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Editor's Note

 
 

Introduction and Comments

James Johnson

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 653-654
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081838 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Research Articles

 
 

Making or Breaking Kosovo: Applications of Dispersed State Control

Sherrill Stroschein

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 655-674
doi:10.1017/S153759270808184X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Reason, Interest, Rationality, and Passion in Constitution Drafting

Nathan J. Brown

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 675-689
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081851 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Where's the Justice? Affirmative Action's Severed Civil Rights Roots in the Age of Diversity

Daniel N. Lipson

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 691-706
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081863 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Minority Candidates, Alternative Media, and Multiethnic America: Deracialization or Toggling?

Christian Collet

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 707-728
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081875 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Asian American Identity: Shared Racial Status and Political Context

Jane Junn and Natalie Masuoka

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 729-740
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081887 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Doing Courts Justice? Studying Judicial Politics in Latin America

Diana Kapiszewski and Matthew M. Taylor

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 741-767
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081899 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Perspectives

 
 

Who Regulates Phones, Television, and the Internet? What Makes a Communications Regulator Independent and Why It Matters

Irene Wu

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 769-783
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081905 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Comment

 
 

Twin Studies of Political Behavior: Untenable Assumptions?

Jon Beckwith and Corey A. Morris

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 785-791
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081917 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Twin Studies, Molecular Genetics, Politics, and Tolerance: A Response to Beckwith and Morris

John R. Alford, Carolyn L. Funk and John R. Hibbing

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 793-797
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081929 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Review Editor's Introduction

 
 

Review Editor's Introduction

Jeffrey C. Isaac

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 799-800
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081930 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Review Symposium

 
 

The Challenges of Multiculturalism in Advanced Democracies

Jeffrey C. Isaac, Robert Rohrschneider, Will Kymlicka and Jonathan Laurence

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 801-810
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081942 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Critical Dialogue

 
 

Critical Dialogue

Anna Marie Smith

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 811-813
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081954 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Response to Anna Marie Smith's review of America's New Working Class

Kathleen R. Arnold

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 813-813
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081966 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation. By Anna Marie Smith. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 297p. $29.99

Kathleen R. Arnold

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 813-815
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081978 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Response to Kathleen R. Arnold's review of Welfare Reform and Sexual Regulation

Anna Marie Smith

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 815-816
doi:10.1017/S153759270808198X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Book Reviews: Political Theory

 
 

Race, Equality, and the Burdens of History. By John Arthur. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 340p. $80.00 cloth, $25.99 paper.

White Enough to Be American? Race Mixing, Indigenous People, and the Boundaries of State and Nation. By Lauren L. Basson. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008. 256p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Bruce Baum

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 817-819
doi:10.1017/S1537592708081991 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Between Terror and Freedom: Politics, Philosophy, and Fiction Speak of Modernity. Edited by Simona Goi and Frederick M. Dolan. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2006. 404p. $80.00.

Republic of Readers? The Literary Turn in Political Thought and Analysis. By Simon Stow. Albany: SUNY Press, 2007. 185p. $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Kateri Carmola

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 819-821
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082005 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Subversive Sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans. By Charles Hersch. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 256p. $35.00.

Rumba Rules: The Politics of Dance Music in Mobutu's Zaire. By Bob W. White. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 328p. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper.

Simon Stow

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 821-823
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082017 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Fat Rights: Dilemmas of Difference and Personhood. By Anna Kirkland. New York: New York University Press, 2008. 224p. $65.00 cloth, $21.00 paper.

Ruth Abbey

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 823-824
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082029 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Global Democracy: For and Against: Ethical Theory, Institutional Design and Social Struggles. By Raffaele Marchetti. New York: Routledge, 2008. 224p. $130.00.

Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law. By William E. Scheuerman. New York: Routledge, 2007. 256p. $120.00.

John S. Dryzek

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 824-825
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082030 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Surrogate Motherhood and the Politics of Reproduction. By Susan Markens. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007. 277p. $65.00 cloth, $25.95 paper.

Freedom's Orphans: Contemporary Liberalism and the Fate of American Children. By David L. Tubbs. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 248p. $60.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.

Alice Hearst

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 825-827
doi:10.1017/S153759270808208X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Constitutional Patriotism. By Jan-Werner Müller. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 186p. $19.95.

Steven Johnston

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 827-828
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082042 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

The Difference: How the Power of Diversity Creates Better Groups, Firms, Schools, and Societies. By Scott E. Page. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 448p. $27.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

Elinor Ostrom

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 828-829
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082054 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Contract and Domination. By Carole Pateman and Charles W. Mills. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. 320p. $69.95 cloth, $26.95 paper.

Peter C. Myers

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 829-830
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082066 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Constitutional Context: Women and Rights Discourse in Nineteenth-Century America. By Kathleen S. Sullivan. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 200p. $45.00.

Gayle Binion

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 831-832
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082078 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Book Reviews: American Politics

 
 

Gender, Race, and Nationalism in Contemporary Black Politics. By Nikol G. Alexander-Floyd. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2007. 256p. $69.95, cloth.

Alyson M. Cole

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 832-833
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082091 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

The Women's Movement Against Sexual Harassment. By Carrie N. Baker. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 286p. $80.00 cloth, $24.99 paper.

Kristin Bumiller

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 833-834
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082108 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

In an Abusive State: How Neoliberalism Appropriated the Feminist Movement Against Sexual Violence. By Kristin Bumiller. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. 215p. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Carrie N. Baker

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 834-835
doi:10.1017/S153759270808211X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

A Mother's Work: How Feminism, the Market, and Policy Shape Family Life. By Neil Gilbert. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008. 228p. $26.00 cloth.

