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Journal of Democracy 14.2 (2003) 178-180



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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

The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies. Edited by William H. Chafe. Columbia University Press, 2003. 346 pp.

America and the World: Debating the New Shape of International Politics. Council on Foreign Relations, 2002. 389 pp.

The American Direct Primary: Party Institutionalization and Transformation in the North. Alan Ware. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 270 pp.

Australia Reshaped: 200 Years of Institutional Transformation. Edited by Geoffrey Brennan and Francis G. Castles. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 302 pp.

Constitutional Remedies: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution. By Michael L. Wells and Thomas A. Eaton. Praeger, 2002. 266 pp.

Dirty War, Clean Hands: ETA, the GAL and Spanish Democracy. By Paddy Woodworth. Yale University Press, 2002. 475 pp.

The Government and Politics of the European Union. 5th ed. By Neill Nugent. Duke University Press, 2003. 555 pp.

Media Democracy: How the Media Colonize Politics. By Thomas Meyer, with Lew Hinchman. Polity, 2002. 166 pp.

Prohibited Government Acts: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution. By Jack Stark. Praeger, 2002. 173 pp.

State Sovereign Immunity: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution. By Melvin R. Durchslag. Praeger, 2002. 176 pp.

You Call This an Election? America's Peculiar Democracy. By Steven E. Schier. Georgetown University Press, 2003. 166 pp.

Africa

Hidden in Plain View: Refugees Living Without Protection in Nairobi and Kampala. Human Rights Watch, 2002. 208 pp.

Transforming Mozambique: The Politics of Privatization, 1975-2000. By M. Anne Pitcher. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 293 pp.

Asia

Cambodia After the Khmer Rouge: Inside the Politics of Nation-Building. By Evan Gottesman. Yale University Press, 2002. 428 pp.

Politics of Human Rights in Southeast Asia. Philip J. Eldridge. Routledge, 2002. [End Page 178]

The Politics of Power: Freeport in Suharto's Indonesia. By Denise Leith. University of Hawaii Press, 2003. 347 pp.

Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union

A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia. By Alexander N. Yakovlev. Yale University Press, 2002. 272 pp.

The Chechen Wars: Will Russia Go the Way of the Soviet Union? By Matthew Evangelista. Brookings Institution, 2002. 244 pp.

Dilemmas of State-Led Nation Building in Ukraine. Edited by Taras Kuzio and Paul D'Anieri. Praeger, 2002. 250 pp.

The Dilemmas of Dissidence in East-Central Europe. By Barbara J. Falk. Central European University Press, 2003.

The Drama of Russian Political History: System Against Individuality. By Alexander V. Obolonsky. Texas A&M University Press, 2003. 271 pp.

Religion, Nationalism, and Civil Society in Eastern Europe: The Postcommunist Palimpsest. By Ina Merdjanova. Edwin Mellen, 2002. 169 pp.

When Majorities Fail: The Russian Parliament, 1990-1993. Josephine T. Andrews. Cambridge University Press, 2002. 284 pp.

Latin America and the Caribbean

Democracy and Public Space in Latin America. By Leonardo Aritzer. Princeton University Press, 2002. 205 pp.

Democracy Delayed: The Case of Castro's Cuba. By Juan J. Lopez. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002. 296 pp.

Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America. By Kirk S. Bowman. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2002. 289 pp.

Politics in Mexico: The Democratic Transformation. 4th ed. By Roderic Ai Camp. Oxford University Press, 2003. 294 pp.

Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era: Class, Polarization, and Conflict. Edited by Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger. Lynne Rienner, 2003. 259 pp.

Middle East

Civil Society in the Muslim World: Contemporary Perspectives. Edited by Amyn Sajoo. I.B. Tauris, 2002. 339 pp.

Islam and Democracy: The Failure of Dialogue in Algeria. by Frederic Volpi. Pluto Press, 2003. 168 pp.

Stalled Democracy: Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development. By Eva Bellin. Cornell University Press, 2002. 239 pp.

Why Muslims Rebel. By Mohammed M. Hafez. Lynne Rienner, 2003. 240 pp.

Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy, and [End Page 179] Society. Edited by Elaenor Abdella Doumato and Marsha Pripstein Posusney. Lynne Rienner, 2003. 297 pp.

Comparative, Theoretical, General

The Deadly Ethnic Riot. Donald L. Horowitz. University...

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