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Front Cover (OFC, IFC) and matter

 
 

PPS volume 7 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp f1-f10
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991216 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Back Cover (IBC, OBC) and matter

 
 

PPS volume 7 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp b1-b18
doi:10.1017/S153759270999140X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Editors' Notes

 
 

Introduction and Comments

Jeffrey C. Isaac

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 455-458
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990806 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Research Articles

 
 

Americans' Social Policy Preferences in the Era of Rising Inequality

Leslie McCall and Lane Kenworthy

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 459-484
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990818 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Scientific Expertise and the Culture War: Public Opinion and the Teaching of Evolution in the American States

Michael B. Berkman and Eric Plutzer

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 485-499
doi:10.1017/S153759270999082X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Beyond (the Scope of) Conflict: National Black and Latino Advocacy Group Relations in the Congressional and Legal Arenas

Rodney E. Hero and Robert R. Preuhs

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 501-517
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990831 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Looking for Sex in All the Wrong Places: Press Coverage and the Electoral Fortunes of Gubernatorial Candidates

Linda L. Fowler and Jennifer L. Lawless

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 519-536
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990843 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Comparing Presidents' Economic Policy Leadership

M. Stephen Weatherford

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 537-560
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990855 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Primacy of Economics versus the Primacy of Politics: Understanding the Ideological Dynamics of the Twentieth Century

Sheri Berman

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 561-578
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990867 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Imagining Terror in an Era of Globalization: U.S. Foreign Policy and the Construction of Terrorism after 9/11

Catherine V. Scott

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 579-590
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990879 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Yeltsin, Putin, and Clinton: Presidential Leadership and Russian Democratization in Comparative Perspective

David W. Rivera and Sharon Werning Rivera

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 591-610
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990880 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Perspectives

 
 

All Politics Is Local: The Reemergence of the Study of City Politics

Jessica Trounstine

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 611-618
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990892 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Review Editor's Introduction

 
 

Review Editor's Introduction

Jeffrey C. Isaac

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 619-620
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991228 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Review Symposium

 
 

Parties, Partisanship, and Democratic Politics

Lisa Disch

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 621-624
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990612 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Parties, Partisanship, and Democratic Politics

John H. Aldrich

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 624-625
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990582 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Parties, Partisanship, and Democratic Politics

Thomas Carothers

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 626-627
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990594 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Parties, Partisanship, and Democratic Politics

Russell J. Dalton

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 628-629
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990600 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Interest Groups, Representation, and American Democracy

Bryan D. Jones

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 631-633
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990090 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Interest Groups, Representation, and American Democracy

Evelyn M. Simien

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 633-634
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990119 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Interest Groups, Representation, and American Democracy

Nadia Urbinati

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 635-636
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990120 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Interest Groups, Representation, and American Democracy

Frances Fox Piven

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 637-638
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990107 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Book Reviews: Political Theory

 
 

The Global Commonwealth of Citizens: Toward Cosmopolitan Democracy. By Daniele Archibugi. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 320p. $29.95.

William E. Scheuerman

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 639-640
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990065 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Rescuing Justice and Equality. By G.A. Cohen. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008. 448p. $45.00.

Peter Stone

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 640-641
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990077 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Aquinas and Modernity: The Lost Promise of Natural Law. By Shadia B. Drury. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. 224p. $75.00 cloth, $26.95 paper.

Sovereignty: God, State, and Self. By Jean Bethke Elshtain. New York: Basic Books, 2008. 334p. $35.00.

Timothy Fuller

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 641-643
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990089 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Democratic Professionalism: Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice. By Albert W. Dzur. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 288p. $55.00.

American Pragmatism and Democratic Faith. By Robert J. Lacey. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2008. 296p. $45.00.

Elizabeth K. Minnich

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 643-645
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990764 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and its Critics. By Robert Faulkner. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007. 288p. $30.00.

Andrew Sabl

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 645-647
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990776 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Politics and the Order of Love: An Augustinian Ethic of Democratic Citizenship. By Eric Gregory. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 384p. $45.00.

Peter Augustine Lawler

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 647-649
doi:10.1017/S153759270999123X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Prisoners' Dilemma: Political Economy and Punishment in Contemporary Democracies. By Nicola Lacey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 254p. $61.00 cloth, $25.99 paper.

Jeffrey Reiman

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 649-650
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991241 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Colonial American Origins of Modern Democratic Thought. By J.S. Maloy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 224p. $75.00.

