Cover Art: Austin, TX (June 25, 2013). State Sen. Robert Duncan, R-Lubbock, snoozes as Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, continues her 12-hour filibuster of abortion-related bills that would limit abortion providers in Texas. (BOB DAEMMRICH/Corbis Images)
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Book Reviews: American Politics
Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics. By Sarah Reckhow. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 221p. $39.95 cloth.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 245-246
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Money, Mandates, and Local Control in American Public Education. By Bryan Shelly. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2011. 200p. $60.00 cloth, $29.95 paper.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 246-248
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Racial Democracy and the Black Metropolis: Housing Policy in Postwar Chicago. By Preston H. SmithII . Minneapolis, MN: Universtity of Minnesota Press, 2012. 433p. $82.50 cloth, $27.50 paper.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 248-249
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Madison’s Metronome: The Constitution, Majority Rule, and the Tempo of American Politics. By Greg Weiner. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2012. 208p. $29.95.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 249-250
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How Sex Became a Civil Liberty. By Leigh Ann Wheeler. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 327p. $34.95.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 250-252
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Book Reviews: Comparative Politics
Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey. By Şener Aktürk. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 321p. $90.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 252-254
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Accounting for Ministers: Scandal and Survival in British Government 1945-2007. By Samuel Berlinski, Torun Dewan, and Keith Dowding. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 208p. $94.00.
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Organizing Democratic Choice: Party Representation Over Time. By Ian Budge, Hans Keman, Michael D McDonald, and Paul Pennings. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 336p. $99.00. - The Strain of Representation: How Parties Represent Diverse Voters in Western and Eastern Europe. By Robert Rohrschneider and Stephen Whitefield . New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. 224p. $85.00.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 255-257
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Social Protest and Contentious Authoritarianism in China. By Xi Chen. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 256p. $99.00. - Protest with Chinese Characteristics: Demonstrations, Riots, and Petitions in the Mid-Qing Dynasty. By Ho-Fung Hung. New York: Columbia University Press, 2011. 288p. $50.00 cloth, $27.00 paper.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 257-259
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Semi-Presidentialism: Subtypes and Democratic Performance. By Robert Elgie. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011. 296p. $99.00.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 259-261
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Paths Toward the Modern Fiscal State: England, Japan, and China. By Wenkai He. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 328p. $55.00.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 261-262
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The Blame Game: Spin, Bureaucracy, and Self-Preservation in Government. By Christopher Hood. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 224p. $46.95 cloth, $22.95 paper.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 262-263
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The People’s Post Office: The History and Politics of the Japanese Postal System, 1871–2010. By Patricia L. Maclachlan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012. 378p. $39.95.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 263-265
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Voice and Vote: Decentralization and Participation in Post-Fujimori Peru. By Stephanie L. McNulty. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011. 224p. $65.00 cloth, $21.95 paper.
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Electoral Systems and Political Context: How the Effects of Rules Vary Across New and Established Democracies. By Robert G. Moser and Ethan Scheiner. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 304p. $80.00 cloth, $30.99 paper.
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The Europeanization of Portuguese Democracy. Edited by Nuno Severiano Teixeira and António Costa Pinto. New York: Columbia University Press, 2012. 250p. $55.00.
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Outlawed: Between Security and Rights in a Bolivian City. By Daniel M. Goldstein. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 344p. $88.95 cloth, $24.95 paper. - Living in the Crossfire: Favela Residents, Drug Dealers, and Police Violence in Rio de Janeiro. By Maria Helena Moreira Alves and Philip Evanson. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2011. 254p. $79.50 cloth, $34.95, paper. - Barrio Libre: Criminalizing States and Delinquent Refusals of the New Frontier. By Gilberto Rosas. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2012. 200p. $84.95 cloth, $23.95 paper.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 269-271
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Enemy Brothers: Socialists and Communists in France, Italy, and Spain. By W. Rand Smith. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012. 302p. $75.00.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 271-272
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Collective Killings in Rural China during the Cultural Revolution. By Yang Su. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011. 320p. $98.00 cloth, $29.00 paper.
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Teaching Marianne and Uncle Sam: Public Education, State Centralization, and Teacher Unionism in France and the United States. By Nicholas Toloudis. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2012. 230p. $64.50.
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- 23 April 2014, pp. 274-275
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