Books Received
Buy Issue for $25 at JHUP- 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 Constitutional Law. Volume 1, The Structure of Government. 9th edition. By Ralph A. Rossum and G. Alan Tarr. Westview Press, 2014. 678 pp.
American Constitutional Law. Volume 2, The Bill of Rights and Subsequent Amendments. 9th edition. By Ralph A. Rossum and G. Alan Tarr. Westview Press, 2014. 927 pp.
The American Political Landscape. By Byron E. Shafer and Richard H. Spady. Harvard University Press, 2014. 342 pp.
Campaigns and Elections American Style. 4th edition. Edited by James A. Thurber and Candice J. Nelson. Westview Press, 2014. 340 pp.
Democracy as a Way of Life in America: A History. By Richard Schneirov and Gaston A. Fernandez. Routledge, 2014. 222 pp.
Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics of Forgetting. By Omar G. Encarnación. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 249 pp.
Maximalist: America in the World from Truman to Obama. By Stephen Sestanovich. Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. 402 pp.
Propaganda and American Democracy. Edited by Nancy Snow. Louisiana State University Press, 2014. 220 pp.
Rescaling the European State: The Making of Territory and the Rise of the Meso. By Michael Keating. Oxford University Press, 2013. 233 pp.
Through a Screen Darkly: Popular Culture, Public Diplomacy, and America’s Image Abroad. By Martha Bayles. Yale University Press, 2014. 326 pp.
Turbulent and Mighty Continent: What Future for Europe. By Anthony Giddens. Polity, 2014. 242 pp.
Africa
Economic and Political Reform in Africa: Anthropological Perspectives. By Peter D. Little. Indiana University Press, 2014. 240 pp.
Identity, Citizenship, and Political Conflict in Africa. By Edmond J. Keller. Indiana University Press, 2014. 208 pp.
Law and the Public Sphere in Africa: La Palabre and Other Writings. By Jean Godefroy Bidima. Translated and edited by Laura Hengehold. Indiana University Press, 2014. 197 pp.
Asia
Battles Half Won: India’s Improbable Democracy. By Ashutosh Varshney. Penguin, 2013. 415 pp. [End Page 176]
Battling Corruption: Has NREGA Reached India’s Rural Poor. By Shylashri Shankar and Raghav Gaiha. Oxford University Press, 2013. 272 pp.
Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan: Elections in an Unstable Political Landscape. By Noah Coburn and Anna Larson. Columbia University Press, 2014. 284 pp.
Getting It Right in Afghanistan. Edited by Scott Smith, Moeed Yusuf, and Colin Cookman. USIP Press, 2013. 333 pp.
India: Political Ideas and the Making of a Democratic Discourse. By Gurpreet Mahajan. Zed Books, 2013. 181 pp.
Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development. By Emily T. Yeh. Cornell University Press, 2013. 324 pp.
The Warrior State: Pakistan in the Contemporary World. By T.V. Paul. Oxford University Press, 2014. 272 pp.
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
The Limits of Partnership: U.S.-Russian Relations in the Twenty-First Century. By Angela E. Stent. Princeton University Press, 2014. 355 pp.
Russia vs. the EU: The Competition for Influence in Post-Soviet States. By Jakob Tolstrup. Lynne Rienner, 2014. 295 pp.
The Triumph of Improvisation: Gorbachev’s Adaptability, Reagan’s Engagement, and the End of the Cold War. By James Graham Wilson. Cornell University, 2014. 264 pp.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Cities from Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America. Edited by Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, and Javier Auyero. Duke University Press, 2014. 293 pp.
Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall. By Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 353 pp.
Democratic Chile: The Politics and Policies of a Historic Coalition, 1990–2010. Edited by Kirsten Sehnbruch and Peter M. Siavelis. Lynne Rienner, 2014. 375 pp.
Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro. By Bryan McCann. Duke University Press, 2014. 249 pp.
Middle East
Mo(ve)ments of Resistance: Politics, Economy and Society in Israel/Palestine 1931–2013. By Lev Luis Grinberg. Academic Studies, 2014. 346 pp.
Party Politics and the Prospects for Democracy in North Africa. By Lise Storm. Lynne Rienner, 2014. 244 pp.
The Second Arab Awakening: And the Battle for Pluralism. By Marwan Muasher. Yale University Press, 2014. 210 pp. [End Page...
