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Journal of Democracy 13.2 (2002) 176-179



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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 Breakdown of Class Politics: A Debate on Post-Industrial Stratification. Edited by Terry Nichols Clark and Seymour Martin Lipset. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 336 pp.

Democratic Delusions: The Initiative Process in America. By Richard Ellis. University Press of Kansas, 2002. 260 pp.

Discharging Congress: Government by Commission. By Colton C. Campbell. Praeger, 2002. 188 pp.

Economic Transformation, Democratization and Integration into the European Union: Southern Europe in Comparative Perspective. Edited by Heather D. Gibson. Palgrave, 2001. 360 pp.

Europe Simple, Europe Strong: The Future of European Governance. By Frank Vibert. Polity, 2001. 263 pp.

The Impact of Women in Public Office. Edited by Susan J. Carroll. Indiana University Press, 2001. 256 pp.

Neither Dead Nor Red: Civilian Defense and American Political Development During the Early Cold War. By Andrew D. Grossman. Routledge, 2001. 175 pp.

Parties, Politics, and Democracy in the New Southern Europe. Edited by P. Nikiforos Diamandouros and Richard Gunther. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. 471 pp.

The Primary Decision: A Functional Analysis of Debates in Presidential Primaries. By William L. Benoit, P.M. Pier, LeAnn M. Brazeal, John P. McHale, Andrew Klyukovski, and David Airne. Praeger, 2002. 152 pp.

Putting "Defense" Back into U.S. Defense Policy: Rethinking U.S. Security in the Post-Cold War World. By Ivan Eland. Praeger, 2001. 242 pp.

Representative Americans: The Romantics. By Norman K. Risjord. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001. 400 pp.

Strategy for Stable Peace: Toward a Euroatlantic Security Community. By James Goodby, Petrus Buwalda, and Dmitri Trenin. U.S. Institute of Peace, 2002. 189 pp.

To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign Against Terrorism. By Kurt M. Campbell and Michele A. Flournoy. CSIS Press, 2001. 399 pp.

War, Peace and World Orders in European History. Edited by Anja V. Hartmann and Beatrice Heuser. Routledge, 2001. 267 pp.

Africa

Ending Autocracy, Enabling Democracy: The Tribulations of Southern Africa, 1960-2000. By Robert I. Rotberg. Brookings, 2002. 546 pp.

Eyewitness to Genocide: The United Nations and Rwanda. By Michael Barnett. Cornell University Press, 2002. 215 pp.

Asia

Challenging the Mandate of Heaven: Social Protest and State Power in China. By Elizabeth J. Perry. M.E. Sharpe, 2001. 343 pp.

The Chinese Human Rights Reader: Documents and Commentary, 1900-2000. Edited by Stephen C. Angle and Marina Svensson. M.E. Sharpe, 2001. 476 pp.

Coercion and Governance: The Declining Political Role of the Military in Asia. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. Stanford University Press, 2001. 594 pp.

Democracy in Malaysia: Discourses and Practices. Edited by Francis Loh Kok Wah and Khoo Boo Teik. Curzon, 2002. 274 pp.

Korea 2010: The Challenges of the New Millennium. By Paulo F. Chamberlin. CSIS Press, 2001. 224 pp.

Taiwan's Presidential Politics: Democratization and Cross-Strait Relations in the Twenty-first Century. Edited by Muthiah Alagappa. M.E. Sharpe, 2001. 312 pp.

Theater and the Politics of Culture in Contemporary Singapore. By William Peterson. Wesleyan University Press, 2001. 298 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union<

Building Capitalism: The Transformation of the Former Soviet Bloc. By Anders Åslund. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 508 pp.

Czechoslovakia: The Short Goodbye. By Abby Innes. Yale University Press, 2001. 334 pp.

Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia. By Ahmed Rashid. Yale University Press, 2002. 281 pp.

Kosovo: An Unfinished Peace. By William G. O'Neill. Lynne Rienner, 2001. 159 pp.

Party Development and Democratic Change in Post-Communist Europe: The First Decade. Edited by Paul G. Lewis. Frank Cass, 2001. 223 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Citizen Views of Democracy in Latin America. Edited by Roderic Ai Camp. Pittsburgh University Press, 2001. 304 pp.

Civil-Military Relations in Latin America: New Analytical Perspectives. Edited by David Pion-Berlin. University of North Carolina Press, 2001. 303 pp.

Elusive Reform: Democracy and the Rule of Law in Latin America. By Mark Ungar. Lynne Rienner, 2002. 271 pp.

The Failure of Political Reform in Venezuela. By Julia Buxton. Ashgate, 2001. 242 pp...

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