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
Campaign Strategy in Direct Democracy. By Laurent Bernhard. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 255 pp.
Civility and Democracy in America: A Reasonable Understanding. Edited by Cornell W. Clayton and Richard Elgar. Washington State University Press, 2012. 167 pp.
Immigrant Struggles, Immigrant Gifts. Edited by Diane Portnoy, Barry Portnoy, and Charles Riggs. GMU Press, 2012. 252 pp.
Occupy the Future. Edited by David B. Grutsky et al. MIT Press, 2013. 280 pp.
Africa
The Horn of Africa: Intra-State and Inter-State Conflicts and Security. Edited by Redie Bereketeab. Pluto Press, 2013. 208 pp.
Multiethnic Coalitions in Africa: Business Financing of Opposition Election Campaigns. By Leonardo R. Arriola. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 304 pp.
Nigeria’s Democratic Experience in the Fourth Republic Since 1999: Policies and Politics. Edited by A. Sat Obiyan and Kunle Amuwo. University Press of America, 2013. 485 pp.
Voting and Democratic Citizenship in Africa. Edited by Michael Bratton. Lynne Rienner, 2013. 321 pp.
Voting in Fear: Electoral Violence in Sub-Saharan Africa. Edited by Dorina A. Bekoe. USIP Press, 2012. 267 pp.
Asia
China’s Foreign Policy: Who Makes It, and How Is It Made? Edited by Gilbert Rozman. Asan Institute for Policy Studies, 2012. 341 pp.
Citizenship and Its Discontents: An Indian History. By Niraja Gopal Jayal. Harvard University Press, 2013. 366 pp.
Democratization and Civilian Control in Asia. By Aurel Croissant et al. Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 269 pp.
The KMT Returns to Power: Elections in Taiwan 2008 to 2012. By John F. Copper. Lexington Books, 2013. 251 pp.
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World. Interviews and selections by Graham Allison and Robert D. Blackwill, with Ali Wyne. MIT Press, 2012. 186 pp. [End Page 174]
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.
The Devil in History: Communism, Fascism, and Some Lessons of the Twentieth Century. By Vladimir Tismaneanu. University of California Press, 2012. 320 pp.
Transitional Justice in Post-Communist Romania: The Politics of Memory. By Lavinia Stan. Cambridge University Press, 2013. 288 pp.
Yugoslavia’s Implosion: The Fatal Attraction of Serbian Nationalism. By Sonja Biserko. The Norwegian Helsinki Committee, 2012. 344 pp.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Diffusion of Good Government: Social Sector Reforms in Brazil. By Natasha Borges Sugiyama. University of Notre Dame Press, 2013. 265 pp.
Metropolitan Governance in the Federalist Americas: Strategies for Equitable and Integrated Development. Edited by Peter K. Spink, Peter M. Ward, and Robert H. Wilson. University of Notre Dame Press, 2012. 311 pp.
New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Voice and Consequence. Edited by Maxwell A. Cameron, Eric Hershberg, and Kenneth E. Sharpe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 263 pp.
Religion and State Formation in Postrevolutionary Mexico. By Ben Fallaw. Duke University Press, 2013. 329 pp.
Middle East
Beyond the Two-State Solution: A Jewish Political Essay. By Yehouda Shenhav. Polity, 2012. 237 pp.
Civil Society in Syria and Iran: Activism in Authoritarian Contexts. Edited by Paul Aarts and Francesco Cavatorta. Lynne Rienner, 2013. 259 pp.
Egypt’s Tahrir Revolution. Edited by Dan Tschirgi, Walid Kazziha, and Sean F. McMahon. Lynne Rienner, 2013. 287 pp.
Islam and the Foundations of Political Power. By Ali Abdel Razek. Edited by Abdou Filali-Ansary. Translated by Maryam Loutfi. Edinburgh University Press, 2012. 131 pp.
The Impacts of Lasting Occupation: Lessons from Israeli Society. Edited by Daniel Bar-Tal and Izhak Schnell. Oxford University Press, 2013. 576 pp.
The One-State Condition: Occupation and Democracy in Israel/Palestine. By Ariella Azoulay and Adi Ophir. Stanford University Press, 2013. 316 pp.
Winds of Democratic Change in the Mediterranean? Processes, Actors and Possible Outcomes. Edited by Stefania Panebianco and Rosa Rossi. Rubbettino, 2012. 381 pp. [End Page 175]
Comparative, Theoretical, General
Comparisons, Regimes, Elections: Festschrift for Lauri Karvonen. Edited by Carsten Anckar and Dag Anckar. Åbo Akademi University Press, 2012. 353 pp.
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