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

America and the World: Conversations on the Future of American Foreign Policy. By Zbigniew Brzezinski and Brent Scowcroft. Basic Books, 2008. 291 pp.

American Progressivism: A Reader. Edited and introduced by Ronald J. Pestritto and William J. Atto. Lexington, 2008. 326 pp.

Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People. By Dana D. Nelson. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 256 pp.

The Best System Money Can Buy: Corruption in the European Union. By Carolyn M. Warner. Cornell University Press, 2007. 256 pp.

Between Virtue and Power: The Persistent Dilemma of U.S. Foreign Policy. By John Kane. Yale University Press, 2008. 403 pp.

Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Hidden Crisis in American Democracy. By Charles L. Zelden. University of Kansas Press, 2008. 390 pp.

The End of the American Century. By David S. Mason. Rowman and Littlefield, 2008. 251 pp.

European Union and the Deconstruction of the Rhineland Frontier. By Michael Loriaux. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 337 pp.

FDR’s World: War, Peace, and Legacies. Edited by David B. Woolner, Warren F. Kimball, and David Reynolds. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 254 pp.

The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism. By Andrew J. Bacevich. Metropolitan, 2008. 206 pp.

Party Polarization in Congress. By Sean M. Theriault. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 243 pp.

The Politics of Switzerland: Continuity and Change in a Consensus Democracy. By Hanspeter Kriesi and Alexander H. Trechsel. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 223 pp.

Reassessing the Incumbency Effect. By Jeffrey M. Stonecash. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 169 pp.

Reconsidering Woodrow Wilson: Progressivism, Internationalism, War, and Peace. Edited by John Milton Cooper, Jr. Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 359 pp.

Red, Blue, and Purple America: The Future of Election Demographics. Edited by Ruy Teixeira. Brookings Institution Press, 2008. 274 pp.

Reforms at Risk: What Happens After Major Policy Changes Are Enacted. By Eric M. Patashnik. Princeton University Press, 2008. 236 pp.

Ronald Reagan and the 1980s: Perceptions, Policies, Legacies. Edited by Cheryl Hudson and Gareth Davies. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 268 pp.

Spanish Politics: Democracy after Dictatorship. By Omar G. Encarnacion. Polity Press, 2008. 192 pp.

Africa

Identity, Diversity, and Constitutionalism in Africa. By Francis M. Deng. U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2008. 271 pp.

The Legacies of Law: Long-Run Consequences of Legal Development in South Africa, 1652–2000. By Jens Meierhenrich. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 385 pp.

Asia

China’s Rise: Challenges and Opportunities. By C. Fred Bergsten, Charles Freeman, Nicholas R. Lardy, and Derek J. Mitchell. Peterson Institute and CSIS, 2008. 269 pp.

Democratization in Post-Suharto Indonesia. Edited by Marco Bunte and Andreas Ufen. Routledge, 2008. 323 pp.

How East Asians View Democracy. Edited by Yun-Han Chu, Larry Diamond, Andrew J. Nathan, and Doh Chull Shin. Columbia University Press, 2008. 309 pp.

Zhao Ziyang and China’s Political Future. Edited by Guoguang Wu and Helen Lansdowne. Routledge, 2008. 189 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Can Russia Compete? Edited by Raj M. Desai and Itzhak Goldberg. Brookings Institution Press, 2008. 183 pp.

Eurasia’s New Frontiers: Young States, Old Societies, Open Futures. By Thomas W. Simons, Jr. Cornell University Press, 2008. 177 pp.

Fighting Poverty and Reforming Social Security: What Can Post-Soviet States Learn from the New Democracies of Central Europe? Edited by Michael Cain, Nida Gelazis, and Tomasz Inglot. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, East European Studies, 2008. 183 pp.

In Pursuit of Liberalism: International Institutions in Postcommunist Europe. By Rachel A. Epstein. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 267 pp.

Inside the Soviet Alternate Universe: The Cold War’s End and the Soviet Union’s Fall Reappraised. By Dick Combs. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 361 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Cannibal Democracy: Race and Representation in the Literature of the Americas. By Zita Nunes. University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 218 pp.

Electoral Rules and the Transformation of Bolivian Politics: The Rise of Evo Morales. By Betilde Munoz-Pogossian. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 240 pp.

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