University Press of Kansas

About: University Press of Kansas is a other organization based out in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Presidential system & Constitution. The organization has 14 authors who have published 14 publications receiving 161 citations.

Once More Unto the Breach: PostBehavioralist Approaches to Judicial Politics

Abstract: The field of "public law" in political science is somewhat ill defined. Its practitioners range from political theorists interested in the normative underpinnings of the law to statisticians interested in the correlates of judicial voting. The output of the Supreme Court, however, looms large on the landscape for many approaches to the field. In the first decades of the century, political scientists were unlikely to focus specifically on the explanations for the Court's decisions but were more likely to be interested in a broad range of issues related to the courts and the law. Since the "behavioral revolution" that swept the social sciences in the 1950s, however, judicial decision making has been at the core of the field. Over the past several decades, substantial progress has been made in identifying patterns of judicial voting behavior and the determinants of Court decisions. That progress, though real, has also been narrow. The scholarly focus has been on individual justices and how they cast their votes, leaving a great deal of the judicial process relatively unexplored.

Minority Mayors and the Hollow-Prize Problem

Abstract: The number of African American and Hispanic mayors of American cities has grown steadily since 1967, the year that Cleveland elected Carl Stokes the first minority mayor of a major American city.' Over the past three decades, cities in all parts of the country have elected black and Hispanic mayors, including the five largest: New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, and Philadelphia. As the new century begins, almost one-third (25/76) of major American cities have minority mayors. The election of minority mayors is a clear sign of political progress by minorities since passage of the civil rights acts of the 1960s. At the same time, many questions remain regarding the degree to which minority urban populations benefit from the election of minority mayors. On one hand, as many scholars have shown, when minorities gain increased political representation in city governments, they usually acquire tangible, albeit often modest, benefits (Browning, Marshall, and Tabb 1984; Browning, Marshall, and Tabb 1997; Eisinger 1984; Karnig and Welch 1980; Woody 1982). But another group of commentators has emphasized the structural and institutional limita-

The World‐System Perspective: A Small Sample from a Large Universe

Abstract: L'A. porte son attention sur la perspective qui fait intervenir la notion de systeme-monde. Il examine la theorie du systeme-monde et presente les domaines de recherche qui ont ete etudies suivant cette approche. Il envisage la place des processus d'industrialisation, de construction de frontieres dans l'histoire locale

The Law: The Clinton Theory of the War Power

Abstract: President Bill Clinton frequently has engaged in unilateral acts of executive warmakingin de fiance of the war clause of the Constitution, which vests in Congress the exclusive authority to initiate hostilities on behalf of the American people. 'Recently\ Clinton ordered in concert with NATO allies a massive air and missile assault against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, an attack that ranks as the most intensive and sustained military campaign conducted by the United States since the Vietnam War. This article analyses the administrations legal and constitutional justifications, and concludes that Clinton s action violates the fundamental requirement of the war clause?authorisation of hos tilities by both houses of Congress. Clintons presidential war" against Yugoslavia marks the first time in our history that a president has waged war in the face of a direct congressional refusal to autho rise the war. The war clause, it appears, has become a dead letter. President Bill Clinton frequendy has engaged in unilateral acts of executive war making in defiance of the war clause of the Constitution, which vests in Congress the sole and exclusive authority to initiate hostilities on behalf of the American people. His use of U.S. military power has ranged from the infliction of air and missile strikes against taregets in Afghanistan and Sudan, to global hot spots in Iraq and Bosnia. Most recendy, in what amounts to one of the most flagrant acts of usurpation of the war power in the history of the republic, Clinton ordered in concert with NATO allies a massive air and missile assault against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in an effort to halt Slobodan Milosevic's slaughter of ethic Albanians. The attack, which ranks as the most intensive and sustained military campaign conducted by the United States since the Vietnam War,