Eastern Europe a Decade Later: Geography and Democratic Destiny

A new research project suggests that federalism enhances the ability of regimes to accommodate territorially based minorities. Federal systems, except when imposed by an outside power, significantly help to preserve…

As an analysis of recent electoral results shows, the world’s emerging democracies are weathering the global economic crisis surprisingly well. Yet they remain under an even sharper threat from their…

The coauthor of the seminal work on democratic transitions sets the record straight on what the scholarly literature actually says.