January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
The 1999 Freedom House Survey: A Century of Progress
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January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
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April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2
A review of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama.
April 1992, Volume 3, Issue 2
A review of The End of History and the Last Man, by Francis Fukuyama.
January 2012, Volume 23, Issue 1
Is “authoritarian resilience” in China a passing phenomenon, or is it something more durable?
April 2007, Volume 18, Issue 2
Closely fought elections are often fraught with conflict, splitting societies asunder. How can democracy survive such rough and close contests?
October 2003, Volume 14, Issue 4
The EU represents an opportunity not only to fashion a postnational welfare state capable of responding to a postnational economy, but to lay a groundwork that will ultimately make possible a global domestic policy.
April 2020, Volume 31, Issue 2
Algeria’s massive wave of protesters wanted to put an end to sham elections. While the leaderless movement succeeded for a time, its failure showcased the lengths to which a country’s ruling elite will go to maintain its hold on power.
January 2006, Volume 17, Issue 1
The successful completion of yet another general election should dispel any residual doubts about Bulgarian democracy. But the election results made clear that the country now faces a new set of challenges.
July 2022, Volume 33, Issue 3
A half-century after his father declared martial law and made himself a dictator, Ferdinand Marcos Jr. has been elected president of the Philippines by a stunning majority. There is little stopping him from dismantling what remains of the country’s democracy.
October 2009, Volume 20, Issue 4
A review of Wars, Guns, and Votes: Democracy in Dangerous Places by Paul Collier.
April 2007, Volume 18, Issue 2
A review of Confronting the Weakest Link: Aiding Political Parties in New Democracies by Thomas Carothers.
January 2007, Volume 18, Issue 1
A review of China's Trapped Transition: The Limits of Developmental Autocracy by Minxin Pei.
April 2003, Volume 14, Issue 2
A review of “Conversations with Gorbachev” by Mikhail Gorbachev and Zdenek Mlynár.
April 2002, Volume 13, Issue 2
A review of Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels from Los Angeles to Beijing. By Ian Buruma.
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
A review of The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions, by Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman.
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
A review of Civil Society and the State in Africa, edited by John W. Harbeson, Donald Rothchild, and Naomi Chazan.
April 2001, Volume 12, Issue 2
The conventional wisdom about Venezuela’s plight is largely mistaken. Only when Venezuelans recognize the real causes of their woes will they be able to make progress in overcoming them.
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January 2021, Volume 32, Issue 1
The retirement of the country’s longest-serving prime minister leaves in place a “continuity administration,” and with it some troubling questions about whether liberal democracy’s “soft guardrails” are being eroded.