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

American Sovereigns: The People and America’s Constitutional Tradition Before the Civil War . By Christian G. Fritz. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 427 pp.

Democracy and Lobbying in the European Union . By Karolina Karr. University of Chicago Press, 2008. 240 pp.

Dissenting Voices in America’s Rise to Power . By David Mayers. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 446 pp.

The God Strategy: How Religion Became a Political Weapon in America . By David Domke and Kevin Coe. Oxford University Press, 2007. 231 pp.

Growing Apart? America and Europe in the Twenty-First Century . Edited by Jeffrey Kopstein and Sven Steinmo. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 237 pp.

Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement . By Wendy L. Wall. Oxford University Press, 2008. 320 pp.

Memo to the President Elect: How We Can Restore America’s Reputation and Leadership . By Madeline Albright with Bill Woodward. HarperCollins, 2008. 328 pp.

Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith & Politics After the Religious Right . By E.J. Dionne, Jr. Princeton University Press, 2008. 251 pp.

Tough Liberal: Albert Shanker and the Battles Over Schools, Unions, Race, and Democracy . By Richard Kahlenberg. Columbia University Press, 2007. 552 pp.

Winners Without Losers: Why Americans Should Care More About Global Economic Policy . By Edward J. Lincoln. Cornell University Press, 2007. 267 pp.

Asia

Against the Law: Labor Protests in China’s Rustbelt and Sunbelt . By Ching Kwan Lee. University of California Press, 2007. 325 pp.

Divided We Stand: India in a Time of Coalitions . By Paranjor Guha Thakurta and Shankar Raghuraman. Sage, 2007. 524 pp.

Electoral Processes and Governance in South Asia . Edited by Dushyantha Mendis. Sage, 2008. 479 pp.

How We Missed the Story: Osama Bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan . By Roy Gutman. United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008. 321 pp.

Rural Democracy in China: The Role of Village Elections . By Baogang He. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 292 pp.

Whither the Philippines in the 21st Century? Edited by Rodolfo C. Severino and Lorraine Carlos Salazar. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2007. 370 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Collapse of an Empire: Lessons for Modern Russia . By Yegor Gaidar. Brookings, 2007. 332 pp.

Democratic Designs: International Intervention and Electoral Processes in Postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina . By Kimberly Coles. University of Michigan Press, 2007. 297 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

In From the Cold: Latin America’s New Encounter with the Cold War . Edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Daniela Spenser. Duke University Press, 2008. 439 pp.

Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil . By James Holston. Princeton University Press, 2007. 416 pp.

Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability . By Brian Wampler. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 312 pp.

Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict and the Chavez Phenomenon . By Steve Ellner. Lynne Rienner, 2008. 255 pp.

Middle East

Algeria: Anger of the Dispossessed . By Martin Evans and John Phillips. Yale University Press, 2007. 352 pp.

Beyond the Facade: Political Reform in the Arab World . By Marina S. Ottaway and Julia Choucair-Vizoso. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2008. 288 pp.

Debating Arab Authoritarianism: Dynamics and Durability in Nondemocratic Regimes . Edited by Oliver Schlumberger. Stanford University Press, 2007. 345 pp.

Democratization in Morocco: The Political Elite and Struggles for Power in the Post-Independence State . By Lise Storm. Routledge, 2007. 226 pp.

The Epicenter of Crisis: The New Middle East . Edited by Alexander T. J. Lennon. The Center for Strategic and International Studies and MIT Press, 2008. 363 pp.

The New Turkish Republic: Turkey as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World . By Graham E. Fuller. United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008. 196 pp.

Remaking Turkey: Globalization, Alternative Modernities, and Democracy . Edited by E. Fuat Keyman. Lexington Books, 2007. 266 pp.

Women and Politics in Iran: Veiling, Unveiling, and Reveiling . By Hamideh Sedghi. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 341 pp.

Comparative, Theoretical, General

After War: The Political Economy of Exporting Democracy . By Christopher J. Coyne. Stanford University Press, 2007. 238 pp.

American Naturalism and Greek Philosophy . By John P...