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 CIA and the Politics of US Intelligence Reform. By Brent Durbin. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 330 pp.
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First to the Party: The Group Origins of Political Transformation. By Christopher Baylor. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. 321 pp.
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Impeachment: A Citizen's Guide. By Cass R. Sunstein. Harvard University Press, 199 pp.
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Making Sense of the Alt-Right. By George Hawley. Columbia University Press, 2017. 218 pp.
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Political Opportunities for Climate Policy: California, New York, and the Federal Government. By Roger Karapin. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 344 pp.
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Africa
Boko Haram: The History of an African Jihadist Movement. By Alexander Thurston. Princeton University Press, 2018. 333 pp. [End Page 173]
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Burkina Faso: A History of Power, Protest, and Revolution. By Ernest Harsch. Zed Books, 2017. 287 pp.
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Asia
The Contentious Public Sphere: Law, Media, and Authoritarian Rule in China. By Ya-Wen Lei. Princeton University Press, 2018. 284 pp.
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South Korea's New Nationalism: The End of "One Korea"? By Emma Campbell. Lynne Rienner, 2016. 226 pp.
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Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Regime Dynamics in EU's Eastern Neighbourhood: EU Democracy Promotion, International Influences, and Domestic Contexts. By Sergiu Buscaneanu. Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. 270 pp.
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Latin America and the Caribbean
Democracy and its Discontents in Latin America. Edited by Joe Foweraker and Dolores Trevizo. Lynne Rienner, 2017. 325 pp.
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Democratic Brazil Divided. Edited by Peter R. Kingstone and Timothy J. Power. University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017. 301 pp.
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Regime Support Beyond the Balance Sheet: Participation and Policy Performance in Latin America. By Matthew Rhodes-Purdy. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 268 pp.
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The Resurgence of Populism in Latin America. By Robert R. Barr. Lynne Rienner, 2017. 251 pp.
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State Crisis in Fragile Democracies: Polarization and Political Regimes in South America. By Samuel Handlin. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 321 pp.
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Venezuela's Polarized Politics: The Paradox of Direct Democracy Under Chávez. By Ana L. Mallen and María Pilar García-Guadilla. Lynne Rienner, 2017. 171 pp.
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Comparative, Theoretical, General
The Anticorruption Report 4: Beyond the Panama Papers. The Performance of EU Good Governance Promotion. Edited by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi and Jana Warkotsch. Barbara Budrich Publishers, 2017. 127 pp.
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Campaigning Culture and the Global Cold War: The Journals of the Congress for Cultural Freedom. Edited by Giles Scott-Smith and Charlotte Lerg. Pal-grave Macmillan, 2017. 331 pp. [End Page 174]
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Conservative Parties and the Birth of Democracy. By Daniel Ziblatt. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 427 pp.
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Constraining Elites in Russia and Indonesia: Political Participation and Regime Survival. By Danielle N. Lussier. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 313 pp.
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Exclusion by Elections: Inequality, Ethnic Identity, and Democracy. By John D. Huber. Cambridge University Press, 2017. 204 pp.
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How to Do Things with International Law. By Ian Hurd. Princeton University Press, 2017. 187 pp.
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Militants, Criminals, and Warlords: The Challenge of Local Governance in an Age of Disorder. By Vanda Felbab-Brown, Harold Trinkunas, and Shadi Hamid. Brookings Institution Press, 2017. 177 pp.
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Nothing Ever Dies: Vietnam and the Memory of War. By Viet Thanh Nguyen. Harvard University Press, 2016. 374 pp.
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The Ordinary Virtues: Moral Order in a Divided World. By Michael Ignatieff. Harvard University Press, 2017. 263 pp.
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Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World. Edited by Nancy Bermeo and Deborah J. Yashar. Cambridge University Press, 2016. 227 pp.
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Secularism: Politics, Religion, and Freedom. By Andrew Copson. Oxford University Press, 2017. 153 pp.
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The Sovereignty Wars: Reconciling America with the World. By Stewart Patrick. Brookings Institution Press, 2018. 336 pp.
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Teachers of the People: Political Education in Rousseau, Hegel, Tocqueville, and Mill. By Dana Villa. University of Chicago Press, 2017. 367 pp.
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Transitions to Good Governance: Creating Virtuous Circles of Anti-Corruption. Edited by...
