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" WILLIAM E. CONNOLLY "The Endgame?: 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 "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 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 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, 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 "Neighborhood Context and the Impact of Racially Stereotypic stereotypic /ster·eo·typ·ic/ (ster?e-o-tip´ik) having a fixed, unvarying form. Crime Coverage" FRANK D. GILLIAM, JR. NICHOLAS A. VALENTINO MATTHEW N. BECKMAN, "Electoral Competition with Endogenous Voter and Party Positions" JOHN E. JACKSON "Ethnocentrism eth  no·cen tric (-tr k) adj.eth Revisited: American Public Opinion and Social
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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 Mann is Director of the Department of Governmental Studies at the Brookings Institution. "The Undemocratic Democracy, or Why the People of California Voted to Disenfranchise 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 Francia (frän`chä), c.1450–1517, Italian painter, goldsmith, and medalist of the early Bolognese school, whose real name was Francesco Raibolini. Until the age of 40 he was famous chiefly as a goldsmith and engraver of nielli and of dies for medals. His paintings reflect the influence of Perugino and Raphael. "Choosing the Rules for Political Control of Bureacrats" CHARLES SHIPAN JOHN D. HUBER RICK K. WILSON "Tuning In, Tuning Out Revisited: A Closer Look at the Causal Links Between Television and Social Capital Social Capital An economic idea that refers to the connections between individuals and entities that can be economically valuable. Social networks that include people who trust and assist each other can be a powerful asset. These relationships between individuals and firms can lead to a state in which each will think of the other when something needs to be done. Along with economic capital, social capital is a valuable mechanism in economic growth."
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 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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