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The article reviews several books including "Riotous Citizens: Ethnic Conflict in Multicultural Britain," by Paul Bagguley and Yasmin Hussain, "A View from the North: Life, Politics and Faith seen from England's Northernmost Constituency," by Alan Beith, and "Public Services Inspection in the UK," edited by Howard Davis and Steve Martin.

The article reviews several books including "War, the State and International Law in Seventeenth-Century Europe," edited by Olaf Asbach and Peter Schröder, "In Pursuit of Sustainable Development: New Governance Practices at the Sub-national Level in Europe," edited by Susan Baker and Katarina Eckerberg, and "The Role of the European Union in Asia: China and India as Strategic Partners," edited by Bart Gaens, Juha Jokela and Eija Limnell.

The article reviews several books related to the U.S. including "Thomas Jefferson and Executive Power," by Jeremy D. Bailey, "Why We Vote: How Schools and Communities Shape Our Civic Life," by David E. Campbell and "The Presidency in the Era of 24-Hour News," by Jeffrey E. Cohen.

The article reviews several books, including "Losers' Consent: Elections and Democratic Legitimacy," by Christopher J. Anderson, André Blais, Shaun Bowler, Todd Donovan and Ola Listhaug, "The State and Revolution in the Twentieth Century: Major Social Transformations of Our Time," by Berch Berberoglu, and "The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Politics," edited by Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes.

The article reviews several books including "The Australian Electoral System: Origins, Variations and Consequences," by David M. Farell and Ian McAllister, "Being Arab," by Samir Kassi, and "Catastrophe Remembered: Palestine, Israel and the Internal Refugees," edited by Nur Masalha.

The article reviews several books including "The Politics of the Nazi Past in Germany and Austria," by David Art, "Institutions and the Fate of Democracy: Germany and Poland in the Twentieth Century," by Michael Bernhard, and "Between Two Unions: Europeanisation and Scottish Devolution," by Paolo Dardanelli.

The article reviews several books about the North American politics including "Polling America: An Encyclopedia of Public Opinion," edited by Samuel J. Best and Benjamin Radcliff, "Committee Decisions on Monetary Policy: Evidence From Historical Records of the Federal Open Market Committee," by Henry W. Chappell, Rob Roy McGregor and Todd A. Vermilyea and "Advocacy Groups," by Lisa Young and Joanna Everitt.

