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The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in
the American Constitutional Order
Authors: Breslin Beau 
Published: February 2007

The Constitution as Social Design: Gender and Civic Membership in
the American Constitutional Order. By Gretchen Ritter. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2006. 400p. $70.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.Gretchen Ritter takes the American Constitution seriously. Like few
others, she views the country's fundamental charter as announcing far
more than a design for government institutions and a series of individual
rights guarantees. The importance of the Constitution, she insists,
extends deeper than can be captured by examining the text's most
obvious features. It “creates and regulates a social
order” (p. 8), a comprehensive understanding of public and
private life. “The constitutional order acts as an instrument of
social design,” claims Ritter; it endorses certain relationships
over others, while also choosing to recognize certain members of the
polity as privileged (p. 9). Traditional conceptions of the marital
relationship or of the role of particular classes of people in the public
realm, for example, are fostered and perpetuated by the constitutional
scheme, not because the words of the text necessarily command it but
because the nature of a constitution—an instrument that embraces a
particular political and social order—makes it so.
Where Women Run: Gender and Party in the American States
Authors: Osborn Tracy 
Published: February 2007

Where Women Run: Gender and Party in the American States. By
Kira Sanbonmatsu. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006. 264p.
$70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.In recent years, scholarship in the subfield of women and politics has
met with a puzzling trend. The percentage of women in state legislatures,
once steadily growing, has leveled off and even decreased in recent years.
It is from this puzzle that Kira Sanbonmatsu's book begins: Why is
the growth of women's representation in the state legislatures
slowing down, and what do political parties have to do with it?
Sanbonmatsu's argument is thoughtful, detailed and compelling, and
she generates a bounty of information for scholars of women and politics,
state politics, and political parties.
The White Welfare State: The Racialization of U.S. Welfare
Policy
Authors: Gustafson Kaaryn 
Published: February 2007

The White Welfare State: The Racialization of U.S. Welfare
Policy. By Deborah E. Ward. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press,
2005. 208p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.A growing literature (including works by Kenneth Neubeck, Noel
Cazenave, Gwendolyn Mink, Jill Quadagno, Sanford Schram, Joe Soss, Richard
Fording, and Martin Gilens) examines the racialization of welfare
policies, welfare administration, and welfare politics. Deborah
Ward's book contributes nicely to that literature. The contributors
to this literature prove to be an interdisciplinary group and include
scholars from history, policy studies, political science, and sociology.
Ward's book offers insight to readers from all those fields, although
policy-oriented readers may find they seek more analysis, or at least a
broader discussion of the implications of the research.
Owning Russia: The Struggle over Factories, Farms and Power
Authors: Tompson William 
Published: February 2007

Owning Russia: The Struggle over Factories, Farms and Power.
By Andrew Barnes. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 288p. $35.00
cloth.Andrew Barnes has produced an admirably complex book. While providing
a lucid, readable, and persuasive analysis of the evolution of property
relations in Russia during the 20 years from 1985, he avoids imposing
artificially tidy theoretical schemes on the very messy processes he
describes. Instead, he explores the full range of actors, institutions,
strategies, and exogenous events that have shaped the struggle for
property in Russia since the advent of Mikhail Gorbachev. This is above
all a work of history—a theoretically informed history, but history
nonetheless—and it is therefore a work in which contingency is
sometimes important, and one in which the question of which actors shaped
which outcome, and why, is always an empirical one—never something
determined by an ex ante assumption. In place of a spare, highly
theoretical explanation of this or that aspect of Russian privatization,
Barnes offers a complex but nevertheless comprehensible account of how
contests for control of real assets have evolved hitherto and where they
may be headed in the future.
The State and the Global Ecological Crisis
Authors: Richards Kenneth 
Published: February 2007

The State and the Global Ecological Crisis. Edited by John
Barry and Robyn Eckersley. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. 307p. $67.00
cloth, $27.00 paper.The 12 essays offered in this book are a bit like an invitation to a
New York cocktail party; the experience is impossible to fully anticipate
from a first glance. And like a good cocktail party, this book is
interesting not only for the content of the conversations but equally for
what it reveals about the participants' relations, values, and
assumptions, and even for what the guests might learn about
themselves.
Why Race Matters in South Africa
Authors: Compton Robert 
Published: February 2007

Why Race Matters in South Africa. By Michael MacDonald.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 245p. $45.00.Given that more than a decade has passed since the initiation of the
“new dispensation,” a book about the present and future of
South Africa that reassesses connections with the past seems appropriate.
In this book, Michael MacDonald investigates the evolution of racism and
racialism and their linkages to state legitimacy and governance. This
empirical examination of South African politics and political economy is
well ensconced in the literature. The author provides a rigorous case
analysis within the literature of race and class.
Taxation, Wage Bargaining and Unemployment
Authors: Parsons Craig 
Published: February 2007

