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Terra Incognita: Vacant Land and Urban Strategies
Authors: Luberoff David 
Published: October 2005

Terra Incognita: Vacant Land and Urban Strategies. By Ann
O'M. Bowman and Michael A. Pagano. Washington, DC: Georgetown
University Press, 2004. 232 pages. $24.95.Public policies for vacant land are among the least understood but
most important aspects of urban policy and politics. In this book, Ann
O'M. Bowman and Michael Pagano highlight important issues regarding
such land and offer useful frameworks for understanding the policies and
politics that shape its future uses. In doing so, they provide a unique
and useful perspective on land use policies and politics, which are a
key—if not the key—aspect of local policy and politics.
Separation of Powers in Practice
Authors: Dry Murray 
Published: October 2005

Separation of Powers in Practice. By Tom Campbell. Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 2004. 248p. $55.00 cloth, $21.95 paper.In his book, Tom Campbell, a former five-term member of Congress,
argues that we ought to focus on the “comparative advantage”
of each branch because by doing so, we improve the operation of American
government. “The thesis of this text is that each branch has
inherent advantages: for each branch not to use its advantage and, worse,
to allow another branch to encroach upon it dulls the mechanisms of
governmental action” (p. 58). After highlighting his case studies in
his introduction, in Part One Campbell discusses the advantages of each
branch, the rules of the legislative process, the process of statutory
construction by courts, and the judicial practice of following precedent.
In Part Two he presents 10 case studies, which exemplify his thesis.
The Democratic Constitution
Authors: Gillman Howard 
Published: October 2005

The Democratic Constitution. By Neal Devins and Louis Fisher.
New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. 303p. $72.00 cloth, $19.95
paper.For more than a quarter century, Louis Fisher has been arguing against
court-centered approaches to constitutional studies by showing how
constitutional law is “shaped both by judicial and nonjudicial
forces,” including the actions of “the elected branches, the
states, interest groups, and the general public” (p. vii). Neal
Devins joined this effort when he and Fisher coauthored Political
Dynamics of Constitutional Law (1992, 1996, 2001). With this latest
iteration, their basic storyline is still the same, although they have
added new case studies and a new normative argument about why constitution
law “should work that way” (p. vii).
Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional
Development
Authors: Ellison Charles 
Published: October 2005

Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional
Development. By Steven P. Erie. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University
Press, 2004. 336p. $55.00 cloth, $21.95 paper.Perhaps the dominant political rhetoric of our time is that which
divides society into a self-correcting market and a government, one is the
necessary and primary cause of our social ills. Government programs
designed to mitigate or solve problems, we are told, unfailingly make the
target problem worse and create additional, unforeseen problems. Better to
leave well enough alone, even if later we lack the means to travel from
our driveway to a workplace nearly one hour away on a good day.
Greasing the Wheels: Using Pork Barrel Projects to Build Majority
Coalitions in Congress
Authors: Worsham Jeff 
Published: October 2005

Greasing the Wheels: Using Pork Barrel Projects to Build Majority
Coalitions in Congress. By Diana Evans. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004. 280p. $60.00 cloth, $21.99 paper.A variety of recent studies of American politics and public policy
focuses on the role of entrepreneurs in the agenda-setting process. While
the focus is quite often on the role of entrepreneurs as architects of
policy change, or as sources of policy disequilibrium (Frank R.
Baumgartner and Bryan D. Jones, Agendas and Instability in American
Politics, 1993; Mark Schneider, Paul Teske and Michael Mintrom,
Public Entrepreneurs: Agents for Change in American Government,
1995; Adam D. Sheingate, “Political Entrepreneurship, Institutional
Change, and American Political Development,” Studies in American
Political Development 17 [Fall 2003]: 185–203),
entrepreneurs may also work to maintain policy equilibria through the
maintenance of majority coalitions. (Although this might be the difference
between entrepreneurial and leadership activity, the former is interested
in assembling a coalition to challenge the policy status quo, while the
latter focuses on coalition maintenance in support of the status quo.)
Whether they are engaged in “creative acts of destruction”
(Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy, 1942)
or are attempting to maintain a policy equilibrium, a major factor shaping
the decision to pursue entrepreneurial activity, as well as the chances of
success of such efforts, is the perceived costs associated with assembling
a winning coalition. Successful entrepreneurs are those who are able to
overcome the collective-action problem associated with coalition
maintenance.
The Money Primary: The New Politics of the Early Presidential
Nomination Process
Authors: Altschuler Bruce E. 
Published: October 2005

