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When the Men with Guns Rule: Explaining Human Rights Failures in Kosovo Since 1999

Journal Article When the Men with Guns Rule: Explaining Human Rights Failures in Kosovo Since 1999 Get access Mark A. Wolfgram Mark A. Wolfgram MARK A. WOLFGRAM is an assistant professor of political science at Oklahoma State University-Stillwater. His research draws upon the culturalist traditions in comparative politics, bringing together the study of culture and politics. His current research on social and collective memory focuses on the legacy of violent conflicts. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 123, Issue 3, Fall 2008, Pages 461–484, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2008.tb00631.x Published: 15 February 2013

China's Search for Military Power

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsM. Taylor FravelM. Taylor Fravel is an assistant professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He may be reached at fravel@mit.edu. This article draws on a paper presented at the 2007 NIDS International Symposium in Tokyo

Does One Right Make a Realist? Conservatism, Neoconservatism, and Isolationism in the Foreign Policy Ideology of American Elites

Political Science QuarterlyVolume 123, Issue 2 p. 271-299 Does One Right Make a Realist? Conservatism, Neoconservatism, and Isolationism in the Foreign Policy Ideology of American Elites BRIAN C. RATHBUN, BRIAN C. RATHBUN BRIAN C. RATHBUN is assistant professor of political science at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans, as well as numerous articles published in leading journals of international relations.Search for more papers by this author BRIAN C. RATHBUN, BRIAN C. RATHBUN BRIAN C. RATHBUN is assistant professor of political science at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Partisan Interventions: European Party Politics and Peace Enforcement in the Balkans, as well as numerous articles published in leading journals of international relations.Search for more papers by this author First published: 15 February 2013 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2008.tb00625.xCitations: 8 AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume123, Issue2Summer 2008Pages 271-299 RelatedInformation

Postnational Rulemaking, Compliance, and Justification: The New Europe

Complying with Europe: EU Harmonisation and Soft Law in the Member States. Gerda Falkner, Oliver Treib, Miriam Hartlapp, and Simone Leiber. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 418p. 75.00.Beate Sissenich is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. She wishes to thank Jeffrey Isaac for insightful comments and suggestions on previous versions of this essay.

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Long Island University's political science department will offer a course in spring 2008 that will help students examine the background, conduct, and implications of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. Economic, political, and military interests will be examined; connections will be drawn to the history and politics of the Middle East, the future of U.S. democracy, the role of the political opposition, the perspectives of other domestic and international actors, and more. The course will explore the events leading up to the invasion; internal politics within the Bush administration; the domestic and world reactions to the war; developments in Iraq and the region; the significance of oil in the world economy; the role of the media; consequences of U.S. methods upon human rights standards; opposition to the war; and the impact of the war at home. The participating faculty are John Ehrenberg, professor of political science and department chair; J. Patrice McSherry, professor, political science and director, Latin American and Caribbean Studies; Jose Ramon Sanchez, associate professor of political Science and chair of urban studies; and Caroleen Marji Sayej, assistant professor of political science.

From the “Red Juggernaut” to Iraqi WMD: Threat Inflation and How it Succeeds in the United States

Journal Article From the “Red Juggernaut” to Iraqi WMD: Threat Inflation and How it Succeeds in the United States Get access Jeffrey M. Cavanaugh Jeffrey M. Cavanaugh JEFFREY M. CAVANAUGH is an assistant professor of political science and public administration at Mississippi State University. His current research focuses on U.S. foreign policy and the dynamics of patron—client networks in the interstate system. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 122, Issue 4, Winter 2007, Pages 555–584, https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2007.tb00609.x Published: 15 February 2013

The Freshness of Fanaticism: The Abolitionist Defense of Zealotry

Zealotry or fanaticism is increasingly regarded as one of the principal threats to liberal democracy in the twenty-first century. Yet even as it is universally disparaged, zealotry is a severely understudied concept. This article seeks to formulate a critical theory of zealotry and investigate its relationship to democracy through a close reading of the speeches of the radical abolitionist orator Wendell Phillips. The American abolitionists were passionate democrats. Yet many of them, such as Phillips, were also self-defined fanatics who believed in using extremist language and tactics on behalf of the slave. Phillips's speeches suggest a specifically political definition of zealotry as a strategy that seeks to mobilize populations in defense of a particular position by dividing the public sphere into friends (those who support the position) and enemies (those who oppose it) and pressuring the moderates in between. Through his defense of fanaticism and his argument for disunion, Phillips articulates a democratic form of fanaticism that challenges common pejorative associations of zealotry with irrationality, intolerance, fundamentalism, or terrorism.Joel Olson is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northern Arizona University (joel.olson@nau.edu) and the author of The Abolition of White Democracy (University of Minnesota Press). Thanks to Randall Amster, Lisa Disch, Mike Kramer, Michael Lienesch, Jill Locke, Ryan Narce, David Schlosberg, and the anonymous reviewers for their comments and criticisms of earlier drafts of this article. Thanks also to Baohua Yan, Steve VanDalen, Katrina Taylor, and Adria Mooney for valuable research assistance.

