Books, Etc.

What the professors are writing

Recent and Forthcoming Faculty Publications

Books

Dale C. Copeland, The Origins of Major War (Chinese translation, Beijing University Press, 2008).

Robert Fatton, The Roots of Haitian Despotism (Lynne Rienner, 2007).

Paul Freedman (with Michael M. Franz, Kenneth M. Goldstein, and Travis N. Ridout), Campaign Advertising and American Democracy (Temple, 2007).

George Klosko, ed. Aristotle (The International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought) (Ashgate, 2007).

Jeffrey W. Legro, Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (Cornell, paperback 2007).

Jeffrey W. Legro (w/ Melvyn Leffler) eds., To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine (Oxford, June 2008).

Luis Medina, A Unified Theory of Collective Action and Social Change (Michigan, 2007).

Eric Patashnik (with Allan Gerber), eds., Promoting the General Welfare: New Perspectives on Government Performance (Brookings 2007).

Eric Patashnik, Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton, August 2008).

Melvin Rogers, The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality and the Ethos of Democracy (Columbia, forthcoming 2008).

Larry Sabato, A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize our Constitution and Make America a Fairer Country (Walker & Co., 2007).

Larry Sabato, The Sixth Year Itch: The Rise and Fall of the George W. Bush Presidency (Longman, 2007).

James D. Savage, Making the EMU: The Politics of Budgetary Surveillance and The Enforcement of Maastricht (Oxford, paperback 2007).

Leonard Schoppa, Race for the Exits: The Unraveling of Japan’s System of Social Protection (Cornell, paper 2008). 

Herman M. Schwartz, States vs. Markets: The Emergence of a Global Economy (Chinese translation, 2008).

Nicholas J. G. Winter, Dangerous Frames: How Ideas about Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion (Chicago, 2008).

Brantly Womack, The United States and Sino-Vietnamese Relations, (Japanese translation, 2008)

 

 

Articles/Chapters/Other:

Gerard A. Alexander, “International Relations Theory Meets World Politics: The Neoconservative vs. Realism Debate” in Stanley Renshon and Peter Suedfeld, eds., Understanding the Bush Doctrine (Routledge, 2007).

Katharine Lawrence Balfour, “The Politics of Reconciliation in Multicultural Societies,” in Will Kymlicka and Bashir Bashir, eds. Act and Fact: Slavery Reparations as a Democratic Politics of Reconciliation (Oxford, 2008).

Michele P. Claibourn and Paul S. Martin, “The Third Face of Social Capital: How Membership in Voluntary Associations Improves Policy Accountability.” Political Research Quarterly (2007).   

Michele P. Claibourn, “Making a Connection: Repetition in Campaigns and the Development of Candidate-Issue Connections,” Journal of Politics (forthcoming)

Jeffery A. Jenkins (with Timothy P. Nokken), “Legislative Shirking in the Pre-Twentieth Amendment Era: Presidential Influence, Party Power, and the Lame-Duck Sessions of Congress, 1877-1933,” Studies in American Political Development (forthcoming 2008).  

Jeffery A. Jenkins (with Charles J. Finocchiaro) “In Search of Killer Amendments in the Modern U.S. House," Legislative Studies Quarterly (forthcoming 2008).

Jeffery A. Jenkins (with Timothy Nokken), “Partisanship, the Electoral Connection, and Lame-Duck Sessions of Congress, 1877-2006," Journal of Politics (forthcoming 2008).

Jeffery A. Jenkins (with Sean Gailmard), “Negative Agenda Control in the Senate and House: Fingerprints of Majority Party Power,” Journal of Politics 69(2007): 689-700.

George Klosko, “John Simmons on Political Obligation,” APA Newsletter on Philosophy & Law, (Fall 2007).

George Klosko, “Legitimacy, Authority, and Political Obligation,” in A. Hurrelmann, S. Schneider, and J. Steffek, eds., Legitimacy in an Age of Global Politics (Palgrave, 2007), pp. 57-74.

Jeffrey W. Legro, “What China Will Want: The Future Intentions of a Rising Power,” Perspectives on Politics (September 2007).

Jeffrey W. Legro, “The Plasticity of Identity under Anarchy,” European Journal of International Relations (forthcoming).

