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CIAO DATE: 10/00
Volume 115 No. 2 (Summer 2000)
Abstracts
The Vice President, Secretary of State, and Foreign Policy
Paul Kengor examines the influence of the secretary of state in affecting the vice president's role in foreign policy. He focuses on the relationship between vice presidents Dan Quayle and Al Gore and the secretaries of state in their administrations. While acknowledging that the president is most critical in determining a vice president's foreign-policy role, Kengor shows that the role of the secretary of state can be a vital factor in the vice president's ultimate level of involvement.
Economic Insecurity, Prejudicial Stereotypes, and Public Opinion on Immigration Policy
Peter Burns and James G. Gimpel examine mass attitudes toward immigration policy in the United States, asking whether widespread restrictionist sentiment is stirred more by economic insecurity, by negative ethnic stereotypes, or by some combination of the two. For some, prejudice is rooted in economic insecurity, but prejudice also has roots that are quite independent of economic fears. Anti-immigrant sentiment will not disappear simply because economic conditions improve.
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Show of Force: Chinese Soldiers, Statesmen, and the 1995-1996 Taiwan Strait Crisis
Andrew Scobell analyses the 1995-96 Taiwan Strait crisis as a case study in coercive diplomacy. He focuses on the role of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and discusses the implications of the case for the future of cross-strait ties and Sino-American relations.
The Regional Sources of Power-Sharing Failure
Brenda M. Seaver examines the sources of power-sharing failure in societies afflicted by severe ethnic, religious, and/or linguistic cleavages. Focusing on Lebanon's democratic breakdown in 1975, she argues that inauspicious regional conditions pose the most serious threat to power-sharing arrangements. Specifically, turbulent regional systems undermine the domestic elite consensus upon which power sharing is based and ultimately contribute to institutional failure.
Opinion: The Shutdowns and the Constitution
Alfred Hill contends that the shutdowns of the federal government a few years ago represented an unconstitutional usurpation of power by the legislative branch. He observes that appropriation lapses have been common in American history, but drew little public attention because, to the extent that shutdowns actually resulted, they were apparently of short duration and seemingly without the broad coercive intent that was obvious, and indeed proclaimed, in the most recent shutdowns.
Book Reviews
Curtis,Gerald, The Logic of Japanese Politics: Leaders, Institutions, and the Limits of Change
Reviewed by Dennis Patterson
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Grillo, Ralph, Pluralism and the Politics of Difference: State, Culture, and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
Reviewed by Jennifer L. Hochschild
Schraeder, Peter J., African Politics and Society: A Mosaic in Transformation
Reviewed by Crawford Young
Heydemann, Steven, Authoritarianism in Syria: Institutions and Social Conflict 1946-1970
Reviewed by Dirk J. Vandewalle
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Haynes,John Earl, Venona: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America
Reviewed by David Plotke
Clymer, Adam, Edward M. Kennedy: A Biography
Reviewed by Wendy Schiller
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Milkis, Sidney M. and Jerome M. Mileur, Consequences of Black Majority Districts
Reviewed by Louis DeSipio
Rosecrance, Richard, The Rise of the Virtual State: Wealth and Power in the Coming Century
Reviewed by Bruce Russett
Motyl, Alexander J., Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities
Reviewed by Stephen L. White
Ball, Howard, Prosecuting War Crimes and Genocide: The Twentieth Century Experience
Reviewed by Leslie Vinjamuri
McAllister, William B., Drug Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
Reviewed by Peter Andreas
Zheng, Yongnian, Discovering Chinese Nationalism in China
Reviewed by Joseph Fewsmith
Riley, Russell L., The Presidency and the Politics of Racial Inequality: Nation-Keeping from 1831-1965
Reviewed by Gregory Portillo
Klinkner, Philip A. with Rogers Smith, The Unsteady March: The Rise and Decline of Racial Equality in America
Reviewed by Charles Hirschman
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Levy, John D., Tocqueville's Revenge: State, Society, and Economy in Contemporary France
Reviewed by Sheri Berman
Bernauer, Thomas and Dieter Ruloff, The Politics of Positive Incentives in Arms Control
Reviewed by James W. Davis
Lopeman, Charles S., The Activist Advocate: Policy Making in State Supreme Courts
Reviewed by Brian L. Fife
Goldgeier, James M., Not Whether but When: The U.S. Decision to Enlarge NATO
Reviewed by Randall L. Schweller
Shanahan, James and Michael Morgan, Television and Its Viewers: Cultivation Theory and Research
Reviewed by Brigitte L. Nacos
Abu-Odeh, Adnan, Jordanians, Palestinians, and the Hashemite Kingdom in the Middle East Process
Reviewed by Laurie A. Brand
Baruah, Sanjib, India Against Itself: Assam and the Politics of Nationality Maya Chadda
Kingstone, Peter R., Crafting Coalitions for Reform: Business Preferences, Political Institutions, and Neoliberal Reform in Brazil
Reviewed by Sylvia Maxfield
Perez-Diaz, Victor, Spain at the Crossroads: Civil Society, Politics, and the Rule of Law
Reviewed by Eric Hershberg
Nazer, Hisham M., Power of a Third Kind: The Western Attempt to Colonize the Global Village
Reviewed by Jon B. Alterman
Lynch, Mark, State Interests and Public Spheres: The International Politics of Jordan's Identity
Reviewed by Fred Lawson
Frug, Gerald E., City Making: Building Communities Without Building Walls
Reviewed by David Schultz
Libby, Ronald T., Eco-Wars: Political Campaigns and Social Movements
Reviewed by David H. Colnic