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The Trouble with Passion: Political Theory Beyond the Reign of
Reason
Authors: Sabl Andrew 
Published: February 2007

The Trouble with Passion: Political Theory Beyond the Reign of
Reason. By Cheryl Hall. New York: Routledge, 2005. 192p. $75.00
cloth, $22.95 paper.This book argues for passion in politics: not just calm passions, that
is, sentiments or interests, but “enthusiasm” and
“explicit appreciation of and commitment to something valued”
(pp. 12, 7). Liberal theory, Hall argues, is wrong to regard political
passions as inherently suspect, intolerant, and “opposed to both
reason and justice” (p. 3). Passion in politics is inescapable, for
passion and reason are not opposed but interpenetrating aspects of human
thought and motivation. Beyond this, however, some passions are
politically salutary: They inspire worthy political actions, especially
movements for social change.
The Place of Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality, and
Responsibility
Authors: Tronto Joan C. 
Published: February 2007

The Place of Families: Fostering Capacity, Equality, and
Responsibility. By Linda C. McClain. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
University Press, 2006. 392p. $45.00.Linda McClain's excellent book provides a comprehensive account
of the political issues concerning families in United States public policy
and a coherent perspective from which to evaluate proposals for change in
these policies. Writing as a liberal feminist, McClain has an approach
that will not please everyone, but since her starting point takes families
seriously as political units, no serious discussant in these debates can
ignore this book.
Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique
Authors: Gill Emily R. 
Published: February 2007

Challenging Liberalism: Feminism as Political Critique. By
Lisa H. Schwartzman. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2006.
224p. $45.00.In this book, Schwartzman argues that liberalism's methodological
individualism and its neutrality through abstraction from social contexts
and relations of power render it a questionable approach for those who
would challenge the oppression of women or, by extension, of other
traditionally subordinated groups. She instead advocates a feminist
methodology based on ways that individuals are often embedded in a social
context characterized by power and domination. She would not have us
jettison concepts such as rights, equality, liberty, and autonomy, but
would have us reformulate them by attending to perspectives and contexts
that help us to avoid the pitfalls of liberalism.
The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of
Religious Pluralism
Authors: Deneen Patrick J. 
Published: February 2007

The Liberal Conscience: Politics and Principle in a World of
Religious Pluralism. By Lucas Swaine. New York: Columbia University
Press, 2006. 240p. $35.00.In this book, Lucas Swaine argues that modern liberalism has failed in
its efforts to provide adequate justification of liberalism's
political legitimacy to religious adherents. This may seem a surprising
contention, given the vast literature that attempts to do precisely this,
reaching easily as far back as John Rawl's Political
Liberalism if not to the constitutive works of Hobbes and Locke. In
particular, according to Swaine, contemporary liberalism has failed
because it does not offer arguments that can appeal to religious
believers, preferring instead a standard of “reasonableness”
that cannot assail the faith commitments of religious believers.
Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
Authors: Gaus Gerald F. 
Published: February 2007

Expert Political Judgment: How Good Is It? How Can We Know?
By Philip E. Tetlock. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 352p.
$45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.This is a wonderful and important book. Philip Tetlock is a political
psychologist who has a knack for innovative research projects (e.g., his
earlier work on how people cope with trade-offs in politics). In this
book, he addresses a question that would scare away more timid souls: How
well do experts predict political and economic events?
Common Ground: Committee Politics in the U.S. House of
Representatives
Authors: Berard Stanley P. 
Published: February 2007

Common Ground: Committee Politics in the U.S. House of
Representatives. By John Baughman. Stanford: Stanford University
Press, 2006. 272p. $50.00.A handful of scholars have devoted attention in recent years to the
dynamics of standing committee jurisdictions in the U.S. Congress. This is
an important focus because congressional rules and procedures give
committees a central role in the legislative process and because the
increasingly complex policy environment of recent decades has made clear
demarcations of subject matter jurisdiction more difficult. How Congress
resolves overlapping committee jurisdictions can affect both the
deliberative quality and the substantive outcomes of policymaking. This is
an important point of departure for reading John Baughman's new
book.
Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in Urban
Education and Schools In: Federalism and the National Education
Agenda
Authors: Robinson Scott E. 
Published: February 2007

