Hot Picks.On September 2, more than 6,000 political scientists will converge on Atlanta for the American Political Science Association's annual meeting. Thousands of papers will be presented. We asked a few of the nation's top political scientists which of them are likely to be most interesting. Michael J. Sandel Michael J. Sandel is Professor of Government at Harvard University and the author of Democracy's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy. "The Third Way and Beyond: Rethinking Progressive Ideology at the Century's End" STUART WHITE KARIN FIERKE "Freud, Moses and Secularism sec·u·lar·ism n. 1. Religious skepticism or indifference. 2. The view that religious considerations should be excluded from civil affairs or public education. " WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY For other persons named William Connolly, see William Connolly (disambiguation). William E. Connolly is the Krieger-Eisenhower Professor of Political Science at Johns Hopkins University. "The Endgame Endgame blind and chair-bound, Hamm learns that nearly everybody has died; his own parents are dying in separate trash cans. [Anglo-Fr. Drama: Beckett Endgame in Weiss, 143] See : Death ?: Emerging Features of a Final Settlement" YOSSI BEILIN "The Sexual and Racial Contracts at the End of the 20th Century" CAROLE PATEMAN "Why Ethnicity Trumps Economics in Political Mobilization" ASHUTOSH VARSHNEY "The Religious and Secular in American Political Culture" JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN Jean Bethke Elshtain (born 1941) is a neoconservative American feminist political philosopher. She is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics at the University of Chicago Divinity School, and is a contributing editor for The New Republic. "Why Can't They Be Like We Were?: Generations, Life Cycle and Political Participation" HENRY E. BRADY KAY LEHMAN SCHLOZMAN SIDNEY VERBA JENNIFER ERKULWATER "The Politics and Morality of Official Apologies" JACOB T. LEVY "Foreignness, Democracy and the Law" BONNIE HONIG "A Prejudice for Work" J. RUSSELL MUIRHEAD James M. Glaser James M. Glaser is the Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Political Science at Tuffs University and the author of Race, Campaign Politics, and the Realignment re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. in the South. "Scandal Immunity as a Function of Candidate Personality Traits and Gender" TEREZA CAPELOS LEONIE HUDDY "The Religious and the Secular in American Political Culture" JEAN BETHKE ELSHTAIN "The Logic of Globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation and the Logic of Human Rights: Compatible or Conflicting" RICHARD FALK "Black Electoral Success and the Redefinition of American Politics," CLAUDINE GAY "How Interest Groups Use the Initiative Process to Get Legislative Attention" ELIZABETH GERBER "Measuring Gay Population Density and the Incidence of Anti-Gay Hate Crime" DONALD P. GREEN DARA STROLOVITCH JANELLE WONG ROBERT W. BAILEY "Transnational Causes of Genocide in the Post-Cold War Era The Post-Cold War era is a time period following the end of the Cold War. Its beginning is dated either in 1989, when the Revolutions of 1989 occurred in Eastern Europe and amicable relations developed between the United States and the Soviet Union, or it is dated in 1991 with the , Or How the West Inadvertently Exacerbates Ethnic Conflict" ALAN J. KUPERMAN "The Rise, Decline, and Shallowness of Militant Nationalism in Europe" JOHN MUELLER "Fifty Years of National Election Studies: A Case Study in the House of `Big Social Science'" VIRGINIA SAPIRO Linda Fowler Linda Fowler, author of Candidates, Congress, and the American Democracy, is director of the Nelson A. Rockefeller Center and the Reagan Professor of Policy Studies at Dartmouth. "The Nazi Voter" GARY KING ORI ROSEN MARTIN TANNER "Inventing Poverty: Popular Images of the Poor and U.S. Welfare Policy, 1929-1996" JILL A. EDY EDY Euro, Dollar, Yen (Sony electronic prepaid cash card) "Neighborhood Context and the Impact of Racially Stereotypic Crime Coverage" FRANK D. GILLIAM, JR. NICHOLAS A. VALENTINO MATTHEW N. BECKMAN, "Electoral Competition with Endogenous Voter and Party Positions" JOHN E. JACKSON "Ethnocentrism ethnocentrism, the feeling that one's group has a mode of living, values, and patterns of adaptation that are superior to those of other groups. It is coupled with a generalized contempt for members of other groups. Revisited: American Public Opinion and Social Policy" CINDY KAM DONALD R. KINDER "Is There a Gap Between Civilian and Military Attitudes and If So Has it Changed Over Time?" PAUL GRONKE OLE R. HOLSTI "Heterogeneity and Individual Party Identification" JANET M. BOXSTEFFENSMEIER, RENEE M. SMITH "Racing the Titanic: Globalization, Insecurity and American Democracy" JOHN H. ALDRICH CLAIRE KRAMER JOHN RATTLIFF "Race, Ideology and Party Voting Realignment in the 1990's" DAVID O. SEARS NICHOLAS A. VALENTINO "Welfare and Compulsory Heterosexual Marriage" ANNA MARIE SMITH Thomas E. Mann Thomas E. Mann (born September 10, 1944) is a political scientist, author, and pundit who works at the Brookings Institution. He primarily studies and speaks on elections in the United States, especially campaign finance reform. Thomas Mann is Director of the Department of Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution Brookings Institution, at Washington, D.C.; chartered 1927 as a consolidation of the Institute for Government Research (est. 1916), the Institute of Economics (est. 1922), and the Robert S. Brookings Graduate School of Economics and Government (est. 1924). . "The Undemocratic Democracy, or Why the People of California Voted to Disenfranchise dis·en·fran·chise tr.v. dis·en·fran·chised, dis·en·fran·chis·ing, dis·en·fran·chis·es To disfranchise. dis Themselves" STEPHEN D. ANSOLABEHERE JAMES M. SNYDER, JR. "The New Era of Electronic Warfare: Understanding the Effects of Party Issue Advocacy in the 1998 Elections" PETER L. FRANCIA "Choosing the Rules for Political Control of Bureacrats" CHARLES SHIPAN JOHN D. HUBER RICK K. WILSON "Tuning In tuning in, v process in which a therapeutic touch practitioner centers himself or herself so as to be aligned with or “in tune” with a healing energy “frequency,” so that the patient may choose to join the practitioner (tune , Tuning Out Revisited: A Closer Look at the Causal Links Between Television and Social Capital" ROBERT D. PUTNAM STEVEN YONISH DAVID E. CAMPBELL "Bowling Abroad: Social Captial in Comparative Perspective" JOHN M. SIDES "Institutions and Politics: What Matters Most for Policy Making?" BARBARA SINCLAIR "Partisanship and Voting Behavior, 1952-1996" LARRY M. BARRELS "Actions in the Public Sphere: Members of Congress from James Madison to Newt Gingrich and Beyond" DAVID David, in the Bible David, d. c.970 B.C., king of ancient Israel (c.1010–970 B.C.), successor of Saul. The Book of First Samuel introduces him as the youngest of eight sons who is anointed king by Samuel to replace Saul, who had been deemed a failure. R. MAYHEW "Interest Group Subsidies to Legislative Agents" RICHARD L. HALL "Motives and Money: The Impact of Campaign Contributors on Congressional Behavior" PAUL S. HERRNSON LYNDA W. POWELL ROBERT BIERSACK JOHN C. GREEN "The Stunning Transformation of the Medicaid Program" ERIC M. PATASHNIK COLLEEN M. GROGAN |
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