Taxation, Wage Bargaining and Unemployment. By Isabela Mares.
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 288p. $70.00 cloth, $27.99
paper.Just three years after publishing The Politics of Social Risk:
Business and Welfare State Development, a prize-winning book on the
role of employers in the development of European welfare states, Isabela
Mares offers an overarching explanation of labor market performance in
postwar Europe. She builds on the institutionalist literature in political
economy, but combines its best-known models of labor markets with other
elements. As foundations, she takes the Calmfors-Driffil model, which
stressed that unemployment varies with labor union centralization (since
more centralized unions are better at delivering wage moderation), and the
Soskice-Iversen model, which stressed that unemployment varies with the
independence and policies of central banks (since union moderation is
encouraged by nonaccommodating monetary policy, which adjusts to cancel
out wage inflation that exceeds productivity growth). Mares notes,
however, that in most cases, neither union centralization nor monetary
policy institutions have varied as much as unemployment over
time—leaving these models better able to account for cross-national
variation than for cross-temporal patterns.
Political (In)Justice: Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law in
Brazil, Chile, and Argentina
Authors: Beer Caroline 
Published: February 2007

Political (In)Justice: Authoritarianism and the Rule of Law in
Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. By Anthony W. Pereira. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 280p. $27.95.Pereira's new book is a fascinating comparison of the legal
systems of the military dictatorships in Brazil, Chile, and Argentina. It
focuses on the concept of “authoritarian legality,” which at
first seems to be an oxymoron. As the book unfolds, however, and the
differences among the regimes' legal strategies become clear, the
usefulness of the concept becomes apparent. This book highlights the
importance of the legal dimension of authoritarian regimes, thereby
providing important new insights into the nature of both authoritarianism
and judicial systems. A broadly comparative chapter also extends the
argument to Nazi Germany, Franco's Spain, Salazar's Portugal,
and the United States after 9/11.
Public Opinion and Political Change in China
Authors: Kennedy John James 
Published: February 2007

Public Opinion and Political Change in China. By Wenfang
Tang. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2005. 237p. $55.00 cloth,
$21.95 paper.In this comprehensive book, Wenfang Tang explores the nature and
origins of mass opinion in urban China through survey research conducted
between 1987 and 2000. The general theme is how some local democratic
practices can develop within the People's Republic of China (PRC).
However, rather than presenting a single theory or model, Tang examines a
series of case studies on public opinion. He draws on a rich data set that
consists of 11 large-scale urban surveys conducted by Chinese government
and academic institutions, including his own 1999 six-city survey. With
this data he examines a wide range of theories and explanations, such as
regime legitimacy (Chapter 3), the influence of the media on opinion
(Chapter 4), social capital theory (Chapter 5), political participation
(Chapters 6 and 7), and the role of intellectuals (Chapter 8). Thus, this
book has a broad appeal to those interested in political development as
well as contemporary China.
Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and the
Czech Republic, 1990–1999
Authors: Yoder Jennifer A. 
Published: February 2007

Regional Economic Voting: Russia, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, and
the Czech Republic, 1990–1999. By Joshua A. Tucker. New York:
Cambridge University Press, 2006. 444p. $29.99.On the heels of a generation of scholarship on democratic transition
and consolidation in postcommunist countries, and after several election
cycles, relatively steady economic growth, and the accession of many
countries in the region to NATO and the European Union, the theoretical
concepts and assumptions derived from studies of mature democracies have
increasingly been applied to the new democracies of Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union. One fine example is Regional Economic Voting
in which Joshua A. Tucker effectively probes and refines the assumptions
of economic voting in established democracies to suggest how variations in
economic conditions have affected political support for postcommunist
parties. In particular, Tucker explores whether—and under what
conditions—traditional economic voting assumptions, that incumbent
parties and certain types of parties (right-wing parties in established
democracies) perform better if the economy is better, are supported in
postcommunist cases.
Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory
Authors: Chandler David 
Published: February 2007

Justice Beyond Borders: A Global Political Theory. By Simon
Caney. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 319p. $82.00 cloth, $24.95
paper.The author's aim in this book is the defense of a
“cosmopolitan political morality” that pits cosmopolitan
ethics against its communitarian competitors (e.g., realism, the
“society of states” tradition, and nationalism) and finds them
wanting in relation to a number of key issues: human rights, distributive
justice, political institutions, war, and intervention. These issues are
addressed in specific chapters, which outline the cosmopolitan positions
and then negatively evaluate the alternatives. At the outset, we are
informed that this is not intended to be a “neutral account”
(p. 3), and the author consistently and methodically picks his way through
the book at every turn seeking to reinforce his defense.
Making War and Building Peace and Sustainable Peace: Power
and Democracy after Civil Wars
Authors: Gilligan Michael J. 
Published: February 2007

