A review of Democracy’s Victory and Crisis, edited by Axel Hadenius.
About the Author
Richard Rose is director of the Centre for the Study of Public Policy at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, and creator of the New Europe Barometer surveys of mass response to transformation in postcommunist countries. His latest book, coauthored with William Mishler and Neil Munro, is Russia Transformed: Developing Political Support for a New Regime (2006).
Liberal societies are those which offer refuge from the very people they empower—through individual choice, mobility, and the possibility of exit. This is the form of liberty that most clearly…