Democracy's promise: immigrants & American civic institutions

Given the massive demographic changes in the United States during the past few decades, understanding the place of immigrants in the public sphere has never been more critical. Promise examines both the challenges and opportunities posed to American civic institutions by the presence of increasing numbers of immigrants. Author Janelle argues that the low levels of political participation among contemporary immigrants are not due to apathy or preoccupation with their homeland, but to the inability of American political parties and advocacy organizations to mobilize immigrant voters. Wong's rich study of Chinese and Mexican immigrants in New York and Los Angeles complements traditional studies of political behavior and civic institutions while offering a nuanced examination of immigrants' political activity.Democracy's Promise will appeal to a broad spectrum of social scientists and ethnic studies scholars who study or teach immigration, racial and ethnic politics, political participation, civic engagement, and American political institutions. In addition, it will appeal to community organizers and party activists who are interested in issues of race and ethnicity, immigration, political participation, and political mobilization.Janelle is Assistant Professor of Political Science and American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California.As political parties (perhaps) decline in the United States, as civic organizations (perhaps) move away from direct participatory politics, and as the number of immigrants certainly increases--what will link new Americans to the political realm? Janelle answers this important question clearly, with elegance, nuance, rich description, and galvanizing provocativeness. Her evidence is compelling and her sense of urgency about the need for parties to look beyond short-term interests even more so.--Jennifer L. Hochschild, Harvard University Wong draws on the Latino and Asian immigrant experience, with specific examples from the Chinese and Mexican communities of New York and Los Angeles, to show how the political parties have largely failed to organize these groups and why labor unions and immigrant advocacy organizations have stepped in to take their place. Far from 'disuniting' America, she clearly shows that bringing these groups into the political fray is central to the project of renewing American democracy.--John Mollenkopf, CUNY Graduate Center A scathing critique of the role of parties in the mobilization of new immigrants and an invaluable analysis of alternative pathways of mobilization through community organizations.--Michael Jones-Correa, Cornell University By employing multiple empirical methods, including in-depth interviews and sophisticated survey analyses, Janelle provides a compelling account of the political activities and allegiances of America's Asian and Latino immigrants that challenges much conventional wisdom. Often the political parties are failing to reach out to these groups, and often immigrants remain concerned about their home countries; but they are nonetheless increasingly active in American politics, in ways that may do much to shape the course of American political development in the 21st century. Promise is a major contribution to our understanding of this crucial dimension of American politics.--Rogers M. Smith, University of Pennsylvania Democracy's Promise challenges political parties to reexamine their priorities for mobilizing new voters, and identifies the critical role civic institutions play in invigorating participation among immigrant citizens. Wong's analysis is at once precise and expansive; illuminating the contours of Latino and Asian American political incorporation and provoking thoughtful debate on inclusion in democratic theory.--Jane Junn, Rutgers University

The Rhetoric of Genocide in U.S. Foreign Policy: Rwanda and Darfur Compared

Political Science QuarterlyVolume 122, Issue 3 p. 359-383 The Rhetoric of Genocide in U.S. Foreign Policy: Rwanda and Darfur Compared ERIC A. HEINZE, ERIC A. HEINZE ERIC A. HEINZE is an assistant professor of political science and international studies at the University of Oklahoma. His scholarly articles have most recently appeared in the Journal of Human Rights, Parameters, the Journal of Military Ethics, Polity, and the International Journal of Human Rights. His book, Waging Humanitarian War: The Ethics, Law and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention, is forthcoming with SUNY Press.Search for more papers by this author ERIC A. HEINZE, ERIC A. HEINZE ERIC A. HEINZE is an assistant professor of political science and international studies at the University of Oklahoma. His scholarly articles have most recently appeared in the Journal of Human Rights, Parameters, the Journal of Military Ethics, Polity, and the International Journal of Human Rights. His book, Waging Humanitarian War: The Ethics, Law and Politics of Humanitarian Intervention, is forthcoming with SUNY Press.Search for more papers by this author First published: 15 February 2013 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2007.tb00602.xCitations: 11 AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume122, Issue3Fall 2007Pages 359-383 RelatedInformation

Rethinking Transnational Counterterrorism: Beyond a National Framework

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJeremy PressmanJeremy Pressman is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Connecticut. He may be reached at jeremy.pressman@uconn.edu.

