A Model for Post-Saddam Iraq

Issue Date July 2003
Volume 14
Issue 3
Page Numbers 5-12
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If Iraq is successfully to democratize and an inclusive democratic culture is to emerge, the Iraqi state must be reconstituted as a federal and strongly liberal system and thoroughly demilitarized.

Further Reading

Volume 20, Issue 1

Debating the Color Revolutions: An Interrelated Wave

Authoritarian weakness alone cannot explain why the mobilization process during the color revolutions assumed similar forms across varied contexts.

Volume 12, Issue 1

Political Competition and Economic Growth

Under many nondemocratic systems, good policy is bad politics, and bad policy helps leaders stay in office. The result is poorer performance in terms of economic growth.

Volume 23, Issue 1

Debating Electoral Systems: Getting Elections Wrong

Evidence from waves of democratization shows proportional election systems, however imperfect, to be the better option in most contexts.