A review of Democracies in Development: Politics and Reform in Latin America by J. Mark Payne et al.
About the Author
Mark P. Jones is associate professor of political science at Michigan State University and a research scholar at the Centro de Estudios para el Desarrollo Institucional in Argentina.
The year 2001 saw modest gains in the strengthening and consolidation of democracy worldwide, but in predominantly Muslim countries—especially the Arab states—the status of freedom and democracy lags far behind…
Jordan gets much good press for having one of the more open and liberal regimes in the Arab world, but that reputation masks a considerably grimmer reality.
