Volume 127 - Number 3 - Fall 2012
Making Migrant–Government Partnerships Work: Insights from the Logic of Collective Action
Volume 127 - Number 2 - Summer 2012
Rethinking the Development of Legitimate Party Opposition in the United States, 1793–1828 Jeffrey S. Selinger reassesses the rhetoric of anti-partisanship of the early national period. The election of 1800 demonstrated that a mechanism had been invented for changing government, personnel, and policies without violence and destructiveness. The election rendered parties legitimate and was the functional equivalent of a revolution. This achievement, however, did not become widely accepted by Americans for at least another quarter of a century.
Volume 127 - Number 2 - Summer 2012
Skeletons in White House Closets: A Discussion of Modern Presidential Scandals Brandon Rottinghaus list and classify presidential scandals occurring since 1972. They examine the different types of scandals and analyze news coverage of these scandals and their durations. They conclude that a small, unrepresentative set of scandals accounts for most news coverage, generating the misperception of scandals as drawn-out affairs involving large numbers of officials.
Volume 127 - Number 1 - Spring 2012
Republican Elites and Foreign Policy Attitudes Joshua W. Busby and Jonathan Monten analyze opinion polls, focusing on the degree of congruence between Republican elites and the general public on foreign policy. They find Republican elites to be consistently more internationalist than the public on most dimensions.
Volume 127 - Number 1 - Spring 2012
Accomplished and Embattled: Understanding Obama's Presidency Theda Skocpol and Lawrence R. Jacobs assess the policy accomplishments and shortfalls of President Barack Obama since 2009. They highlight the obstacles with which Obama and his political allies have had to contend and challenge commentators who claim that Obama has accomplished little. They explain why conservative and Republican opposition to Obama?s presidency has been fierce and unremitting.
Volume 126 - Number 4 - Winter 2011-12
Democratic Divisions in the 1960s and the Road to Welfare Reform Eva Bertram analyzes the effects of welfare reform initiatives undertaken by the Kennedy and Johnson administrations. She argues that liberalizing reforms of the 1960s created opportunities for conservative Democratic lawmakers to seize the policy agenda, laying the groundwork for a turn toward workfare that would culminate in the 1990s.
Volume 126 - Number 3 - Fall 2011
What Happened to Obama? An Opinion Piece DREW WESTEN analyses the leadership style of President Barack Obama. He argues that the President’s aversion to conflict and his failure to understand “bully” dynamics led him to miss a historic opportunity to change the dynamics of a political and economic system dominated by corruption and inequality not seen since the eve of the Great Depression. This is an article of opinion and the Editors welcome submissions from those with a different point of view.
Volume 126 - Number 3 - Fall 2011
Dysfunctional Doctrines? Eisenhower, Carter and U.S. Military Intervention in the Middle East JEFFREY H. MICHAELS examines several of the analytical and practical problems of U.S. presidential foreign policy doctrines by looking specifically at the Eisenhower and Carter doctrines. He concludes that presidential doctrines are usually overrated as new statements of principle, and that the elevation of a presidential statement into doctrine can have unintended consequences.
Volume 126 - Number 2 - Summer 2011
Winner-Take-All Politics: A Review Essay Jennifer Hochschild reviews the recently published Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer—And Turned Its Back on the Middle Class . In this seminal work, Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson analyze the sharp rise in income inequality in the United States and identify the policies and politics that have been adopted to work in favor of only the richest 1 percent of Americans. Hochschild finds it a persuasive and much-needed analysis.
Volume 126 - Number 2 - Summer 2011
The Challenges of Decreasing Oil Consumption STEVE A. YETIV AND ERIC S. FOWLER quantify the benefits for the United States of achieving hybrid-like efficiency in its vehicle fleet. They show not only how important such a move can be, but also that if Chinese consumers continue to buy inefficient vehicles at a fast pace, they will sap America's efficiency gains rather quickly. They argue that oil dependence is not only an American, but also a global problem that cannot be addressed seriously without multilateral cooperation.
