By any measure, democratization has achieved remarkable advances over the past twenty years. Why, then, have so many of the leading works written on the topic during this period been so full of gloom?
Books Reviewed:
- The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century. By Sameul P Huntington
- The End of History and the Last Man. By Francis Fukuyama
- Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy. By Robert D Putnam
- Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe. By Juan J. Linz and Alfred C. Stepan
- Competitive Authoritarianism: International Linkage, Organizational Power, and the Fate of Hybrid Regimes. By Steven Levitsky and Lucan A. Way