Editors
| Editor: | BYRON E. SHAFER, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
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| Co-Editor: | RAYMOND J. LA RAJA, University of Massachusetts, Amherst |
| Book Review Editor: | NICOL RAE, Florida International University | Editorial Assistant: | AMBER WICHOWSKY, University of Wisconsin, Madison |
Current Issue: Volume 6, Issue 2 (2008)
Introduction
The July issue of The Forum is an especially eclectic look at applied research in contemporary politics. There is a piece on the popular fortunes of the Bush Presidency, and one on the administrative fortunes of its governance model. There is an article on the effort of the Democratic Party to reinvent itself, and one on the fate of a key party faction. There is an extended analysis on ideology in the American public, and a brief one on the electoral impact of talk radio. There is a comparative piece—from Britain—on using by-elections to predict the next general election, along with a piece, and then an author/critic exchange, on the politics not of the general public but of university professors. And there is a review exchange on a new book about crime and the evolving crisis of liberalism, along with a joint review of two contemporary books purporting to describe the state of modern American politics.
Articles
Changing Course: Reversing the Organizational Trajectory of the Democratic Party from Bill Clinton to Barack Obama
Daniel J. Galvin
The Death and Life of the New Democrats
Daniel DiSalvo
Searching for Voters along the Liberal-Conservative Continuum: The Infrequent Ideologue and the Missing Middle
David E. RePass
The Limbaugh Effect: A Rush to Judging Cross-Party Raiding in the 2008 Democratic Nomination Contests
Todd Donovan
The Demise of New Labour? The British 'Mid-Term' Elections of 2008
Colin Rallings and Michael Thrasher
Ascriptive Justice: The Prevalence, Distribution, and Consequences of Political Correctness in the Academy
Solon Simmons
Reviews
Review of Law and Order: Street Crime, Civil Unrest, and the Crisis of Liberalism in the 1960s
Vesla Weaver
Responses or Comments
Rejoinder to Professor Maranto
Solon Simmons
Response to Weaver
Michael Flamm
