Congressional Checks on Military Initiatives
Louis Fisher analyzes the drift of the war power from Congress to the president and recommends changes needed to restore legislative and public control over military initiatives.

NATO's Functions after the Cold War
John S. Duffield examines the reasons for NATO's persistence notwithstanding the demise of the Soviet threat. He describes the most important security functions that NATO still performs for its members in the wake of the cold war.

Television Advertising in Election Campaigns
Darrell M. West looks at the impact of television advertising in political campaigns. He shows that ads are influential when candidates are not well known and when the news media amplify ad messages through their coverage.

Ethnic Diasporas and U.S. Foreign Policy
Yossi Shain explores the role of immigrant groups --or diasporas as he calls them --in providing support for democratization and self-determination in their ancestral countries. He argues that in the aftermath of the cold war, diasporas in the United States are likely to become more effective in pushing policy makers to adhere to America's professed values of promoting democracy abroad.

Separate Branches--Separate Politics: Judicial Enforcement of Congressional Intent
Cornell W. Clayton shows how critics of judicial review have mischaracterized recent trends in administrative law. He argues that far from usurping executive branch authority, judges have not been diligent enough in insisting that agencies comply with statutory intent.

The Legislative Veto and the Limits of Public Choice Analysis
Jessica Korn examines the constitutionality of the legislative veto, a congressional oversight mechanism, one form of which was struck down by the Supreme Court in INS v. Chadha.

Icons of Democracy: American Leaders as Heroes, Aristocrats, Dissenters, and Democrats, Bruce Miroff ; The President and the Parties: The Transformation of the American Party System since the New Deal, Sidney M. Milkis ; The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to George Bush, Stephen Skowronek
Reviewed by Donald R. Brand

Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger
Reviewed by H. W. Brands

Out of Control: Global Turmoil on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century, Zbigniew Brzezinski
Reviewed by Edward A. Kolodziej

Thatcher, Reagan, Mulroney: In Search of a New Bureaucracy, Donald J. Savoie
Reviewed by Graham K. Wilson

Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change, Judith Goldstein and Robert Keohane
Reviewed by Robert Jervis

Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People through Delegation, David Schoenbrod
Reviewed by Joseph Cooper

The Presidential Pulse of Congressional Elections, James E. Campbell
Reviewed by David T. Canon

The Homeless, Christopher Jencks
Reviewed by Ralph da Costa Nunez

The Confirmation Mess: Cleaning Up the Federal Appointments Process, Stephen L. Carter
Reviewed by William Haltom

The Presidency in a Separated System, Charles O. Jones
Reviewed by Stephen J. Wayne

Rhetorical Republic: Governing Representations in American Politics, Thomas L. Dumm and Frederick M. Dolan
Reviewed by Doris A. Graber

Crusaders in the Courts: How a Dedicated Band of Lawyers Fought for the Civil Rights Revolution, Jack Greenberg
Reviewed by John A. Davis

A Rage to Punish: The Unintended Consequences of Mandatory Sentencing, Lois G. Forer
Reviewed by John J. DiIulio, Jr.

Certain Trumpets: The Call of Leaders, Gary Wills
Reviewed by Barbara Kellerman

The New York Idea: An Experiment in Democracy, Mario Cuomo
Reviewed by Leonard P. Stavisky

The Politics of Redistributing Urban Aid, Robert S. Montjoy, Douglas J. Watson and John G. Heilman
Reviewed by Michael J. Rich

Molotov Remembers: Inside Kremlin Politics, Conversations with Felix Chuev, Albert Resis
Reviewed by Mark von Hagen

Behind the Mule: Race and Class in African-American Politics, Michael Dawson
Reviewed by Wilbur C. Rich

Deadlock or Decision: The U.S. Senate and the Rise of National Politics, Fred R. Harris
Reviewed by Bruce I. Oppenheimer

The Walls Came Tumbling Down: The Collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, Gale Stokes
Reviewed by Raymond L. Garthoff

Common Sense About Police Review, Douglas W. Perez
Reviewed by Pamela D. Delaney

Living on the Edge: The Realities of Welfare in America, Mark Robert Rank
Reviewed by Fred Block

Uneasy Partners: Big Business in American Politics, 1945-1990, Kim McQuaid
Reviewed by James Q. Wilson

Fidel Castro, Robert E. Quirk
Reviewed by William M. LeoGrande

Revolution Until Victory? The Politics and History of the PLO, Barry Rubin
Reviewed by Robert E. Harkavy

Giving for Social Change: Foundations, Public Policy and the American Political Agenda, Stanley Rothman, Althea K. Nagai and Robert Lerner
Reviewed by Richard Magat

Cooperative Pluralism: The National Coal Policy Experiment, Andrew S. McFarland
Reviewed by John T. Tierney

Time, Politics and Policies: A Legislative Year, Burdett A. Loomis
Reviewed by Gerald Benjamin