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Abstract Guerra, Marc D., ed. Reason, Revelation, and Human Affairs: Selected Writings of James V. Schall. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. 183 pp., $49.99 cloth ISBN 0-7391-0198-6 cloth Publication Date: March 2001 “Political ideas will vary according to man's views on human destiny,” Thomas Aquinas writes in his commentary on Aristotle's Politics. This statement is an apt summary of James V. Shall's point of departure in his essays on political philosophy. Writing with the ends of human affairs in mind, Schall considers the fundamental questions of human destiny in light of reason and revelation. The title chosen by editor Marc Guerra for the collection of essays written by Schall, Reason, Revelation, and Human Affairs, captures the expansive framework of Schall's investigations. This title echoes that of Schall's own earlier book, Reason. Revelation, and the Foundations of Political Philosophy (Louisiana State University Press, 1987). The work is not confined to queries dictated by the modern “methodologies” of political science; instead, Schall enlarges the universe of questions by insisting on an inquiry into the eternal. UNITED STATES. Politics and Public Policy: Lewis, Justin. Constructing Public Opinion. New York, NY: Columbia University Press. 240 pp., $49.50 cloth, $16.50 paper ISBN 0-231-11767-3 cloth ISBN 0-231-11767-1 paper Publication Date: April 2001 Simpson, Dick. Rogues, Rebels, and Rubber Stamps. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 342 pp., $26.00 paper ISBN 0-8133-9763-4 Publication Date: 2001 Pfiffner, James P., and Douglas A. Brook, eds. The Future of Merit: Twenty Years after the Civil Service Reform Act. Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press. 268 pp., $17.95 paper ISBN 0-8018-6465-8 Publication Date: October 12, 2000 Golden, Marissa Martino. What Motivates Bureaucrats? Politics and Administration during the Reagan Years. New York: Columbia University Press. 238 pp., $49.50 cloth, $19.50 paper ISBN 0-231-10696-3 cloth ISBN 0-231-10697-1 paper Publication Date: 2000 Loomis, Burden A., ed. Esteemed Colleagues: Civility and Deliberation in the U.S. Senate. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. 273 pp., $44.95 hardcover, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-8157-5293-8 paper ISBN 0-8157-5294-6 hardcover Publication Date: 2000 Gerhardt, Michael J. The Federal Appointments Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis. Durham and London: Duke University Press. 400 pp., $37.95 cloth ISBN: 0-8223-2528-4 Publication Date: February 2001 Kahlenberg, Richard D. All Together Now: Creating Middle-Class Schools through Public School Choices. Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution. 379 pp., $29.95 cloth ISBN 0-8157-4810-8 Publication Date: 2001 Stonecash, Jeffrey M. Class and Party in American Politics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 192 pp., $29.00, ISBN 0-8133-9756-1 Publication Date: August 2000 Vinovskis, Maris A. History and Educational Policymaking. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press. 352 pp., $45.00 cloth ISBN 0-300-077571-5 cloth Publication Date: 1999 Dwyre, Diana, and Victoria A. Farrar-Myers. Legislative Labyrinth: Congress and Campaign Finance Reform. Washington, DC: CQ Press. 291 pp., $22.95 paper ISBN 1-56802-568-8 Publication Date: October 2000 Gastil, John. By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy through Deliberative Elections. Berkeley: University of California Press. 267 pp., $48.00 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-520-22364-0 cloth ISBN 0-520-22365-9 paper Publication Date: August 2000 Joseph, Antoine. Skilled Workers' Solidarity: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective. New York: Garland Publishing. 227 pp., $60.00 cloth, ISBN 0-8153-3336-6 Publication Date: 2000 UNITED STATES. Foreign Policy and National Security: Garcia-Johnson, Ronie. Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 282 pp., $20.00 paper ISBN 0-262-57136-6 paper Publication Date: July 2000 Clemens, Walter C., Jr. America and the World, 1898-2025: Achievements, Failures, Alternative Futures. New York: St. Martin's Press. 255 pp., $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-312-22878-3 cloth ISBN 0-312-23638-7 paper Publication Date: September 2000 Pyle, Christopher H. Extradition, Politics, and Human Rights. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001. 464 pages, cloth ISBN 1-5663-822-3 $89.50, paper ISBN 1-56639-823-1 $29.95. Litwak, Robert S. Rogue States and U.S. Foreign Policy: Containment after the Cold War. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press/Woodrow Wilson Center Press. 290 pp., $49.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-943875-98-6 cloth ISBN 0-943875-97-8 paper Publication Date: March 2000 Sobel, Richard. The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy since Vietnam: Constraining the Colossus. New York: Oxford University Press. 276 pp., $49.95 hardcover, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-19-510527-3 hardcover ISBN 0-19-510528-1 paper Publication Date: January 2001 CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA: Middlebrook, Kevin J., ed. Conservative Parties, the Right, and Democracy in Latin America. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 391 pp., $59.95 cloth, $21.00 paper ISBN 0-8018-6385-6 cloth ISBN 0-8018-6386-4 paper Publication Date: September 2000 Itzigsohn, Jose. Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Deregulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic. University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press. 197 pp., $48.50 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-271-02027-X cloth ISBN 0-271-02028-8 paper Publication Date: October 3, 2000 Power, Timothy J. The Political Right in Postauthoritarian Brazil: Elites, Institutions, and Democratization. