Book Reviews: American Politics
The Limits of Judicial Independence. By Tom S. Clark. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 356p. $90.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.
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Building the Body Politic: Power and Urban Space in Washington, D.C. By Margaret E. Farrar. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2008. 192p. $45.00. - Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City. By Robert Gottlieb. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2007. 464p. $62.00 cloth, $26.95 paper. - This Could Be the Start of Something Big: How Social Movements for Regional Equity Are Reshaping Metropolitan America. By Manuel Pastor, Jr., Chris Benner, and Martha Matsuoka. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 272p. $62.95 cloth, $19.95 paper.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 718-720
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To Secure the Liberty of the People: James Madison's Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court's Interpretation. By Eric T. Kasper. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2010. 311p. $38.00.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 720-722
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Beyond Ideology: Politics, Principles, and Partisanship in the U.S. Senate. By Frances E. Lee. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 264p. $22.00.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 722-723
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Crimes of Dissent: Civil Disobedience, Criminal Justice, and the Politics of Conscience. By Jarrett Lovell. New York: New York University Press, 2009. 239p. $75.00 cloth, $23.00 paper.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 723-724
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The Politics of Exclusion: The Failure of Race-Neutral Policies in Urban America. By Leland T. Saito. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2009. 296p. $60.00 cloth, $22.95 paper.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 724-726
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The Public Policy Theory Primer. By Kevin B. Smith and Christopher W. Larimer. Boulder, CO: Westview, 2009. 256p. $33.00.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 726-727
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Merely Judgment: Ignoring, Evading, and Trumping the Supreme Court. By Martin Sweet. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010. 224p. $35.00.
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Book Reviews: Comparative Politics
After Khomeini: Iran Under His Successors. By Saïd Amir Arjomand. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. 268p. $24.95. - Iran's Intellectual Revolution. By Mehran Kamrava. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 267p. $85.00 cloth, $35.99 paper. - Democracy in Modern Iran: Islam, Culture, and Political Change. By Ali Mirsepassi. New York: New York University Press, 2010. 219p. $42.00.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 729-731
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Tax Evasion and the Rule of Law in Latin America: The Political Culture of Cheating and Compliance in Argentina and Chile. By Marcelo Bergman. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 2009. 280p. $65.00. - War, Revenue and State Building: Financing the Development of the American State. By Sheldon D. Pollack. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press. 2009. 328p. $24.95.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 731-733
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Dismantling Democracy in Venezuela: The Chávez Authoritarian Experiment. By Allan R. Brewer-Carías. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 418p. $115.00 cloth, $39.99 paper.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 733-734
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Latin America's Left Turns: Politics, Policies, and Trajectories of Change. Edited by Maxwell A. Cameron and Eric Hershberg. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2010. 289p. $68.50 cloth, $27.50 paper. - Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings. Edited by Kurt Weyland, Raúl L. Madrid, and Wendy Hunter. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 232p. $85.00 cloth, $25.99 paper.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 734-736
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Organizing at the Margins: The Symbolic Politics of Labor in South Korea and the United States. By Jennifer Jihye Chun. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 221p. $35.00. - State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy: Egypt, Poland, Mexico, and the Czech Republic. By Agnieszka Paczyńska. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009. 288p. $55.00. - States' Gains, Labor's Losses: China, France, and Mexico Choose Global Liaisons, 1980–2000. By Dorothy J. Solinger. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009. 245p. $45.00.
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The Sources of Democratic Responsiveness in Mexico. By Matthew R. Cleary. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2010. 272p. $28.00. - Poverty of Democracy: The Institutional Roots of Political Participation in Mexico. By Claudio A. Holzner. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2010. 304p. $26.95.
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Venezuela's Chavismo and Populism in Comparative Perspective. By Kirk A. Hawkins. New York: Cambridge University Press. 2010. 290p. $64.00.
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Creative State: Forty Years of Migration and Development Policy in Morocco and Mexico. By Natasha Iskander. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010. 392p. $29.95.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 742-743
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The Voter's Dilemma and Democratic Accountability: Latin America and Beyond. By Mona Lyne. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 302p. $29.95.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 744-745
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Democratic Participation in Rural Tanzania and Zambia: The Impact of Civic Education. By Satu Riutta. Boulder, CO: First Forum, 2009. 225p. $59.95.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 745-746
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The Politics of Protest in Hybrid Regimes: Managing Dissent in Post-Communist Russia. By Graeme B. Robertson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 285p. $90.00.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 746-748
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Political Power and Women's Representation in Latin America. By Leslie A. Schwindt-Bayer. New York: Oxford University Press, 2010. 262p. $65.00.
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- 20 September 2011, pp. 748-749
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