The Money Primary: The New Politics of the Early Presidential
Nomination Process. By Michael J. Goff. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2004. 228p. $70.00 cloth, $26.95 paper.As the amount of money raised by those who win the major parties'
nominations for president has soared out of sight, scholars, the media,
and even the general public have become seriously concerned. Michael
Goff's book examines the “money primary,” fund-raising
before a single primary or caucus vote has even been cast. He sees it,
along with media attention and poll rankings, as crucial in determining
the viability and eventual success of candidates. The interrelatons of
these factors can be seen in his three main hypotheses. Strong
fund-raising predicts survival and “success in the early nomination
process” (p. 11). Extensive early fund-raising organization and
activity increase the possibility of success. Media coverage of these
activities forecasts candidate viability and success. In other words,
money is important not only for what it can buy but as an early indicator
of comparative candidate strength.
Negative Campaigning: An Analysis of U.S. Senate Elections
Authors: Crawley Gary L. 
Published: October 2005

Negative Campaigning: An Analysis of U.S. Senate Elections.
By Richard R. Lau and Gerald M. Pomper. Lanham, MD: Rowman &
Littlefield, 2004. 177p. $26.95.If you think that negative campaigning has come to dominate the
American electoral landscape, depresses voter turnout, is particularly
effective in winning votes, and/or is detrimental to democracy, this
book is a must read. Richard Lau and Gerald Pomper investigate a series of
questions intended to illuminate these concerns. They utilize an extensive
data set based on U.S. Senate elections from 1992 through 2002. Their
findings are often quite startling. Negative campaigning does not appear
to have the deleterious effects conventional wisdom would suggest.
Congressional Communication: Content and Consequences
Authors: Fowler Linda L. 
Published: October 2005

Congressional Communication: Content and Consequences. By
Daniel Lipinski. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004. 160p.
$29.95.For a decade, scholars have debated the impact of rising partisanship
on the internal workings of the Congress. With the publication of Daniel
Lipinski's analysis of House members' communications to their
constituents, it appears that they also need to consider the effects of
party conflict on representation at home. Using newsletters and targeted
mailings from 1991 to 1995, as well as surveys and interviews with House
members and their staffs, Lipinski assesses the communication strategies
of a sample of 100 lawmakers and arrives at conclusions that challenge
some long-standing views about the interaction of House members and their
constituents.
For the Many or the Few: The Initiative, Public Policy, and American
Democracy
Authors: Smith Daniel A. 
Published: October 2005

For the Many or the Few: The Initiative, Public Policy, and
American Democracy. By John G. Matsusaka. Chicago: The University of
Chicago Press, 2004. 206p. $29.00.In the most recent wave of initiative use in the American states,
citizens have passed an eclectic range of ballot measures. Voters have
banned gay marriage, punished negligent doctors, prohibited the
confinement of pregnant pigs, limited the taxation and spending powers of
state governments, funded stem cell research, and ended affirmative
action. Critics of the process claim that this plebiscitary system is out
of control, with special interests dominating the process and threatening
democratic governance. Defenders, in contrast, claim that ballot measure
outcomes reflect the will of the people and are certainly more
representative of public opinion than legislative bodies.
Managing the President's Program: Presidential Leadership and
Legislative Policy Formulation
Authors: Hargrove Erwin C. 
Published: October 2005

