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  • Books Received

Books Received, April 1999 (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

After the End: Making U.S. Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War World. Edited by James M. Scott. Duke University Press, 1998. 427 pp.

America the Unusual. By John W. Kingdon. St. Martin's, 1999. 109 pp.

At the End of the American Century: America's Role in the Post-Cold War World. Edited by Robert L. Hutchings. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. 252 pp.

The Cousins' Wars: Religion, Politics, and the Triumph of Anglo-America. By Kevin Phillips. Basic Books, 1999. 707 pp.

The Cultural Dynamics of Democratization in Spain. By Peter McDonough, Samuel H. Barnes, and Antonio López Pina with Doh C. Shin and José álvaro Moisés. Cornell University Press, 1998. 241 pp.

Democracy Between Consolidation and Crisis: Parties, Groups, and Citizens in Southern Europe. By Leonardo Morlino. Oxford University Press, 1998. 390 pp.

Getting Agencies to Work Together: The Practice and Theory of Man-agerial Craftsmanship. By Eugene Bardach. Brookings, 1998. 348 pp.

Huddled Masses, Muddled Laws: Why Contemporary Immigration Policy Fails to Reflect Public Opinion. By Kenneth K. Lee. Praeger, 1998. 168 pp.

Ideology and Politics in Britain Today. By Ian Adams. Manchester University Press, 1998. 226 pp.

Immigration and Citizenship in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Noah M.J. Pickus. Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. 237 pp.

Media as Politics: Theory, Behavior and Change in America. By Michael Kahan. Prentice Hall, 1999. 267 pp.

NATO Transformed: The Alliance's New Roles in International Security. By David S. Yost. United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998. 450 pp.

Political Communication in America. By Robert E. Denton, Jr. and Gary C. Woodward. 3rd ed. Praeger, 1998. 307 pp.

Politics and Policy in American States and Communities. By Dennis L. Dresang and James J. Gosling. 2nd ed. Allyn and Bacon, 1999. 488 pp.

The Rebirth of Europe. By Elizabeth Pond. Brookings, 1999. 290 pp.

Supreme Court Decision Making: New Institutionalist Approaches. Edited by Cornell W. Clayton and Howard Gillman. University of Chicago Press, 1999. 344 pp.

Taken For Granted: The Future of U.S.-British Relations. By Philip Seib. Praeger, 1998. 163 pp.

Voting Rights and Redistricting in the United States. Edited by Mark E. Rush. Greenwood, 1998. 311 pp.

Young America: The Flowering of Democracy in New York City. By Edward L. Widmer. Oxford University Press, 1998. 290 pp.

Africa

Africa Works: Disorder as Political Instrument. By Patrick Chabal and Jean-Pascal Daloz. Indiana University Press, 1999. 170 pp.

Challenging the State: Churches as Political Actors in South Africa, 1980-1994. By Tristan Anne Borer. University of Notre Dame Press, 1998. 289 pp.

The Criminalization of the State in Africa. By Jean-FranÇois Bayart, Stephen Ellis, and Béatrice Hibou. Indiana University Press, 1999. 126 pp.

Democracy and Apartheid: Political Theory, Comparative Politics, and the Modern South African State. By Anthony Butler. St. Martin's, 1998. 212 pp.

Zimbabwe's Public Eye: Political Essays (October 1997-October 1998). By Masipula Sithole. Rujeko Publishers, 153 pp.

Asia

Collective Action in East Asia: How Ruling Parties Shape Industrial Policy. By Gregory W. Noble. Cornell University Press, 1999. 249 pp.

Contemporary Chinese Politics: An Introduction. By James C.F. Wang. 6th ed. Prentice Hall, 1999. 431 pp.

The East Asian Welfare Model: Welfare Orientalism and the State. Edited by Roger Goodman, Gordon White, and Huck-ju Kwon. Routledge, 1998. 206 pp.

Guerrilla Diplomacy: The NLF's Foreign Relations and the Viet Nam War. By Robert K. Brigham. Cornell University Press, 1999. 215 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Emerging Democracies in East Central Europe and the Balkans. By Attila ágh. Edward Elgar, 1998. 359 pp.

European Politics Today: The Democratic Experience. By Frank L. Wilson. 3rd ed. Prentice Hall, 1999. 446 pp.

Kazakstan: Forced Migration and Nation Building. By the Forced Migration Projects of the Open Society Institute. Open Society Institute, 1998. 83 pp.

Nations in Transit 1998: Civil Society, Democracy and Markets in East Central Europe and the Newly Independent States. Edited by Adrian Karatnycky, Alexander Motyl, and Charles Graybow. Freedom...

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