Faculty Publications

Book Chapters

Chapter 9. The Politics of City-County Consolidation: Findings from a National Survey,
Jered B. Carr and Bethany G. Sneed

Chapter 10. Local Government Amalgamation from the Top Down,
Raymond A. Rosenfeld and Laura A. Reese

Jered B. Carr and Richard C. Feiock, editors
City-County Consolidation and Its Alternatives: Reshaping the Local Government Landscape
2004
Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharp, Inc.
ISBN 0-7656-0941-X

This extraordinary collection of research on city-county consolidationand its variances is invaluable to scholars and practitioners alike.This is the most comprehensive work in terms of breadth and depth onlocal government boundary changes ever published. Well written,comprehensive, and thoroughly researched, this volume provides answersto the most important questions communities ask when consideringboundary changes. This volume provides the greatest understanding oflocal government boundary changes from many perspectives. -- Tanis J.Salant, The University of Arizona
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Chapter 20.Ironic Representation.
Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott

Kristen Renwick Monroe, editor
Perestrokia!
2005
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press.
ISBN 0300099819

An examination of the movement that has turned thediscipline of political science upside down

This superb volume describes the events andramifications of a revolt within the political science discipline thatbegan in 2000 with a disgruntled e-mail message signed by one“Mr. Perestroika.” The message went to seventeenrecipients who quickly forwarded it to others, and soon the Perestroikarevolt became a major movement calling for change in the Americanpolitical science community.

What is the Perestroika movement? Why did it occur? What has itaccomplished? What remains to be done? Most important, what does ittell us about the nature of political science, about methodologicalpluralism and diversity, about the process of publishing scholarlywork, and about graduate education in the field? The contributors tothe book—thoughtful political scientists who offer a varietyof perspectives—set the Perestroika movement in historicaland comparative contexts. They address many topics related to heart ofthe debate—a desire for tolerance of methodologicaldiversity—and assess the changes that have come in the wakeof Perestroika. For political scientists and their graduate students,and for those interested in the history or sociology of socialsciences, this volume is essential reading.

Review

"A fascinating and often provocative assemblage ofessays on the origins, scope, meaning, limitations and consequences ofthe Perestroika movement [put in the context of the transformations inpolitical science, in the last 50 years, from behavioralism,post-behavioralism and rational modeling].  The bookincidentally reveals the discipline as a dynamic, restless andcontested search for varied ways of understanding and giving meaning topolitical life across time and space.  And not so incidentallyit stands as a major contribution to the growing literature on thehistory of the discipline."—David Easton, University ofCalifornia, Irvine.
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Chapter10: Feminist Judges: Challenging the Status Quo.
Elaine Martin

Susan J. Carroll, Editor
The Impact of Women in Public Office
November 2001
Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press
ISBN 0253214882

In recent years the numbers of womenserving in public offices at various levels of government haveincreased markedly. Is the increasing presence of women in publicoffice making a difference? Are women public officials having adistinctive impact on public policy and the political process? Thesequestions are central to the studies in The Impact of Women in PublicOffice. The research presented here offers compelling evidence thatwomen public officials do have a gender-related impact on public policyand the political process.

Author Biography: Susan J. Carroll is Professor ofPolitical Science at Rutgers University and Senior Research Associateat the Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) of the EagletonInstitute of Politics. She is the author of numerous works on women'spolitical participation, including Women as Candidates in AmericanPolitics (Indiana University Press, 2nd ed., 1994). Her currentresearch focuses on the impact of women in Congress, media coverage ofwomen voters and candidates, and the effect of term limits on therepresentation of women in state legislatures.
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Chapter 6:Views from the State Bench: Gender Roles and Judicial Roles
Elaine Martin

Lois Lovelac Duke, Editor.
Women in Politics: Outsides or Insiders?
1993
Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
ISBN: 0-13-969221-5

This collection of readings offers insight into thecurrent role of women in the American political process with specialemphasis on the executive, legislative, and judicial branches. AuthorLois Lovelace Duke discusses women and their role as policy makers andexamines the political influences women are exercising in thenon-government arena. She considers current and contemporary issueswomen have addressed in the political process and analyzes theinfluence of governmental institutions and processes on contemporaryAmerican women.
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Chapter 6:Women within Judicial System: Changing Roles
Elaine Martin

Lois Lovelac Duke, Editor.
Women in Politics: Outsides or Insiders?2nd Edition
1996
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
ISBN: 0-13-185240-X

This timely compilation provides relevant research onwomen and politics across a spectrum of topics and perspectives. Womenin Politics, Second Edition, begins with a feminist theoreticalframework, examines various gender differences in political attitudesand voting, and explores how women have fared in competing for publicoffice.

