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1998; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 27; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

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Legal and Constitutional Studies

Abstract Miller, Warren E., and J. Merrill Shanks. The New American Voter. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press 640 pp., $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-674-60840-2 ISBN 0-674-60841-0 Publication Date: 1996 UNITED STATES. Politics and Public Policy, Craig, Stephen C., and Stephen Earl Bennett, eds. After the Boom: The Politics of Generation X. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 204 pp., $65.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8476-8359-1 cloth ISBN 0-8476-8360-5 paper Publication Date: March 1997 Rose, Gary L. The American Presidency under Siege. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 231 pp., $18.95 paper ISBN 0-7914-3338-2 paper Publication Date: May 1997 Anerchiarico, Frank, and James B. Jacobs. The Pursuit of Absolute Integrity: How Corruption Control Makes Government Ineffective. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 274 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-226-02051-7 Publication Date: March 1997 Drew, Elizabeth. Whatever It Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America. New York: Viking. 294 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-670-87536-8 Publication Date: May 1997 Sinclair, Barbara. Unorthodox Law-making: New Legislative Processes in the U.S. Congress. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 257 pp., $33.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 1-56802-277-8 cloth ISBN 1-56802-276-X paper Publication Date: 1997 O'Brien, David M., ed. Judges on Judging: Views from the Bench. Chatham, NJ: Chatham House. 364 pp., $24.95 paper ISBN 1-56643-042-9 paper Publication Date: August 1997 Loomis, Burdett A. The Contemporary Congress. New York: St. Martin's Press. 196 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-312-12305-1 Publication Date: 1996 Landsberg, Brian K. Enforcing Civil Rights: Race Discrimination and the Department of Justice. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 276 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0826-5 Publication Date: April 1997 Hamilton, Dona Cooper, and Charles V. Hamilton. The Dual Agenda: The African American Struggle for Civil and Economic Equality. New York: Columbia University Press. 384 pp., $24.95, ISBN 0-231-10168-6 Publication Date: June 1997 Button, James W., Barbara A. Rienzo, and Kenneth D. Wald, eds. Private Lives, Public Conflicts: Battles over Gay Rights in American Communities. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 223 pp., $35.95 cloth, $22.95 paper ISBN 1-56802-279-4 cloth ISBN 1-56802-278-6 paper Publication Date: March 1997 Schleuning, Neala. To Have and To Hold: The Meaning of Ownership in the United States. Westport, CT: Praeger. 243 pp., $59.95, ISBN 0-275-95723-3. Publication Date: January 1997 Piper, J. Richard. Ideologies and Institutions: American Conservative and Liberal Governance Prescriptions Since 1933. Lanham, MD; Rowman & Littlefield. 449 pp., $69.50 cloth, $26.95 paper ISBN 0-8476-8458-X cloth ISBN 0 8476-8459 paper Publication Date: April 1997 Goldstein, Robert Justin, ed. Desecrating the American Flag: Key Documents of the Controversy from the Civil War to 1995. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press. 338 pp., $49.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8156-2702-5 cloth ISBN 0-8156-2716-5 paper Publication Date: 1996 Orfield, Myron. Metropolitics: A Regional Agenda for Community and Stability. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. 224 pp., $28.95, ISBN 1-800-275-1447 Publication Date: February 1997 Bok, Derek. The State of the Nation: Government and the Quest for a Better Society. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 483 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-674-29210-3 Publication Date: January 1997 Glasherg, Davita Silfen, and Dan Skidmore. Corporate Welfare Policy and the Welfare State: Bank Deregulation and the Savings and Loan Bailout. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter. 172 pp., $42.00 cloth, $20.95 paper ISBN 0-202-30561-9 cloth ISBN 0-202-30562-7 paper Publication Date: May 1997 Hoyman, Michele M. Power Steering: Global Automakers and the Transformation of Rural Communities. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas 262 pp., $35.00 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-7006-0818-4 cloth ISBN 0-7006-0819-2 paper Publication Date: March 1997 Perry, Huey L., ed. Race, Politics, and Governance in the United States. Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida. 217 pp., $49.95 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-8130-1456-5 cloth ISBN 0-8130-1481-6 paper Publication Date: April 1997 Ritter, Gretchen. Goldbugs and Greenbacks: The Antimonopoly Tradition and the Politics of Finance in America, 1865-1896. New York: Cambridge University Press. 303 pp., $54.95, ISBN 0-521-56167-1 Publication Date: February 1997 Radford, Gail. Modern Housing for America: Policy Struggles in the New Deal Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 273 pp., $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper ISBN 0-226-70222-7 ISBN 0-226-70223-5 Publication Date: January 1997 UNITED STATES. Foreign Policy and National Security, Jentleson, Bruce W., and Thomas G. Paterson, eds. Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations. New York: Oxford University Press. 4 vols., $450, ISBN 0-19-511055-2 Publication Date: March 1997 Hutchings, Robert L. American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War: An Insider's Account of U.S. Policy in Europe, 1989-1992. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 456 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-8018-5620-5 Publication Date: March 1997 Weinberger, Caspar, and Peter Schweizer. The Next War. Washington, DC: Regnery. 470 pp., $27.50, ISBN 0-89526-447-1 Publication Date: 1996 Drachman, Edward R., and Alan Shank, with Edward Kannyo and Steven R. Ligon. Presidents and Foreign Policy: Countdown to Ten Controversial Decisions. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. 390 pp. $19.95 paper ISBN 0-7914-3340-4 paper Publication Date: May 1997 Topik, Steven C. Trade and Gunboats: The United States and Brazil in the Age of Empire. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 301 pp., $55.00, ISBN 0-8047-2602-7 Publication Date: February 1997 CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA, Walker, Thomas W., ed. Nicaragua without Illusions: Regime Transition and Structural Adjustment in the 1990s. Wilmington, DE: SR Books 332 pp., $55.00 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-8420-2578-2 cloth ISBN 0-8420-2579-0 paper Publication Date: May 1997 EUROPE/COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES, Rhodes, Martin, Paul Heywood, and Vincent Wright, eds. Developments in West European Politics. New York: St, Martin's Press 363 pp., $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-312-17339-3 cloth ISBN 0-312-17340-7 paper Publication Date: May 1997 Mosher, John. Unavoidable Germans: Art vs. Politics, and the Consequences. Lanham, MD: University Press of America 381 pp., $49.50, ISBN 0-7618-0647-4 Publication Date: 1997 Davis. Rebecca Howard. Women and Power in Parliamentary Democracies: Cabinet Appointments in Western Europe, 1968-1992. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press. 137 pp., $32.00, ISBN 0-8032-1707-2 Publication Date: March 1997 Crawford, Keith. East Central European Politics Today. New York: Manchester University Press. 360 pp., $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-7190-4621-1 cloth ISBN 0-7190-4622-X paper Publication Date: March 1997 Maier, Charles S. Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 440 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-691-07879-3 Publication Date: May 1997 Gow, James. Triumph of the Lack of Will: International Diplomacy and the Yugoslav War. New York: Columbia University Press. 343 pp., $29.50, ISBN 0-231-10916-4 Publication Date: June 1997 Drobizheva, Leokadia, Rose Gottemoeller, Catherine McArdle Kelleher, and Lee Walker, eds. Ethnic Conflict in the Post-Soviet World: Case Studies and Analysis. Armonk, NY: ME. Sharpe. 36.1 pp., $69.95, ISBN 1-56324-740-2 Publication Date: 1996 Stojanović, Svetozar. The Fall of Yugoslavia: Why Communism Failed. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books. 341 pp., $34.95, ISBN 1-57392-146-7 Publication Date: July 1997 AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST, Esposito, John L., ed. Political Islam: Revolution, Radicalism, or Reform?. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner. 280 pp., $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 1-55587-262-X cloth ISBN 1-55587-168-2 paper Publication Date: July 1997 Khadduri, Majid, and Edmund Ghareeb. War in the Gulf, 1990-1991: The Iraq-Kuwait Conflict and Its Implications. New York: Oxford University Press. 299 pp., $30.00, IBSN 0-19-508384-9 Publication Date: April 1997 Lawson, Fred H. Why Syria Goes to War: Thirty Years of Confrontation. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 222 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-2373-2 Publication Date: October 1996 Pavarala, Vinod. Interpreting Corruption: Elite Perspectives in India. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 260 pp., $32.00, ISBN 0-8039-9311-0 Publication Date: February 1997 Chaudhry, Kiren Aziz. The Price of Wealth: Economics and Institutions in the Middle East. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 330 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8014-3164-6 cloth ISBN 0-8014-8430-8 paper Publications Date: July 1997 THEORY AND METHODOLOGY, Dikshit, Ramesh Dutta, ed. Developments in Political Geography: A Century of Progress. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. 388 pp., $32.95, ISBN 0-8039-9357-9 Publication Date: April 1997 Baaklini, Abdo I., and Helen Desfosses, eds. Designs for Democratic Stability: Studies in Viable Constitutionalism. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe. 350 pp., $66.95 cloth, $25.95 paper ISBN 0-7656-0051-X cloth ISBN 0-7656-0052-8 paper Publication Date: March 1997 Fortin, Ernest L.; ed. J. Brian Benestad. Classical Christianity and the Political Order: Reflections on the Theologico-Political Problem. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield 390 pp., $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-8476-8276-5 cloth ISBN 0-8476-8277-3 paper Publication Date: January 1997 Fortin, Ernest L.; ed. J. Brian Benestad. Human Rights, Virtue, and the Common Good: Untimely Meditations on Religion and Politics. