This study illustrates the connection between foreign policy making and domestic politics. The text covers Congress, public opinion and interest groups, and emphazises the tensions inherent in democratic governance. It also considers the implications of the demise of the Soviet Union for democratic foreign policy formation and examines the impact of the 1992 Presidential and Congressional elections on foreign policy decision making.

American Foreign Policy Making and the Democratic Dilemmas (6th Edition)

Politics & Social Sciences

Spanier, John W.

Uslaner, Eric M.

Politics & Government

Longman

National Identity and Partisan Polarization

Legal Theory & Systems

Oxford University Press

Why do members of Congress resort to name-calling? In this provocative book, Eric M. Uslaner proposes that Congress is mirroring the increased incivility of American society. He points to five core values—American exceptionalism, enlightened individualism, egalitarianism, science as social engineering, and religion—that have been eroded since the 1960s. The author argues that a lack of trust permeates members of Congress to the point that they would rather seek control than compromise. This, Uslaner contends, is the real cause of gridlock in Washington. The Decline in Comity in Congress demonstrates why institutional reform will not correct this problem and why Americans need to change before their government can.

The Decline of Comity in Congress

University of Michigan Press

Probes incivility among U.S. lawmakers, demonstrating why institutional reform will not solve gridlock in Washington

Univ of Michigan Pr

Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life

Corruption flouts rules of fairness and gives some people advantages that others don't have. Corruption is persistent; there is little evidence that countries can escape the curse of corruption easily-or at all. Instead of focusing on institutional reform, Uslaner suggests that the roots of corruption lie in economic and legal inequality and low levels of generalized trust (which are not readily changed) and poor policy choices (which may be more likely to change). Economic inequality provides a fertile breeding ground for corruption-and, in turn, it leads to further inequalities. Just as corruption is persistent, inequality and trust do not change much over time in my cross-national aggregate analyses. Uslaner argues that high inequality leads to low trust and high corruption, and then to more inequality-an inequality trap and identifies direct linkages between inequality and trust in surveys of the mass public and elites in transition countries. Eric M. Uslaner is Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland-College Park, where he has taught since 1975. He has written seven books including The Moral Foundations of Trust (Cambridge University Press, 2002), and The Decline of Comity in Congress (University of Michigan Press, 1993). In 1981-82 he was Fulbright Professor of American Studies and Political Science at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel and in 2005, he was a Fulbright Senior Specialist Lecturer at Novosibirsk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia. In 2006 he was appointed the first Senior Research Fellow at the Center for American Law and Political Science at the Southwest University of Political Science and Law, Chongqing, China.

Business & Money

Economics

Cambridge University Press

Generalized trust - faith in people you don't know who are likely to be different from you - is a value that leads to many positive outcomes for a society. Yet some scholars now argue that trust is lower when we are surrounded by people who are different from us. Eric M. Uslaner challenges this view and argues that residential segregation, rather than diversity, leads to lower levels of trust. Integrated and diverse neighborhoods will lead to higher levels of trust, but only if people also have diverse social networks. Professor Uslaner examines the theoretical and measurement differences between segregation and diversity and summarizes results on how integrated neighborhoods with diverse social networks increase trust in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia and how they increase altruism toward people of different backgrounds in the United States and the United Kingdom. He also shows how different immigration and integration policies toward minorities shape both social ties and trust.

Segregation and Mistrust: Diversity, Isolation, and Social Cohesion

Anthropology

Generalized trust - faith in people you don't know who are likely to be different from you - is a value that leads to many positive outcomes for a society. Yet some scholars now argue that trust is lower when we are surrounded by people who are different from us. Eric M. Uslaner challenges this view and argues that residential segregation, rather than diversity, leads to lower levels of trust. Integrated and diverse neighborhoods will lead to higher levels of trust, but only if people also have diverse social networks. Professor Uslaner examines the theoretical and measurement differences between segregation and diversity and summarizes results on how integrated neighborhoods with diverse social networks increase trust in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Sweden, and Australia and how they increase altruism toward people of different backgrounds in the United States and the United Kingdom. He also shows how different immigration and integration policies toward minorities shape both social ties and trust.

The Moral Foundations of Trust

This study seeks to explain why people place their faith in strangers, and why doing so matters. Trust is a moral value that does not depend on personal experience; we learn to trust from our parents. Trusting societies are more likely to redistribute resources from the rich to the poor, and to have more effective governments. Trust has been in decline in the United States for over 30 years. Uslaner uses aggregate time series and cross-sectional data to show that the roots of this decline can be found in declining optimism and economic inequality.

Social Sciences

Book by Spanier, John W., Uslaner, Eric M.

American Foreign Policy Making and the Democratic Dilemmas

Dorsey Pr

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American Foreign Policy Making and the Democratic Dilemmas (6th Edition)

National Identity and Partisan Polarization

The Decline of Comity in Congress

The Decline of Comity in Congress

Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life

Segregation and Mistrust: Diversity, Isolation, and Social Cohesion

Segregation and Mistrust: Diversity, Isolation, and Social Cohesion

The Moral Foundations of Trust

Corruption, Inequality, and the Rule of Law: The Bulging Pocket Makes the Easy Life

American Foreign Policy Making and the Democratic Dilemmas