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  • 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

Blaming Europe? Responsibility Without Accountability in the European Union. By Sara B. Hobolt and James Tilley. Oxford University Press, 2014. 186 pp.
British General Elections Since 1964: Diversity, Dealignment, and Disillusion. By David Denver and Mark Garnett. Oxford University Press, 2014. 224 pp.
Delivering the People’s Message: The Changing Politics of the Presidential Mandate. By Julia R. Azari. Cornell University Press, 2014. 206 pp.
Demographic Gaps in American Political Behavior. By Patrick Fisher. Westview, 2014. 242 pp.
Era of Experimentation: American Political Practices in the Early Republic. By Daniel Peart. University of Virginia Press, 2014. 237 pp.
Framing Citizen Participation: Participatory Budgeting in France, Germany and the United Kingdom. By Anja Röcke. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. 227 pp.
Origins and Evolution of the European Union. 2nd edition. Edited by Desmond Dinan. Oxford University Press, 2014. 422 pp.
Politics in Contemporary Portugal: Democracy Evolving. By José M. Magone. Lynne Rienner, 2014. 295 pp.
Taking Liberties: A History of Human Rights in Canada. Edited by David Goutor and Stephen Heathorn. Oxford University Press, 2014. 291 pp.
Why Government Fails So Often: And How It Can Do Better. By Peter H. Schuck. Princeton University Press, 2014. 471 pp.

Africa

Africa Consensus: New Interests, Initiatives, and Partners. By Ludger Kühnhardt. Woodrow Wilson Center, 2014. 380 pp.
Mandela’s Kinsmen: Nationalist Elites and Apartheid’s First Bantustan. By Timothy Gibbs. James Currey, 2014. 208 pp.
The Political Economy of Tanzania: Decline and Recovery. By Michael F. Lofchie. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 265 pp.

Asia

The Army and Democracy: Military Politics in Pakistan. By Aqil Shah. Harvard University Press, 2014. 399 pp.
Bargaining with a Rising India: Lessons from the Mahabharata. By Amrita Narlikar and Aruna Narlikar. Oxford University Press, 2014. 238 pp. [End Page 175]
Confucian Democracy in East Asia: Theory and Practice. By Sungmoon Kim. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 321 pp.
The Pashtun Question: The Unresolved Key to the Future of Pakistan and Afghanistan. By Abubakar Siddique. Hurst and Company, 2014. 271 pp.
The Ruling Elite of Singapore: Networks of Power and Influence. By Michael Barr. I.B. Tauris, 2014. 200 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

After the Revolution: Youth, Democracy, and the Politics of Disappointment in Serbia. By Jessica Greenberg. Stanford University Press, 2014. 235 pp.
Chechnya’s Secret Wartime Diplomacy: Aslan Maskhadov and the Quest for a Peaceful Resolution. By Ilyas Akhmadov and Nicholas Daniloff. Translated by Anatoly Semenov. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 296 pp.
Conflict, Crime, and the State in Postcommunist Eurasia. Edited by Svante Cornell and Michael Jonsson. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 286 pp.
Democracy Assistance from the Third Wave: Polish Engagement in Belarus and Ukraine. By Paulina Pospieszna. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014. 245 pp.
Ethnonationalist Conflict in Postcommunist States: Varieties of Governance in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Kosovo. By Maria Koinova. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 328 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Authoritarian El Salvador: Politics and the Origins of the Military Regimes, 1880–1940. By Erik Ching. University of Notre Dame Press, 2014. 459 pp.
Brazil: Reversal of Fortune. By Alfred P. Montero. Polity, 2014. 241 pp.
Paper Cadavers: The Archives of Dictatorship in Guatemala. By Kirsten Weld. Duke University Press, 2014. 335 pp.
The Tupac Amaru Rebellion. By Charles F. Walker. Belknap Press, 2014. By Charles F. Walker. 347 pp.

Middle East

The Awakening of Muslim Democracy: Religion, Modernity, and the State. By Jocelyne Cesari. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 423 pp.
Counting Islam: Religion, Class, and Elections in Egypt. By Tarek Masoud. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 252 pp.
Democratization and Authoritarianism in the Arab World. Edited by Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2014. 424 pp.
Journal d’un Prince Banni: Demain, le Maroc. By Moulay Hicham el Alaoui. Grasset, 2014. 362 pp.
The New Middle East: Protest and Revolution in the Arab World. Edited by Fawaz A. Gerges. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 502 pp. [End Page 176]
Political Aid and Arab Activism: Democracy Promotion, Justice, and Representation. By Sheila Carapico. Cambridge University Press, 2014. 250 pp.
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