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
A Man and His Presidents: The Political Odyssey of William F. Buckley Jr. By Alvin S. Felzenberg. Yale University Press, 2017. 417 pp.
American Democracy: A Great Leap of Faith. By National Museum of American History. Smithsonian Books, 2017. 180 pp.
The American Nonvoter. By Lyn Ragsdale and Jerrold G. Rusk. Oxford University Press, 2017. 315 pp.
Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union. By Harold D. Clarke, Matthew Goodwin, and Paul Whiteley. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 256 pp.
Civic Failure and Its Threat to Democracy: Operator Error. By Chapman Rackaway. Lexington, 2016. 207 pp.
Congress and the Media: Beyond Institutional Power. By C. Danielle Vinson. Oxford University Press, 2017. 240 pp.
Conservative But Not Republican: The Paradox of Party Identification and Ideology Among African Americans. By Tasha S. Philpot. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 281 pp.
Democracy Rising: Politics and Participation in Canada. By Bill Freeman. Dundurn Press, 2017. 208 pp.
The Dual Executive: Unilateral Orders in a Separated and Shared Power System. By Michelle Belco and Brandon Rottinghaus. Stanford University Press, 2017. 239 pp.
Judicial Independence and the American Constitution: A Democratic Paradox. By Martin H. Redish. Stanford University Press, 2017. 260 pp.
Running From Office: Why Young Americans Are Turned Off to Politics. By Jennifer L. Lawless and Richard L. Fox. Oxford University Press, 2015. 211 pp.
Africa
Administrative Law. By Migai Akech. Strathmore University Press, 2016. 513 pp.
Beyond Ethnic Politics in Africa. By Dominika Koter. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 202 pp. [End Page 177]
Humor, Silence, and Civil Society in Nigeria. By Ebenezer Obadare. University of Rochester Press, 2016. 177 pp.
Asia
Avoiding War With China: Two Nations, One World. By Amitai Etzioni. University of Virginia Press, 2017. 202 pp.
The Beijing Consensus? How China has Changed Western Ideas of Law and Economic Development. Edited by Weitseng Chen. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 353 pp.
China and India: Asia’s Emergent Great Powers. By Chris Ogden. Polity, 2017. 213 pp.
Divided We Govern: Coalition Politics in Modern India. By Sanjay Ruparelia. Oxford University Press, 2015. 480 pp.
U.S.-Japan Approaches to Democracy Promotion. Edited by Michael R. Auslin and Daniel E. Bob. Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA, 2017. 125 pp.
Why Democracy Deepens: Political Information and Decentralization in India. By Anoop Sadanandan. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 192 pp.
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Communism’s Shadow: Historical Legacies and Contemporary Political Attitudes. By Grigore Pop-Eleches and Joshua A. Tucker. Princeton University Press, 2017. 336 pp.
The Czech and Slovak Republics: Twenty Years of Independence 1993–2013. Edited by M. Mark Stolarik. Central European University Press, 2016. 364 pp.
Frustrated Democracy in Post-Soviet Azerbaijan. By Audrey L. Altstadt. Columbia University Press, 2017. 317 pp.
Russian Studies and Comparative Politics: Views from Metatheory and Middle-Range Theory. By Frederic J. Fleron Jr. Lexington, 2016. 345 pp.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Brazil 1964–1985: The Military Regimes of Latin America in the Cold War. By Herbert S. Klein and Francisco Vidal Luna. Yale University Press, 2017. 196 pp.
Democratization and Authoritarian Party Survival: Mexico’s PRI. By Joy K. Langston. Oxford University Press, 2017. 244 pp.
Private Wealth and Public Revenue in Latin America: Business Power and Tax Politics. By Tasha Fairfield. Cambridge University Press, 2015. 344 pp. [End Page 178]
Middle East and North Africa
Democracy and the Nature of American Influence in Iran, 1941–1979. By David R. Collier. Syracuse University Press, 2017. 417 pp.
False Dawn: Protest, Democracy, and Violence in the New Middle East. By Steven A. Cook. Oxford University Press, 2017. 317 pp.
The War on Error: Israel, Islam, and the Middle East. By Martin Kramer. Transaction, 2016. 318 pp.
Comparative, Theoretical, General
Aftershocks: Great Powers and Domestic Reforms in the Twentieth Century. By Seva Gunitsky. Princeton University Press, 2017. 292 pp.
The Corruption Cure: How Citizens and Leaders Can Combat Graft. By Robert I. Rotberg. Princeton University Press, 2017. 384 pp.
Democracy: Stories from the Long Road to Freedom. By Condoleezza Rice. Hachette Book Group, 2017. 486 pp.
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