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  • Books Received

Books Received, April 1995 (No.2)

The books listed below were recently received by the editors. A listing here does not preclude a review in a future issue.

Advanced Democracies

Beyond Politics: Markets, Welfare, and the Failure of Bureaucracy. By William C. Mitchell and Randy T. Simmons. Westview, 1994. 234 pp.

The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Germany. By David P. Currie. University of Chicago Press, 1994. 426 pp.

Crossing Over the Line: Legislating Morality and the Mann Act. By David J. Langum. University of Chicago Press, 1994. 311 pp.

Democracy in Japan: The Emerging Global Concern. By Frank McNeil. Crown, 1994. 280 pp.

Democracy in the Fifty States. By Kim Quaile Hill. University of Nebraska Press, 1994. 179 pp.

Empire or Republic? American Global Power and Domestic Decay. By James Petras and Morris Morley. Routledge, 1995. 172 pp.

Inheritance in Public Policy: Change Without Choice in Britain. By Richard Rose and Phillip L. Davies. Yale University Press, 1994. 257 pp.

Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy. By Daniel M. Fox. University of California Press, 1993. 183 pp.

Separate But Equal Branches: Congress and the Presidency. By Charles O. Jones. Chatham House, 1995. 262 pp.

Africa

Election '94 South Africa: The Campaigns, Results, and Future Prospects. Edited by Andrew Reynolds. St. Martin's, 1994. 237 pp.

Ending Mozambique's War: The Role of Mediation and Good Offices. By Cameron Hume. United States Institute of Peace, 1994. 162 pp.

Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela. By Nelson Mandela. Little, Brown, 1994. 558 pp.

Asia

China Wakes: The Struggle for the Soul of a Rising Power. By Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. Random House, 1994. 499 pp.

A Nation in Waiting: Indonesia in the 1990s. By Adam Schwarz. Westview, 1994. 370 pp.

The 1993 Elections in Pakistan. By Mohammad Waseem. Vanguard, 1994. 323 pp.

The Politics of Democratization: Generalizing East Asian Experiences. Edited by Edward Friedman. Westview, 1994. 276 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Common Places: Mythologies of Everyday Life in Russia. By Svetlana Boym. Harvard University Press, 1994. 356 pp.

Democratization in Eastern Europe: Domestic and International Perspectives. Edited by Geoffrey Pridham and Tatu Vanhanen. Routledge, 1994. 274 pp.

The Fifty Years War: The United States and the Soviet Union in World Politics, 1941-1991. By Richard Crockatt. Routledge, 1995. 417 pp.

Nordic-Baltic Security: An International Perspective. Edited by Arne Olav Brundtland and Don M. Snider. Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1994. 131 pp.

Secret Empire: The KGB in Russia Today. By J. Michael Waller. Westview, 1994. 390 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

The Women's Movement in Latin America: Participation and Democracy. Edited by Jane S. Jaquette. 2nd ed. Westview, 1994. 257 pp.

Middle East

Avenues of Participation: Family, Politics, and Networks in Urban Quarters of Cairo. By Diane Singerman. Princeton University Press, 1995. 335 pp.

Cultural Transitions in the Middle East. Edited by Serif Mardin. E.J. Brill, 1994. 278 pp.

Democracy and Arab Political Culture. By Elie Kedourie. 2nd ed. Frank Cass, 1994. 105 pp.

Comparative, Theoretical, General

Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy. Edited by J. Peter Euben, John R. Wallach, and Josiah Ober. Cornell University Press, 1994. 352 pp.

Authority: Construction and Corrosion. By Bruce Lincoln. University of Chicago Press, 1994. 228 pp.

Comparative National Development: Society and Economy in the New Global Order. Edited by A. Douglas Kincaid and Alejandro Portes. University of North Carolina Press, 1994. 245 pp.

The Earth Brokers: Power, Politics and World Development. By Pratap Chatterjee and Matthias Finger. Routledge, 1994. 191 pp.

The End of "isms"? Reflections on the Fate of Ideological Politics After Communism's Collapse. Edited by Alexsandras Shtromas. Blackwell, 1994. 234 pp.

Ethnic Conflict in World Politics. By Ted Robert Gurr and Barbara Harff. Westview, 1994. 206 pp.

Ideology and Political Choice: The Search for Freedom, Justice, and Virtue. By Vernon Van Dyke. Chatham House, 1995. 312 pp.

If Men Were Angels: James Madison and the Heartless Empire of Reason. By Richard K. Matthews. University Press of Kansas, 1995. 297 pp.

Political Ideologies: An Introduction. By Robert Eccleshall, Vincent Geoghegan, Richard Jay, Michael Kenny, Iain MacKenzie...

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