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 332 pp., $75.00 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-8476-8278-1 cloth ISBN 0-8476-8279-X paper Publication Date: January 1997 Finnemore, Martha. National Interests in International Society. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 154 pp., $35.00 cloth, $13.95 paper ISBN 0-8014-3244-8 cloth ISBN 0-8014-8323-9 paper Publication Date: September 1996 Haufler, Virginia. Dangerous Commerce: Insurance and the Management of International Risk. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 205 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-8014-3231-6 Publication Date: June 1997 Ely, John Hart. On Constitutional Ground. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 507 pp., $69.50 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-691-08644-3 cloth ISBN 0-691-02553-3 paper Publication Date: 1996 Iriye, Akira. Cultural Internationalism and World Order. Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press. 212 pp., $32.50, ISBN 0-8018-5457-1 Publication Date: April 1997 Lendler, Marc. Crisis and Political Beliefs: The Case of the Colt Firearms Strike. New Haven CT: Yale University Press. 186 pp., $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06746-1 Publication Date: June 1997 Mansfield, Edward D., and Helen V. Milner, eds. The Political Economy of Regionalism. New York: Columbia University Press. 274 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.50 paper ISBN 0-231-10662-9 cloth ISBN 0-231-10663-7 paper Publication Date: June 1997 Miller, Joshua I. Democratic Temperament: The Legacy of William James. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 168 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0831-1 Publication Date: May 1997 MacRae, Duncan. Jr., and Dale Whittington. Expert Advice for Policy Choice: Analysis and Discourse. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press. 430 pp., $65.00 cloth, $25.00 paper ISBN 0-87840-640-9 cloth ISBN 0-87840-641-7 paper Publication Date: May 1997 Nicholls, David. God and Government in an “Age of Reason”. New York: Routledge. 278 pp., $65.00, ISBN 0-415-01173-6 Publication date: May 1996 Nino, Carlos Santiago. The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 251 pp., $30.00, ISBN 0-300-06748-8 Publication Date: November 1996 Waligorski, Conrad P. Liberal Economics and Democracy: Keynes, Galbraith, Thurow, and Reich. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 258 pp., $29.95, ISBN 0-7006-0803-6 Publication Date: January 1997 Somit, Albert, and Steven A. Peterson. Darwinism, Dominance, and Democracy: The Biological Bases of Authoritarianism. Westport, CT: Praeger. 141 pp., $49.95, ISBN 0-275-95817-5 Publication Date: March 1997 Walsh, David. The Growth of the Liberal Soul. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press. 386 pp., $39.95, ISBN 0-8626-1082-1 Publication Date: March 1997 Richardson, William D. Democracy, Bureaucracy, and Character: Founding Thought. Lawrence. KS: University Press of Kansas. 201 pp., $29.95 cloth, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-7006-0824-9 cloth ISBN 0-7006-0825-7 paper Publication Date: April 1997 Smith, Gregory Bruce. Nietzsche, Heidegger, and the Transition to Postmodernity. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 366 pp., $42.00 cloth, $15.95 paper ISBN 0-226-76339-0 cloth ISBN 0-226-76340-4 paper Publication Date: 1996 Clinton, Robert Lowry. God and Man in the Law: The Foundations of Anglo-American Constitutionalism. Lawrence, KS: Kansas University Press. 293 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-7006-0841-9 Publication Date: September 1997 Gerston, Larry N. Public Policy Making: Process and Principles. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe 164 pp., $54.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-7656-0079-X cloth ISBN 0-7656-0080-3 paper Publication Date: May 1997 Watson, Douglas J., ed. Innovative Governments: Creative Approaches to Local Problems. Westport, CT: Praeger. 152 pp., $52.95, ISBN 0-275-95515-X Publication Date: January 1997 GENERAL, Maveety, Nancy. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor: Strategist on the Supreme Court. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 153 pp., ISBN 0-8476-8194-7 paper ISBN 0-8476-8195-5 cloth Publication Date: 1996 Marszalek, John F., and Wilson D. Miscamble, eds. American Political History: Essays on the State of the Discipline. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 187 pp., $24.00 cloth, $15.00 paper ISBN 0-268-00651-2 cloth ISBN 0-268-00652-0 paper Publication Date: February 1997 Durey, Michael. Transatlantic Radicals and the Early American Republic. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas. 425 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-7006-0823-0 Publication Date: May 1997 Mahoney, Daniel J., and Brian C. Anderson, eds. Thinking Politically: A Liberal in the Age of Ideology, by Raymond Aron. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction. 347 pp., $24.95 paper ISBN 1-56000-934-9 paper Publication Date: June 1997 Weisburd, A. Mark. Use of Force: The Practice of States Since World War II. University Park, PA: Penn State Press. 322 pp., $65.00 cloth, $25.00 paper ISBN 0-271-01679-5 cloth ISBN 0-271-01680-9 paper Publication Date: June 1997