Contents PART 1 —JANUARY 2005 Articles page CHAPPELL LAWSON AND JAMES A. MCCANN, Television News, Mexico’s 2000 Elections and Media Effects in Emerging Democracies HAROLD D. CLARKE, MARIANNE C. STEWART, MIKE AULT AND EUEL ELLIOTT, Men, Women and the Dynamics of Presidential Approval JOHN MEDEARIS, Social Movements and Deliberative Democratic Theory GEORGE A. KRAUSE, Electoral Incentives, Political Business Cycles and Macro- economic Performance: Empirical Evidence from Post-War US Personal Income Growth SIMON BULMER AND STEPHEN PADGETT, Policy Transfer in the European Union: An Institutionalist Perspective CATHIE JO MARTIN, Corporatism from the Firm Perspective: Employers and Social Policy in Denmark and Britain Review article DIETLIND STOLLE AND MARC HOOGHE, Inaccurate, Exceptional, One-Sided or Irrelevant? The Debate about the Alleged Decline of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Western Societies Notes and comments PEVERILL SQUIRE, KEITH E. HAMM, RONALD D. HEDLUND AND GARY F. MONCRIEF, Electoral Reforms, Membership Stability and the Existence of Committee Property Rights in American State Legislatures ANDRE BLAIS, AGNIESZKA DOBRZYNSKA AND INDRIDI H. INDRIDASON, To Adopt or Not to Adopt Proportional Representation: The Politics of Institutional Choice PART 2 APRIL 2005 Articles STEPHEN WHITE, SARAH OATES AND IAN MCALLISTER, Media Effects and Russian Elections, 1999—2000 SIMON Hix, ABDUL NOURY AND GERARD ROLAND, Power to the Parties: Cohesion and Competition in the European Parliament, 1979-2001 Contents PART 1 —JANUARY 2005 Articles page CHAPPELL LAWSON AND JAMES A. MCCANN, Television News, Mexico’s 2000 Elections and Media Effects in Emerging Democracies HAROLD D. CLARKE, MARIANNE C. STEWART, MIKE AULT AND EUEL ELLIOTT, Men, Women and the Dynamics of Presidential Approval JOHN MEDEARIS, Social Movements and Deliberative Democratic Theory GEORGE A. KRAUSE, Electoral Incentives, Political Business Cycles and Macro- economic Performance: Empirical Evidence from Post-War US Personal Income Growth SIMON BULMER AND STEPHEN PADGETT, Policy Transfer in the European Union: An Institutionalist Perspective CATHIE JO MARTIN, Corporatism from the Firm Perspective: Employers and Social Policy in Denmark and Britain Review article DIETLIND STOLLE AND MARC HOOGHE, Inaccurate, Exceptional, One-Sided or Irrelevant? The Debate about the Alleged Decline of Social Capital and Civic Engagement in Western Societies Notes and comments PEVERILL SQUIRE, KEITH E. HAMM, RONALD D. HEDLUND AND GARY F. MONCRIEF, Electoral Reforms, Membership Stability and the Existence of Committee Property Rights in American State Legislatures ANDRE BLAIS, AGNIESZKA DOBRZYNSKA AND INDRIDI H. INDRIDASON, To Adopt or Not to Adopt Proportional Representation: The Politics of Institutional Choice PART 2 APRIL 2005 Articles STEPHEN WHITE, SARAH OATES AND IAN MCALLISTER, Media Effects and Russian Elections, 1999—2000 SIMON Hix, ABDUL NOURY AND GERARD ROLAND, Power to the Parties: Cohesion and Competition in the European Parliament, 1979-2001 JANET L. HIEBERT, Interpreting a Bill of Rights: The Importance of Legislative Rights Review JONATHAN HISKEY AND DAMARYS CANACHE, The Demise of One-Party Politics in Mexican Municipal Elections ROBERT ANDERSEN, JAMES TILLEY AND ANTHONY F. HEATH, Political Knowledge and Enlightened Preferences: Party Choice Through the Electoral Cycle ANTHONY J. NOWNES AND DANIEL LIPINSKI, The Population Ecology of Interest Group Death: Gay and Lesbian Rights Interest Groups in the United States, 1945-98 HYEOK YONG Kwon, Targeting Public Spending in a New Democracy: Evidence from South Korea Notes and comments STEPHEN P. NICHOLSON, The Jeffords Switch and Public Support for Divided Government ELtis S. KRAUSS AND BENJAMIN NYBLADE, ‘Presidentialization’ in Japan? The Prime Minister, Media and Elections in Japan JEFF YATES, ANDREW B. WHITFORD AND WILLIAM GILLESPIE, Agenda Setting, Issue Priorities and Organizational Maintenance: The US Supreme Court, 1955 to 1994 PART 3 JULY 2ZOGs Articles PAUL V. WARWICK, When Far Apart Becomes Too Far Apart: Evidence for a Threshold Effect in Coalition Formation MACARTAN HUMPHREYS AND ROBERT BATES, Political Institutions and Economic Policies: Lessons from Africa ANDREW J. TAYLOR, Stanley Baldwin, Heresthetics and the Realignment of British Politics DIANA COOoLe, Agency, Truth and Meaning: Judging the Hutton Report RON JOHNSTON, CAROL PROPPER, SIMON BURGESS, REBECCA SARKER, ANNI BOLSTER AND KELVYN JONES, Spatial Scale and the Neighbourhood Effect: Multinomial Models of Voting at Two Recent British General Elections NATALIA LETKI AND GEOFFREY EVANS, Endogenizing Social Trust: Democratiza- tion in East-Central Europe ROBERT ELGIE AND IAINMCMENAMIN, Credible Commitment, Political Uncertainty or Policy Complexity? Explaining Variations in the Independence of Non- majoritarian Institutions in France page Review Article TopD LANDMAN, The Political Science of Human Rights 49 PART 4— OCTOBER 2005 Articles JANA KUNICOVA AND SUSAN ROSE-ACKERMAN, Electoral Rules and Constitutional Structures as Constraints on Corruption PAUL D. SENESE AND JOHN A. VASQUEZ, Assessing the Steps to War NORMAN SCHOFIELD AND ITAI SENED, Miultiparty Competition in Israel, 1988—96 STUART N. SOROKA AND CHRISTOPHER WLEZIEN, Opinion—Policy Dynamics: Public Preferences and Public Expenditure in the United Kingdom THOMAS GSCHWEND AND DiRK LEUFFEN, Divided We Stand — Unified We Govern? Cohabitation and Regime Voting in the 2002 French Elections Marc L. BUSCH AND ERIC REINHARDT, Industrial Location and Voter Participation in Europe Scotr W. DEsPposATo, Correcting for Small Group Inflation of Roll-Call Cohesion Scores STEPHEN J. MAJESKI, Do Exploitive Agents Benefit from Asymmetric Power in International Politics? x