Book Reviews

Just Published: Nonprofits and Advocacy: Engaging Communities and Government in an Era of Retrenchment

Nonprofits and Advocacy: Engaging Community and Government in an Era of Retrenchment edited by Robert J. Pekkanen, Steven Rathgeb Smith, and Yutaka Tsujinaka, defines advocacy and clarifies the differences among advocacy, lobbying, political activity, and education, as […]

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Compared to What? Judicial Review and Other Veto Points in Contemporary Democratic Theory

Compared to What? Judicial Review and Other Veto Points in Contemporary Democratic Theory David Watkins and Scott Lemieux Many democratic and jurisprudential theorists have too often uncritically accepted Alexander Bickel’s notion of “the countermajoritarian difficulty” […]

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Developmental Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Politics: Fragmented Citizenship in a Fragmented State

Developmental Perspectives on Lesbian and Gay Politics: Fragmented Citizenship in a Fragmented State Stephen M. Engel Responding to recent criticism that American political development (APD) has yet to fully engage with both contemporary and historical […]

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Perspectives Reflection Symposium: Technique Trumps Relevance

Technique Trumps Relevance: The Professionalization of Political Science and the Marginalization of Security Studies Michael Desch explains the disconnect between the discipline’s self-image as balancing rigor with relevance with the reality of how political scientists […]

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Remembering John H. Romani

John H. Romani, age 90, of Ann Arbor, Michigan passed away on July 8 of natural causes. After serving in World War II, he received Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Government from the University of […]

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How Political Science Can be More Diverse

    This symposium addresses a longstanding and urgent question: how to diversify leadership and end discrimination in academe. While the symposium targets the political science profession, the new strategies advanced here are likely to […]