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
Local Voices / Global Perspectives: Challenges Ahead for U.S. International Media. Edited by Alan L. Heil, Jr. Public Diplomacy Council, 2008. 183 pp.
Democracy Inc.: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism. By Sheldon S. Wolin. Princeton University Press, 2008. 356 pp.
European Unions: Labor’s Quest for Transnational Democracy. By Roland Erne. Cornell University Press, 2008. 260 pp.
The Future of Human Rights: U.S. Policy for a New Era. Edited by William F. Schulz. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 288 pp.
The Persuadable Voter: Wedge Issues in Presidential Campaigns. By D. Sunshine Hillygus and Todd G. Shields. Princeton University Press, 2008. 249 pp.
Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making. By Rose McDermott. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 334 pp. [End Page 172]
Red and Blue Nation? Consequences and Correction of America’s Polarized Politics. Edited by Pietro S. Nivola and David W. Brady. Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace and the Brookings Institution, 2008. 320 pp.
Small Change: Money, Political Parties, and Campaign Finance Reform. By Raymond J. La Raja. University of Michigan Press, 2008. 287 pp.
Africa
Brokering Democracy in Africa: The Rise of Clientelist Democracy in Senegal. By Linda J. Beck. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 280 pp.
Faith and Politics in Nigeria: Nigeria as a Pivotal State in the Muslim World. By John N. Paden. U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2008. 140 pp.
Kenya’s Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan. By Makau Mutua. Lynne Rienner, 2008. 329 pp.
Somalia between Jihad and Restoration. By Shaul Shay. Transaction Publishers, 2008. 204 pp.
Traditional Justice and Reconciliation after Violent Conflict: Learning from African Experiences. Edited by Luc Huyse and Mark Salter. International IDEA, 2008. 204 pp.
Asia
Beijing’s Games: What the Olympics Mean to China. By Susan Brownell. Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. 240 pp.
China’s New Confucianism: Politics and Everyday Life in a Changing Society. By Daniel A. Bell. Princeton University Press, 2008. 240 pp.
Contested Democracy and the Left in the Philippines after Marcos. By Nathan Gilbert Quimpo. Yale University Southeast Asia Studies, 2008. 422 pp.
Labor, Democratization and Development in India and Pakistan. By Christopher Candland. Taylor & Francis, 2007. 214 pp.
Legal Reform and Administrative Detention Powers in China. By Sarah Biddulph. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 484 pp.
Nepal in Transition: A Study on the State of Democracy. By Krishna Hachhethu, Sanjay Kumar, and Jiwan Subedi. International IDEA, 2008. 134 pp.
The Road to Democracy in Iran. By Akbar Ganji. MIT Press, 2008. 113 pp.
State of Human Rights in 2007. Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, 2008. 236 pp.
Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union
Central & East European Politics: From Communism to Democracy. Edited by Sharon L. Wolchik and Jane L. Curry. Rowman & Littlefield. 2007. 389 pp.
From Dissident to Party Politics: The Struggle for Democracy in Post-Communist Hungary, 1989–1994. By Bernard Ivan Tamas. East European Monographs, 2007. 240 pp. [End Page 173]
Russia and Globalization: Identity, Security, and Society in an Era of Change. Edited by Douglas W. Blum. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 383 pp.
Yeltsin: A Life. By Timothy J. Colton. Basic Books, 2008. 616 pp.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Institutionalized Regimes in Chile and Mexico, 1970–2000. By Francisco E. González. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. 286 pp.
Judging Policy: Courts and Policy Reform in Democratic Brazil. By Matthew M. Taylor. Stanford University Press, 2008. 227 pp.
Political Violence and the Authoritarian State in Peru. By Jo-Marie Burt. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 286 pp.
Middle East
Beyond the Facade: Political Reform in the Arab World. By Marina Ottaway and Julia Choucair-Vizoso. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2008. 288 pp.
Constitutional Politics in the Middle East: With Special Reference to Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Afghanistan. Edited by Said Amir Arjomand. Hart, 2007. 210 pp.
Contemporary Politics in the Middle East. By Beverly Milton-Edwards. 2nd ed. Polity Press, 2008. 311 pp.
A History of Modern Lebanon. By Fawaz Traboulsi. Pluto Press, 2007. 306 pp.
Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East...
