Debating Democracy Assistance: Toward a New Paradigm

How can Burma peacefully move away from military rule and toward a stable democratic system based on sound electoral and federal arrangements?

A review of Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-being in the World 1950-1990, by Adam Przeworski, Michael E. Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi.

Desperate to secure victory for its own candidate in the 2004 presidential election, the incumbent regime undertook an unprecedented campaign of blatant election fraud. But it had underestimated the citizenry…