Barry Alan Shain

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 650-652
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991253 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Political Solidarity. By Sally J. Scholz. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 296p. $55.00.

Darren R. Walhof

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 652-653
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990557 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Silence and Democracy: Athenian Politics in Thucydides' History. By John G. Zumbrunnen. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 208p. $45.00.

Jeanne Morefield

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 653-655
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991265 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Book Reviews: American Politics

 
 

The Private Abuse of the Public Interest: Market Myths and Policy Muddles. By Lawrence D. Brown and Lawrence R. Jacobs. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 168p. $40.00 cloth, $15.00 paper.

The Politics of Bad Ideas: The Great Tax Delusion and the Decline of Good Government in America. By Bryan D. Jones and Walter Williams. New York: Pearson Longman, 2008. 384p. $16.95.

Eric M. Patashnik

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 655-657
doi:10.1017/S153759270999003X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Sin, Sex, and Democracy: Antigay Rhetoric and the Christian Right. By Cynthia Burack. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. 224p. $74.50 cloth, $21.95 paper.

Alesha E. Doan

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 657-659
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990491 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Free Labor: Workfare and the Contested Language of Neoliberalism. By John Krinsky. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. 320p. $58.00 cloth, $23.00 paper.

Guian A. McKee

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 659-660
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991277 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Institutional Change in American Politics: The Case of Term Limits. Edited by Karl T. Kurtz, Bruce Cain, and Richard G. Niemi. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007. 240p. $70.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Nancy Martorano

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 660-661
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990508 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Politics of Presidential Appointments: Political Control and Bureaucratic Performance. By David E. Lewis. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 312p. $66.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.

Andrew B. Whitford

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 661-662
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990041 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times. By Scott M. Matheson, Jr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009. 248p. $45.00.

Bad for Democracy: How the Presidency Undermines the Power of the People. By Dana D. Nelson. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 256p. $24.95.

Nancy Kassop

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 662-664
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991289 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Native Vote: American Indians, the Voting Rights Act, and the Right to Vote. By Daniel McCool, Susan M. Olson, and Jennifer L. Robinson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 246p. $84.00 cloth, $25.99 paper.

Kevin Bruyneel

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 664-665
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990788 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Problem of Jobs: Liberalism, Race, and Deindustrialization in Philadelphia. By Guian A. McKee. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 400p. $39.00.

John Krinsky

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 665-666
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991290 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Making of Pro-Life Activists: How Social Movement Mobilization Works. By Ziad W. Munson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009. 248p. $60.00 cloth, $22.50 paper.

Ted G. Jelen

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 666-667
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991307 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

All Roads Lead to Congress: The $300 Billion Fight over Highway Funding. By Costas Panagopoulos and Joshua Schank. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 2008. 220p. $26.95.

Michael Krasner

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 668-669
doi:10.1017/S153759270999051X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Michigan Affirmative Action Cases. By Barbara A. Perry. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2007. 210p. $35.00 cloth, $16.95 paper.

Rosalee A. Clawson

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 669-670
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991319 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Constitution of Electoral Speech Law: The Supreme Court and Freedom of Expression in Campaigns and Elections. By Brian K. Pinaire. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. 368p. $60.00.

Ronald Kahn

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 670-671
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990521 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools. By Mica Pollock. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008. 304p. $29.95.

Dangerous Frames: How Ideas about Race and Gender Shape Public Opinion. By Nicholas J.G. Winter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008. 224p. $45.00 cloth, $18.00 paper.

Joe Soss

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 671-673
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991320 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Democratic Virtues of the Christian Right. By Jon A. Shields. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009. 216p. $29.95.

Ziad Munson

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 673-675
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990533 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Girls on the Stand: How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors. By Helena Silverstein. New York: New York University Press. 2007. 256p. $40.00 cloth, $22.00 paper.

Noelle H. Norton

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 675-676
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990545 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Politics in the Parish: The Political Influence of Catholic Priests. By Gregory Allen Smith. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2008. 272p. $26.95.

Pews, Prayers, and Participation: Religion and Civic Responsibility in America. By Corwin E. Smidt, Kevin R. den Dulk, James M. Penning, Stephen V. Monsma, and Douglas L. Koopman. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2008. 296p. $44.95 cloth, $26.95 paper.

