online archive
9:00AM
MAR 20 2008
Blogs are like gym memberships
The latest issue of Perspectives on Politics is free online, including Keally McBride (San Francisco): State of Insecurity: The Trial of Job and Secular Political Order; Ingrid van Biezen (Birmingham) and Michael Saward (Open): Democratic Theorists and Party Scholars: Why They Don't Talk to Each Other, and Why They Should; Daniel Drezner (Tufts): The Realist Tradition in American Public Opinion; Jocelyn Elise Crowley and Margaret Watson (Rutgers) and Maureen R. Waller (Cornell): Understanding “Power Talk”: Language, Public Policy, and Democracy; Elizabeth J. Perry (Harvard): Chinese Conceptions of “Rights”: From Mencius to Mao—and Now; and a review essay on The New Europe. A review of Jay Wright’s The Guide Signs: Book One and Book Two. From The Science Creative Quarterly, an article on the Tragedy of the Commons Explained with Smurfs. Multiculturalism's nemesis: Meet Trevor Phillips, the man charged with shaking Britain's view of diversity. Bear Run: Why the Fed had to bail out Bear Stearns. The Bear Stearns bailout proves that conservatives hate government intervention—except when they don't. Order in the jungle: The rule of law has become a big idea in economics, but it has had its difficulties. Millions of Muslims think Shariah means the rule of law — could they be right? Blogs are like gym memberships: It's keeping them up that counts.
