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.
Books Received
Advanced Democracies
Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society. By Robert Higgs. Independent Institute, 2004. 424 pp.
The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s–1920s. By Liette Gidlow. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 260 pp.
Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought. By Bob Pepperman Taylor. University of Kansas Press, 2004. 196 pp.
Claiming the Mantle: How Presidential Nominations Are Won and Lost Before the Votes Are Cast. By R. Lawrence Butler. Westview, 2004. 195 pp.
Congress: The Electoral Connection. 2nd ed. By David R. Mayhew. Yale University Press, 2004. 194 pp.
The Congressional Experience. 3rd ed. By David E. Price. Westview, 2004. 336 pp.
The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed. By Ivan Eland. Independent Institute, 2004. 294 pp.
For the Many or the Few: The Initiative, Public Policy, and American Democracy. By John G. Matsusaka. University of Chicago Press, 2004. 206 pp.
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy. By Kenneth T. Andrews. University of Chicago Press, 2004. 265 pp.
Philosophy of the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. By Gordon L. Anderson. Paragon House, 2004. 320 pp.
The Policy Partnership: Presidential Elections and American Democracy. By Bruce Buchanan. Routledge, 2004. 140 pp.
Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn about Politics. By Vincent L. Hutchings. Princeton University Press, 2003. 171 pp.
Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count: Electoral System Reform in Canada and Its Provinces. Edited by Henry Milner. Broadview, 2004. 319 pp.
That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution. Edited by Christopher Wolfe. Princeton University Press, 2004. 256 pp.
What’s Wrong with America? How the Rich and Powerful Have Changed America and Now Want to Change the World. By Jonathan Neale. Vision Paperbacks, 2004. 282 pp.
Africa
Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Lynne Rienner, 2004. 273 pp.
The Heart and Soul of the Party: Candidate Selection in Ghana and Africa. By Magnus Öhman. Uppsala University Press, 2004. 313 pp.
Traditional Leadership and Democratisation in Southern Africa: A Comparative Study of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. By Sandra Dusing. Transaction, 2002. 408 pp.
Asia
Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good. By Wm. Theodore de Bary. Harvard University Press, 2004. 272 pp.
Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture. By Young Whan Kihl. M.E. Sharpe, 2004. 404 pp.
Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia. By Garry Rodan. Routledge Curzon, 2004. 261 pp.
Will China Become Democratic? Elite, Class, and Regime Transition. By Zheng Yongnian. Eastern Universities Press, 2004. 372 pp.
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform. By Michael McFaul, Nikolai Petrov, and Andrei Ryabov. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004. 364 pp.
Nations in Transit 2004: Democratization in East Central Europe and Eurasia. New Edition. Edited by Alexander Motyl and Amanda Schnetzer. Freedom House, 2004. 666 pp.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America—Revisited. Edited by Howard J. Wiarda. University Press of Florida, 2004. 351 pp.
Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions. By Todd A. Eisenstadt. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 354 pp.
Mexico’s Democracy at Work: Political and Economic Dynamics. Edited by Russell Crandall, Guadalupe Paz, and Riordan Roett. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 232 pp.
Mexico’s New Politics: The PAN and Democratic Change. By David A. Shirk. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 279 pp.
Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America. By Kathryn Sikkink. Century Foundation, 2004. 259 pp.
Politics Beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America. By Kent Eaton. Stanford University Press, 2004. 267 pp.
Middle East
The Battle of Ideas in the War on Terror: Essays on U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East. By Robert Satloff. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2004. 106 pp.
Iraq from Monarchy to Tyranny: From Hashemites to the Rise of Saddam. By Michael Eppel. University Press...