Clyde Wilcox

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 676-677
doi:10.1017/S153759270999048X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Race Relations: A Critique. By Stephen Steinberg. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. 208p. $45.00 cloth, $17.95 paper.

Dorian T. Warren

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 677-679
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990053 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Book Reviews: Comparative Politics

 
 

Brokering Democracy in Africa: The Rise of Clientelist Democracy in Senegal. By Linda J. Beck. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 280p. $79.95.

No-Party Democracy? Ugandan Politics in Comparative Perspective. By Giovanni Carbone. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008. 259p. $58.50.

Kenya's Quest for Democracy: Taming Leviathan. By Makau Mutua. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 2008. 331p. $65.00.

Brett R. O'Bannon

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 679-681
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990259 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent. Edited by Deborah Bräutigam, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, and Mick Moore. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 304 p. $90.00 cloth, $32.99 paper.

Representation Through Taxation: Revenue, Politics, and Development in Postcommunist States. By Scott Gehlback. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 214 p. $80.00.

Hilary Appel

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 681-683
doi:10.1017/S153759270999017X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Legislative Voting and Accountability. By John M. Carey. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. 199p. $24.99.

Keith Dowding

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 683-684
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991332 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude. By Benoît Challand. New York: Routledge, 2009. 266p. $140.00.

Laleh Khalili

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 684-685
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990703 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Political Institutions under Dictatorship. By Jennifer Gandhi. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008. 256 p. $85.00.

Susan Rose-Ackerman

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 685-687
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990181 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Courting Social Justice: Judicial Enforcement of Social and Economic Rights in the Developing World. Edited by Varun Gauri and Daniel M. Brinks. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 384p. $90.00.

Helena Silverstein

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 687-688
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991344 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Rule by Law: The Politics of Courts in Authoritarian Regimes. Edited by Tom Ginsberg and Tamir Moustafa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 378p. $90.00 cloth, $34.99 paper.

Lisa Hajjar

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 688-689
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990715 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Institutions and the Path to the Modern Economy: Lessons from Medieval Trade. By Avner Greif. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 526p. $36.99 paper.

The Origins of Capitalism and the “Rise of the West.” By Eric H. Mielants. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. 241p. $64.50 cloth, $25.95 paper.

Rogers Hollingsworth and Karl H. Müller

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 689-691
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990570 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

A World of Gangs: Armed Young Men and Gangsta Culture. By John Hagedorn. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. 216 p. $24.95 cloth.

Urban Outcasts: A Comparative Sociology of Advanced Marginality. By Loic Wacquant. Cambridge, UK and Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2008. 360p. $79.95 cloth, $25.95 paper.

Michael Leo Owens

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 691-693
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991356 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Globalizers: Development Workers in Action. By Jeffrey T. Jackson. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 393p. $55.00 cloth, $35.00 paper.

Promoting Democracy in the Americas. Edited by Thomas Legler, Sharon F. Lean, and Dexter S. Boniface. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 360p. $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Nancy Lapp

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 693-695
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990569 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Coordination of the European Union: Exploring the Capacities of Networked Governance. By Andrew Jordan and Adriaan Schout. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. 311p. $39.95

Jonathan Zeitlin

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 695-696
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990752 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

West European Politics in the Age of Globalization. By Hanspeter Kriesi, Edgar Grande, Romain Lachat, Martin Dolezal, Simon Bornshier, and Timotheos Frey. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008. 468p. $99.00 cloth, $39.99 paper.

Timothy Hellwig

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 696-697
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990193 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Decentralized Authoritarianism in China. By Pierre Landry. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 293p. $85.00 cloth.

The Search for Deliberative Democracy in China. Edited by Ethan J. Leib and Baogang He. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2006. 288p. $79.95 cloth.

Suzanne Ogden

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 697-699
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991368 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Justice as Prevention: Vetting Public Employees in Transitional Societies. By Alexander Mayer-Rieckh and Pablo de Greiff. New York: Social Science Research Council, 2008. 566 p. $35.00.

Unsettling Accounts: Neither Truth nor Reconciliation in Confessions of State Violence. By Leigh A. Payne. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. 392 p. $84.95 Cloth. $23.95 paper.

Daniel Philpott

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 699-701
doi:10.1017/S153759270999137X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Unmodern Men in the Modern World: Radical Islam, Terrorism, and the War on Modernity. By Michael J. Mazarr. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 290p. $20.99.