Coverage continues with a look at the various branchesof government and how women are participating, specifically examiningpublic perceptions of Hillary Rodham Clinton and other gender-culturalreflections in and about the mass media. The book concludes withdiscussions of female activists who are utilizing some of the moretheoretical components to change public policy and create feministpublic discourse.
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Chapter 7:Women Judges: The New Generation
Elaine Martin

Lois Lovelac Duke, Editor.
Women in Politics: Outsides or Insiders?3rd Edition
1999
Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, Inc.
ISBN: 0-13-096610-X

The reader provides relevant research on women andpolitics across a spectrum of topics and perspectives. We begin with afeminist theoretical framework, examine some gender differences inpolitical attitudes and voting, look at gender cultural reflections inthe mass media and group politics, and examine how women have fared incompeting for public office. Next we look at the various branches ofgovernment and see how women are (and in some cases are not)participating in the functions of government. Then we explore women andnational public policy, ending with women and empowerment and culturalexpression.
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Chapter6: Linking Presidential and Congressional Approval During Unified andDivided Government.
Jeffrey Bernstein

John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse(eds.)
Whatis it About Government that Americans Dislike?
2001
New York: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521796318

In the chapters of this edited volume, twenty-fourleading scholars report research designed to help readers understandwhy so many Americans do not like, trust, approve of, or support theirgovernment. Readers with interests in current affairs, Americanpolitics, American government, and American opinion should beinterested in this book. Since government is not always unpopular andsince some parts of government are liked more than others, the authorsare able to obtain insight into the particular features of politicsthat tend to be turnoffs with the public.
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Contribution:Judicial Gender and Judicial Choices
Elaine Martin

Debra Dodon (ed.)
Gender andPolicymaking: Studies of Women in Office
1991
New Brunswick, NJ: Center for the American Woman and Politics

A collection of 11 essays written by scholars whoreceived grants from CAWP to investigate the impact of elected andappointed women officeholders at the local, state, and nationallevels. 

The Center for the American Woman and Politics (CAWP) isa university-based research, education, and public service center. Itsmission is to promote greater understanding and knowledge about women'srelationship to politics and government and to enhance women'sinfluence and leadership in public life. CAWP acts as a catalyst andresource, provider of data and analyses, interpreter, and guide. Thecenter raises and responds to emerging issues, working daily with womenleaders as well as journalists, scholars, students, women's groups,governmental agencies, civic organizations, and political parties. CAWPis a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers
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Larry Diamond and Marc Plattner
Democracy AfterCommunism
2002
The Johns Hopkins University Press
0801870763

The last quarter of the twentieth century was marked bytwo dramaticpolitical trends that altered many of the world's regimes: the globalresurgence of democracy and the collapse of communism. Was the processthat brought down communism in Eastern Europe and the former SovietUnion fundamentally different from the process that gave birth to newdemocracies in other regions of the world? Were the transitions awayfrom communism mostly like or mostly unlike the transitions away fromauthoritarianism that took place elsewhere? Is the challenge ofbuilding and consolidating democracy under postcommunist conditionsunique, or can one apply lessons learned from other new democracies?The essays collected in this volume explore these questions, whiletracing how the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Unionhave fared in the decade following the fall of communism.
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Chapter: StAugustine:Political Thought-Contemporary Influences
Joanna Vecchiarelli Scott

AllanFitzgerald, John Cavadini, & Marianna Djuth (eds)
Augustine Throughthe Ages: An Encyclopedia
1999
Eerdmans,William B. Publishing Company
080283843X

This indispensable,one-volume reference work provides the firstencyclopedic treatment of the life, thought, and influence of Augustineof Hippo (A.D. 354-430), one of the greatest figures in the history ofthe Christian church. The product of more than 140 leading scholarsthroughout the world, this comprehensive encyclopedia contains over 400articles that cover every aspect of Augustine’s life andwritings andtrace his profound influence on the church and the development ofWestern thought through the past two millennia.
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Chapter 2: Platonic Themes in Oakeshott's Modern European State
Eric Kos

Timothy Fuller and Corey Abel (eds)
The Intellectual Legacy ofMichael Oakeshott
2005
Imprint Academic
1-84540-009-7

This volume brings together a diverse range ofperspectives reflecting the international appeal and multi-disciplinaryinterest that Oakeshott now attracts. The essays offer a variety ofapproaches to Oakeshott’s thought — testament tothe abiding depth, originality, suggestiveness and complexity of hiswritings. The essays include contributions from well-known Oakeshottscholars along with ample representation from a new generation. As acollection these essays challenge Oakeshott’s reputation asmerely a ‘critic of social planning’.
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