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Journal of Democracy 12.1 (2001) 174-179



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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

Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America. Translated and edited by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. The University of Chicago Press, 2000. 722 pp.

America's Overseas Garrisons: The Leasehold Empire. By Christopher Sandars. Oxford University Press, 2000. 354 pp.

American Democracy Promotion: Impulses, Strategies, and Impacts. Edited by Michael Cox, G. John Ikenberry, and Takashi Inoguchi. Oxford University Press, 2000. 344 pp.

Another Country: German Intellectuals, Unification, and National Identity. By Jan-Werner Müller. Yale University Press, 2000. 256 pp.

Calhoun's Philosophy of Politics: A Study of A Disquisition on Government. By Guy Story Brown. Mercer University Press, 2000. 435 pp.

Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women's Liberation Movement. Edited by Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon. Basic Books, 2000. 336 pp.

Democratizing the European Union: Issues for the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Catherine Hoskyns and Michael Newman. Manchester University Press, 2000. 212 pp.

Foreign Policy and the Black (Inter)National Interest. Edited by Charles P. Henry. State University of New York Press, 2000. 281 pp.

Global America: Imposing Liberalism on a Recalcitrant World. By David Mosler and Bob Catley. Prager, 2000. 240 pp.

God's Name in Vain: The Wrongs and Rights of Religion in Politics. By Stephen L. Carter. Basic Books, 2000. 288 pp.

Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in A Global Age. By Michael H. Shuman. Routledge, 2000. 318 pp.

Governing Race: Policy, Process, and the Politics of Race. By Nina M. Moore. Praeger, 2000. 248 pp.

The Initiative and Referendum in California, 1898-1998. By John M. Allswang. Stanford University Press, 2000. 352 pp.

Modern Presidential Electioneering: An Organizational and Comparative Approach. By Jody C. Baumgartner. Praeger, 2000. 248 pp.

National Security and Self-Determination: United States Policy in Micronesia, 1961-1972. By Howard P. Willens and Deanne C. Siemer. Praeger, 2000. 312 pp.

The Outsider: Prejudice and Politics in Italy. By Paul M. Sniderman, Pierangelo Peri, Rui J.P. de Figueiredo, Jr., and Thomas Piazza. Princeton University Press, 2000. 218 pp.

Policy-Making in the European Union: Fourth Edition. Edited by Helen Wallace and William Wallace. Oxford University Press, 2000. 610 pp.

Public Attitudes Toward Immigration in the United States, France, and Germany. By Joel S. Fetzer. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 154 pp.

Realignment and Party Revival: Understanding American Electoral Politics at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century. By Arthur Paulson. Praeger, 2000. 376 pp.

Religion, Economics, and Public Policy: Ironies, Tragedies, and Absurdities of the Contemporary Culture Wars. By Andrew D. Walsh. Praeger, 2000. 168 pp.

The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States. By Alexander Keyssar. Basic Books, 2000. 448 pp.

Shades of Citizenship: Race and the Census in Modern Politics. By Melissa Nobles. Stanford University Press, 2000. 248 pp.

The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years. By Joseph A. Califano, Jr. Texas A&M University Press, 2000. 416 pp.

The U.S. Supreme Court and the Electoral Process. Edited by David K. Ryden. Georgetown University Press, 2000. 336 pp.

What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality. By Benjamin I. Page and James R. Simmons. The University of Chicago Press, 2000. 409 pp.

Why the White Working Class Still Matters: America's Forgotton Majority. By Ruy Teixeira and Joel Rogers. Basic Books, 2000. 173 pp.

Africa

Compatible Cultural Democracy: The Key to Development in Africa. By Daniel T. Osabu-Kle. Broadview, 2000. 317 pp.

Congo-Paris: Transnational Traders on the Margins of the Law. By Janet MacGaffey and Rémy Bazenguissa-Ganga. Indiana University Press, 2000. 206 pp.

Constituting Democracy: Law, Globalism, and South Africa's Political Reconstruction. By Heinz Klug. Cambridge University Press, 2000. 182 pp.

The Politics of Transition: A Hidden History of South Africa's Negotiated Settlement. By Richard Spitz with Matthew Chaskalson. Halt, 2000. 461 pp.

Seeking Protection: Addressing Sexual and Domestic Violence in Tanzania's Refugee Camps. By Human Rights Watch. Human Rights Watch, 2000. 151...

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