Managing the President's Program: Presidential Leadership and
Legislative Policy Formulation. By Andrew Rudalevige. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 2002. 292p. $65.00.This book responds effectively to a theoretical challenge with an
empirical analysis. The author addresses the proposition that successive
presidents have increasingly centralized policy development in the White
House to the detriment of the departments. The linear trend is said to be
in response to the political demands on presidents to control their own
programs. Andrew Rudalevige qualifies the theory out of existence by so
broadening it that it disappears. He supplies a rich, empirical model in
which presidents employ centralized, balanced, and decentralized
approaches for developing policy as deliberate strategies as they perceive
the different kinds of political capital and expertise involved in given
cases. He finds no linear trend at all. All presidents since Harry Truman
have used the White House to develop policies, but not to an increasing
degree. Centralization is contingent.
Educated by Initiative: The Effects of Direct Democracy on Citizens
and Political Organizations in the American States
Authors: Lascher Jr. Edward L. 
Published: October 2005

Educated by Initiative: The Effects of Direct Democracy on
Citizens and Political Organizations in the American States. By
Daniel A. Smith and Caroline J. Tolbert. Ann Arbor: The University of
Michigan Press, 2004. 252p. $65.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.Throughout the mid-1980s, empirical state-level initiative studies
were sufficiently rare that David Magleby's now classic book
(Direct Legislation: Voting on Ballot Propositions in the United
States, 1984) addressed topics as varied as the status of direct
democracy laws, the impact of various cues on voting choices, and the
readability of ballot pamphlets. Research on the initiative process
subsequently burgeoned, and direct democracy has become one of the most
widely considered aspects of state politics. Quantitative studies have
focused especially on the substantive impact of the initiative process on
public policy, as well as on the extent to which campaign contributions
influence electoral outcomes.
That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution
Authors: Stephenson Jr. D. Grier 
Published: October 2005

That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the
Constitution. Edited by Christopher Wolfe. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 2004. 256 p. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.“Constitutional law professors have been very upset lately with
the U.S. Supreme Court” (p. 181). So begins Keith E.
Whittington's contribution to this collection of 11 essays on the
subject of, in the words of the subtitle, “judicial supremacy and
the Constitution.” Many in the unhappy chorus mentioned by
Whittington are mainstream legal academicians who decry the conservative
judicial activism sometimes practiced by the Rehnquist Court; they long
for a robust activism in defense of liberal political values that
characterized Warren and some Burger Era rulings. But the contributors to
this book are not members of that chorus. Instead, most question or
condemn the liberal activism preferred by the legal mainstream, while a
few reject both styles of activism and hanker for a modest judicial role
characterized by editor Christopher Wolfe as “traditional judicial
review” (p. 202).
Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf
War
Authors: Hook Steven W. 
Published: October 2005

Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian
Gulf War. By Steven A. Yetiv. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press, 2004. 296p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.Steven A. Yetiv faces a daunting task in this case study of the
1990–91 Persian Gulf War: applying and reconciling multiple
approaches to foreign policy analysis in a single volume. He also hopes to
clarify the historical record regarding President George H. W. Bush's
performance in the diplomatic and military clash. While this ambitious
study advances our understanding in both respects, it demonstrates how
much further the field of foreign policy analysis must still progress to
see clearly within the “black box” of state decision
making.
The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National
Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe
Authors: Cooper Alice H. 
Published: October 2005

The Nationalization of Politics: The Formation of National
Electorates and Party Systems in Western Europe. By Daniele Caramani.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 347p. $75.00 cloth, $28.99
paper.Daniele Caramani endeavors to document and explain the nationalization
of party systems in Western Europe, the process by which the localized and
territorialized politics of the nineteenth century (clientelistic politics
dominated by local personalities) was replaced by nationwide functional
alignments on the basis of class, in particular. This nationalization
process was a crucial step in the structuring of party systems in the
first century of electoral (democratic) politics. Although central to
Western European electoral developments, it has received little scholarly
attention, a gap that Caramani means to fill through empirical
verification.
Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in
Australia
Authors: Jupp James 
Published: October 2005

