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
The Constitution Before the Judgment Seat: The Prehistory and Ratification of the American Constitution, 1787-1791. By Jürgen Heideking. Edited by John P. Kaminski and Richard Leffler. University of Virginia Press, 2012. 552 pp.
Democracy Despite Itself: Why a System That Shouldn't Work At All Works So Well. By Danny Oppenheimer and Mike Edwards. MIT Press, 2012. 245 pp.
The End of Race? Obama, 2008, and Racial Politics in America. By Donald R. Kinder and Allison Dale-Riddle. Yale University Press, 2012. 309 pp.
Faith and Race in American Political Life. Edited by Robin Dale Jacobson and Nancy D. Wadsworth. University of Virginia Press, 2012. 320 pp.
Georgia Democrats, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Shaping of the New South. By Tim S. R. Boyd. University Press of Florida, 2012. 302 pp.
In Chambers: Stories of Supreme Court Law Clerks and Their Justices. Edited by Todd C. Peppers and Artemus Ward. University of Virginia Press, 2012. 445 pp.
Political Communication in Direct Democratic Campaigns: Enlightening or Manipulating. Edited by Hanspeter Kriesi. Palgrave Macmillan, 2011. 265 pp. [End Page 166]
Regulating the Risk of Unemployment: National Adaptations to Post-Industrial Labour Markets in Europe. Edited by Jochen Clasen and Daniel Clegg. Oxford University Press, 2011. 401 pp.
The Scale of Interest Organization in Democratic Politics: Data and Research Methods. Edited by Darren Halpin and Grant Jordan. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 267 pp.
Why Americans Hate the Media and How It Matters. By Jonathan M. Ladd. Princeton University Press, 2012. 270 pp.
Asia
China Orders the World: Normative Soft Power and Foreign Policy. Edited by William A. Callahan and Elena Barabantseva. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2011. 280 pp.
Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia. By Doh Chull Shin. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 366 pp.
Marigold: The Lost Chance for Peace in Vietnam. By James G. Hershberg. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2012. 890 pp.
Playing Our Game: Why China's Rise Doesn't Threaten the West. By Edward S. Steinfeld. Oxford University Press, 2010. 265 pp.
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Belarus: The Last European Dictatorship. By Andrew Wilson. Yale University Press, 2011. 304 pp.
Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic in World Politics. By Ladislav Cabada and Šárka Waisová. Lexington, 2011. 221 pp.
Politicized Justice in Emerging Democracies: A Study of Courts in Russia and Ukraine. By Maria Popova. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 197 pp.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Histories of Race and Racism: The Andes and Mesoamerica from Colonial Times to the Present. Edited by Laura Gotkowitz. Duke University Press, 2011. 400 pp.
Political Careers, Corruption, and Impunity: Panama's Assembly, 1984-2009. By Carlos Guevara Mann. University of Notre Dame Press, 2011. 453 pp.
The Right to the City: Popular Contention in Contemporary Buenos Aires. Gabriela Ippolito-O'Donnell. University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. 288 pp.
Middle East
Democracy, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey. Edited by Ahmet T. Kuru and Alfred Stepan. Columbia University Press, 2012. 216 pp. [End Page 167]
Iraq, Its Neighbors, and the United States: Competition, Crisis, and the Reordering of Power. Edited by Henri J. Barkey, Scott B. Lasensky, and Phebe Marr. U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2011. 250 pp.
The Lingering Conflict: Israel, the Arabs, and the Middle East, 1948-2011. By Itamar Rabinovich. Brookings Institution Press, 2011. 308 pp.
Comparative, Theoretical, General
Bankrupt Representation and Party System Collapse. By Jana Morgan. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2011. 362 pp.
Becoming a Candidate: Political Ambition and the Decision to Run for Office. By Jennifer L. Lawless. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 279 pp.
Between Terror and Tolerance: Religious Leaders, Conflict, and Peacemaking. Edited by Timothy D. Sisk. Georgetown University Press, 2011. 270 pp.
Democracy Beyond Athens: Popular Government in the Greek Classical Age. By Eric W. Robinson. Cambridge University Press, 2011. 275 pp.
Elections in Dangerous Places: Democracy and the Paradoxes of Peacebuilding. Edited by David Gillies. McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011. 305 pp.
Fragile States: Violence and the Failure of Intervention. By Lothar Brock et al. Polity, 2012. 194 pp.
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