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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

Democracy: A Case Study. By David A. Moss. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017. 773 pp.
When Ideas Mattered: A Nathan Glazer Reader. Edited by Joseph Dorman and Leslie Lenkowsky. Transaction Publishers, 2017. 352 pp. [End Page 174]

Asia

Philippine Politics: Possibilities and Problems in a Localist Democracy. By Lynn T. White III. Routledge, 2015. 265 pp.
Purifying the Land of the Pure: A History of Pakistan’s Religious Minorities. By Farahnaz Ispahani. Oxford University Press, 2017. 216 pp.
To Build a Free China: A Citizen’s Journey. By Xu Zhiyong. Lynne Rienner, 2017. 297 pp.
When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics. By Milan Vaishnav. Yale University Press, 2017. 410 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Protest in Putin’s Russia. By Mischa Gabowitsch. Polity, 2017. 332 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Mano Dura: The Politics of Gang Control in El Salvador. By Sonja Wolf. University of Texas Press, 2017. 304 pp.

Middle East and North Africa

The Arab World Upended: Revolution and its Aftermath in Tunisia and Egypt. By David B. Ottaway. Lynne Rienner, 2017. 269 pp.
Egypt Beyond Tahrir Square. Edited by Bessma Momani and Eid Mohamed. Indiana University Press, 2016. 185 pp.

Comparative, Theoretical, General

Building Sustainable Peace: Timing and Sequencing of Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Peacebuilding. Edited by Arnim Langer and Graham K. Brown. Oxford University Press, 2016. 478 pp.
Corruption and Government Legitimacy: A Twenty-First Century Perspective. Edited by Johnathan Mendilow and Ilan Peleg. Lexington, 2016. 318 pp.
Honor in America? Tocqueville on American Enlightenment. By Laurie M. Johnson. Lexington, 2017. 155 pp.
Human Rights or Global Capitalism: The Limits of Privatization. By Manfred Nowak. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017. 247 pp.
Peace Agreements: Finding Solutions in Intra-State Conflicts. By Nina Caspersen. Polity, 2017. 229 pp.
States in Disguise: Causes of State Support for Rebel Groups. By Belgin San-Akca. Oxford University Press, 2016. 320 pp.
The Rise and Fall of the Christian Myth: Restoring Our Democratic Ideals. By Burton L. Mack. Yale University Press, 2017. 310 pp. [End Page 175]
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