Jeffrey W. Legro, “Purpose Transitions: China’s Rise and the America Response,” in Robert Ross and Zhu Feng, eds. China’s Ascent (Cornell, forthcoming)

Allen Lynch, “The Putin Succession and Russian Foreign Policy,” Brown Journal Of World Affairs (Fall/Winter 2007). A version of this was published in Chinese in Russian Studies (Shanghai), no.2, April 2007, pp. 17-23.

Allen Lynch, “Russia and 'Putinism’,” Great Decisions 2008 (Foreign Policy Association, 2008), 41-52.

Allen Lynch, “Chapter 6: International Relations,” in Michael Bressler, ed., Understanding Contemporary Russia (Lynne Rienner, forthcoming in 2008).

Allen Lynch, “Evaluating George F. Kennan's Legacy as a Scholar,” Occasional Papers of the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (forthcoming 2008).

Paul Martin, “The Mass Media as Sentinel: Why Bad News about Issues is Good News for Participation,” Political Communication, (forthcoming 2008).

Carol Mershon and Olga Shvetsova, “Parliamentary Cycles and Party Switching in Legislatures,” Comparative Political Studies, (2008).

Sidney Milkis (with Jesse Rhodes), “George W. Bush, the Republican Party, and the ‘New’ American Party System” Perspectives on Politics (September 2007).

Eric Patashnik, “The Day After Market-Oriented Reform, Or What Happens When Economists’ Reform Ideas Meet Politics,” in Marc K. Landy, Martin A. Levin and Martin Shapiro, eds. Creating Competitive Markets: The Politics of Regulatory Reform (Brookings, 2007)

Steven E. Rhoads, “Biology May Be Our Destiny: Seeing the Differences Between Male and Female,” Science and Spirit, (Sept./Oct 2007)

Steven E. Rhoads, “Sex Differences: Nature’s Signposts to a Good Marriage,” in A. Scott Loveless and Thomas B. Holman, eds., The Family in the New Millennium (Praeger 2007).

Melvin Rogers, “Re-reading Honneth: Exodus Politics and the Paradox of Recognition,” European Journal of Political Theory (forthcoming)
 
Melvin Rogers “Republican Confusion and Liberal Clarification,” Philosophy and Social Criticism (forthcoming 2008)
 
Melvin Rogers, “Action and Inquiry in Dewey’s Philosophy,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy 43.1 (2007): 90-115.

Leonard Schoppa, “Demographics and the State,” in Florian Coulmas, et al, eds., The Demographic Challenge: A Handbook about Japan (Leiden: Brill, 2008), 639-652.

Herman M. Schwartz, “Dependency or Institutions? Economic Geography, Causal Mechanisms and Logic in Understanding Development,” Studies in Comparative International Development 42:1 (May 2007).

David Waldner, “Transforming Inferences into Explanations: Lessons from the Study of Mass Extinctions,” in Ned Lebow and Mark Lichbach, eds, Theory and Evidence in Comparative Politics and International Relations (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007).

Denise Walsh, “Your Culture or Your Rights?: Women and the Multicultural Dilemma,” in Jessica R. Feldman and Robert Stilling, eds. Thinking of Reading: A University of Virginia Guide (University of Virginia Press, August 2008).   

Denise Walsh, “Citizenship, Gender and Civil Society in South Africa,” in Hannah Britton, Jennifer Fish, and Sheila Meintjes, eds. Organizing Across Divides: Gender and Democratization in South African Civil Society ( University of KwaZulu- Natal,  forthcoming.)

Vesla Weaver, “Frontlash: Racial and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy,” Studies in American Political Development 21 (Fall 2007): 230-265.

Vesla Weaver (with Jennifer Hochschild), “Racial Classification and the Politics of Inequality,” in Suzanne Mettler, Joe Soss, and Jacob Hacker, eds., Remaking America: Democracy and Public Policy in an Age of Inequality (Russell Sage Foundation, 2007). 

Vesla Weaver (with Jennifer Hochschild), “The Skin Color Paradox and the American Racial Order.” Social Forces 86 (Dec. 2007):  643-670.

Brantly Womack, “Resolving Asymmetric Stalemate: The Case of the Tibet Question,” Journal of Contemporary China (August 2007).

Brantly Womack, “Trends and Prospects,” in Katherine Kaup, ed., Understanding Contemporary Asia Pacific (Lynne Rienner, 2007).