July 2003, Volume 14, Issue 3
Measuring Democratic Commitment
A review of Defending Democracy: A Global Survey of Foriegn Policy Trends 1992–2002, edited by Robert G. Herman and Theodore J. Piccone.
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July 2003, Volume 14, Issue 3
A review of Defending Democracy: A Global Survey of Foriegn Policy Trends 1992–2002, edited by Robert G. Herman and Theodore J. Piccone.
October 2002, Volume 13, Issue 4
Realizing that power would slip from his grasp if he allowed an honest presidential election in 2002, longtime strongman Robert Mugabe resorted to antidemocratic tactics that set a new low in cruelty and dishonesty.
October 2002, Volume 13, Issue 4
Why did Belarusians return dictator Alyaksandr Lukashenka to power in September 2001? Could a better-managed opposition campaign have made a difference?
July 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3
A review of Arguing Comparative Politics by Alfred Stepan.
October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4
A review of Jack Snyder's From Voting to Violence.
July 1999, Volume 10, Issue 3
Review of Sultanistic Regimes, by H.E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, ed.
October 1998, Volume 9, Issue 4
A review of After 1989: Morals, Revolution, and Civil Society, by Ralf Dahrendorf.
July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
A review of China’s Transition, by Andrew Nathan.
January 1998, Volume 9, Issue 1
A review of Democracy’s Victory and Crisis, edited by Axel Hadenius.
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
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April 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2
A review of Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, by Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan.
July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3
A review of Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes, by Giovanni Sartori.
October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4
A review of Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals, by Ernest Gellner.
Spring 1991, Volume 2, Issue 2
A review of To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions, by Giuseppe Di Palma.
Fall 1990, Volume 1, Issue 4
A review of Between East and West: Writings from “Kultura”, edited by Robert Kostrzewa.
Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3
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Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2
A review of Islamic Liberalism: A Critique of Development Ideologies, by Leonard Binder.
April 2012, Volume 23, Issue 2
Among a new generation of international democracy promoters—often former recipients of democracy assistance themselves—Poland stands out. Its efforts, though mostly in its own neighborhood, show the importance of combining direct assistance with quiet diplomacy.
July 2001, Volume 12, Issue 3
A review of Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries by Arend Lijphart and Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Views, by G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
A review of Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, by Robert D. Putnam, with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti.