Political Science Quarterly

 

Issue 113, No. 2 (Summer 1998)

Abstract

• From the Bonn to the Berlin Republic: Can a Stable Democracy Continue?

  Lewis J. Edinger and Brigitte L. Nacos examine whether reunited Germany remains a model of democratic stability in the heart of Europe. They hold that Germany's democracy is well suited to adapt to and cope with the challenges posed by domestic changes such as reunification and international developments.

• The Rise of the Public Speakership

  Douglas B. Harris discusses the increased tendency of Speakers of the U.S. House of Representatives to use media strategies for legislative leadership. He argues that this is a general trend in the nature of the speakership rather than a phenomenon attributable to the present Speaker. He concludes with an examination into the ways in which this trend might affect legislative coalition building and congressional policy making.

• The Politics of Reforming Social Security

  R. Douglas Arnold analyzes the political difficulties in reforming Social Security in the absence of a short-term crisis. He argues that the chief political problem is to find a way to impose short-term costs on current taxpayers when the benefits of advance funding are exclusively long-term for future retires.

• War Powers, Bosnia, and the 104th Congress

  Ryan C. Hendrickson looks at the interplay between Congress and the president over war powers. He argues that despite the presence of an ostensibly assertive and highly partisan Congress in foreign policy, the Republicans followed the congressional norm of deferring to the commander in chief in his desire to deploy U.S. forces to Bosnia.

• Feminism, Antifeminism, and Electoral Politics in Postwar Nicaragua and El Salvador

  Karen Kampwirth reviews the role of gender in postwar elections in Nicaragua and El Salvador. She argues that the campaigns contrasted dramatically, mainly due to differences in the way women were incorporated into the politics of the civil war years.

• Domestic Interests in NAFTA Bargaining

  William P. Avery investigates domestic political interests in the negotiations and ratification of NAFTA.

• Tale of the Tapes: A Review Essay

  Robert A. Divine evaluates two new books based on presidential tapesÑthose of John F. Kennedy's deliberations with his advisers during the Cuban missile crisis and of Lyndon B. Johnson's telephone conversations during his first ten months in office. He finds both to be revealing but ultimately disappointing.

   

  Book Reviews

• Cogan, Charles G., Forced to Choose: France, the Atlantic Alliance and NATO
  Reviewed by James McAllister

• Schoppa, Leonard J., Bargaining with Japan: What American Pressure Can and Cannot Do
  Reviewed by Ellis S. Krauss

• Kwong, Julia, The Political Economy of Corruption in China
  Reviewed by Mark A. Groombridge

• Zheng, Shiping, Party vs. State in Post-1949 China
  Reviewed by Lowell Dittmer

• Michaels, Judith E., The President's Call: Executive Leadership from FDR to George Bush
  Reviewed by G. Calvin Mackenzie

• Katzman, Robert A., Courts and Congress
  Reviewed by Ronald Kahn

• Smith, Rogers, Civic Ideals: Conflicting Visions of Citizenship in US History
  Reviewed by Jennifer L. Hochschild

• Hacker, Jacob S., The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton's Plan for Health Security
  Reviewed by Michael S. Sparer

• Goldman, Sheldon, Picking Federal Judges: Lower Court Selection from Roosevelt to Reagan
  Reviewed by Charles Cameron

• Savage, Sean J., Truman and the Democratic Party
  Reviewed by Allan J. Cigler

• Hammond, Susan Webb, Congressional Caucuses in National Policy Making
  Reviewed by Jeffery C. Talbert

• Hamilton, Dona Cooper, and Charles V. Hamilton, The Dual Agenda: The African-American Struggle for Civil and Economic Equality
  Reviewed by Katherine Tate

• McFerson, Hazel M., The Racial Dimensions of American Overseas Colonial Policy
  Reviewed by Brenda Gayle Plummer

• Collier, Kenneth, Between the Branches: The White House Office of Legislative Affairs
  Reviewed by Matthew J. Dickinson

• Cook, Brian J., Bureaucracy and Self-Government: Reconsidering the Role of Public Administration in American Politics
  Reviewed by Robert C. Lieberman

• Marshall, Susan E., Splintered Sisterhood: Gender and Class in the Campaign against Woman Suffrage
  Reviewed by Gretchen Ritter

• Bullard, Monte R., The Soldier and the Citizen: The Role of the Military in Taiwan's Development
  Reviewed by Wey Hsiao

• Brown, Nathan J., The Rule of Law in the Arab World: Courts in Egypt and the Gulf
  Reviewed by Elizabeth Thompson

• Barkey, Karen, and Mark von Hagen, After Empire: Multiethnic Societies and Nation-Building: The Soviet Union and the Russian, Ottoman and Habsburg Empires
  Reviewed by John- Paul Himka

• Wesley, Michael, Casualties of the New World Order: The Causes of Failure of UN Missions to Civil Wars
  Reviewed by Paul F. Diehl

• Eichengreen, Barry J., European Monetary Unification: Theory, Practice, and Analysis
  Reviewed by Thomas Oatley

• Kemp, Geoffrey, and Robert E. Harkavy, Strategic Geography and the Changing Middle East
  Reviewed by Andrew Flibbert

• Maxfield, Sylvia, Gatekeepers of Growth: The International Political Economy of Central Banking in Developing Countries
  Reviewed by Herman M. Schwartz

• Whitehead, Laurence, The International Dimensions of Democratization
  Reviewed by Katherine Hite

• Robinson, Glenn E., Building a Palestinian State: The Incomplete Revolution
  Reviewed by Joost R. Hiltermann

• Stone, Martin, The Agony of Algeria
  Reviewed by Dirk Vandewalle

• Sternhell, Zeev, The Founding Myths of Israel
  Reviewed by Jerome Slater

• Lendler, Marc, Crisis and Political Beliefs: The Case of the Colt Firearms Strike
  Reviewed by David Brian Robertson

• Kaplan, Temma, Crazy for Democracy: Women in Grassroots Movements
  Reviewed by Lynn Stephen

• Edin, Kathryn, and Laura Lein, Making Ends Meet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work
  Reviewed by Ralph Da Costa Nunez

• Bridges, Amy, Morning Glories: Municipal Reform in the Southwest
  Reviewed by Clarence N. Stone

• Bennett, Larry, Neighborhood Politics: Chicago and Sheffield
  Reviewed by Barbara Ferman

• Hertzog, Mark, The Lavender Vote: Lesbians, Gay Men, and Bisexuals in American Electoral Politics
  Reviewed by Robert W. Bailey

• Sklar, Kathryn Kish, Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work
  Reviewed by Nancy Woloch

• Broz, J. Lawrence, The International Origins of the Federal Reserve System
  Reviewed by Peter A. Gourevitch

• Bruhn, Kathleen, Taking on Goliath: The Emergence of a New Left Party and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico
  Reviewed by Deborah L. Norden

• Bartlett, David L., The Political Economy of Dual Transformations: Market Reform and Democratization in Hungary
  Reviewed by Patrick H. O'Neil