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CIAO DATE: 06/04
Volume 118 No. 4 (Winter 2003-2004)
Abstracts
After Saddam: Regional Insecurity, Weapons of Mass Destruction, and Proliferation Pressures in Postwar Iraq
Andrew Flibbert explores the weapons proliferation pressures that have long confronted Iraq. He argues that the logic of the security dilemma may one day lead Baghdad to renew its efforts to obtain weapons of mass destruction. Democratization, responsible leadership, or a continued American military presence are unlikely to eliminate Iraq's quest for the deadliest weapons in a dangerous regional environment that covets Iraq's oil reserves.
Misperceptions, the Media, and the Iraq War
Steven Kull, Clay Ramsay, and Evan Lewis xamine the prevalence of misperceptions related to the Iraq war among the American public: that weapons of mass destruction and evidence of close links between Iraq and al Qaeda had been found and that world public opinion approved of the United States going to war with Iraq. Such misperceptions were powerful predictors of support for the war, and their prevalence varied dramatically according to respondents' primary source of news.
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Issue Ownership and Presidential Campaigning, 1952-2000
John R. Petrocik, William L. Benoit, and Glenn J. Hansen analyze the nomination acceptance addresses and television advertising spots of presidential candidates from 1952 through 2000 in order to determine whether the candidates pursued issue-ownership strategies. The authors conclude that they did, that the issue emphases of the candidates are echoed by the weight that voters assign to those issues in their judgments about the candidates, and that the media may be less influential than the candidates themselves in priming the issue concerns of the voters.
Democratic Legitimacy and Public Insecurity: Crime and Democracy in El Salvador and Guatemala
Orlando J. Perézuses public opinion surveys to investigate how crime victimization affects public attitudes toward democracy. The article focuses on the cases of El Salvador and Guatemala. Across the developing countries, fear of crime and perceptions of social disorder are widespread. The failure of the state and its public order and criminal justice institutions to respond adequately and to provide protection and basic security may threaten democratic development. The fear of becoming a victim of crime significantly reduces support for democracy, increases support for authoritarian measures, and lowers confidence in the police and the political system.
The Politics of Gambling in the South
Michael Nelson and John Lyman Mason employ case studies of Mississippi and Georgia to explore the recent spread of legalized gambling in the South. Their research affirms the value of the prevailing theories of state policy innovation while suggesting several refinements, particularly in diffusion theory. They also draw attention to the sometimes-neglected importance of state constitutions and electoral politicians in the policy innovation process.
Partisanship and Governance: A Review Essay
Stephen J. Wayne reviews three books that address recent trends in voting behavior and their impact on the role of parties in government and on presidentialcongressional relations.
Book Reviews
Amy Gutmann, Identity in Democracy
Reviewed by Margaret Moore
Steven E. Schier, You Call This an Election? America's Peculiar Democracy
Reviewed by Judith A. Best
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Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod, Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government
Reviewed by Susan Rose-Ackerman
Alan Ware, The American Direct Primary: Party Institutionalization and Transformation in the North
Reviewed by Jonathan Bernstein
Glenn W. Richardson, Jr. Pulp Politics: How Political Advertising Tells the Stories of American Politics
Reviewed by Doris A. Graber
[Full Text, PDF, 3 pages, 54.5 kb]
Miguel Angel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America
Reviewed by Jorge I. Domínguez
Sheldon M. Stern, Averting 'The Final Failure': John F. Kennedy and the Secret Cuban Missile Crisis Meetings
Reviewed by Robert Jervis
John Bledsoe Bonds, Bipartisan Strategy: Selling the Marshall Plan
Reviewed by Robert A. Divine
Anne R. Pierce, Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman: Mission and Power in American Foreign Policy
Reviewed by John Milton Cooper, Jr.
Christopher I. Xenakis, What Happened to the Soviet Union? How and Why American Sovietologists Were Caught by Surprise
Reviewed by Mark Kramer
[Full Text, PDF, 4 pages, 57.9 kb]
Richard Rose and Neil Munro, Elections without Order: Russia's Challenge to Vladimir Putin
Reviewed by Joshua A. Tucker
[Full Text, PDF, 3 pages, 54.7 kb]
Robert L. Suettinger, Beyond Tiananmen: The Politics of U.S.-China Relations 1989-2000
Reviewed by Robert Sutter
Lucy G. Barber, Marching on Washington: The Forging of an American Political Tradition
Reviewed by Steven F. Lawson
Dennis S. Ippolito, Why Budgets Matter: Budget Policy and American Politics
Reviewed by Christopher Wlezien
Deborah Lynn Guber, The Grassroots of a Green Revolution: Polling America on the Environment
Reviewed by Eric R.A.N. Smith
Jack A. Goldstone, ed., States, Parties, and Social Movements
Reviewed by Raymond A. Smith
Patrick D. Joyce, No Fire Next Time: Black-Korean Conflicts and the Future of America's Cities
Reviewed by Nicole P. Marwell
Earl M. Maltz, ed., Rehnquist Justice: Understanding the Court Dynamic
Reviewed by Kevin J. McMahon
Donald A. Gross and Robert K. Goidel, The States of Campaign Finance Reform
Reviewed by Jeffrey Milyo
Lawrence Freedman, ed., Superterrorism: Policy Responses
Reviewed by Brigitte L. Nacos
Philip Jenkins, Images of Terror: What We Can and Can't Know About Terrorism
Reviewed by Audrey Kurth Cronin
Jefferey M. Sellers, Governing from Below: Urban Regions and the Global Economy
Reviewed by Lorraine C. Minnite
Colin Gordon, Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America
Reviewed by Jacob S. Hacker
Matthew J. Lindstrom and Zachary A. Smith, The National Environmental Policy Act: Judicial Misconstruction, Legislative Indifference, and Executive Neglect
Reviewed by Lettie McSpadden
Martin Shaw, War and Genocide: Organized Killing in a Modern Society
Reviewed by David P. Forsythe
Andrew G. Brown, Reluctant Partners: A History of Multilateral Trade Cooperation, 1850- 2000
Reviewed by Stephan Haggard
Liah Greenfeld, The Spirit of Capitalism: Nationalism and Economic Growth
Reviewed by Charles Tilly
Adrian Treacher, French Interventionism: Europe's Last Global Player?
Reviewed by Mark Kesselman
Stephen Driver and Luke Martell, Blair's Britain
Reviewed by Leon D. Epstein
Jonathan Mendilow, Ideology, Party Change, and Electoral Campaigns in Israel, 1965-2001
Reviewed by Abraham Diskin
Catherine H. Keyser, Professionalizing Research in Post-Mao China: The System Reform Institute and Policy Making
Reviewed by Guobin Yang
Sandie Holguín, Creating Spaniards: Culture and National Identity in Republican Spain
Reviewed by Michael Seidman
Thomas Callaghy, Ronald Kassimir, and Robert Latham, Intervention and Transnationalism in Africa: Global-Local Networks of Power
Reviewed by Donald Rothchild