Books Received
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The books listed below were recently received by the editors. A listing here does not preclude a review in a future issue.
Advanced Democracies
Caesar in the USA. By Maria Wyke. University of California Press, 2012. 306 pp.
Fighting for the Speakership: The House and the Rise of Party Government. By Jeffrey A. Jenkins and Charles Steward III. Princeton University Press, 2013. 476 pp.
Making Civics Count: Citizenship Education for a New Generation. Edited by David E. Campbell, Meira Levinson, and Frederick M. Hess. Harvard Education Press, 2012. 320 pp.
The Most Fundamental Right. Edited by Daniel McCool. Indiana University Press, 2012. 404 pp.
That’s Not What They Meant! Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America’s Right Wing. By Michael Austin. Prometheus, 2012. 253 pp. [End Page 175]
The Parties Respond: Changes in American Parties and Campaigns. Third Edition. Edited by Mark D. Brewer and L. Sandy Maisel. Westview, 2013. 369 pp.
The Politics of Voter Suppression: Defending and Expanding Americans’ Right to Vote. By Tova Andrea Wang. Cornell University Press, 2012. 197 pp.
Politics, Society, Self. By Geoff Gallop. UWA Publishing, 2012. 325 pp.
A Presidential Nation: Causes, Consequences, and Cures. By Michael A. Genovese. Westview, 2013. 238 pp.
Was Hitler a Riddle? Western Democracies and Western Socialism. By Abraham Ascher. Stanford University Press, 2012. 243 pp.
We the People: A Brief Introduction to the Constitution and Its Interpretation. By Donald C. Dahlin. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 186 pp.
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Capital, Coercion, and Postcommunist States. By Gerald M. Easter. Cornell University Press, 2012. 241 pp.
Crisis and Quality of Democracy in Eastern Europe. Edited by Miodrag A. Jovanović and Đorđe Pavićević. Eleven International, 2012. 160 pp.
The Improvised State: Sovereignty, Performance and Agency in Dayton Bosnia. By Alex Jeffrey. Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. 205 pp.
The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin. By Masha Gessen. Riverhead, 2012. 314 pp.
Wheel of Fortune: The Battle for Oil and Power in Russia. By Thane Gustafson. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012. 662 pp.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Afterlives of Confinement: Spatial Transitions in Postdictatorship Latin America. By Susana Draper. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2012. 238 pp.
Fifty Years of Revolution: Perspectives on Cuba, the United States, and the World. Edited by Soraya M. Castro Mariño and Ronald W. Pruessen. University Press of Florida, 2012. 423 pp.
Party-System Collapse: The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela. By Jason Seawright. Stanford University Press, 2012. 293 pp.
The Politics of Modern Central America: Civil War, Democratization, and Under-development. By Fabrice Lehoucq. Cambridge, 2012. 204 pp. [End Page 176]
Middle East
Beyond the Arab Spring: Authoritarianism and Democratization in the Arab World. By Rex Bynen et al. Lynne Rienner, 2012. 349 pp.
Democracy Prevention: The Politics of the U.S.-Egyptian Alliance. By Jason Brownlee. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 279 pp.
Islam, Secularism and Liberal Democracy: Toward a Democratic Theory for Muslim Societies. By Nader Hashemi. Oxford University Press, 2009. 280 pp.
Of Empires and Citizens: Pro-American Democracy or No Democracy at All? By Amaney A. Jamal. Princeton University Press, 2012. 276 pp.
Comparative, Theoretical, General
Deliberative Democracy: A Critical Introduction. By Zsuzsanna Chappell. Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. 190 pp.
Democracy at Large: NGOs, Political Foundations, Think Tanks, and International Organizations. Edited by Boris Petric. Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. 280 pp.
The Democratic Imagination: Envisioning Popular Power in the Twenty-First Century. By James Cairns and Alan Sears. University of Toronto Press, 2012. 211 pp.
Democratization and Research Methods. By Michael Coppedge. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 357 pp.
Demokratie: Theorien, Forem, Entwicklungen. By Samuel Salzborn. UTB, 2012. 153 pp.
The Edinburgh Companion to the History of Democracy. Edited by Benjamin Isakhan and Stephen Stockwell. Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 557 pp.
Electronic Democracy. Edited by Norbert Kersting. The World of Political Science: The Development of the Discipline Book Series. Barbara Budrich, 2012. 203 pp.
Elite Statecraft and Election Administration: Bending the Rules of the Game? By Toby S. James. Palgrave MacMillan, 2012. 281 pp.
Ethnic Conflicts: Their Biological Roots in Ethnic Nepotism. By Tatu Vanhanen. Ulster Institute for Social Research, 2012. 309 pp.
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