Cover art: MOSCOW - January 28, 2007. A visitor views “Revolution Perestroika?” by Russian painter Erik Bulatov at an exhibition for potential buyers and art experts of Sotheby‘s January 28, 2007, in Moscow. The auction, completely devoted to the Russian art of the XX-XXI centuries, took place in London on February 15, 2007. The lot sold at 198,000 GBP. The Sotheby‘s catalogue note described Bulatov and his work as follows: One of the most prominent aspects of Bulatov‘s art is the superimposition of text on illusionistic space and realistic representations, as can be seen in Revolution-Perestroika. The presence of text in this work evokes immediate associations with Soviet propaganda posters and banners, and alludes to the government‘s oppressive power over society. As Bulatov has explained, “Soviet ideology completely distorted our whole life. And this distorted space, full of ideology, became ordinary, customary and normal… Therefore, in my pictures, I tried to show that this kind of normality is not normal.‘ Another notable feature of Revolution-Perestroika is the tension between geometric and realistic imagery. An idealized architectural vista leads to the podium that contains a statue of Lenin, marking the transition between real, tangible existence and the visionary realm beyond. In the post-revolutionary era, a massive restructuring of society took place, accompanied by a burgeoning optimism. People were full of hope about a spiritual and material reconstruction that would affect the whole world. While Lenin dominates the compositional center of Revolution-Perestroika, Mikhail Gorbachev, another Soviet leader who also sought to change Soviet society, introducing his policies of glasnost and perestroika in 1986, intrudes very little upon the picture. Gorbachev‘s image obscures the slogan at bottom in such a way that the word perestroika (restructuring) is seen not in the noun form but as the imperative perestroi (restructure). (Photo by Oleg Nikishin/Epsilon/Getty Images)
Book Reviews: Political Theory
Impressions of Hume: Cinematic Thinking and the Politics of Discontinuity. By Davide Panagia. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2013. 188p. $70.00.
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The Confidence Trap: A History of Democracy in Crisis from World War I to the Present. By David Runciman. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2013. 381p. $29.95.
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Death to Tyrants! Ancient Greek Democracy and the Struggle Against Tyranny. By David A. Teegarden. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. 280p. $45.00.
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Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty. By Erica Weiss. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 204p. $49.95.
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Coming of Political Age: American Schools and the Civic Development of Immigrant Youth. By Rebecca M. Callahan and Chandra Muller. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2013. 186p. $27.50.
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Ambition, Competition, and Electoral Reform: The Politics of Congressional Elections Across Time. By Jamie L. Carson and Jason M. Roberts. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013. 192p. $60.00 cloth, $30.00 paper.
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Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings and Constitutional Change. By Paul M. CollinsJr. , & Lori A. Ringhand. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 314p. $99.00.
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The Puzzle of Unanimity: Consensus on the United States Supreme Court. By Pamela C. Corley, Amy Steigerwalt, and Artemus Ward. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2013. 216p. $45.00.
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Up Against a Wall: Rape Reform and the Failure of Success. By Rose Corrigan. New York: New York University Press, 2013. 344p. $70.00 cloth, $26.00 paper.
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Peopling the Constitution. By John E. Finn. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2014. 350p. $39.95.
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Cold War Dixie: Militarization and Modernization in the American South. By Kari Frederickson. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2013. 226p. $69.95 cloth, $24.95 paper.
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The End of Exceptionalism in American Education: The Changing Politics of School Reform. By Jeffrey Henig. Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press, 2013. 235p. $49.95 cloth, $29.95 paper.
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Ideology and Spatial Voting in American Elections. By Stephen A. Jessee. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2012. 256p. $104.99 cloth, $34.99 paper.
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The Silent Sex: Gender, Deliberation, and Institutions. By Christopher F. Karpowitz and Tali Mendelberg. New York: Princeton University Press. 2014. 472p. $95.00 hardcover, $35.00 paper.
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Money and Banks in the American Political System. By Kathryn C. Lavelle. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 306p. $94.99 cloth, $29.99 paper. - The Rise of Public Authority: Statebuilding and Economic Development in Twentieth-Century America. By Gail Radford. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013. 218p. $85.00 cloth, $27.50 paper.
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Toward an American Conservatism: Constitutional Conservatism during the Progressive Era. Edited by Joseph Postell and Jonathan O’Neill. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013. 288p. $105.00.
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Financing Medicaid: Federalism and the Growth of America’s Health Care Safety Net. By Shanna Rose. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2013. 322p. $95.00 cloth, $35.00 paper.
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Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics. By Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. 288p. $99.00 cloth, $34.95 paper.
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Race, Nation, and Citizenship in Post-Colonial Africa: The Case of Tanzania. By Ronald Aminzade. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. 451p. $99.00 cloth, $79.00 e-book, $32.99 paper. - Taifa: Making Nation and Race in Urban Tanzania. By James R. Brennan. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2012. 304p. $32.95. - The Political Economy of Tanzania: Decline and Recovery. By Michael F. Lofchie. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. 280p. $59.95 cloth, $59.95 e-book.
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Policing Protest in Argentina and Chile. By Michelle Bonner. Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 2013. 249p. $65.00.
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