MU Libraries New Books: Political institutions and public administration (Europe)

About the new book list

5/15/2013

The RSS feeds for the new books list is updated every Wednesday and contains a list of books added to the Ellis Library collection for the last six weeks. The titles are grouped by call number classification, and are listed by week and alphabetically by title.

Books for the most recent weeks are currently on the New Books Shelves inside the north entrance of Ellis Library. They can be checked out.

Without power or glory : the Green Party in government in Ireland, 2007-2011 / Dan Boyle. (5/8/2013)

5/8/2013

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Call #: JN1571.5.G74 B695 2012

Rescaling the state : devolution and the geographies of economic governance / Mark Goodwin, Martin Jones and Rhys Jones. (5/1/2013)

5/1/2013

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Call #: JN329.D43 G66 2012

Civil society in Putin's Russia / Elena Chebankova. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JN6699.A15 C44 2013

Political parties in multi-level polities : the Nordic countries compared / Nicholas Aylott, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Södertörn University, Sweden, Magnus Blomgren, Lecturer in Political Science, Umea University, Sweden and Torbjorn Bergman, (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JN7066 .A95 2013

Tuairim, intellectual debate and policy formulation : rethinking Ireland, 1954-75 / Tomás Finn. (4/24/2013)

4/24/2013

Call #: JN1490 .F56 2012

Democracy in transition : political participation in the European Union / Kyriakos N. Demetriou, editor. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Call #: JN40 .D462 2013

Symbolism and regime change in Russia / Graeme Gill. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JN6531 .G469 2013

The new member states and the European Union : foreign policy and Europeanization / edited by Michael Baun and Dan Marek. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

Call #: JN30 .N4756 2013

The politics of nation-building : making co-nationals, refugees, and minorities / Harris Mylonas. (4/17/2013)

4/17/2013

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Review

"Mylonas highlights a hitherto understudied aspect of minority policy making in the Balkans: Whether newly nationalizing states tolerated, assimilated, or forcibly removed ethnic minorities from their territories crucially depended on whether or not these minorities were supported by other states and whether these other states were allies or enemies. Combining broad statistical analysis with detailed archival research, the book puts the international aspects of domestic nation-building into sharp relief." - Andreas Wimmer, Princeton University

"Harris Mylonas is one of the rare scholars who combines sophisticated knowledge of political science techniques with in-depth historical expertise. This book will be of great interest to political scientists, international relations scholars, and historians, and it will also be a valuable resource for policy makers. Most of the events it discusses happened a century or more ago, but the repercussions from those events are still very much in evidence in the Balkans today." - Mark Kramer, Harvard University

"Through thorough analysis of archival records and integration of theory from both international relations and comparative politics, Harris Mylonas argues that external factors often override internal factors in the formation of nationality policy. In contrast to more common approaches, Mylonas concentrates on the processes underlying nationality policy formation. He persuasively shows how elite perceptions of international threats shape such decisions." - Roger D. Petersen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

"This book makes an important, original argument about the international factors that exert substantial influence on a state's decision to assimilate, accommodate, or exclude its ethnic minorities. Based mainly on analytic comparisons of case histories of Balkan nation building, Mylonas shows that states are much more likely to exclude, expel, or exterminate such groups when they receive backing from foreign enemy states and when the host state is a dissatisfied power harboring a grievance over lost territory. Many readers will find Mylonas's insights to be of great interest." - Jack Snyder, Columbia University

Call #: JN97.A38 M557 2012

Whatever happened to Tory Scotland? / edited by David Torrance. (3/27/2013)

3/27/2013

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Call #: JN1371.C65 W438 2012