Mayors and Schools: Minority Voices and Democratic Tensions in
Urban Education. By Stefanie Chambers. Philadelphia: Temple
University Press, 2006. 240p. $64.50 cloth, $21.95 paper.Schools In: Federalism and the National Education Agenda. By
Paul Manna. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2006. 222p.
$26.95.Interest in the politics of American cities and states has been
steadily increasing in recent years, as scholars have rediscovered the
importance of studying issues of governance at subnational levels. Recent
research has illustrated that the American federal system is both more
interconnected than many Washington-centric accounts would lead one to
believe and more complicated insofar as the politics of states and local
governments do not perfectly reflect national political processes. These
two books represent efforts by emerging scholars to leverage the
advantages of studying state and local politics in order to address major
questions about political institutions in the United States and to make
the case for greater incorporation of state and local elements into
mainstream accounts of political change.
Activism Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is
Strangling Progressive Politics in America and The Art of
Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights Movement to the
Streets of Seattle
Authors: Imig Doug 
Published: February 2007

Activism Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is
Strangling Progressive Politics in America. By Dana R. Fisher.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. 168p. $24.95 cloth.The Art of Protest: Culture and Activism from the Civil Rights
Movement to the Streets of Seattle. By T. V. Reed. Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 362p. $74.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.These two new books bring welcome perspectives to the study of social
movements in America. Reed considers the art of collective action: in
terms of both the creative repertoire of activists responding to evolving
social and political contexts and the cultural arts that are invoked by
and associated with social movements. Fisher's book, meanwhile, sheds
light on a second dimension of collective action: the nationwide
grassroots canvassing organizations that collect donations and
[ostensibly] inform concerned citizens about progressive issues.
At first glance, the two books seem to be speaking to aspects of
mobilization that are worlds apart. However, their differences help to
bring a fuller understanding of the operational field in which social
movements are sustained or wither.
The Supreme Court and American Political Development
Authors: Jenkins Jeffery A. 
Published: February 2007

The Supreme Court and American Political Development. Edited
by Ronald Kahn and Ken I. Kersch. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
2006. 400p. $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.In this book, Ronald Kahn and Ken I. Kersch bring together an
impressive group of scholars to present essays on how the theoretical
tenets of the American political development (or APD) research agenda can
help illuminate the behavior and institutional trajectory of the U.S.
Supreme Court over time. At the same time, these authors discuss at length
the role that the Supreme Court plays in the continuing development of the
APD enterprise and the ways in which the American state has evolved. This
volume provides a useful contribution, as the APD literature has typically
focused on the presidency and bureaucracy (specifically, executive
agencies), and more recently on Congress, as the key players in the
development of the American state, with “parties and courts”
representing the historical antecedents. By focusing specifically on the
Supreme Court, Kahn and Kersch place it in a starring role in American
legal development, and American political development more generally.
Black Feminist Voices in Politics
Authors: Berg John C. 
Published: February 2007

Black Feminist Voices in Politics. By Evelyn M. Simien.
Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 196p. $71.50 cloth,
$23.95 paper.Evelyn M. Simien makes three major contributions in this book. First,
and most important, she uses insights derived from a black feminist theory
that is largely literary to inform hard, number-crunching empirical
research. Black feminist theorists from Maria Stewart and Sojourner Truth
to Kimberlé Crenshaw and bell hooks are used to derive operational
definitions and testable hypotheses. Those seeking unity in the discipline
would do well to study this book.
The Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War.
Authors: Kraus Neil 
Published: February 2007

The Truce: Lessons from an L.A. Gang War. By Karen Umemoto.
Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 232p. $57.50 cloth, $18.95
paper.The Truce, by Karen Umemoto, chronicles a gang war in the Los
Angeles neighborhood of Oakwood that occurred between 1993 and 1994.
Umemoto states that her “central concern” is “the
relatively quick process through which rather harmonious social relations
across racial boundaries are overcome by racial tensions and distancing,
which set in place a more fractured pattern of race relations” (p.
5). The book, then, is primarily an analysis of the complex and changing
dynamics of racial conflict, and the author uses the gang war to explore
that conflict.
Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and
Military Occupations and War and State Formation in Ancient China
and Early Modern Europe
Authors: Sinno Abdulkadeer 
Published: February 2007

Logics of Hierarchy: The Organization of Empires, States, and
Military Occupations. By Alexander Cooley. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2005. 191p. $35.00 cloth.War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern
Europe. By Victoria Tin-bor Hui. New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2005. 294p. $70.00 cloth, $24.99 paper.These two ambitious books by Alexander Cooley and Victoria Tin-bor Hui
address the consequences of managerial decisions within empires.
Cooley's book borrows organizational models from the field of
business management to explain the growing pains of empires and the
misfortunes of newly independent states, with a particular focus on
post-Soviet Central Asia. Hui draws on classical authors to explain how
basic structural administrative choices within states affect systemic
competition.
Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?
Authors: Munro William A. 
Published: February 2007

Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?
By James L. Gibson. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004. 448p. $47.50
cloth, $22.50 paper.In this engaging and meticulously constructed statistical analysis of
attitudes among South Africa's apartheid-defined racial groups
(African/black, Coloured, Asian, white), James Gibson sets out to do
two things. One is to map the state of political reconciliation among
these groups. The second is to measure the impact of South Africa's
truth and reconciliation process, focusing on the Truth and Reconciliation
Commission (TRC), in promoting reconciliation. The analysis is based
largely on a national opinion survey carried out in 2000 and 2001, but
also draws comparatively, where possible and appropriate, on a similar
survey from 1997.
Rotten States? Corruption, Post-Communism, and Neoliberalism
Authors: Sum Paul E. 
Published: February 2007

Rotten States? Corruption, Post-Communism, and Neoliberalism.
By Leslie Holmes. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006. 440p. $84.95
cloth, $23.95 paper.As a veteran of corruption studies in the postcommunist world, Leslie
Holmes addresses three fundamental issues confronting students of
corruption: the definition and categorization of corruption, the impact
corruption has on democracies, and causal factors that account for its
rise within postcommunist states. The comparative study focuses on
Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Russia. China, the author argues, has
developed a system akin to postcommunism and is treated in the analysis as
far as data permit. The author also refers to other postcommunist cases,
when appropriate, and many of the observations and inferences would apply
to all democratic countries.
Citizenship in Britain: Values, Participation and Democracy
Authors: Maas Willem 
Published: February 2007

Citizenship in Britain: Values, Participation and Democracy.
By Charles Pattie, Patrick Seyd, and Paul Whiteley. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004. 364 pages. $70.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.What does it mean to be a British citizen in the early part of the
twenty-first century? The authors of Citizenship in Britain
address this question through the lens of the Citizen Audit, comprehensive
surveys carried out as part of the Economic and Social Research
Council's democracy and participation program. The Citizen Audit had
three components: “wave 1” face-to-face interviews of 3,145
respondents (62.2% response rate) conducted between September and December
2000, “mail-back survey” questionnaires with 9,023 respondents
(37.5% response rate) between January and May 2001, and follow-up
“wave 2” face-to-face interviews with a subset of the original
interviewees (809 respondents; 67% response rate) between September and
December 2001. The wave 1 interviews consisted of 62 questions, while the
mail-back surveys and wave 2 interviews included a subset. The authors
weighted the raw data by age, sex, and employment status to make them
consistent with census data to compensate for nonresponse.
The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and
Identity
Authors: Gunter Michael M. 
Published: February 2007

The Kurdish Nationalist Movement: Opportunity, Mobilization and
Identity. By David Romano. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,
2006. 290p. $75 cloth, $29.99 paper.When the Ukrainians became independent at the end of 1991, the Kurds
succeeded to the title of largest nation on earth without its own
independent state. This dubious distinction is not due to any dearth of
academic attention since in recent years, there has been an explosion of
scholarly books and articles regarding the Kurds. David Romano's new
publication is clearly one of the best. The author takes the theoretical
analysis of Kurdish ethnic resurgence to a new, higher level, while also
placing it in the larger context of ethnic nationalist resurgences
throughout the world. No other recent analysis of the Kurds has done
this.
The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided
Leviathan
Authors: Michie Aruna Nayyar 
Published: February 2007

The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided
Leviathan. By Aseema Sinha. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
2005. 384p. $64.95 cloth, $27.95 paper.This excellent study by Aseema Sinha is a pathbreaker in the fields of
political economy and comparative politics generally, and an especially
welcome addition to India studies. Conventional wisdom has it that low
economic growth rates in India until liberalization in the 1990s were the
result of centralized control, especially in the area of the issuance of
licenses governing investments known as the license raj. On this
view, licensing controls and cumbersome bureaucratic implementation
procedures—supported by an ideology that sought to prevent
concentration of economic power in the hands of a small group of private
entrepreneurs at the expense of the wider social good—have been a
drag on the Indian economy. Far better, the argument goes, would have been
to let the market function to determine investment patterns. In essence,
the debate about Indian growth has been framed around two
alternatives—the classical free market and the dirigiste state.
Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and the
United States and National Security and Immigration: Policy
Development in the United States and Western Europe Since 1945
Authors: Freeman Gary P. 
Published: February 2007

