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  • Books Received

Advanced Democracies

The American Ballot Box in the Mid-Nineteenth Century. By Richard Franklin Bensel. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 302 pp.
American Law in the 20th Century. By Lawrence M. Friedman. Yale University Press, 2002. 736 pp.
Anti-Immigrantism in Western Democracies: Statecraft, Desire, and the Politics of Exclusion. By Rozanne Lynn Doty. Routledge, 2003. 114 pp.
Blood, Class, and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship. By Christopher Hitchens. Nation, 2004. 431 pp.
Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State. By Robert Harrison. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 293 pp.
Democracy Transformed: Expanding Political Opportunities in Advanced Industrial Democracies. Edited by Bruce E. Cain, Russell J. Dalton, and Susan E. Scarrow. Oxford University Press, 2003. 309 pp.
Electoral Realignments: A Critique of an American Genre. By David R. Mayhew. Yale University Press, 2002. 174 pp.
Europe Today: National Politics, European Integration, and European Security. 2nd Edition. Edited by Ronald Tiersky. Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. 515 pp.
Get Out the Vote! How to Increase Voter Turnout. By Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber. Brookings Institution, 2004. 145 pp.
The Invention of the United States Senate. By Daniel Wirls and Stephen Wirls. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 274 pp.
On Capitol Hill: The Struggle to Reform Congress and Its Consequences, 1948–2000. By Julian E. Zelizer. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 359 pp.
Ordinary Heroes and American Democracy. By Gerald M. Pomper. Yale University Press, 2004. 301 pp.
Overruled? Legislative Overrides, Pluralism, and Contemporary Court-Congress Relations. By Jeb Barnes. Stanford University Press, 2004. 219 pp.
The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to George W. Bush. By Fred I. Greenstein. Princeton University Press, 2004. 317 pp.
The Republican South: Democratization and Partisan Change. By David Lublin. Princeton University Press, 2004. 245 pp.
Silent Voices: Public Opinion and Political Participation in America. By Adam J. Berinsky. Princeton University Press, 2004. 200 pp.
Voter Turnout and the Dynamics of Electoral Competition in Established Democracies Since 1945. By Mark N. Franklin. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 277 pp. [End Page 170]
Voting with Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance. By Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres. Yale University Press, 2002. 303 pp.

Asia

Beyond Reconstruction in Afghanistan: Lessons from Development Experience. Edited by John D. Montgomery and Dennis A. Rondinelli. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 245 pp.
China’s Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead. By Bruce Gilley. Columbia University Press, 2004. 297 pp.
Democratization and Identity: Regimes and Ethnicity in East and Southeast Asia. Edited by Susan J. Henders. Lexington, 2004. 267 pp.
Indian Democracy: Meanings and Practices. By Rajendra Vora and Suhas Palshikar. Sage, 2003. 447 pp.
Understanding the Political Culture of Hong Kong: The Paradox of Activism and Depoliticization. By Lam Wai-Man. M.E. Sharpe, 2004. 312 pp.
Why Ethnic Parties Succeed: Patronage and Ethnic Head Counts in India. By Kanchan Chandra. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 343 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

A New Balance: Democracy and Minorities in Post-Communist Europe. Edited by Monica Robotin and Levente Salat. Ethnocultural Diversity Resource Centre and Local Government and Public Service Reform Initiative, 2004. 326 pp.
Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform. By Michael McFaul, Nikolai Petrov, and Andrei Ryabov. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004. 364 pp.
Human Rights in Russia: A Darker Side of Reform. By Jonathan Weiler. Lynne Rienner, 2004. 165 pp.
Hungary and NATO: Problems in Civil-Military Relations. By Jeffrey Simon. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 144 pp.
NATO and the Czech and Slovak Republics: A Comparative Study in Civil-Military Relations. By Jeffrey Simon. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 328 pp.
Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia. By Melissa L. Caldwell. University of California Press, 2004. 242 pp.
Poland and NATO: A Study in Civil-Military Relations. By Jeffrey Simon. Rowman & Littlefield, 2003. 216 pp...

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