Book Reviews : Modernization and the Structure of Societies: A Setting for International Affairs. By MARION J. LEVY, JR. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1966. 2 vols. Pp. xx, 855. $22.50., boxed set.)

1967 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 228-229
Author(s):  
K. W. Grundy
Keyword(s):  
International Affairs ◽  
Princeton University

Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-153
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Class Politics ◽  
Partisan Change ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Rich ◽  
University Of Massachusetts

Robert Pollin of University of Massachusetts, Amherst reviews “Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age” by Larry M. Bartels,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Examines the validity of many myths about politics in contemporary America, using the widening gap between the rich and the poor to shed disturbing light on the workings of American democracy. Discusses the new Gilded Age; the partisan political economy; class politics and partisan change; partisan biases in economic accountability; whether Americans care about inequality; when Homer gets a tax cut; the strange appeal of estate tax repeal; the eroding minimum wage; economic inequality and political representation; and unequal democracy. Bartels is Donald E. Stokes Professor of Public and International Affairs and Director of the Center for the Study of Democratic Politics at Princeton University. Index.”

Book Reviews

2013 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 549-552
Keyword(s):  
Central Bank ◽  
Monetary Union ◽  
European Monetary Union ◽  
European Monetary System ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
European Monetary ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
Monetary System

Daniel Gros of Centre for European Policy Studies reviews, “Making the European Monetary Union: The Role of the Committee of Central Bank Governors and the Origins of the European Central Bank” by Harold James. The Econlit abstract of this book begins: “Explores the creation of the European Monetary Union and considers its design, process, and risks. Discusses a Napoleonic prelude; the origins of the Committee of Governors; the response to global monetary turbulence; the metaphor of the snake; negotiating the European Monetary System; the malaise of the 1980s; the Delors Committee and the relaunching of Europe; designing a central bank; and the European Monetary System crises. James is Claude and Lore Kelly Professor in European Studies and Professor of History and International Affairs at Princeton University.”

Book Reviews

2019 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-137
Author(s):  
Sabine von Mering ◽  
Luke B. Wood ◽  
J. Nicholas Ziegler ◽  
John Bendix ◽  
Marcus Colla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Nuclear Power ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Modern Germany ◽  
Princeton University ◽  
The Third Reich ◽  
Forced Labour

Dolores L. Augustine, Taking on Technocracy: Nuclear Power in Germany, 1945 to the Present (New York: Berghahn Books, 2018)Michael Meng and Adam R. Seipp, Modern Germany in Transatlantic Perspective (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017)Cynthia Miller-Idriss, The Extreme Gone Mainstream: Commercialization and Far Right Youth Culture in Germany (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017)Constantin Goschler, ed. Compensation in Practice: The Foundation ‘Remembrance, Responsibility and Future’ and the Legacy of Forced Labour during the Third Reich (New York: Berghahn Books, 2017)Albert Earle Gurganus, Kurt Eisner: A Modern Life (Rochester: Camden House, 2018)Claudia Sternberg, Kira Gartzou-Katsouyanni, and Kalypso Nicolaïdis, The Greco-German Affair in the Euro Crisis: Mutual Recognition Lost? (London: Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)

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