Making War and Building Peace. By Michael W. Doyle and
Nicholas Sambanis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 400p.
$24.95.Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars.
Edited by Philip G. Roeder and Donald Rothchild. Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 2005. 392p. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.The two books discussed in this review address the same substantive
question: How does one establish sustainable peace after civil war?
However, their approaches are quite different. The Roeder and Rothchild
edited volume focuses on one aspect of establishing postwar
peace—the post–civil war political institutions of the
country. Doyle and Sambanis focus on the role of the United Nations in
helping to establish sustainable postwar peace. I will first address the
edited volume and then turn to the Doyle and Sambanis book before offering
a few concluding remarks.
Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand
Strategy
Authors: Taliaferro Jeffrey W. 
Published: February 2007

Reluctant Crusaders: Power, Culture, and Change in American Grand
Strategy. By Colin Dueck. Princeton: Princeton University Press,
2006. 236p. $29.95.The six years since the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York and
Washington have seen a proliferation of books on the limits of U.S.
primacy, the origins of the Bush doctrine, and the future of U.S. grand
strategy. The conventional wisdom is that the George W. Bush
administration's grand strategy—chiefly its unilateralism, its
hubris, its open embrace of “preemption” (more accurately
preventive war) as means to prevent states and terrorists from acquiring
weapons of mass destruction, its pursuit of democratization in the Middle
East as a cure-all for jihadist terrorism, and its refusal to plan for or
devote sufficient resources to the postwar reconstruction of Iraq in
2003–4—represent a radical break with the grand strategies of
previous administrations.
The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development
Aid
Authors: Kaul Inge 
Published: February 2007

The Samaritan's Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development
Aid. By Clark C. Gibson, Krister Andersson, Elinor Ostrom, and Sujai
Shivakumar. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 288p. $99.00 cloth,
$35.00 paper.The authors of this book start from the premise that there is
something “wrong with development aid” (p. 3). They point to a
number of studies that were conducted in the 1990s and found little
consonance between foreign aid levels and changes in macrolevel indicators
like economic growth and poverty reduction in recipient developing
countries. Their aim is to explore the “perverse incentives”
within the current aid system that militate against aid's
success.
Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare and Inequality and
Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America
Authors: Zysman John 
Published: February 2007

Capitalism, Democracy and Welfare. By Torben Iversen. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 226p. $29.99.Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs. Liberal America.
By Jonas Pontusson. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 242p.
$19.95.Can policymakers reconcile the dual objectives of economic development
and social justice? Are equity and sustained growth in an inherent
conflict? How does the welfare system fit in a capitalist market economy?
Jonus Pontusson and Torben Iversen provide two perspectives on these basic
policy and political debates in interesting, well done, and quite
complementary studies of comparative capitalism.
Endogenizing institutions and institutional changes
Authors: AOKI MASAHIKO 
Published: February 2007

Abstract:This paper proposes an analytical-cum-conceptual framework for understanding the nature of institutions as well as their changes. First, it proposes a new definition of institution based on the notion of common knowledge regarding self-sustaining features of social interactions with a hope to integrate various disciplinary approaches to institutions and their changes. Second, it specifies some generic mechanisms of institutional coherence and change – overlapping social embeddedness, Schumpeterian innovation in bundling games, and dynamic institutional complementarities – useful for understanding the dynamic interactions of economic, political, social, organizational, and cognitive factors.
Economic sociology and institutional economics
Authors: REISMAN DAVID A. 
Published: February 2007

Abstract:Economic sociology was a core concern of early political economists like Smith, Marx, Pareto, and Marshall. The new economic sociology has sought to revive the neglected subdiscipline using the construct of interpersonal networks. Richard Swedberg has assembled 42 substantial papers in this collection. This article, reviewing his selection, proceeds in three stages. First, it provides a general framework for the debate. Second, it discusses the papers specifically linked to networks. Third, it analyses the contributions that go beyond the concept of social processes as personal relationships.
Methamphetamine use and infectious disease‐related behaviors in men who have sex with men: implications for interventions
Authors: Shoptaw Steven , Reback Cathy J. 
Published: February 2007

