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.
Advanced Democracies
Affluence and Influence: Economic Inequality and Political Power in America. By Martin Gilens. Princeton University Press, 2012. 329 pp.
After the Third Way: The Future of Social Democracy in Europe. Edited by Olaf Cramme and Patrick Diamond. I.B. Tauris, 2012. 288 pp.
Africa
Governing Africa’s Changing Societies: Dynamics of Reform. Edited by Ellen Lust and Stephen N. Ndegwa. Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2012. 243 pp.
Party Politics and Economic Reform in Africa’s Democracies. By M. Anne Pitcher. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 305 pp.
The Power of Interdependence: Lessons From Africa. By David Oladipupo Kuranga. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 188 pp.
Asia
Malaysia in the World Economy, 1824–2011: Capitalism, Ethnic Divisions, and “Managed” Democracy. By Azlan Tajuddin. Lexington Books, 2012. 272 pp.
Student Activism in Asia: Between Protest and Powerlessness. By Meredith L. Weiss and Edward Aspinall. University of Minnesota Press, 2012. 318 pp.
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Civil Society in Communist Eastern Europe: Opposition and Dissent in Totalitarian Regimes. By Matt Killingsworth. ECPR Press, 2012. 173 pp.
The Color Revolutions. By Lincoln Abraham Mitchell. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 243 pp.
The End and the Beginning: The Revolutions of 1989 and the Resurgence of History. By Vladimir Tismaneanu and Bogdan Iacob. Central European University Press, 2012. 594 pp.
Ethnic Struggle, Coexistence, and Democratization in Eastern Europe. By Sherrill Stroschein. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 289 pp.
Forging Rights in a New Democracy: Ukrainian Students Between Freedom and Justice. By Anna Fournier. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. 214 pp.
Liberating Kosovo: Coercive Diplomacy and U.S. Intervention. By David L. Phillips. MIT Press, 2012. 232 pp.
Party System Formation in Kazakhstan: Between Formal and Informal Politics. By Rico Isaac. Routledge, 2011. 218 pp. [End Page 174]
Political Corruption in Eastern Europe: Politics After Communism. By Tatiana Kostadinova. Lynne Rienner, 2012. 303 pp.
Politics of the European Union in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Between Conflict and Democracy. By Doğa Ulaş Eralp. Lexington Books, 2012. 135 pp.
Solidarity: The Great Workers Strike of 1980. By Michael Szporer. Lexington Books, 2012. 345 pp.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Bribes, Bullets, and Intimidation: Drug Trafficking and the Law in Central America. By Julie Marie Bunck and Michael Ross Fowler. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2012. 431 pp.
In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America. Edited by Cynthia Arnson. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2012. 430 pp.
The Rise of Ethnic Politics in Latin America. By Raúl L. Madrid. Cambridge University Press. 239 pp.
Violence, Coercion, and State-Making in Twentieth-Century Mexico: The Other Half of the Centaur. Edited by Wil G. Pansters. Stanford University Press, 2012. 378 pp.
Middle East
Arab Society in Revolt: The West’s Mediterranean Challenge. Edited by Cesare Merlini and Olivier Roy. Brookings Institution Press, 2012. 268 pp.
Democratization in the Arab World: Prospects and Lessons From Around the Globe. By Laurel Miller et al. Rand, 2012. 373 pp.
A History of Libya. New Edition. By John Wright. Columbia University Press, 2012. 267 pp.
Revolt in Syria: Eye-Witness to the Uprising. By Stephen Starr. Columbia University Press, 2012. 226 pp.
Comparative, Theoretical, General
Against Democracy: Literary Experience in the Era of Emancipations. By Simon During. Fordham University Press, 2012. 181 pp.
Confirming Elections: Creating Confidence and Integrity Through Election Auditing. Edited by R. Michael Alvarez, Lonna Rae Atkeson, and Thad E. Hall. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 184 pp.
Contemporary Confucian Political Philosophy: Toward Progressive Confucianism. By Stephen C. Angle. Polity, 2012. 204 pp.
Demobilizing Irregular Forces. By Eric Y. Shibuya. Polity, 2012. 167 pp.
Democracy in What State? By Giorgio Agamben et al. Columbia University Press, 2012. 130 pp.
Exporting the Matrix: The Campaign to Reform Media Laws Abroad. Edited by Richard N. Winfield. Carolina Academic Press, 2012. 131 pp. [End Page 175]
Former Leaders in Modern Democracies: Political Sunsets. Edited by Kevin Theakston and Jouke de Vries. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 254 pp.
International Mediation. By J. Michael Grieg and Paul F. Diehl. Polity, 2012. 224 pp.
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