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The article reviews several books including "Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times," by Scott M. Matheson Jr., "Developing Brazil: Overcoming the Failure of the Washington Consensus," by Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira and "The Constitution of the United States of America:A Contextual Analysis," by Mark Tushnet.

The article reviews several books about political studies including "The Real Venezuela: Making Socialism in the 21st Century," by Iain Bruce, "Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice," written and edited by David V. Carruthers and "The United States and Latin America After the Cold War," by Russell C. Crandall.

The article reviews several books on international relations including "Making Aid Work," by Abhijit Vinayak Banerjee, "Theory of World Security," by Ken Booth and "Regulating Globalization: Critical Approaches to Global Governance," edited by Pierre de Senarclens and Ali Kazancigil.

The article reviews several books about political theory including "Why Social Justice Matters," by Brian Barry, "The Anglosphere Challenge: Why the English-Speaking Nations Will Lead the Way in the Twenty-First Century," by James C. Bennett, "Dylan and Cohen: Poets of Rock and Roll," by David Boucher, "Men in Political Theory," by Terrell Carver, and "Politicians and Rhetoric: The Persuasive Power of Metaphor," by Jonathan Charteris-Black.

Books Reviewed George C. Edwards III, WHY THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE IS BAD FOR AMERICA, (ALAN SIAROFF), Alexander T. J. Lennon and Camille Eiss, RESHAPING ROGUE STATES: preemption, regime change, and US policy towards Iran, Iraq and North Korea, (ALEX BELLAMY), Alan Schroeder, CELEBRITY-IN-CHIEF: how show business took over the White House, (AARON COOLEY), Donald P. Green and Alan S. Gerber, GET OUT THE VOTE: how to increase voter turnout, (PAT LYONS), Mark N. Franklin, VOTER TURNOUT AND THE DYNAMICS OF ELECTORAL COMPETITION IN ESTABLISHED DEMOCRACIES SINCE 1945, (PAT LYONS), David M. Ricci, GOOD CITIZENSHIP IN AMERICA, (YVES LABERGE), Steve A. Yetiv, EXPLAINING FOREIGN POLICY: US decision making and the Persian Gulf War, (LEE MARSDEN), John Lewis Gaddis, SURPRISE, SECURITY, AND THE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE, (ERIC J. C. MEIJER), James David Meernik, THE POLITICAL USE OF MILITARY FORCE IN US FOREIGN POLICY, (CLAIRE THOMAS), Thomas M. Magstadt, AN EMPIRE IF YOU CAN KEEP IT: power and principle in American foreign policy, (SAMUEL JACOB KURUVILLA), Paul Hollander (ed.), UNDERSTANDING ANTI-AMERICANISM: its origins and impact at home and abroad, (YVES LABERGE), Robert Harrison, CONGRESS, PROGRESSIVE REFORM, AND THE NEW AMERICAN STATE, (AARON COOLEY), Andrew S. McFarland, NEOPLURALISM: the evolution of political process theory, (JAMES G. MELLON), Christopher J. Insole, THE POLITICS OF HUMAN FRAILTY: a theological defence of political liberalism, (LIFFORD ANGELL BATES, JR.), [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Books Reviewed Charles D. Kenney, FUJIMORI's COUP AND THE BREAKDOWN OF DEMOCRACY IN LATIN AMERICA, (ALAN SIAROFF), Michael McFaul (ed.), AFTER THE COLLAPSE OF COMMUNISM: comparative lessons of transition, (STEFAN WOLFF), Atul Kohli , STATE-DIRECTED DEVELOPMENT: political power and industrialisation in the global periphery, (ANTHONY BUTLER), Frank Esser and Barbara Pfetsch (eds), COMPARING POLITICAL COMMUNICATION: theories, case, and challenges, (YVES LABERGE), Steven Van Hecke and Emmanuel Gerard (eds), CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATIC PARTIES IN EUROPE SINCE THE END OF THE COLD WAR, (LUCIAN N. LEUSTEAN), David Laycock (ed.), REPRESENTATION AND DEMOCRATIC THEORY, (ALEXANDRA KELSO), Pradeep K. Chhibber and Ken Kollman, THE FORMATION OF NATIONAL PARTY SYSTEMS: federalism and party competition in Canada, Great Britain, India and the United States, (STEFAN WOLFF), Gėrard Dumenil and Dominique Levy, CAPITAL RESURGENT: roots of the neoliberal revolution, (BRUCE CRONIN), Mathew J. Gibney, THE ETHICS OF POLITICAL ASYLUM: liberal democracy and the response to refugees, (FRASER DUNCAN), Robert Legvold and Celeste A. Wallander (eds), SWORDS AND SUSTENANCE: the economics of security in Belarus and Ukraine, (DARREN LAKE), Richard Bellamy, Dario Castiglione and Emilio Santoro, LINEAGES OF EUROPEAN CITIZENSHIP: rights, belonging and participation in eleven nation-states, (YVES LABERGE), Josep M. Colomer (ed.), HANDBOOK OF ELECTORAL SYSTEM CHOICE, (PETER MAIR), Iftikhar H. Malik, ISLAM AND MODERNITY: Muslims in Europe and the United States, (STEPHEN VERTIGANS), Joseph Henrich, Robert Boyd, Samuel Bowles, Colin Camerer, Ernst Fehr and Herbert Gintis, FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN SOCIALITY: economic experiments and ethnographic evidence from fifteen small-scale societies, (MIN SHU), Joyce Outshoorn (ed.), THE POLITICS OF PROSTITUTION: women's movements, democratic states and the globalisation of sex commerce, (FLAVIA MONCERI), Scott Morgenstern, PATTERNS OF LEGISLATIVE POLITICS: roll-call voting in Latin America and the United States, (MARTIN EJNAR HANSEN), R. Daniel Kelemen, THE RULES OF FEDERALISM: institutions and regulatory politics in the EU and beyond, (SCOTT L. GREER), Lee Ward, THE POLITICS OF LIBERTY IN ENGLAND AND REVOLUTIONARY AMERICA, (CLIFFORD ANGELL BATES, JR.), Robert W. Jackman, BEFORE NORMS: institutions and civic culture, (SUJAY GHOSH), [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article reviews the book "Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics: A New Translation," by Robert C. Bartlett and Susan D. Collins.

The article reviews the book "The Political Philosophy of George Washington," by Jeffry H. Morrison.