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

American Politics and Society Today. Edited by Robert Singh. Polity, 2002. 240 pp.

Campaign Finance Reform and the 2000 Elections. Edited by David B. Magleby. Brookings, 2002. 274 pp.

Civil Society in Japan: The Growing Role of NGOs in Tokyo's Aid and Development Policy. By Keiko Hirata. Palgrave, 2002. 208 pp.

Congress and Defense Spending: the Distributive Politics of Military Procurement. By Barry S. Rundquist and Thomas M. Carsey. University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 200 pp.

The Contours of American Politics. By Jon Roper. Polity, 2002. 224 pp.

Democracy, Morality, and the Search for Peace in America's Foreign Policy. By Dean Hammer. University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 219 pp.

The Difference Women Make. By Michele L. Swers. University of Chicago Press, 2002. 208 pp.

Globalism and Local Democracy: Challenge and Change in Europe and North America. Edited by Robin Hambleton, Hank V. Savitch and Murray Stewart. Palgrave, 2002. 258 pp.

Government's Greatest Achievements: From Civil Rights to Homeland Security. By Paul C. Light. Brookings, 2002. 241 pp.

Materializing Democracy: Toward a Revitalized Cultural Politics. By Russ Castronovo and Dana D. Nelson. Duke University Press, 2001. 427 pp.

The Politics of Accountability in the Modern State. By Matthew Flinders. Ashgate, 2002. 436 pp.

Reflections on De Gaulle: Political Founding in Modernity. By Will Morrisey. University Press of America, 2002. 278 pp.

The State and Politics in Japan. Ian Neary. Polity, 2002. 264 pp.

Voices of Europe: Citizens, Referendums, and European Integration. By Simon Hug. Rowman & Littlefield, 2002. 184 pp.

A World Safe for Capitalism: Dollar Diplomacy and America's Rise to Global Power. By Cyrus Veeser. Columbia University Press, 2002. 250 pp.

Africa

Liberian Politics. Edited by Hanes Walton, Jr., James Bernard Rosser, Sr., and Robert L. Stevenson. Lexington, 2002. 417 pp.

Partner to History: The U.S. Role in South Africa's Transition to Democracy. By Princeton N. Lyman. United States Institute of Peace, 2002. 344 pp.

A Strategic Vision for Africa: The Kampala Movement. By Francis Mading Deng. Brookings, 2002. 198 pp.

Asia

In-house in Papua New Guinea with Anthony Siaguru. By Anthony Siaguru. Asia Pacific Press at the Australian National University, 2002. 359 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Challenges to Democracy: Eastern Europe Ten Years after the Collapse of Communism. By Sten Berglund, Frank H. Aarebrot, Henri Vogt, and Georgi Karasimeonov. Edward Elgar, 2001. 189 pp.

Democracy and Oil: The Case of Azerbaijan. By Daniel Heradstveit. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, 2001. 115 pp.

Democracy and Post-Communism: Political Change in the Post-Communist World. By Graeme Gill. Routledge, 2002. 272 pp.

Forging Democracy: The History of the Left in Europe, 1850-2000. By Geoff Eley. Oxford University Press, 2002. 698 pp.

Institutional Change and Political Continuity in Post-Soviet Central Asia: Power, Perceptions, and Pacts. By Pauline Jones Luong. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 320 pp.

Markets, Planning, and Democracy: Essays after the Collapse of Communism. By David L Prychitko. Edward Elgar, 2002. 219 pp.

The New Russian Diplomacy. By Igor S. Ivanov. Brookings, 2002. 203 pp.

Post-Communist Democratization: Political Discourse Across Thirteen Countries. By John S. Dryzek and Leslie Templeman Holmes. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 300 pp.

The Roundtable Talks of 1989. Edited by András Kádár. Central European University Press, 2001. 431 pp.

Russia's Decline and Uncertain Recovery. By Thomas E. Graham. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2002. 100 pp.

Slobodan Milo(check)evi´c and the Destruction of Yugoslavia. By Louis Sell. Duke University Press, 2002. 412 pp.

Slovakia: From Samo to Dzurinda. Edited by Peter A. Toma and Dusan Kovac. Hoover, 2001. 432 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Capital City Politics in Latin America: Democratization and Empowerment. Edited by David J. Myers and Henry A. Dietz. Lynne Rienner, 2002. 407 pp.

International Human Rights and Authoritarian Rule in Chile. By Darren G. Hawkins. University of Nebraska Press, 2002. 259 pp.

Latin Politics, Global Media. Edited by Elizabeth Fox...