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
The Adversary First Amendment: Free Expression and the Foundations of American Democracy. By Martin H. Redish. Stanford University Press, 2013. 238 pp.
America’s Right: Anti-Establishment Conservatism from Goldwater to the Tea Party. By Robert B. Horwitz. Polity, 2013. 279 pp.
By-Elections in British Politics, 1832–1914. Edited by T.G. Otte and Paul Readman. Boydell, 2013. 306 pp.
Congress: A Performance Appraisal. By Andrew J. Taylor. Westview, 2013. 262 pp.
Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving. By E. Scott Adler and John D. Wilkerson. Cambridge University Press, 2012. 246 pp.
Philosophy and Resistance in the Crisis: Greece and the Future of Europe. By Costas Douzinas. Polity, 2013. 234 pp.
Political Bubbles: Financial Crises and the Failure of American Democracy. By Nolan McCarty, Keith T. Poole, and Howard Rosenthal. Princeton University Press, 2013. 356 pp.
Politics of the American Dream: Democratic Inclusion in Contemporary American Political Culture. By Cyril Ghosh. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 240 pp.
Asia
Avoiding Armageddon: America, India, and Pakistan to the Brink and Back. By Bruce Riedel. Brookings Institution, 2013. 230 pp.
Civil Society in China: The Legal Framework from Ancient Times to the “New Reform Era.” By Karla W. Simon. Oxford University Press, 2013. 502 pp.
Conceptions of Chinese Democracy: Reading Sun Yat-sen, Chiang Kai-shek, and Chiang Ching-kuo. By David J. Lorenzo. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. 257 pp.
The Logic and Limits of Political Reform in China. By Joseph Fewsmith. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 219 pp.
Social Organizations and the Authoritarian State in China. By Timothy Hildebrandt. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 217 pp.
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Constitution for a Disunited Nation: On Hungary’s 2011 Fundamental Law. Edited by Gábor Attila Tóth. Central European University Press, 2012. 570 pp.
Critical Thinking in Slovakia After Socialism. By Jonathan L. Larson. University of Rochester Press, 2013. 240 pp. [End Page 175]
Fragile Empire: How Russia Fell In and Out of Love with Vladimir Putin. By Ben Judah. Yale University Press, 2013. 379 pp.
Rediscovering the Umma: Muslims in the Balkans between Nationalism and Transnationalism. By Ina Merdjanova. Oxford University Press, 2013. 198 pp.
Restless Valley: Revolution, Murder, and Intrigue in the Heart of Central Asia. By Philip Shishkin. Yale University Press, 2013. 316 pp.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Adiós Niño: The Gangs of Guatemala City and the Politics of Death. By Deborah T. Levenson. Duke University Press, 2013. 183 pp.
Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America. By Stephen B. Kaplan. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 331 pp.
Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights. By Patricia Richards. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. 261 pp.
Speculative Fictions: Chilean Culture, Economics, and the Neoliberal Transition. By Alessandro Fornazzari. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2013. 158 pp.
Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women’s Movement and a Father-Daughter Collaboration. By Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin. Duke University Press, 2013. 184 pp.
Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana: Race and Politics in Two Plural Societies. By Ann Marie Bissessar and John Gaffar La Guerre. Lexington, 2013. 202 pp.
Two Nations Indivisible: Mexico, the United States, and the Road Ahead. By Shannon K. O’Neil. Oxford University Press, 2013. 239 pp.
We Created Chávez: A People’s History of the Venezuelan Revolution. By George Ciccariello-Maher. Duke University Press, 2013. 320 pp.
Middle East
Democracy’s Fourth Wave? Digital Media and the Arab Spring. By Philip N. Howard and Muzammil M. Hussain. Oxford University Press, 2013. 145 pp.
Identity and Nation in Iraq. By Sherko Kirmanj. Lynne Rienner, 2013. 319 pp.
Party Politics and Social Cleavages in Turkey. By Ergun Özbudun. Lynne Rienner, 2013. 155 pp.
The Power and the People: Paths of Resistance in the Middle East. By Charles Tripp. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 385 pp.
The Second Arab Awakening: Revolution, Democracy, and the Islamist Challenge from Tunis to Damascus. By Adeed Dawisha. Norton, 2013. 288 pp.
Tested by Zion: The Bush Administration and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. By Elliot Abrams. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 339...
