Book Reviews

Cooper, Phillip J. By Order of the President: The Use & Abuse of Executive Direct Action. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2002. Pp. xi, 301. Hardbound $39.95; softbound $16.95.Disch, Lisa J. The Tyranny of the Two-Party System. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp. 140. $45.00 hardbound, $19.50 softbound.Mayer, Kenneth R. With the Stroke of a Pen: Executive Orders and Presidential Power. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xii, 293. $39.95 hardbound, $19.95 softbound.Rundquist, Barry S., and Thomas M. Carsey. Congress and Defense Spending: The Distributive Politics of Military Procurement. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. Pp. xv, 200. Softbound $24.95.Smith, Bradley. Unfree Speech: The Folly of Campaign Finance Reform. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv, 286. $26.95 hardbound.Smith, Steven S., and Thomas F. Remington. The Politics of Institutional Choice: The Formation of the Russian State Duma. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2001. Pp. xi, 180. $47.50 hardbound, $18.95 softbound.Wittes, Benjamin. Starr: A Reassessment. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002. Pp. xvii, 251. $24.95 hardbound.