Immigration Phobia and the Security Dilemma: Russia, Europe, and
the United States. By Mikhail A. Alexseev. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2006. 294p. $70.00.National Security and Immigration: Policy Development in the
United States and Western Europe Since 1945. By Christopher Rudolph.
Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2006. 288p. $55.00.Analyses of immigration from the perspective of national security are
often greeted with skepticism. In the early nineties I mentioned the work
of Myron Weiner, a pioneer in thinking about the security implications of
migration, to a scholar who later held a high immigration policy position
in Washington, D.C. “A waste of time,” came the reply,
“worse than that, positively damaging, because immigration has no
important security implications and such talk only provides ammunition to
anti-immigration activists.” In the wake of 9/11, that
complacency has been shaken amid a groundswell of interest in security and
migration, but there is in some quarters more resistance than ever to
linking the two concepts. The recent literature is sharply divided over
the legitimacy and necessity of policies that “securitize”
migration policy and over the appropriateness of academic analysis set
within a security framework. A major theme in the literature is the claim
that the securitization of immigration policy is a repressive state
strategy designed to capitalize on public fears in the post–Cold War
era and to give security forces something to do now that keeping track of
communist subversives is no longer on the table.
How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict
Authors: Paul T. V. 
Published: February 2007

How the Weak Win Wars: A Theory of Asymmetric Conflict. By
Ivan Arreguin-Toft. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 250p.
$75.00, cloth, $29.99 paper.The question of asymmetric conflicts or, more precisely, wars between
two states of unequal power capabilities is an important one, but it has
received scant scholarly focus, especially in the international relations
field. More importantly, the subject of weaker actors winning wars against
stronger adversaries has received limited attention. This is especially
puzzling since during the Cold War, both superpowers experienced defeat or
stalemate at the hands of weaker powers. In the case of the Soviet Union,
an ill-fated asymmetric war in Afghanistan contributed to its demise as a
state. America's failure in Vietnam had a major impact on U.S.
domestic politics and foreign policy behavior for years to come. It
affected American strategy regarding war in the developing world,
encouraging the development of and reliance on new precision-guided
weapons systems and strategies that would preclude ground combat. The
failure of France in Indochina and Algeria also point to the significance
of the phenomenon of asymmetric war. The Israeli and American withdrawals
from Lebanon in 1982 and 1983 and India's pulling out from Sri Lanka
in 1990 are other instances of stronger powers failing to make gains
against their weaker adversaries. In the post-9/11 world, asymmetric
conflicts have increasingly received the attention of military strategists
as a result of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but they have not
received commensurate attention from IR scholars.
Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese
Sovereignty in the Reform Era
Authors: Gallagher Mary E. 
Published: February 2007

Unifying China, Integrating with the World: Securing Chinese
Sovereignty in the Reform Era. By Allen Carlson. Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2005. 320p. $55.00.This is one of the first major works examining Chinese sovereignty in
the post-Mao era. Unlike earlier works that have examined sovereignty
through its manifestation in one or two policy areas—such as Taiwan,
human rights, or economic integration—Allen Carlson's
synthesizes Chinese behavior and rhetoric over a range of issue areas,
from Taiwanese independence to World Trade Organization accession.
Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists and Protest
Networks and It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and
Politics
Authors: Press Robert M. 
Published: February 2007

Globalization from Below: Transnational Activists and Protest
Networks. By Donatella della Porta, Massimiliano Andretta, Lorenzo
Mosca, and Herbert Reiter. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press,
2006. 300p. $75.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.It Was Like a Fever: Storytelling in Protest and Politics. By
Francesca Polletta. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006. 242p.
$45.00 cloth, $19.00 paper.While different in scope and intent, both books offer a refreshing and
uplifting sense of the capacity and willingness of people to protest
conditions in society, or the world, which they deem unjust. The authors
may not have set out to highlight idealism in political activism, but they
ended up doing so.
The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics,
1789–1989
Authors: Redd Steven B. 
Published: February 2007

The Ideological Origins of Great Power Politics,
1789–1989. By Mark L. Haas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University
Press, 2005. 250p. $39.95.Realists argue that state behavior is predicated on the distribution
of power in the international system. Specifically, states attempt to
acquire, maintain, exercise, and balance power in response to the same
behavior expected of other states in the system. In this book, Mark L.
Haas offers a compelling argument for thinking beyond power variables and
considering the independent effects of ideology on leaders' foreign
policy decisions. The main thrust of his thesis is that the greater the
ideological distance between decision makers of different states, the
greater the likelihood that they will view each other as threats to
domestic power and international security. Conversely, the greater the
ideological affinity between states' leaders, the greater the
likelihood that they will see each other as mutually supportive of one
another's interests and, therefore, as less threatening. Decision
makers' conflictual or accommodative foreign policies, then, are a
function of threat perception caused by ideological distance. The book
begins with the explication of the theoretical argument and then applies
the theory to five different historical case studies. Haas concludes with
policy implications and prescriptions for current and future international
politics generally, and U.S. foreign policy specifically.