science and "Nation Building" in the Kennedy Era
Reviewed by Irene Gendzier
Brian F. Crisp, Democratic Institutional Design: The Powers and Incentives of Venezuelan Politics and Interest Groups
Reviewed by Michael Coppedge
Gülnur Aybet, A European Security Architecture After the Cold War: Questions of Legitimacy
Reviewed by Charles G. Cogan
Guiliano Bonoli, The Politics of Pension Reform: Institutions and Change in Western Europe
Reviewed by Robert Henry Cox
Matthew Krain, Repression and Accommodation in Post-Revolutionary States
Reviewed by Patrick J. Conge
Rey Koslowski, Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European System
Reviewed by Christine Ingebritsen
Paul Kubicek, Unbroken Ties: The State, Interest Associations, and Corporatism in Post-Soviet Ukraine
Reviewed by Yaroslav Bilinsky
Leigh A. Payne, Uncivil Movements and Democracy in Latin America
Reviewed by Harold A. Trinkunas
Martin Meredith, Coming to Terms: South Africa's Search for the Truth
Reviewed by Ronald Kassimir
Ronald Dworkin, Sovereign Virtue: The Theory and Practice of Equality
Reviewed by Wayne D. Moore
Gregory Mitrovich, Operation Rollback: America's Secret War Behind the Iron Curtain, Peter Grose; Undermining the Kremlin: America's Strategy to Subvert the Soviet Bloc, 1947-1956
Reviewed by Raymond L. Garthoff
William Ascher, Why Governments Waste Natural Resources: Policy Failures in Developing Countries
Reviewed by Miranda A. Schreurs
Peter Chelkowski and Hamid Dabashi, Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Reviewed by Daniel Brumberg
A. James Gregor, The Faces of Janus: Marxism and Fascism in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Tony Smith
Alexandre Lamfalussy, Financial Crises in Emerging Markets: An Essay on Financial Globalization and Fragility
Reviewed by Jonathan Crystal
Roland Bleiker, Popular Dissent, Human Agency and Global Politics
Reviewed by Kenneth G. Lawson