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October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Mexico’s Victory: The Democratic Revelation

• Andreas Schedler

Vicente Fox’s victory in Mexico’s July 2000 presidential election revealed the fundamental changes that had been taking place under the veil of governmental continuity.

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Mexico’s Victory: Exiting the Labyrinth

• Robert A. Pastor

The beauty of Mexico’s transition to democracy lay in the way it evolved gradually and peacefully over the course of a decade.

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Mexico’s Victory: Vicente Fox and the Rise of the PAN

• David Shirk

Although Fox’s National Action Party (PAN) is frequently portrayed as a reactionary party, it is better understood as a liberal-democratic alternative to the former ruling party’s authoritarianism.

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Mexico’s Victory: The “External” Factor

• Sergio Aguayo Quezada
• Victoria Wigodzky

Any serious discussion of Mexico’s future must take into account its relations with the United States.

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

A Reply to My Accusers

• Saad Eddin Ibrahim

An Egyptian civil-society leader responds to the closing down of his organization and the allegations against him by state prosecutors.

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Comparing East Asia and Latin America: Capital Mobility and Democratic Stability

• Sylvia Maxfield

Despite the persistent doomsaying about the political consequences of untrammeled international capital flows, financial liberalization may actually contribute to democratic consolidation.

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Is Iran Democratizing? Observations on Election Day

• Haleh Esfandiari

In hotly contested parliamentary elections, candidates supportive of President Khatami’s reforms won an overwhelming victory.

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Is Iran Democratizing? The Role of the Intellectuals

• Ramin Jahanbegloo

The “Fourth Generation” of Iranian intellectuals has a vital role to play in strengthening civil society and fostering democratization.

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Societal Accountability in Latin America

• Catalina Smulovitz
• Enrique Peruzzotti

Recent studies of democracy in Latin America overlook the role of civil society as an agent of accountability.

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Monitoring the Vote in Croatia

• Suzana Jasic

A nongovernmental organization, Citizens Organized to Monitor Voting (GONG), helped ensure the transparency of Croatia’s recent elections.

July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3

Russia Under Putin: The Feudal Analogy

• Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr

The analogy with feudalism helps us understand the baffling changes that unexpectedly appeared during the transition away from communist rule.

July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3

Russia Under Putin: Can Electoral Autocracy Survive?

• Lilia Shevtsova

Vladimir Putin soon must make a fundamental choice: whether to hold on to monolithic power or to adopt a reformist course that could leave him at the center of a battle without any guarantee of success.

July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3

Russia Under Putin: Reintegrating “Post-Soviet Space”

• John B. Dunlop

The debate over Russia’s likely course of development under Putin has paid surprisingly little attention to his openly stated goal of reintegrating Russia with other former Soviet republics.

July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3

Arabs and Democracy: Illusions of Change

• Emmanuel Sivan

Many observers regarded 1999 as a year of progress for democracy in the Arab world. There is reason to doubt, however, whether any meaningful change has really occurred.

July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3

Promoting Democracy: The Mandela-Mbeki Doctrine

• Chris Landsberg

The promotion of democracy in Africa has become the dominant theme of South Africa’s foreign policy. Yet the dilemmas this policy has confronted in practice have forced the government to alter its approach.

July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3

Democratizing Civil Society in Latin America

• Alison Brysk

As the experience of Latin America makes clear, a strong civil society is not necessarily a democratic one. Democratic deficits within civil society jeopardize its ability to perform its proper social functions.

July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3

Books in Review: Law and Injustice in Latin America

• Linn Hammergren

The (Un)Rule of Law and the Underprivileged in Latin America, edited by Juan E. Méndez, Guillermo O’Donnell, and Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, offers a harsh appraisal of the region’s legal and justice systems.

April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2

Electoral Reform and Stability in Uruguay

• Jeffrey Cason

In the November 1999 presidential election, Uruguayans reaffirmed their strong commitment to democracy, while adjusting to a set of constitutional reforms that profoundly altered the electoral system.

April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2

Eastern Europe: The International Context

• Jacques Rupnik

Nowhere else has the impact of international factors on democratization been as apparent as in Central and Eastern Europe. Integration into European and Euro-Atlantic structures is one particularly strong democratizing force.

April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2

Women in East European Parliaments

• Steven Saxonberg

A major question in the consolidation of Eastern Europe’s new democracies is whether women will participate fully in the political process. One key indicator is the representation of women in the region’s parliaments.