Books Reviewed George C. Edwards III, WHY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS BAD FOR AMERICA, (ALAN SIAROFF), Alexander T. J. Lennon and Camille Eiss, RESHAPING ROGUE STATES: preemption, regime change, and US policy towards Iran, Iraq and North Korea, (ALEX BELLAMY), Alan Schroeder, CELEBRITY-IN-CHIEF: how show business took over the White House, (AARON COOLEY), Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber, GET OUT THE VOTE: how to increase voter turnout, (PAT LYONS), Mark N. Franklin, VOTER TURNOUT AND THE DYNAMICS OF ELECTORAL COMPETITION IN ESTABLISHED DEMOCRACIES SINCE 1945, (PAT LYONS), David M. Ricci, GOOD CITIZENSHIP IN AMERICA, (YVES LABERGE), Steve A. Yetiv, EXPLAINING FOREIGN POLICY: US decision making and the Persian Gulf War, (LEE MARSDEN), John Lewis Gaddis, SURPRISE, SECURITY, AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, (ERIC J. C. MEIJER), James David Meernik, THE POLITICAL USE OF MILITARY FORCE IN US FOREIGN POLICY, (CLAIRE THOMAS), Thomas M. Magstadt, AN EMPIRE IF YOU CAN KEEP IT: power and principle in American foreign policy, (SAMUEL JACOB KURUVILLA), Paul Hollander (ed.), UNDERSTANDING ANTI-AMERICANISM: its origins and impact at home and abroad, (YVES LABERGE), Robert Harrison, CONGRESS, PROGRESSIVE REFORM, AND THE NEW AMERICAN STATE, (AARON COOLEY), Andrew S. McFarland, NEOPLURALISM: the evolution of political process theory, (JAMES G. MELLON), Christopher J. Insole, THE POLITICS OF HUMAN FRAILTY: a theological defence of political liberalism, (LIFFORD ANGELL BATES, JR.), [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books Reviewed Charles D. Kenney, FUJIMORI's COUP AND THE BREAKDOWN OF DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA, (ALAN SIAROFF), Michael McFaul (ed.), AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM: comparative lessons of transition, (STEFAN WOLFF), Atul Kohli , STATE-DIRECTED DEVELOPMENT: political power and industrialisation in the global periphery, (ANTHONY BUTLER), Frank Esser and Barbara Pfetsch (eds), COMPARING POLITICAL COMMUNICATION: theories, case, and challenges, (YVES LABERGE), Steven Van Hecke and Emmanuel Gerard (eds), CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTIES IN EUROPE SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR, (LUCIAN N. LEUSTEAN), David Laycock (ed.), REPRESENTATION AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY, (ALEXANDRA KELSO), Pradeep K. Chhibber and Ken Kollman, THE FORMATION OF NATIONAL PARTY SYSTEMS: federalism and party competition in Canada, Great Britain, India and the United States, (STEFAN WOLFF), Gėrard Dumenil and Dominique Levy, CAPITAL RESURGENT: roots of the neoliberal revolution, (BRUCE CRONIN), Mathew J. Gibney, THE ETHICS OF POLITICAL ASYLUM: liberal democracy and the response to refugees, (FRASER DUNCAN), Robert Legvold and Celeste A. Wallander (eds), SWORDS AND SUSTENANCE: the economics of security in Belarus and Ukraine, (DARREN LAKE), Richard Bellamy, Dario Castiglione and Emilio Santoro, LINEAGES OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP: rights, belonging and participation in eleven nation-states, (YVES LABERGE), Josep M. Colomer (ed.), HANDBOOK OF ELECTORAL SYSTEM CHOICE, (PETER MAIR), Iftikhar H. Malik, ISLAM AND MODERNITY: Muslims in Europe and the United States, (STEPHEN VERTIGANS), Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr and Herbert Gintis, FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN SOCIALITY: economic experiments and ethnographic evidence from fifteen small-scale societies, (MIN SHU), Joyce Outshoorn (ed.), THE POLITICS OF PROSTITUTION: women's movements, democratic states and the globalisation of sex commerce, (FLAVIA MONCERI), Scott Morgenstern, PATTERNS OF LEGISLATIVE POLITICS: roll-call voting in Latin America and the United States, (MARTIN EJNAR HANSEN), R. Daniel Kelemen, THE RULES OF FEDERALISM: institutions and regulatory politics in the EU and beyond, (SCOTT L. GREER), Lee Ward, THE POLITICS OF LIBERTY IN ENGLAND AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA, (CLIFFORD ANGELL BATES, JR.), Robert W. Jackman, BEFORE NORMS: institutions and civic culture, (SUJAY GHOSH), [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books Reviewed Adrian Guelke, RETHINKING THE RISE AND FALL OF APARTHEID, (ANTHONY BUTLER), Larbi Sadiki, THE SEARCH FOR ARAB DEMOCRACY, (SAMUEL JACOB KURUVILLA), James L. Gibson, OVERCOMING APARTHEID: can truth reconcile a divided nation?, (ADRIAN GUELKE), Tatah Mentan, DILEMMAS OF WEAK STATES: Africa and transnational terrorism in the twenty-first century, (ELLIOTT GREEN), Richard Gott, CUBA: a new history, (JORGE I. DOMÍNGUEZ), Dmitri V. Trenin and Aleksei V. Malashenko, RUSSIA's RESTLESS FRONTIER: the Chechnya factor in post-Soviet Russia, (DAVID J. GALBREATH), Kathleen Kuehnast and Carol Nechemias (eds), POST-SOVIET WOMEN ENCOUNTERING TRANSITION: nation building, economic survival and civic activism, (JENNY R. WÜSTENBERG), Daniel Heradstveit and Helge Hveem (eds), OIL IN THE GULF: obstacle to democracy and development, (GERD NONNEMAN), Ashutosh Varshney (ed.), INDIA AND THE POLITICS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES, (ROGÉRIO DE SOUZE FARIAS), Helen Irving, FIVE THINGS TO KNOW ABOUT THE AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION, (MATT QVORTRUP), Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, SHARING THE LAND OF CANAAN: human rights of the Israeli–Palestinian struggle, (SAMUEL JACOB KURUVILLA), Jennifer L. McCoy and David J. Myers (eds) THE UNRAVELLING OF REPRESENTATIVE DEMOCRACY IN VENEZUELA, (ALAN SIAROFF), Aled De Waal (ed.), ISLAMISM AND ITS ENEMIES IN THE HORN OF AFRICA, (STEPHEN VERTIGANS), Guillermo O’Donnell, Jorg Vargas Cullell and Osvaldo M. Iazzetta, THE QUALITY OF DEMOCRACY, (SEAN HANLEY), [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews several books including "Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic," by Jeremy Adelman, "Israeli Politics and the First Palestinian Intifada: Political Opportunities, Framing Processes and Contentious Politics," by Eitan Y. Alimi and "Voting for Autocracy: Hegemonic Party Survival and Its Demise in Mexico," by Beatriz Magaloni.