Book Review: Democracy and the Party System in the United States

The article examines the possibility of transfer to bipartisan system in Russia. The authors assess the benefits of the two-party system that include first of all the ensuring of actual political competition and authority alternativeness with simultaneous separation of minute non-system forces that may contribute to the country destabilization. The authors analyze the accompanying risks and show that the concept of the two-party system as the catalyst of elite schism is mostly exaggerated. The authors pay separate attention to the experience of bipartisan system implementation in other countries, including the United States. They offer detailed analysis of the generated concept of the bipartisanship crisis and show that this point of view doesn’t quite agree with the current political practice. The authors also examine the foreign experience of the single-party system. They show that the success of the said system is mostly insubstantial, besides many of such systems have altered into more complex structures, while commentators very often use not the actual information but the established myths about this or that country. The authors also offer practical advice regarding the potential technologies of transition to the bipartisan system in Russia.

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BOOK REVIEW: Edited by Nancy F. Cott. YOUNG OXFORD HISTORY OF WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES and John Demos. THE TRIED AND THE TRUE: NATIVE AMERICAN WOMEN CONFRONTING COLONIZATION and Jane Kamensky. THE COLONIAL MOSAIC: AMERICAN WOMEN 1600-1760 and Marylynn Salmon THE LIMITS OF INDEPENDENCE: AMERICAN WOMEN 1760-1800 and Michael Goldberg. BREAKING NEW GROUND: AMERICAN WOMEN 1800-1848 and Harriet Sigerman. AN UNFINISHED BATTLE: AMERICAN WOMEN 1848-1865 and Harriet Sigerman. LABORERS FOR LIBERTY: AMERICAN WOMEN 1865-1890 and Karen Manners Smith. NEW PATHS TO POWER: AMERICAN WOMEN 1890-1920 and Sarah Jane Deutsch. FROM BALLOTS TO BREADLINES: AMERICAN WOMEN 1920-1940 and Elaine Tyler May. PUSHING THE LIMITS: AMERICAN WOMEN 1940-1961 and William H. Chafe. THE ROAD TO EQUALITY: AMERICAN WOMEN SINCE 1962 and Harriet Sigerman. BIOGRAPHICAL SUPPLEMENT AND INDEX

NWSA Journal ◽

10.2979/nws.1999.11.2.207 ◽

1999 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 207-210

Author(s):

April Spencer

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Native American ◽

The United States ◽

Native American Women ◽

American Women ◽

The Road ◽

History Of

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Book Review: The Shaping of American Higher Education

NASPA Journal ◽

10.2202/0027-6014.1126 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 38 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Gary H. Knock

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Early History ◽

Quarter Century ◽

American Higher Education ◽

History Of ◽

Broad Understanding

In the introduction of this book, Arthur Cohen states that The Shaping of American Higher Education is less a history than a synthesis. While accurate, this depiction in no way detracts from the value of the book. This work synthesizes the first three centuries of development of high-er education in the United States. A number of books detail the early history of the American collegiate system; however, this book also pro-vides an up-to-date account of developments and context for under-standing the transformation of American higher education in the last quarter century. A broad understanding of the books subtitle, Emergence and Growth of the Contemporary System, is truly realized by the reader.

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