ABSTRACTAims  Review the current evidence regarding the prevalence of methamphetamine use among men who have sex with men (MSM) and to evaluate the factors that contribute to methamphetamine use and potential for sexual transmission of HIV and other infectious diseases.Methods  Databased reports address (1) epidemiology of methamphetamine use in MSM; (2) methamphetamine use and risk behaviors for sexually transmitted infections; and (3) interventions.Findings  Methamphetamine use is highly prevalent in MSM. Strong associations between methamphetamine use and HIV‐related sexual transmission behaviors are noted across studies of MSM and correspond to increased incidence for HIV and syphilis compared to MSM who do not use the drug. Behavioral treatments produce sustained reductions in methamphetamine use and concomitant sexual risk behaviors among methamphetamine‐dependent MSM.Conclusions  Brief screening of methamphetamine use for MSM who seek physical, mental health and substance abuse services is recommended. Behavioral interventions that address methamphetamine use may range from brief interventions to intensive out‐patient treatments.
Electrocardiographic abnormalities in methamphetamine abusers
Authors: Haning William , Goebert Deborah 
Published: February 2007

ABSTRACTAims  Although many adverse cardiovascular outcomes are mentioned in conjunction with methamphetamine use, a causal relationship between methamphetamine use and arrhythmia or cardiomyopathy has not been demonstrated in man. Clinical experience with methamphetamine users suggested a higher incidence of electrocardiographic abnormalities. This study seeks to quantify that incidence, among subjects enrolled in a study of adults with methamphetamine dependence.Methods  Electrocardiograms obtained during screening in a previous clinical trial were examined. The study population (n = 158) of adults with methamphetamine dependence [Diagnostic and Statistical Manual version IV (DSM IV‐TR)] was drawn from five sites across the United States, recruited in the interval 2002–03.Results  A significant variance from the normal population was noted in the electrocardiograms of the study cohort. Among the abnormalities was a prolongation of the QTc beyond 440 ms in 27.2% of the group. QTc prolongation to this extent poses a particular risk for ventricular arrhythmias, most notably torsades de pointes.Conclusions  We believe that this is the first demonstration of clinically significant QTc prolongation in a methamphetamine‐using population, and that this has implications for the types of arrhythmias for which this population is at risk. It may further provide a marker for risk of cardiomyopathy. The fact of electrocardiographic changes with potential cardiac risks may be useful in a motivational interviewing approach, in challenging the methamphetamine user's basis for continuing use.
Why do we need an Addiction supplement focused on methamphetamine?
Authors: Rawson Richard A. , Condon Timothy P. 
Published: February 2007

ABSTRACTMethamphetamine is a substantial public health problem in many communities in the United States and in other parts of the world. In order to bring new knowledge about methamphetamine to policy makers, clinicians and researchers, this volume has compiled a set of articles containing new information about the drug and its effects. The articles contain information presented by researchers at two special methamphetamine meetings sponsored by the National Institute on Drug Abuse in 2005.
Structural and metabolic brain changes in the striatum associated with methamphetamine abuse
Authors: Chang Linda , Alicata Daniel , Ernst Thomas , Volkow Nora 
Published: February 2007

ABSTRACTAims  To review structural, chemical and metabolic brain changes, particularly those in the basal ganglia, in individuals who used methamphetamine, as well as in children with prenatal methamphetamine exposure.Methods  Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and positron emission tomography (PET) studies that evaluated brain structural, chemical and metabolite changes in methamphetamine subjects, or children with prenatal methamphetamine exposure, were reviewed and summarized. Relevant pre‐clinical studies that provided insights to the interpretations of these imaging studies were also reviewed.Results  In adults who used methamphetamine, MRI demonstrates enlarged striatal volumes, while MR spectroscopy shows reduced concentrations of the neuronal marker N‐acetylasparate and total creatine in the basal ganglia. In contrast, children with prenatal methamphetamine exposure show smaller striatal structures and elevated total creatine. Furthermore, PET studies consistently showed reduced dopamine transporter (DAT) density and reduced dopamine D2 receptors in the striatum of methamphetamine subjects. PET studies also found lower levels of serotonergic transporter density and vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT2) across striatal subregions, as well as altered brain glucose metabolism that correlated with severity of psychiatric symptoms in the limbic and orbitofrontal regions.Conclusion  Neuroimaging studies demonstrate abnormalities in brain structure and chemistry convincingly in individuals who used methamphetamine and in children with prenatal methamphetamine exposure, especially in the striatum. However, many important questions remain and larger sample sizes are needed to validate these preliminary observations. Furthermore, longitudinal studies are needed to evaluate the effects of treatment and abstinence on these brain changes and to determine whether imaging, and possibly genetic, markers can be used to predict treatment outcome or relapse.