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

The American Constitution and the Debate over Originalism. By Dennis J. Goldford. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 305 pp.

The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy. By Murray Friedman. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 303 pp.

The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush. By Dale R. Herspring. University of Kansas Press, 2005. 490 pp.

Voting the Agenda: Candidates, Elections, and Ballot Propositions. By Stephen Nicholson. Princeton University Press, 2005. 208 pp.

Africa

The Collapse of Zimbabwe in the Wake of the 2000–2003 Land Reforms. By Craig Richardson. Edwin Mellen, 2004. 172 pp.

Constitutionalism and Society in Africa. Edited by Okon Akiba. Ashgate, 2004. 186 pp.

Politics in Southern Africa: State and Society in Transition. By Gretchen Bauer and Scott D. Taylor. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 400 pp.

Undermining Development: The Absence of Power Among Local NGOs in Africa. By Sarah Michael. Indiana University Press, 2005. 218 pp.

Asia

China Inside Out: Contemporary Chinese Nationalism and Transnationalism. Edited by Pal Nyiri and Joana Breidenbach. Central European University Press, 2005. 354 pp.

Crime, Punishment, and Policing in China. Edited by Borge Bakken. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 224 pp.

Divided Korea: Toward a Culture of Reconciliation. By Roland Bleiker. University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 179 pp.

Modern Mongolia: From Khans to Commissars to Capitalists. By Morris Rossabi. University of California Press, 2005. 397 pp.

Power and Political Culture in Suharto’s Indonesia: The Indonesian Democratic Party (PDI) and the Decline of the New Order (1986–98). By Stefan Eklöf. Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Press, 2003. 352 pp.

Values and Life Styles in Urban Asia: A Cross-Cultural Analysis and Sourcebook Based on the Asia Barometer Survey of 2003. Edited by Takashi Inoguchi et al. Institute of Oriental Culture, 2005. 503 pp.

Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union

From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland. By Susan Rose-Ackerman. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 272 pp.

Imagining Postcommunism: Visual Narratives of Hungary’s 1956 Revolution. By Beverly A. James. Texas A&M University Press, 2005. 201 pp.

Inside Putin’s Russia: Can There Be Reform Without Democracy? By Andrew Jack. Oxford University Press, 2004. 362 pp.

Institutional Capital: Building Post-Communist Government Performance. By Laura Brunell. University Press of America, 2004. 270 pp.

Putin’s Russia: Revised and Expanded Edition. By Lilia Shevtsova. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005. 457 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Contesting Citizenship in Latin America: The Rise of Indigenous Movements and the Postliberal Challenge. By Deborah J. Yashar. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 365 pp.

Democracy in Latin America: Political Change in Comparative Perspective. By Peter H. Smith. Oxford University Press, 2005. 380 pp.

Learning Democracy: Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990–2001. By Leslie E. Anderson and Lawrence C. Dodd. University of Chicago Press, 2005. 370 pp.

Liberty for Latin America: How to Undo Five Hundred Years of State Oppression. By Alvaro Vargas Llosa. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005. 276 pp.

The Rise and Fall of Venezuelan President Carlos Andrés Pérez: The Later Years 1973–2004. By H. Michael Tarver. Edwin Mellen, 2005. 156 pp.

Women and Politics in Chile. By Susan Franceschet. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 201 pp.

Middle East

Civil Society in the Muslim World: Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by Amyn Sajoo. I.B. Tauris, 2004. 339 pp.

Modernity, Islam, and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies, Places, and Time. By Alev Çinar. University of Minnesota Press, 2005. 197 pp.

Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics. By Yesim Arat. State University of New York, 2005. 150 pp.

Comparative, General, and Theoretical

Building Democratic Institutions: Governance Reform in Developing Countries. By G. Shabbir Cheema. Kumarian, 2005. 288 pp.

Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition. By John Durham Peters. Chicago University Press, 2005. 309 pp.

Defending Democracy: Reactions to Extremism in Interwar Europe. By Giovanni Capoccia. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 335 pp.

Democracy: A Beginner’s Guide. By David Beetham. OneWorld, 2005. 194 pp.

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