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. 284 pp., $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-271-02009-1 cloth ISBN 0-271-02010-5 paper Publication Date: 2000 Chand, Vikram K. Mexico's Political Awakening. Notre Dame. IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 392 pp., $40.00 cloth, $20.00 paper ISBN 0-268-03458-3 cloth ISBN 0-268-03459-1 paper Publication Date: February 2001 EUROPE/COMMONWEALTH OF INDEPENDENT STATES: Eriksen, Erik Oddvar, and John Erik Fossom, eds. Democracy in the European Union: Integration through Deliberation?. New York: Routledge. 310 pp., $90.00 cloth, $29.99 paper ISBN 0-415-22591-4 cloth ISBN 0-415-22592-2 paper Publication Date: 2000 AFRICA: Oyediran, Oyeleye, and Adigun A. B. Agbaje, eds. Nigeria: Politics of Transition and Governance, 1986-1996. Dakar, Senegal: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa. 340 pp., $27.95 paper ISBN 2-86978-071-0 paper Publication Date: 1999 Shea, Dorothy C. The South African Truth Commission. Washington. DC: United States Institute of Peace. 123 pp., $8.95 paper ISBN 1-929223-09-9 Publication Date: 2000 ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: Nathan, Andrew J., and Perry Link, eds. The Tiananmen Papers. New York: Public Affairs Books. 560 pp., $30.00, ISBN 1-58648-012-X Publication Date: January 2001 Jacobsen, Michael, and Ole Bruun, eds. Human Rights and Asian Values: Contesting National Identities and Cultural Representations in Asia. Richmond, Surrey, England: Curzon Press. 327 pp., $45.00 cloth, $16.99 paper ISBN 0-7007-1212-7 cloth ISBN 0-7007-1213-5 paper Publication Date: November 2000 Simms, Marian, and John Warhurst, eds. Howard's Agenda: The 1998 Election. St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland Press. 260 pp., $32.79, ISBN 0-7022-3163-0 Publication Date: November 2000 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS, LAW, AND ORGANIZATION: Lustig, Nora, ed. Shielding the Poor: Social Protection in the Developing World. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. 310 pp., $21.49 paper ISBN 0-8157-5321-7 paper Publication Date: October 2001 Plattner, Marc F., and Aleksander Smolar, eds. Globalization, Power, and Democracy. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 164 pp., $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8018-6568-9 paper Publication Date: August 2000 THEORY AND METHODOLOGY: Sciabarra, Chris Matthew. Total Freedom: Toward a Dialectical Libertarianism. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. 467 pp., $65.00 cloth, $24.50 paper ISBN 0-271-02048-2 cloth ISBN 0-271-02049-0 paper Publication Date: January 2000 Dean, Jodi, ed. Cultural Studies & Political Theory. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press. 362 pp., $45.00 cloth, $19.95 paper ISBN 0-8014-3602-8 cloth ISBN 0-8014-8578-9 paper Publication Date: September 2000 Dougherty, Jude P. Western Creed, Western Identity: Essays in Legal and Social Philosophy. Washington, DC: The Catholic University of America Press, 2000. 256 pp., $24.95 paper ISBN 0-8132-0975-7 paper Publication Date: November 30, 2000 Heinrich, Carolyn J., and Lawrence E. Lynn, Jr., eds. Governance and Performance: New Perspectives. Washington. DC: Georgetown University Press. 368 pp., $65.00 cloth, $23.95 paper ISBN 0-87840-798-7 cloth ISBN 0-87840-799-5 paper Publication Date: November 2000 March, James G., Martin Schulz, and Xueguang Zhou. The Dynamics of Rules. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. 228 pp., $49.50 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-8047-2744-4 cloth ISBN 0-8047-3996-X paper Publication Date: August 2000 GENERAL: Simon, Leslie David. NetPolicy.Com: Public Agenda for the Digital World. Washington, DC: The Woodrow Wilson Center Press. 464 pp., $60.00 cloth, $22.95 paper ISBN 1-930365-02-0 cloth ISBN 1-930365-03-9 paper Publication Date: December 5, 2000 Norris, Pippa. A Virtuous Circle: Political Communications in Postindustrial Societies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. 398 pp., $59.95 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-521-79015-8 cloth ISBN 0-521-79364-5 paper Publication Date: October 2000 Fischer, Frank. Citizens, Experts, and the Environment. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 337 pp., $59.95 cloth, $18.95 paper ISBN 0-8223-2628-0 cloth ISBN 0-8223-2622-1 paper Publication Date: February 2001 Flanagan, Tom. First Nations? Second Thoughts. Montreal: McGill-Queens University Press. 245 pp., $60.00 cloth, $24.95 paper ISBN 0-7735-2064-3 cloth ISBN 0-7735-2070-8 paper Publication Date: May 2000 McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 395 pp., $29.95 cloth ISBN 0-691-05903-9 Publication Date: March 2001 Apostolidis, Paul. Stations of the Cross: Adorno and Christian Right Radio. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 273 pp., $54.00 cloth, $18.00 paper ISBN 0-8223-2504-7 cloth ISBN 0-8223-2541-1 paper Publication Date: 2000 Selbourne, David. The Principle of Duty: An Essay on the Foundations of Civic Order, American Edition. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. 344 pp., $18.00 paper ISBN 0-268-03867-8 paper Publication Date: February 2001 Forester, John. The Deliberative Practitioner: Encouraging Participatory Planning Processes. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 306 pp., $19.50 paper ISBN 0-262-56122-0 paper Publication Date: 1999 Barber, Kathleen L. A Right to Representation: Proportional Election Systems for the Twenty-first Century. Columbus: Ohio State University Press. 211 pp., $55.00 cloth, $21.95 paper ISBN 0-8142-0854-1 cloth ISBN 0-8142-5058-0 paper Publication Date: December 2000

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