Book Reviews: Political Theory
Taming the Leviathan: The Reception of the Political and Religious Ideas of Thomas Hobbes in England 1640–1700. By Jon Parkin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 472p. $115.00. - Language, Mind and Nature: Artificial Languages in England from Bacon to Locke. By Rhodri Lewis. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 286p. $96.00.
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Defining Environmental Justice: Theories, Movements, and Nature. By David Schlosberg. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. 256p. $99.00.
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Nietzsche's Political Skepticism. By Tamsin Shaw. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 159p. $24.95.
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- 18 August 2008, pp. 596-597
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The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America. By Michael J. Thompson. New York: Columbia University Press, 2007. 264p. $32.50.
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Book Reviews: American Politics
Congress and the Classroom: From the Cold War to “No Child Left Behind.” By Lee W. Anderson. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 214p. $29.95. - See Government Grow: Education Politics from Johnson to Reagan. By Gareth Davies. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. 387p. $39.95. - To Educate a Nation: Federal and National Strategies of School Reform. Edited by Carl F. Kaestle and Alyssa E. Lodewick. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007. 320p. $40.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
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When the Press Fails: Political Power and the News Media from Iraq to Katrina. By W. Lance Bennett, Regina G. Lawrence, and Steven Livingston. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 278p. $22.50.
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The Working Landscape: Founding, Preservation, and the Politics of Place. By Peter F. Cannavò. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007. 416 pp. $28.00.
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Nations of Emigrants: Shifting Boundaries of Citizenship in El Salvador and the United States. By Susan Bibler Coutin. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007. 288p. $59.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. - Boricua Power: A Political History of Puerto Ricans in the United States. By Jose Ramon Sanchez. New York: New York University Press, 2007. $70.00 cloth, $24.00 paper.
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Web Campaigning. By Kristen A. Foot and Steven M. Schneider. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2006. 287p. $60.00 cloth, $27.50 paper.
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The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism. By Jason Hackworth. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2006. 225p. $59.95 cloth, $22.95 paper. - Noxious New York: The Racial Politics of Urban Health and Environmental Justice. By Julie Sze. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2006. 296p. $60.00 cloth, $24.00 paper.
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Health Care at Risk: A Critique of the Consumer-Driven Movement. By Timothy Stoltzfus Jost. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2007. 288 pp. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.
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The Constitution and America's Destiny. By David Brian Robertson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. 304p. $72.00 cloth, $25.99 paper. - Formative Acts: American Politics in the Making. Edited by Stephen Skowronek and Matthew Glassman. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007. 456p. $65.00.
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The Right Talk: How Conservatives Transformed the Great Society into the Economic Society. By Mark A. Smith. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. 267p. $29.95.
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All in the Family: the Private Roots of American Public Policy. By Patricia Strach. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 264p. $50.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.
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Elephant's Edge: The Republicans as a Ruling Party. By Andrew J. Taylor. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2005. 336p. $46.95.
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Book Reviews: Comparative Politics
Party Building in the Modern Middle East. By Michele Penner Angrist. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2006. 224p. $50.00.
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Drugs and Democracy in Rio de Janeiro: Trafficking, Social Networks, and Public Policy. By Enrique Desmond Arias. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 304p. $59.95 cloth, $22.50 paper.
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Durable Disorder: Understanding the Politics of Northeast India. By Sanjib Baruah. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. 286p. $35.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.
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Intimate Enemies: Landowners, Power, and Violence in Chiapas. By Aaron Bobrow-Strain. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2007. 288p. $79.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.
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The Prospects for Liberal Nationalism in Post-Leninist States. By Cheng Chen. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 216p. $55.00.
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- 18 August 2008, pp. 619-620
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