Books in Review: Putin’s Deep Freeze

Issue Date January 2004
Volume 15
Issue 1
Page Numbers 167-178
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A review of Popular Choice and Managed Democracy: The Russian Elections of 1999 and 2000 by Timothy J. Colton and Michael McFaul; Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State by David Satter; and Putin’s Russia by Lilia Shevtsova.

Further Reading

Volume 27, Issue 2

Burma Votes for Change: Clashing Attitudes Toward Democracy

What does public opinion tell us about Burma’s longer-term prospects for democracy? The Asian Barometer Survey reveals contradictory attitudes regarding democracy and democratic values among the citizens of Burma.

Volume 26, Issue 4

The Evolution of Political Order

A review of Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy by Francis Fukuyama.

Volume 29, Issue 2

Iran’s Exclusionary Republic

A review of Democracy in Iran: Why It Failed and How It Might Succeed by Misagh Parsa.