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Journal of Democracy 12.3 (2001) 175-178



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Books Received


The books listed below were recently received by the editors. A listing here does not preclude a review in a future issue.

Advanced Democracies

The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples. By Charles T. Goodsell. University Press of Kansas, 2001. 240 pp.

Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary. Edited by E.J. Dionne, Jr. and William Kristol. Brookings Institution, 2001. 346 pp.

Consensus Politics in Spain: Insider Perspectives. Edited by Monica Threlfall. Intellect Books, 2000. 88 pp.

Continuity and Change in House Elections. Edited by David W. Brady, John F. Cogan, and Morris P. Fiorina. Stanford University Press, 2000. 297 pp.

Democracy at Work: A Comparative Sociology of Environmental Regulation in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and the United States. By Richard Münch with Christian Lahusen, Markus Kurth, Cornelia Borgards, Carsten Stark, and Claudia Jauss. Praeger, 2001. 262 pp.

Democracy in Europe. By Larry Siedentop. Columbia University Press, 2001. 254 pp.

New Europe in Transition. Edited by Peter Anderson, Georg Wiessala, and Christopher Williams. Continuum, 2000. 288 pp.

The Next Agenda: Blueprint for a New Progressive Movement. Edited by Robert L. Borosage and Roger Hickey. Westview, 2001. 386 pp.

One Nation . . . Indivisible? By Sara S. Chapman and Ursula S. Colby. State University of New York Press, 2001. 247 pp.

The Political Economy of American Industrialization, 1877-1900. By Richard Franklin Bensel. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 549 pp.

The President and His Inner Circle: Leadership Style and the Advisory Process in Foreign Affairs. By Thomas Preston. Columbia University Press, 2001. 347 pp.

The Rise of Democracy in Britain, 1830-1918. By Ian Machin. St. Martin's, 2001. 182 pp.

Africa

Against Normalization: Writing Radical Democracy in South Africa. By Anthony O'Brien. Duke University Press, 2001. 333 pp.

Angola from Afro-Stalinism to Petro-Diamond Capitalism. By Tony Hodges. Indiana University Press, 2001. 223 pp.

Closing the Circle: Democratization and Development in Africa. By Richard Sandbrook. Zed Books, 2000. 180 pp.

Disciplining Democracy: Development Discourse and Good Governance in Africa. By Rita Abrahamsen. Zed Books, 2000. 168 pp.

Explorations in African Political Thought: Identity, Community, Ethics. Edited by Teodros Kiros. Routledge, 2001. 214 pp.

Mozambique: The Tortuous Road to Democracy. By Jo~ao M. Cabrita. Palgrave, 2000. 311 pp.

The Ombudsman and Good Governance in the Kingdom of Lesotho. Edited by Victor Ayeni. Commonwealth Secretariat, 2000. 164 pp.

Ombudsman in Botswana: Selected Papers, Cases, and Materials. Edited by Victor Ayeni and Keshav C. Sharma. Commonwealth Secretariat, 2000. 156 pp.

The Uncertain Promise of Southern Africa. Edited by York Bradshaw and Stephen N. Ndegwa. Indiana University Press, 2000. 424 pp.

Asia

Democracy, Development and Decentralization in Provincial Thailand. By Daniel Arghiros. Curzon, 2001. 308 pp.

Development, Decentralization and Democracy: Exploring Social Capital and Politicization in the Bengal Region. By Robert Thörnlind. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies, 2000. 175 pp.

Elite Politics in Contemporary China. By Joseph Fewsmith. M.E. Sharpe, 2001. 178 pp.

Keystone: The American Occupation of Okinawa and U.S.-Japanese Relations. By Nicholas Evan Sarantakes. Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 264 pp.

The Making of Japanese Manchuria, 1904-1932. By Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka. Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. 522 pp.

Minamata: Pollution and the Struggle for Democracy in Postwar Japan. By Timothy S. George. Harvard University Asia Center, 2001. 385 pp.

Political Transition in Cambodia 1991-99: Power, Elitism and Democracy. By David W. Roberts. St. Martin's, 2001. 259 pp.

Renovating Politics in Contemporary Vietnam. By Zachary Abuza. Lynne Rienner, 2001. 273 pp.

A Time of Crisis: Japan, the Great Depression, and Rural Revitalization. By Kerry Smith. Harvard University Press, 2001. 481 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

A Culture of Corruption? Coping with Government in Post-Communist Europe. By William L. Miller, Åse B. Grødeland, and Tatyana Y. Koshechkina. Central European University Press, 2001. 365 pp.

The Grooves of Change: Eastern Europe at the Turn of the Millennium. By J.F. Brown. Duke University Press, 2001. 276 pp.

Political Parties in Post-Communist Eastern Europe. By Paul G. Lewis. Routledge, 2000. 202 pp.

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