Books, Etc.

Recent and Forthcoming Faculty Books

Henry Abraham, Justices, Presidents, and Senators: A History of the U.S. Supreme Court Appointments from Washington to Bush II (Rowman & Littlefield, 2008).

James Ceaser (with Andrew Busch and Jack Pitney), Epic Journey: The 2008 Elections and American Politics (Rowman and Littlefield, March 2009).

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

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

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, 2008).

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, Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted (Princeton University Press, 2008).

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

Larry Sabato, editor, The Year of Obama: How Barack Obama Won the White House (Pearson Longman, March 2009).

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

Herman M. Schwartz, (Leonard Seabrooke, eds.) The Politics of Housing Booms and Busts. (Palgrave, 2009)

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, mid-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 Journal Articles and Book Chapters

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, "Making a Connection: Repetition in Campaigns and the Development of Candidate-Issue Connections," Journal of Politics, vol. 70, no. 4 (2008), pp. 1142-1159.

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 Brian J. Gaines), "Apportionment Matters: Fair Representation in the U.S. House and Electoral College," Perspectives on Politics (forthcoming in 2009).

Jeffery A. Jenkins (with Sean Galimard). "Agency Problems and Electoral Institutions: The 17^th Amendment and Representation in the Senate," American Journal of Political Science (forthcoming in 2009), 

Jeffery A. Jenkins (with Charles J. Finocchiaro), "In Search of Killer Amendments in the Modern U.S. House," Legislative Studies Quarterly, vol. 33 (2008), pp. 263-94.

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, vol. 22 (2008), pp. 111-40.  

Jeffery A. Jenkins (with Timothy P. Nokken), "Partisanship, the Electoral Connection, and Lame-Duck Sessions of Congress, 1877-2006," Journal of Politics, vol. 70 (2008), pp. 450-65.

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 (Fall 2008).

David Leblang (with Barry Eichengreen), "Democracy and Globalization," Economics and Politics (October 2008).

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).

Jeffrey W. Legro, "A Return to Normalcy? Managing the Renewal of American Internationalism", in Daniel Drezner, ed. Avoiding Trivia: The Role of Strategic Planning in American Foreign Policy (Washington, DC:  Brookings 2009).

Allen Lynch, "International Relations," in Michael Bressler, ed., Understanding Contemporary Russia (Lynne Rienner, 2009), pp. 161-190.

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

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, 2009).

R.K. Ramazani, "President Bush Deviates from Core American Principles in Middle East Policies," Critique: Critical Middle Eastern Studies (Fall 2008), pp. 209-221.

Melvin Rogers, "Dewey, Pluralism and Democracy: A Response to Robert Talisse," Transactions of the Charles S. Pierce Society: A Quarterly Journal in American Philospohy (forthcoming 2009).

Melvin Rogers, "Democracy, Elites and Power: John Dewey Reconsidered," Contemporary Political Theory (February 2009).

Melvin Rogers, "Re-reading Honneth: Exodus Politics and the Paradox of Recognition," European Journal of Political Theory (April 2009), pp. 183-206.

Melvin Rogers' "Republican Confusion and Liberal Clarification," Philosophy and Social Criticism, 34.7 (2008), pp. 799-824. 

James Savage, "The Administrative Costs of Congressional Earmarking: The Case of the Office of Naval Research," Public Administration Review (forthcoming 2009).

James Savage: "Fiscal and Budget Policy," in Richard Valelly, ed., Encyclopedia of United States Political History (Congressional Quarterly Press, 2009).

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

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).

Herman M. Schwartz, "The Financial Crisis of 2007-08," Internasjonal Politikk (March 2009) (in Norwegian).

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, January 2009)

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,  2008).   

Brantly Womack, "China as a Normative Foreign Policy Actor", in Nathalie Tocci, ed., Who is a Normative Foreign Policy Actor?" The European Community and its Global Partners (Brussels: Centre for European Policy Studies, 2008).

Brantly Womack, "Washington Tea Parties: Managing Problems and Imagining Solutions in US China Policy" in Policies of the EU, Russia and the United States Towards the Rise of China (Brussels:  European Security Forum Working Paper no. 30, November 2008).