Democratic Transition
Debating the Color Revolutions: An Interrelated Wave
ArticleAuthoritarian weakness alone cannot explain why the mobilization process during the color revolutions assumed similar forms across varied contexts.
Debating the Color Revolutions: Getting Real About "Real Causes"
ArticleStructure, agency, and process all are critical in explaining the uneven pattern of electoral change in postcommunist Europe and Eurasia.
Can Cuba Change? Ferment in Civil Society
ArticleThe opposition within Cuba has become more diverse as well as more unified, and the regime, despite its enduring capacity for repression, is showing signs of underlying weakness.
Pakistan After Musharraf: The Media Take Center Stage
ArticleThe military regime opened up the media sector to more competition and private broadcasters in 2002, and the ramifications turned out to be vast.
Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy: Why Democracies Fail
ArticleMany of today’s developing-world and postcommunist democracies are at risk of reversal. What are the key factors that lead to democratic collapse?
South Korea's Miraculous Democracy
ArticleDespite South Korea’s messy democratic trajectory, it has miraculously achieved consolidation. Though far from perfect, South Korea’s democracy has turned obstacles into opportunities for reform and development.
The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions
ArticleThe “color revolutions” in the postcommunist countries cannot be attributed to diffusion alone. Structural factors offer a better explanation of why such revolutions have succeeded in some countries and not in others.
Islamist Parties and Democracy: Turkey's AKP in Power
ArticleThe rise of Islamist parties poses new challenges to efforts to understand the relationship between Islam and democracy. A diverse group of authors investigates this new phenomenon and its implications for the future of democracy in the Middle East.
Latin America: Eight Lessons for Governance
ArticleLatin America’s recent experience shows that effective democratic governance is difficult to achieve and depends on many factors, some of them context-specific. Nonetheless, it is possible to draw some general lessons.
Has the Northern Ireland Problem been Solved?
ArticleLatin America’s recent experience shows that effective democratic governance is difficult to achieve and depends on many factors, some of them context-specific. Nonetheless, it is possible to draw some general lessons.
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