Altruistic Punishment in Politics and Life Sciences: Climbing the Same Mountain in Theory and Practice

As reflected in theory, laboratory evidence, and field studies, altruistic punishment of defectors promotes cooperation. Costly self-enforcement of socially optimal behavior has a number of independent links in political science, economics, psychology, sociology, computer science, and biology. This paper integrates the study of sanctions-based provision of public goods in the social sciences with the research on evolutionary adaptedness of altruistic punishment in the life sciences. Altruistic punishment appears to be (1) economically rational, (2) evolutionarily robust as an individual propensity and as a cultural norm, (3) normatively more appealing than tit-for-tat, which is a reciprocal punishment by defection, and (4) socially common. The theoretical and empirical importance of altruistic punishment has immediate policy implications. Examination of commons around the world suggests that privatization and centralized coercion are not the only solutions to the tragedy of the commons. A viable policy alternative is to facilitate the evolution of the commons as a common-property regime with its own norms and a certain degree of independence.Oleg Smirnov is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Stony Brook University (Oleg.Smirnov@sunysb.edu). He would like to thank Terry Anderson, Daniel Benjamin, James Fowler, Tim Johnson, John Orbell, Tony Smith, Wally Thurman, and anonymous referees for helpful comments. This research was supported by the Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Bozeman, MT.

Where Have You Gone, Sherman Minton? The Decline of the Short-Term Supreme Court Justice

Against the backdrop of a decade-long wait for a Supreme Court vacancy, legal academics from across the political spectrum have recently proposed or supported significant constitutional or statutory reforms designed to limit the terms of Supreme Court justices and increase the pace of turnover at the Court. Fearing a Court that is increasingly out of touch with the national mood and staffed by justices of advanced age, advocates of term and age limits contend that the trend in Supreme Court tenures is inexorably upward. But are Supreme Court justices really serving longer now than in the past? If so, why? And what might such trends mean for American constitutional democracy? In a debate otherwise dominated by law professors—and largely without careful empirical analysis—we place the issue of judicial tenure in historical perspective, with special attention to the institutional development of the Court, the changing politics of the appointments process and the types of individuals who emerge from it, and to a lesser extent, broader socio-demographic trends in technology and medicine. In the process, we show how proponents of reforms designed to end life tenure have ignored a significant factor influencing patterns in judicial service: the decline of the “short-term” justice. Trends in judicial tenure, we argue, cannot be explained by more justices serving unusually long terms; rather, they are driven at least in part by the fact that fewer justices are serving relatively short terms. In this article, we consider why justices have retired after only short service throughout much of history, why they rarely do so today, the conditions under which future justices might be compelled to serve shorter terms, and the democratic gains and losses associated with short-term service on the Court. In sum, by following the rise and fall of the short-term justice over the course of American political development, we offer a new perspective, grounded in political science, on an issue currently occupying the attention of lawyers, journalists, and policymakers alike.Justin Crowe is Assistant Professor of Politics, Pomona College (justin.crowe@pomona.edu). Christopher F. Karpowitz is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Brigham Young University (karpowtz@byu.edu). We thank Chris Achen, Steve Burbank, Chris Eisgruber, Mark Graber, Ken Kersch, Kevin McGuire, David Stras, Keith Whittington, and two anonymous reviewers for encouragement and helpful feedback. An earlier version of this article was presented at the 2006 annual meeting of the Western Political Science Association, Albuquerque, NM.

The Structural Causes of Trusting Relationships: Why Rivals Do Not Overcome Suspicion Step by Step

Political Science QuarterlyVolume 122, Issue 2 p. 287-312 The Structural Causes of Trusting Relationships: Why Rivals Do Not Overcome Suspicion Step by Step AARON M. HOFFMAN, AARON M. HOFFMAN AARON M. HOFFMAN is an assistant professor of political science at Purdue University. This article is adapted from his recent book, Building Trust: Overcoming Suspicion in International Conflict.Search for more papers by this author AARON M. HOFFMAN, AARON M. HOFFMAN AARON M. HOFFMAN is an assistant professor of political science at Purdue University. This article is adapted from his recent book, Building Trust: Overcoming Suspicion in International Conflict.Search for more papers by this author First published: 15 February 2013 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2007.tb00600.xCitations: 7 AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume122, Issue2Summer 2007Pages 287-312 RelatedInformation

