Being Positive About Positivism

Book reviewed in this article:
Matthew H. Kramer, In Defense of Legal Positivism: Law Without Trimmings     

The nature of economic perceptions in mass publics

Voters who believe that the nation's economy has been worsening are more inclined to vote against the incumbent president than are those who believe it has not been getting worse. This relationship could be present because voters condition their support for the incumbents upon their perceptions of the economy, or, alternatively, because they condition their perceptions of the economy upon their underlying, partisan-based support of the incumbents.     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Dean Governmentality: Power and Rule in Modern Society
Lahav Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century
Lubman Bird in a Cage: Legal Reform in China After Mao