Patricia Strach

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 835-837
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082121 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Governing the American State: Congress and the New Federalism, 1877–1929. By Kimberly S. Johnson. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 242p. $37.50 cloth.

Sean Farhang

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 837-838
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082133 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Democratic Laboratories: Policy Diffusion among the American States. By Andrew Karch. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 288p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Gerald C. Wright

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 838-839
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082145 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Book Reviews: Comparative Politics

 
 

Why Welfare States Persist: The Importance of Public Opinion in Democracies. By Clem Brooks and Jeff Manza. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. 195p. $45.00 cloth, $18.00 paper.

Christian Albrekt Larsen

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 839-840
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082157 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Banking on Small Business: Microfinance in Contemporary Russia. By Gail Buyske. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. 240p. $35.00.

Anatoly Zhuplev

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 840-841
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082169 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Democracy and the Culture of Skepticism: Political Trust in Argentina and Mexico. By Matthew R. Cleary and Susan C. Stokes. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2006. 272p. $39.95.

Rebecca Weitz-Shapiro

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 841-843
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082170 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

The Political Future of Social Security in Aging Societies. By Vincenzo Galasso. Boston: MIT Press, 2006. 277p. $36.00 cloth, $19.00 paper.

Patrik Marier

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 843-844
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082182 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Why We Hate Politics. By Colin Hay. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2007. 200p. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Francisco Herreros

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 844-845
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082194 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Protest Politics in Germany: Movements on the Left and Right Since the 1960s. By Roger Karapin. University Park: Penn State University Press, 2007. 336p. $55.00.

Lynn Owens

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 845-846
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082200 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices that Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business. By Alena V. Ledeneva. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 288p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.

Understanding Post-Soviet Transitions: Corruption, Collusion and Clientelism. By Christoph H. Stefes. New York: Palgrave McMillan, 2006. 224p. $85.00.

Darrell Slider

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 846-848
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082212 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

The Theory of Social Democracy. By Thomas Meyer, with Lewis Hinchman. Cambridge: Polity, 2007. 288p. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Richard Sandbrook

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 848-849
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082224 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Political Islam in West Africa: State-Society Relations Transformed. Edited by William F. S. Miles. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2007. 221p. $52.50.

John N. Paden

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 849-850
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082236 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

What Is Genocide? By Martin Shaw. Cambridge: Polity, 2007. 232p. $69.96.

Daniel Chirot

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 850-851
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082248 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation. By Victor C. Shih. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 264p. $85.00.

Kellee S. Tsai

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 851-852
doi:10.1017/S153759270808225X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Building States without Society: European Union Enlargement and the Transfer of EU Social Policy to Poland and Hungary. By Beate Sissenich. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 252p. $80.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.

Burkard Eberlein

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 853-854
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082261 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

The Institutional Foundations of Public Policy in Argentina: A Transactions Cost Approach. By Pablo T. Spiller and Mariano Tommasi. New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 254p. $91.00.

Policymaking in Latin America: How Politics Shapes Policies. Edited by Ernesto Stein and Mariano Tommasi. Washington, DC: IDB and David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 2008. 500p. $29.95.

Armando Razo

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 854-856
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082273 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

The Architecture of Government: Rethinking Political Decentralization. By Daniel Treisman. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 348p. $85.00 cloth, $25.99 paper.

Alfred P. Montero

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 856-857
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082285 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Accountability Without Democracy: Solidary Groups and Public Goods Provision in Rural China. By Lily L. Tsai. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 368p. $85.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.

Bruce Gilley

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 858-859
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082297 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion: Social Sector Reform in Latin America. By Kurt Weyland. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 312p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Craig Volden

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 859-860
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082303 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Communism and the Emergence of Democracy. By Harald Wydra. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 324p. $96.00.

Vladimir Gel'man

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 860-861
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082315 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Book Reviews: International Relations

 
 

Analyzing International Environmental Regimes: From Case Study to Database. By Helmut Breitmeier, Oran R. Young, and Michael Zürn. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 336p. $67.00 cloth, $27.00 paper.

Jon Hovi

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 861-862
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082327 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

From Mercenaries to Market: The Rise and Regulation of Private Military Companies. Edited by Simon Chesterman and Chia Lehnardt. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 320p. $145.00.

William Reno

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 862-863
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082339 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Power and Military Effectiveness: The Fallacy of Democratic Triumphalism. By Michael C. Desch. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 232p. $45.00.

David M. Edelstein

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 863-864
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082340 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Occupational Hazards: Success and Failure in Military Occupation. By David M. Edelstein. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. 248p. $35.00.

Michael C. Desch

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 864-865
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082352 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Terrorism, Economic Development and Political Openness. Edited by Philip Keefer and Norman Loayza. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 326p. $75.00.

The Faces of Terrorism: Social and Psychological Dimensions. By Neil J. Smelser. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 292p. $29.95.

Ami Pedahzur

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 866-867
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082364 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

What Makes a Terrorist: Economics and the Roots of Terrorism. By Alan B. Krueger. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 192p. $24.95.

Leaderless Jihad: Terror Networks in the Twenty-first Century. By Marc Sageman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 208p. $24.95.

Jeff Goodwin

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 867-869
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082376 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Conquest in Cyberspace: National Security and Information Warfare. By Martin C. Libicki. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 336p. $80.00 cloth, $27.99 paper.

John Arquilla

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 869-870
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082388 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

Securing Japan: Tokyo's Grand Strategy and the Future of East Asia. By Richard J. Samuels. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. 296p. $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.

David Leheny

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 870-871
doi:10.1017/S153759270808239X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
 

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Perspectives on Politics, Volume 6, Issue 04, December 2008, pp 873-873
doi:10.1017/S1537592708082406 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 13 Nov 2008
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