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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

Building America: The Democratic Promise of Public Work. By Harry C. Boyte and Nancy N. Kari. Temple University Press, 1996. 255 pp.
Congress and the Presidency: Institutional Politics in a Separated System. By Michael Foley and John E. Owens. Manchester University Press, 1996. 432 pp.
Conservative Radicalism: A Sociology of Conservative Party Youth Structures and Libertarianism, 1970–1992. By Timothy Evans. Berghahn Books, 1996. 155 pp.
Constitutional Politics in the States: Contemporary Controversies and Historical Patterns. Edited by G. Alan Tarr. Praeger, 1996. 223 pp.
The Contemporary Congress. By Burdett A. Loomis. St. Martin’s, 1996. 196 pp.
Democracy, Capitalism and Empire in Late Victorian Britain, 1885–1910. By E. Spencer Wellhofer. St. Martin’s, 1996. 264 pp.
George Bush and the Guardianship Presidency. By David Mervin. St. Martin’s, 1996. 265 pp.
Italian Foreign Policy: The Statecraft of the Founders. By Federico Chabod. Translated by William McCuaig. Princeton University Press, 1996. 593 pp.
National Elections and the Autonomy of American State Party Systems. By James Gimpel. University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. 241 pp.
Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy: An Annotated Bibliography. Compiled by Bruce E. Johansen. Praeger, 1996. 158 pp.
A New North America: Cooperation and Enhanced Interdependence. Edited by Charles F. Doran and Alvin Paul Drischler. Praeger, 1996. 166 pp.
United States Development Assistance Policy: The Domestic Politics of Foreign Economic Aid. By Vernon Ruttan. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 657 pp.
War Powers: The President, the Congress, and the Question of War. By Donald L. Westerfield. Praeger, 1996. 245 pp.

Africa

Agenda for Africa’s Economic Renewal: U.S.-Third World Policy Perspectives. By Benno Ndulu, Nicolas van de Walle, et al. Overseas Development Council, 1996. 246 pp.
A Resolvable Conflict? The Politics of Land in Namibia. By Donna Pankhurst. University of Bradford, Department of Peace Studies, 1996. 164 pp.

Asia

Democracy in Indonesia: 1950s and 1990s. Edited by David Bourchier and John Legge. Monash Asia Institute, 1994. 324 pp.
Politics in Indonesia: Democracy, Islam and the Ideology of Tolerance. By Douglas E. Ramage. Routledge, 1995. 272 pp.
Red Flag over Hong Kong. By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita, David Newman, and Alvin Rabushka. Chatham House, 1996. 196 pp.
Surviving Indonesia’s Gulag: A Western Woman Tells Her Story. By Carmel Budiardjo. Cassell Academic, 1996. 213 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

Central Asia Since Independence. By Shireen T. Hunter. Center for Strategic and International Studies, 1996. 220 pp.
The New Georgia: Space, Society, Politics. By Revaz Gachechiladze. Texas A&M University Press, 1996. 205 pp.
Remembering Stalin’s Victims: Popular Memory and the End of the USSR. By Kathleen E. Smith. Cornell University Press, 1996. 220 pp.
Russians as the New Minority. By Jeff Chinn and Robert Kaiser. Westview, 1996. 308 pp.
Russia’s Stormy Path to Reform. Edited by Robert Skidelsky. Centre for Transition Economies, 1996. 145 pp.
Serbia’s Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History. By Philip J. Cohen. Texas A&M University Press, 1996. 235 pp.
Waking the Tempests: Ordinary Life in the New Russia. By Eleanor Randolph. Simon and Schuster, 1996. 448 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Class and Conservative Parties: Argentina in Comparative Perspective. By Edward Gibson. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 274 pp.
Economic Policy and the Transition to Democracy: The Latin American Experience. Edited by Juan Antonio Morales and Gary McMahon. St. Martin’s, 1996. 242 pp.
Economic Policy for Building Peace: The Lessons of El Salvador. Edited by James K. Boyce. Lynne Rienner, 1996. 359 pp.

Middle East

In Pursuit of Peace: A History of the Israeli Peace Movement. By Mordechai Bar-On. United States Institute of Peace Press, 1996. 470 pp.

Comparative, Theoretical, General

After Authoritarianism: Democracy or Disorder? Edited by Daniel Nelson. Praeger, 1996. 187 pp.
Between Principle and Practice: Human Rights in North-South Relations. By David Gillies. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1996. 339 pp.
Beyond Confrontation: Transforming the New World Order. By Charles Hauss. Greenwood, 1996. 245 pp.
Beyond Progress: An Interpretive Odyssey to the Future. By Hugh De...

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