Volume 134 - Number 4 - Winter 2019–20

Striking a Blow for Unity? Race and Economics in the 2010 New Orleans Mayoral Election
MAREK STEEDMAN, ILIYAN ILIEV, Marcus Coleman, and Allan McBride analyze the 2010 New Orleans mayoral election. They find that racial, economic, and partisan context affected voting behavior. They argue that analytical approaches that account for the effects of social context on political behavior are important to understanding urban politics.

Billionaires and Stealth Politics, Benjamin I. Page
Reviewed by David Szakonyi

How Democracy Ends, David Runciman
Reviewed by Tom Ginsburg

Starving the Beast: Ronald Reagan and the Tax Cut Revolution, Monica Prasad
Reviewed by Christopher Faricy

Changing Cultures in Congress: From Fair Play to Power Plays, Donald R. Wolfensberger
Reviewed by Ryan D. Williamson

Drones and Support for the Use of Force, James Igoe Walsh
Reviewed by Avery Plaw

Volume 134 - Number 3 - Fall 2019

American Grand Strategy and the Rise of Offensive Realism
Ionut Popescu outlines the principles of a new American grand strategy grounded in an offensive realist theoretical framework. He argues that offensive realism is better suited to the new era of geopolitical competition with China and Russia.

The Government-Citizen Disconnect, Suzanne Mettler
Reviewed by Christopher Wlezien

Southern Nation: Congress and White Supremacy after Reconstruction, David Bateman
Reviewed by Paul E. Herron

Migrants and Political Change in Latin America, Luis F. Jiménez
Reviewed by Clarisa Pérez-Armendáriz

Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan, Daniel M. Smith
Reviewed by Carlos Velasco Rivera

Volume 134 - Number 2 - Summer 2019

Forecasting Models and the Presidential Vote
Kenneth A. Wink compares and contrasts a number of U.S. presidential election forecasting models and finds that some perform better than others. He argues that some systematic factors have an impact in every election regardless of the characteristics of the candidates, the effectiveness of the campaigns, and the events that occur in a particular election year.

Unequal and Unrepresented: Political Inequality and the People’s Voice in the New Gilded Age, Kay Lehman Schlozman
Reviewed by Spencer Piston

Cultural Evolution: People’s Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World, Ronald F. Inglehart
Reviewed by George E. Marcus

Why Terrorist Groups Form International Alliances, Tricia Bacon
Reviewed by Victor Asal

Are Politics Local? The Two Dimensions of Party Nationalization around the World, Scott Morgenstern
Reviewed by Arjan H. Schakel

The Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation, Isabel Sawhill
Reviewed by Mark Joseph Stelzner

Gendered Vulnerability: How Women Work Harder to Stay in Office, Jeffrey Lazarus
Reviewed by KELLY DITTMAR

Volume 134 - Number 1 - Spring 2019

Voter ID Laws: The Disenfranchisement of Minority Voters?
Ben Pryor, Rebekah Herrick and James A. Davis examine the effects of strict voter identification laws on minority voter suppression. They analyze United States Census data and find that strict identification laws do not appear to disproportionally suppress voter turnout among minority groups.

Unstable Majorities: Polarization, Party Sorting, and Political Stalemate, Morris P. Fiorina
Reviewed by Matt Grossmann

Challenged Hegemony: The United States, China, and Russia in the Persian Gulf, Steven A. Yetiv
Reviewed by F. Gregory Gause III

Deep Roots: How Slavery Still Shapes Southern Politics, Avidit Acharya
Reviewed by Edward B. Rugemer

The Marines, Counterinsurgency, and Strategic Culture: Lessons Learned and Lost in America's Wars, Jeannie L. Johnson
Reviewed by Jason Dempsey

Volume 133 - Number 4 - Winter 2018-19

Why Trump Won’t Retrench: The Militarist Redoubt in American Foreign Policy
PETER HARRIS assesses the likelihood of a retrenchment in overseas commitments under President Donald J. Trump. He argues that the Trump administration may challenge aspects of the liberal international order, but is unlikely to retrench from America’s military commitments abroad.

American Grand Strategy and East Asian Security in the Twenty-First Century, David C. Kang
Reviewed by NICHOLAS D. ANDERSON

The Battle for the Court: Interest Groups, Judicial Elections, and Public Policy, Lawrence Baum
Reviewed by Michael J. Nelson

Latino Identity and Political Attitudes: Why Are Latinos Not Republican?, Angel Saavedra Cisneros
Reviewed by Heath Brown