Politics between Market and Islam: The Electoral Puzzles and Changing Prospects of Pro-Islamic Parties

Sultan Tepe is assistant professor of political science at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The Representational Biases of Federalism: Scope and Bias in the Political Process, Revisited

In 1960, E.E. Schattschneider noted that every change in the scope of political conflict has a bias; political conflicts that are localized tend to be highly restrictive, while nationalizing conflicts can draw in previously excluded groups. In contrast to this conventional wisdom, this paper suggests that the question of which venues are open to which interests is an empirical one.Lisa L. Miller is an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University (miller@polisci.rutgers.edu). The author would like to thank Frank Baumgartner, Regina Lawrence, Beth Leech, Michael McCann, and Marie Gottschalk, as well as the three anonymous reviewers, for their invaluable comments on earlier drafts.

The Politics of Impartial Activism: Humanitarianism and Human Rights

Humanitarian and human rights movements have gained influence as impartial ethical responses to injustice and suffering, yet their claims to impartiality are commonly dismissed as misleading, naive, or counterproductive. To date, little attention has been paid to the very different ways human rights and humanitarian movements have conceptualized impartiality in relation to distinct and conflicting activist goals.Bronwyn Leebaw is Assistant Professor of Political Science, UC Riverside (Bronwyn.leebaw@ucr.edu). The author is grateful to Hanna Pitkin, Lisa Disch, John Cioffi, Mark Reinhardt, Jennifer Hochschild, and three insightful anonymous reviewers for helpful comments on earlier drafts of this article. In developing ideas for this article, she also benefited from conversations with Helen Kinsella, Mark Drumbl, Chandra Sriram, Eric Stover, Harvey Weinstein, Lon Troyer, Kateri Carmola, David Pion-Berlin, Chris Laursen, John Medearis, Juliann Allison, Victor Peskin, Ruti Teitel, Targol Mesbah, Helen Lennon, Tom Reifer, Dean Mathiowetz, and the graduate students at UC Riverside.

Europe's Muslim Youth: An Inquiry into the Politics of Discrimination, Relative Deprivation, and Identity Formation

Barbara Franz is assistant professor of political science at Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey.

Teaching Political Economy in Political Science: A Review of International and Comparative Political Economy Syllabi

Prior to the 1970s, political science for the most part happily ignored questions of production, exchange, consumption, and investment. The new prominence of Marxist and neo-Marxist scholarship in that decade as well as the transformation of many institutions, trends and premises of the post-World War II order (including the collapse of Bretton Woods, the rise of OPEC and Third World liberation movements, the advent of detente, and the first global recession since the Great Depression) ushered many innovative themes and methodologies into our discipline. Political economy was the most direct result of both these trends, taking its place as one of the first of a wave of “inter-” or “multidisciplinary” fields of study.Darel E. Paul is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College, Williamstown, MA (dpaul@williams.edu). He is the author of Rescaling International Political Economy: Subnational States and the Regulation of the Global Political Economy (Routledge, 2005) as well as of several articles on cities in the contemporary global political economy.

Fragile Universals and the Politics of EmpireCatherine Hall. Civilising Subjects: Colony and Metropole in the English Imagination, 1830–1867. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.Sankar Muthu. Enlightenment Against Empire. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003.Jennifer Pitts. A Turn to Empire: The Rise of Imperial Liberalism in Britain and France. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005.

Karuna Mantena is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Her current research focuses on empire and political theory, especially the relationship between social theory and imperial ideology in the nineteenth century. Her book, Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Transformation of British Imperial Ideology, is forthcoming from Princeton University Press. She can be reached at karuna.mantena@yale.edu

“I'm Changing the Climate, Ask Me How!”: The Politics of the Anti-SUV Campaign

Political Science QuarterlyVolume 121, Issue 3 p. 397-423 “I'm Changing the Climate, Ask Me How!”: The Politics of the Anti-SUV Campaign SARAH PRALLE, SARAH PRALLE SARAH PRALLE is an assistant professor of political science at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She has recently published Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting with Georgetown University Press.Search for more papers by this author SARAH PRALLE, SARAH PRALLE SARAH PRALLE is an assistant professor of political science at the Maxwell School at Syracuse University. She has recently published Branching Out, Digging In: Environmental Advocacy and Agenda Setting with Georgetown University Press.Search for more papers by this author First published: 15 February 2013 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1538-165X.2006.tb00576.xCitations: 2 AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume121, Issue3Fall 2006Pages 397-423 RelatedInformation