Regulation by litigation: Not so bad?

This is a review essay concerning the book Regulation by Litigation. Utilizing public choice theory as the basis of its analysis, the book presents three case studies designed to demonstrate that regulation by litigation does not serve the public interest. This review essay attempts to show that public choice theory does not explain the decision to use litigation in these cases, that the alleged failure of litigation in these cases might not be failures at all, and that regulation by litigation is not the unmitigated evil the authors of the book suggest.     

Calling Out the Persistence of Racism

In this issue New Political Science begins a new tradition, printing an extended review essay of the book that received the Michael Harrington Book Award at the most recent American Political Science Association Meeting. The Michael Harrington Award is given for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarships can be used in the struggle for a better world. In 2011, the award went to Michelle Alexander for her book The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Color-Blindness. Sanford Schram, a member of the award committee, has contributed the below review.     

The myth of a “Stolen Legacy”

She is writing a book titled Mythistory: The Deconstruction of Ancient Greece.     

Sponsoring research and development

His most recent book is Small Wars, Big Defense.He is co-editor of Public Policy Toward Corporate Takeovers,published by Transaction Books.     

Managers,workers, and organizations

He is author of numerous books and articles. His most recent book is Integrating the Individual and the Organization,published by Transaction.     

Whither American Jewry?

a former Book Review Editor of Society Magazine.His most recent book is American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement.     

Inside the Presidential Communications Machine: An Interview with Martha Joynt Kumar

Martha Joynt Kumar is a professor of political science at Towson University. Her book, Managing the President’s Message: The White House Communications Operation (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), examines the media and communications operations of the administrations of Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. In March 2008, Professor Kumar was interviewed in the White House Press Briefing Room by Kevin R. Kosar on behalf of Public Administration Review. As this interview went to press, the American Political Science Association’s Presidency Research Group announced that it had awarded Managing the President’s Message the Richard E. Neustadt Award for best book on the U.S. presidency published in 2007.     

Review essay

where he teaches business and public ethics. His most recent book, with William G. Scott, is Organizational Values in America,published by Transaction.     

Theft of life

She is completing a book on infant death and maternal love in northeastern Brazil, Death Without Weeping.     

Social science as a multicultural canon

He is the editor of The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities,a new quarterly. His most recent book is The Moral Dimension.     

The perpetual assault on progress

His most recent book (with Richard B. McKenzie) is Quicksilver Capital.     

Assimilation and enlightenment

He is a frequent contributor to The Times Literary Supplement, The Jewish Quarterly,and other journals. His most recent book is Modernity and the Holocaust.     

All the president’s reporters

His most recent book is Live from Capitol Hill! Studies of Congress and the Media.He is presently researching how the American media cover international news.     

When scientists dissent

He recently completed a book with social historian Robert Slayton, New Homeless and Old: Community and the Skid Row Hotel.     

Media habits of media tycoons

Leo Bogart is author of Preserving the Press, The Age of Televisionand other books on the media. This essay is adapted from a book he is completing on the subject of commercial culture.     

After the cold war

He is co-editor (with Kenneth W. Thompson) of Truth and Tragedy: A Festschrift for Hans J. Morgenthau,and editor of The Political Morality of the IMF.He is currently writing a book on Understanding Ethics.     

Generational equity or privatization of social security?

He is primary author of Ties That Bind: The Interdependence of Generations,a study that examines the framing of the generational equity debate. He is currently doing research for a book concerning the planning of retirement of the baby boom generation.     

Reply to my critics

ABSTRACT

This paper offers an overview of the central argument of my book, Territorial Sovereignty, and replies to four critics.     

Male masturbation and female orgasm

His latest book is Reproduction and Succession: Studies in Anthropology, Law, and Society,published by Transaction. A collection of essays, The Challenge of Anthropology: Old Encounters and New Excursions,is forthcoming from the same publisher.     

Hans J. Morgenthau and the national interest

He is the author of Hans J. Morgenthau and the Ethics of American Statecraft,in addition to numerous articles on realism and American foreign policy. His most recent book is John Quincy Adams and the Public Virtues of the Diplomatist.