Native to the Nation: Disciplining Landscapes and Bodies in
Australia. By Allaine Cerwonka. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota
Press, 2004. 269p. $74.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.It is unusual for a book on Australia to be written by an outsider and
published by an American press. This is to be welcomed. Outsiders are
often free of local myths and attitudes, which are well entrenched in
Australia, despite its character as a relatively new nation. Allaine
Cerwonka did intensive fieldwork in two inner-city suburbs of Melbourne,
Australia's second city. As a resident for 10 years in neighboring
Carlton, I found her sensitivity to the nuances of the complex areas of
East Melbourne and Fitzroy quite unusual.
Shocking Mother Russia: Democratization, Social Rights, and Pension
Reform in Russia, 1990–2001
Authors: Tannenbaum Aron 
Published: October 2005

Shocking Mother Russia: Democratization, Social Rights, and
Pension Reform in Russia, 1990–2001. By Andrea Chandler.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2004. 260p. $60.00.The pension system of a given state is a mirror that reflects many
dimensions of that state's political processes, political and social
values, historical experience, and economic conditions. Had Andrea
Chandler presented her analysis of Russian pension politics oriented
toward those four categories or analogous ones, her study would have been
much more understandable and would have made a greater contribution to our
understanding of post–Soviet Russian politics. Instead, Chandler
presents a mostly chronologically based account of Russian pension
politics that makes a significant contribution to the subject but one that
is harder to understand than it needs to be. The reader must tease out the
important themes, such as democratization, from a book that is more
chronological than thematic. Shocking Mother Russia is less than
the sum of its valuable parts.
Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in
Established Democracies Since 1945
Authors: Van Holsteyn Joop J. M. 
Published: October 2005

Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in
Established Democracies Since 1945. By Mark N. Franklin. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2004. 294p. $70.00 cloth, $24.99 paper.According to Mark Franklin, “As the vexing questions of
political science can be regarded as puzzles, the particular topic of
voter turnout could be called the ‘grand enchilada’ of puzzles
of political science…. [A]lmost everything about voter
turnout is puzzling, from the question of why anyone bothers to vote at
all to the question of why certain variables appear to explain voter
turnout in some circumstances but not in others.” He makes this bold
but true statement in the preface (p. xi) of his comparative study of
turnout in more than 20 established democracies since World War II. Voter
turnout is one of the more frequently studied topics in political science,
but the results of all these scholarly efforts remain rather poor and
unsatisfactory. We still know distressingly little about why some people
vote and others do not, why turnout is much higher in some countries than
in others, and why in so many countries there seems to be a steady and
irrevocable decline in turnout in national elections.
Judicial Review and Bureaucratic Impact: International and
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Authors: Rose-Ackerman Susan 
Published: October 2005

Judicial Review and Bureaucratic Impact: International and
Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Edited by Marc Hertogh and Simon
Halliday. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 328p. $90.00 cloth,
$39.99 paper.The impact of judicial decisions on bureaucracy is poorly understood.
Some claim that court judgments have little or no effect. In contrast,
others worry that judges will usurp the policymaking role of the political
branches and override the expertise and experience of civil servants. As
this thoughtful and wide-ranging collection of papers demonstrates, both
claims are exaggerated.
Before Norms: Institutions and Civic Culture
Authors: Hooghe Marc 
Published: October 2005

Before Norms: Institutions and Civic Culture. By Robert W.
Jackman and Ross A. Miller. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004.
262p. $70.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.With this volume, Robert Jackman and Ross Miller pursue a twofold
ambition. First, they want to demonstrate that most of the research on
political culture and the impact of values on political behavior can be
questioned, both on theoretical as on methodological grounds. Second, they
want to demonstrate that their theoretical model, based on the assumption
that actors optimize their behavior within durable institutional
restraints, is better able to explain what people do with regard to
politics.
Immigration and Politics in the New Europe: Reinventing
Borders
Authors: Kessler Alan E. 
Published: October 2005

