Books, Etc.

Recent and Forthcoming Faculty Books

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

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

Robert Fatton, editor (with Ruhi Ramazani), Religion, State and Society: Jefferson’s Wall of Separation in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave MacMillan, December 2008).

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).

Michael Krepon, Better Safe than Sorry, The Ironies of Living with the Bomb (Stanford University Press, Spring 2009).

Jeffrey W. Legro, editor (with Melvyn Leffler), To Lead the World: American Strategy after the Bush Doctrine (Oxford University Press, June 2008).

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

Carol Mershon (with William B. Heller), Political Parties and Legislative Party Switching (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2009).

David M. O’Brien, Storm Center (W.W. Norton, eighth edition, 2008); Constitutional Law and Politics (W.W. Norton, seventh edition, 2008); Judges on Judging (Congressional Quarterly Press, third edition, 2008).

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 University Press, August 2008).

Melvin Rogers, The Undiscovered Dewey: Religion, Morality and the Ethos of Democracy (Columbia University Press, November 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).

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

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

Herman M. Schwartz, Subprime Nation: American Power, Global Capital Flows and the Housing Bubble (Cornell University Press, early 2009).

Vivian E. Thomson, Garbage In, Garbage Out: Solving the Problems with Long-Distance Trash Transport (University of Virginia Press, 2009).

Stephen K. White, The Ethos of a Late-Modern Citizen (Harvard University Press, Spring 2009).

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

Brantly Womack, The United States and Sino-Vietnamese Relations (Japanese translation, 2008)
 
Recent and Forthcoming Faculty Articles and Chapters

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 University Press, 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).

Matthew Holden, Jr., “The Justice Department and American Politics: Functions, Process, and Questions About Current Politics,” Law & Courts Newsletter (Summer 2008).

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

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

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

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).

David Leblang (with Shanker Satyanath), “Politically Generated Uncertainty and Currency Crises: Theory, Tests and Forecasts,” Journal of International Money and Finance (2008).

David Leblang (with William Bernhard), “Cabinet Collapses and Currency Crashes,” Political Research Quarterly (forthcoming).

David Leblang (with Barry Eichengreen), “Democracy and Globalization,” Economics and Politics (forthcoming).

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

Jeffrey W. Legro, “Purpose Transitions: China and the American Response,” in Robert Ross and Zhu Feng, eds., China’s Ascent: Power, Security, and the Future of International Politics (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2008).

Jeffrey W. Legro, “The Plasticity of Identity under Anarchy,” European Journal of International Relations (March 2009).

Allen Lynch, “The Putin Succession and Russian Foreign Policy,” Brown Journal Of World Affairs (Fall/Winter 2007).

Allen Lynch, “Russia and 'Putinism,’” in Karen M. Rohan, ed., Great Decisions 2008 (Foreign Policy Association, 2008).

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

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

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

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

Carol Mershon (with William B. Heller), “Dealing in Discipline: Party Switching and Legislative Voting in the Italian Chamber of Deputies, 1988-2000,” American Journal of Political Science (October 2008).

Carol Mershon, “Legislative Party Switching and Executive Coalitions,” Japanese Journal of Political Science (November 2008).

Carol Mershon (with Kerstin Hamann), “Regional Governments in Spain,” in Bonnie N. Field and Kerstin Hamann, eds., Democracy and Institutional Development: Spain in Comparative Theoretical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

Sidney Milkis and 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 (September/October 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, “Action and Inquiry in Dewey’s Philosophy,” Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philosophy (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).

James Savage (with Amy Verdun), “Reforming Europe’s Stability and Growth Pact: Lessons from the American Experience in Macrobudgeting,” Review of International Political Economy (December 2007).

James Savage, “The Administrative Costs of Congressional Earmarking: The Case of the Office of Naval Research,” Public Administration Review (forthcoming).

James Savage: “Fiscal and Budget Policy,” in Richard Valelly, ed., Encyclopedia of United States Political History (Congressional Quarterly Press, forthcoming).

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

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

Herman Schwartz (with Leonard Seabrooke), “Varieties of Residential Capitalism in the International Political Economy:  Old Welfare States and the New Politics of Housing,” Comparative European Politics (September 2008).

Herman Schwartz, “Housing, Global Finance and American Hegemony: Building Conservative Politics One Brick at a Time,” Comparative European Politics (September 2008).

David Waldner, “Transforming Inferences into Explanations: Lessons from the Study of Mass Extinctions,” in Richard 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 Press, forthcoming.)

Vesla Weaver, “Frontlash: Race and the Development of Punitive Crime Policy,” Studies in American Political Development (Fall 2007).

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 (December 2007).

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).