Economic Reform and Democracy

Issue Date October 1994
Volume 5
Issue 4
Page Numbers 3-4
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The Editors’ introduction to the Journal of Democracy’s special issue on “Economic Reform and Democracy.”

Further Reading

Volume 19, Issue 4

Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy: Growth Without Prosperity in Africa

Fifteen years after the wave of democratization crested in Africa, the region still grapples with an economic malaise that is disappointing popular expectations and undermining the legitimacy of electoral regimes.

Volume 8, Issue 4

After Twenty Years: The Future of the Third Wave

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Volume 35, Issue 4

The Return of Dictatorship

Alongside democratic backsliding is another, more pernicious phenomenon: dictatorial drift, where “soft” authoritarian regimes are opting to become highly repressive dictatorships. The West must develop new strategies to defend democracy…