Immigration and Politics in the New Europe: Reinventing
Borders. By Gallya Lahav. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
334p. $75.00 cloth, $27.99 paper.In this book, Gallya Lahav offers a nuanced account of the nascent and
dynamic Europeanization of migration policy. Moving beyond scholarship
that narrowly casts migration as a contest between supranational and
domestic constraints, Lahav depicts the prospects for collective European
migration policymaking as a product of “emergent consensual
attitudes on restrictive policies, among elites and mass publics
alike” (p. 9). By “bringing attitudes back in,” her
treatment offers a welcome complement to intergovernmentalist and
neofunctionalist accounts of migration policy and reminds readers that as
policymakers grapple with the domestic and international challenges of
contemporary immigration, cooperation may be of a negative or restrictive
sort.
Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity: Diversity and
Drift
Authors: Korosec Ronnie L. 
Published: October 2005

Transatlantic Policymaking in an Age of Austerity: Diversity and
Drift. Edited by Martin A. Levin and Martin Shapiro. Washington, DC:
Georgetown University Press, 2004. 344p. $29.95 paper.In an age when we are aware of our increasing global connections with
one another, it is only fitting that we should observe the larger
similarities that we may share with other nations in the realm of
policymaking. In this book, editors Martin A. Levin and Martin Shapiro
argue that policymakers on both the conservative and liberal side of the
spectrum are so concerned about courting undecided voters who take a
“middle of the road” stance that they often compromise bold or
innovative policy initiatives in the name of moderation to attract these
neutral voters. To complicate matters, most governments are facing austere
conditions—which suggests that while demographic and political
forces shape policymaking, economic variables play a pivotal role as well.
The end result of this complex scenario is that policymakers are more
likely to be conformists than trailblazers.
Trust and Democratic Transition in Post-Communist Europe
Authors: Ost David 
Published: October 2005

Trust and Democratic Transition in Post-Communist Europe.
Edited by Ivana Markova. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. 232p.
$65.00.This is a frustrating volume. That trust is important to democratic
transition is its central assumption, but only the final chapter asks
whether it is true or why it should be. Instead, most of the chapters
discuss how the communist experience affected relations of trust. But some
chapters make claims about communist society that generalize solely from
the Stalinist period, while others concern the experiences of particular
countries to a point where the precise relationship to communism is left
unclear. In the end, the only unifying aspect of the book is each
chapter's discussion of some aspect of trust in relation to some
aspect of the former Soviet bloc.
Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America
Authors: Angell Alan 
Published: October 2005

Decentralization and Democracy in Latin America. Edited by
Alfred P. Montero and David J Samuels. Notre Dame: University of Notre
Dame Press, 2004. 320p. $47.50 cloth, $27.50 paper.The study of decentralization has become something of a fashion, not
least because it seems to encapsulate the process of democratization in
Latin America and the shift to a neoliberal policy framework, and because
it has been adopted by the political Left in sharp contrast to the
state-centered policies of previous decades. Decentralization has been
seen as the answer to improving the quality of popular participation in
Latin America, to improving the quality of public services, and to
improving the efficiency in the allocation of public resources.
Misplaced Distrust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France,
the United States, and Canada
Authors: Kamieniecki Sheldon 
Published: October 2005

Misplaced Distrust: Policy Networks and the Environment in France,
the United States, and Canada. By Éric Montpetit. Vancouver,
BC: UBC Press, 2003. 168p. $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.Given the enormous impact that agricultural practices have on the
natural environment, it is surprising that so little research has been
done on the subject. In addition to problems associated with runoff from
feedlots, farming generally requires the use of large amounts of
pesticides, herbicides, and chemical fertilizers. The chemicals that are
used in farming, if not adequately controlled, pollute the air and water
and negatively impact plants, wildlife, animals, and humans. Many
environmental scientists believe that agriculture has become too dependent
on chemicals to raise animals and grow crops and that it relies too little
on effective natural alternatives.