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  • Books Received

Books Received, January 1998 (No.1)

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

Advanced Democracies

After Unity: Reconfiguring German Identities.Edited by Konrad H. Jarausch. Berghahn, 1997. 216 pp.

Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Germany After Unification. Edited by Hermann Kurthen, Werner Bergmann, and Rainer Erb. Oxford University Press, 1997. 318 pp.

Cooperation Among Democracies: The European Influence on U.S. Foreign Policy. By Thomas Risse-Kappen. Princeton University Press, 1995. 250 pp.

Cracks in the Consensus: Debating the Democracy Agenda in U.S. Foreign Policy. By Howard J. Wiarda. Praeger, 1997. 105 pp.

Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys. By Jeffrey Herf. Harvard University Press, 1997. 527 pp.

European Integration and American Interests: What the New Europe Really Means for the United States. Edited by Jeffrey Gedmin. American Enterprise Institute Press, 1997. 188 pp.

FDR and the Modern Presidency: Leadership and Legacy. Edited by Mark J. Rozell and William D. Pederson. Praeger, 1997. 242 pp.

Global Europe: The European Union in World Affairs. By Christopher Piening. Lynne Rienner, 1997. 252 pp.

Human Smuggling: Chinese Migrant Trafficking and the Challenge to America's Immigration Tradition. Edited by Paul J. Smith. Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1997. 207 pp.

Manipulation of the American Voter: Political Campaign Commercials. By Karen S. Johnson-Cartee and Gary A. Copeland. Praeger, 1997. 202 pp.

The New Federalism: Can the States Be Trusted? Edited by John A. Ferejohn and Barry R. Weingast. Hoover Institution Press, 1997. 170 pp.

The People's Lobby: Organizational Innovation and the Rise of Interest Group Politics in the United States, 1890-1925. By Elisabeth S. Clemens. University of Chicago Press, 1997. 459 pp.

Politics and Administration at the Top: Lessons from Down Under. By Delmer D. Dunn. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997. 194 pp.

Send Guns and Money: Security Assistance and U.S. Foreign Policy. By Duncan L. Clarke, Daniel B. O'Connor, and Jason D. Ellis. Praeger, 1997. 211 pp.

Subordination or Empowerment? African-American Leadership and the Struggle for Urban Political Power. By Richard A. Keiser. Oxford University Press, 1997. 244 pp.

Towards a New Democratic Order? Women's Organizing in Sweden in the 1990s. By Gunnel Gustafsson, Maud Eduards, and Malin Rönnblom. Publica, 1997. 196 pp.

Vindicating the Founders: Race, Sex, Class, and Justice in the Origins of America. By Thomas G. West. Rowman and Littlefield, 1997. 219 pp.

Why People Don't Trust Government. Edited by Joseph S. Nye, Jr., Philip D. Zelikow, and David C. King. Harvard University Press, 1997. 339 pp.

Africa

Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective. By Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de Walle. Cambridge University Press, 1997. 307 pp.

Dilemmas of Democracy in Nigeria. Edited by Paul A. Beckett and Crawford Young. University of Rochester Press, 1997. 450 pp.

Government and Politics in Africa. By William Tordoff. 3rd ed. Indiana University Press, 1997. 378 pp.

Managing Ethnic Conflict in Africa: Pressures and Incentives for Cooperation. By Donald Rothchild. Brookings Institution Press, 1997. 343 pp.

Mozambique: UN Peacekeeping in Action, 1992-94. By Richard Synge. United States Institute of Peace, 1997. 221 pp.

Power Relations in Nigeria: Ilorin Slaves and Their Successors. By Ann O'Hear. University of Rochester Press, 1997. 338 pp.

The State and Democracy in Africa. Edited by Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja and Margaret C. Lee. African Association of Political Science, 1997. 232 pp.

Transition Without End: Nigerian Politics and Civil Society Under Babangida. Edited by Larry Diamond, Anthony Kirk-Greene, and Oyeleye Oyediran. Lynne Rienner, 1997. 515 pp.

Asia

China's Transition Toward a Market Economy, Civil Society and Democracy. By Xia Li Lollar. Wyndham Hall, 1997. 101 pp.

Democracy Implications of Civil Society in China. By Baogang He. St. Martin's, 1997. 212 pp. [Note: This was incorrectly titled in a previous issue.]

Democracy in Asia. Edited by Michèle Schmiegelow. St. Martin's, 1997. 555 pp.

India: From Midnight to the Millennium. By Shashi Tharoor. Arcade, 1997. 392 pp.

Neither Gods nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China. By Craig Calhoun. University of California Press, 1997. 333 pp.

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