Assaf Moghadam

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 701-702
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990727 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Egypt after Mubarak: Liberalism, Islam, and Democracy in the Arab World. By Bruce K. Rutherford. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 304p. $35.00.

Waleed Hazbun

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 702-703
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990739 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Disposing Dictators, Demystifying Voting Paradoxes: Social Choice Analysis. By Donald G. Saari. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 240p. $85.00 cloth, $24.99 paper.

Itai Sened

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 703-704
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991381 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Consolidation of Democracy: Comparing Europe and Latin America. By Carsten Q. Schneider. London: Routledge, 2009. 208p. $140.00.

Gerardo L. Munck

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 704-705
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990740 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Book Reviews: International Relations

 
 

Escape from Empire: The Developing World's Journey through Heaven and Hell. By Alice Amsden. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. 197p. $27.50.

Herman M. Schwartz

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 706-707
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990132 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo. By Peter Andreas. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2008. 240p. $25.00.

Terence Lee

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 707-708
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990478 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

A World of Chance: Betting on Religion, Games, Wall Street. By Reuven Brenner, Gabrielle A. Brenner, and Aaron Brown. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 352p. $90.00 cloth, $25.00 paper.

Nikolaos Zahariadis

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 708-709
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990636 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

State Death: The Politics and Geography of Conquest, Occupation, and Annexation. By Tanisha M. Fazal. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007. 320p. $60.00 cloth, $27.95 paper.

Mathias Albert

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 710-711
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990144 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Dynamics of Interstate Boundaries. By George Gavrilis. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 203p. $80.00 cloth.

Thomas Diez

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 711-712
doi:10.1017/S1537592709991393 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

International Human Rights Law: Returning to Universal Principles. By Mark Gibney. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2008. 162p. $24.95.

Humanitarian Intervention: Ideas in Action. By Thomas G. Weiss. Cambridge and Malden, MA: Polity, 2007. 176p. $19.95.

Mary Ellen O'Connell

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 712-713
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990028 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Population Resettlement in International Conflicts: A Comparative Study. Edited by Arie M. Kacowicz and Pawel Lutomski. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2007. 274p. $70.00.

Paul R. Pillar

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 714-715
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990648 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

From Pablo to Osama: Trafficking and Terrorist Networks, Government Bureaucracies, and Competitive Adaptation. By Michael Kenney. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. 293p. $45.00 cloth, $24.95 paper.

Janice Gross Stein

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 715-716
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990156 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Growing Apart? America and Europe in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Jeffrey Kopstein and Sven Steinmo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. 237p. $75.00 cloth, $23.99 paper.

David M. Andrews

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 716-717
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990016 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Causation in International Relations: Reclaiming Causal Analysis. By Milja Kurki. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 349p. $99.00 cloth, $34.99 paper.

Fred Chernoff

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 717-719
doi:10.1017/S153759270999065X (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Politics and Trade Cooperation in the Nineteenth Century: The “Agreeable Customs” of 1815–1914. By Robert Pahre. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 446p. $95.00.

Susan K. Sell

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 719-720
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990661 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Beating Goliath: Why Insurgencies Win. By Jeffrey Record. Washington, DC: Potomac Books. 2007. 180p. $24.95 paper.

Asymmetric Warfare: Threat and Response in the Twenty-First Century. By Rod Thornton. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press. 2007. 256p. $69.95 cloth, $26.95 paper.

Michael G. Findley

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 720-722
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990624 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

China's Ascent: Power, Security and the Future of International Politics. Edited by Robert S. Ross and Zhu Feng. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 2008. 323p. $59.95 cloth, 22.95 paper.

Allen Carlson

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 722-723
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990673 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Steps to War: An Empirical Study. By Paul D. Senese and John A. Vasquez. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. 314p. $60.00 cloth, $26.95 paper.

Mark J.C. Crescenzi

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 723-724
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990685 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

Negotiation and the Global Knowledge Economy. By J. P. Singh. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 357p. $99 cloth, $38.99 paper.

Ian Hall

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 724-725
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990168 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
 

The Invisible Constitution of Politics: Contested Norms and International Encounters. By Antje Wiener. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. 264p. $99.00.

Frank Schimmelfennig

Perspectives on Politics, Volume 7, Issue 03, September 2009, pp 725-726
doi:10.1017/S1537592709990466 (About doi), Published Online by Cambridge University Press 19 Aug 2009
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