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October 2014, Volume 25, Issue 4

Indonesia’s 2014 Elections: Parliament and Patronage

• Edward Aspinall

Indonesia’s 2014 legislative elections went smoothly. Yet the “money politics” that featured so heavily in these contests suggests a grave need to reform the country’s electoral system.

October 2014, Volume 25, Issue 4

External Influence and Democratization: Gatekeepers and Linkages

• Jakob Tolstrup

Levitsky and Way’s account of linkage and leverage leaves out the key role of “gatekeeper” elites.

October 2014, Volume 25, Issue 4

External Influence and Democratization: Structure vs. Choice

• Steven Levitsky
• Lucan A. Way

Linkage and leverage largely reflect long-term structural factors, and only in certain situations can they be affected by policy choices.

October 2014, Volume 25, Issue 4

Manipulating Term Limits in Latin America

• Javier Corrales
• Michael Penfold

More and more Latin American countries have sought to relax or even eliminate presidential term limits. What are the consequences for democracy?

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

The End of the Transitions Era?

• Marc F. Plattner

Regime change will always be a feature of political life, but we are unlikely to see again transitions to democracy on the scale of the “third wave.”

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

The Maidan and Beyond

• The Editors

Read the full essay here. The Editors’ introduction to “The Maidan and Beyond.”

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

The Maidan and Beyond: The House That Yanukovych Built

• Serhiy Kudelia

The events surrounding the EuroMaidan cannot be understood apart from the preceding five years of increasingly corrupt and authoritarian rule.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

The Maidan and Beyond: Civil Society and Democratization

• Lucan A. Way

Despite the spirit of participation that characterized the Maidan, organized civil society groups were not a key factor.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

The Maidan and Beyond: Who Were the Protesters?

• Olga Onuch

Survey data reveal the makeup of the crowds in the Maidan and the factors that motivated them to take part in the protests.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

The Maidan and Beyond: The Media’s Role

• Sergii Leshchenko

Media, both new and traditional and both Russian and Ukrainian, played a major role in the EuroMaidan story from the very outset.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

The Maidan and Beyond: Ukraine’s Radical Right

• Anton Shekhovtsov
• Andreas Umland

Russian propagandists—echoed by some Western commentators—portray Ukraine as a hotbed of nationalist extremism. The truth is quite different.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

The Maidan and Beyond: The Russia Factor

• Lilia Shevtsova

The regime of Vladimir Putin has been a key driver of the crisis in Ukraine. Under challenge at home for several years now, it turned to Ukraine in part to firm up its own grip on power in Russia.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

The Maidan and Beyond: Finding Ukraine

• Nadia Diuk

Ukrainians flocked to the Maidan to express a “choice for Europe,” but they may also have forged the beginnings of a new Ukrainian identity.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

Will Malaysia Follow the Path of Taiwan and Mexico?

• Joan M. Nelson

The hegemonic-party systems of Taiwan and Mexico began to loosen in the 1980s, eventually yielding to democracy. Malaysia’s ruling party, by contrast, has tightened the reins of power in the face of increasing opposition.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

Russia’s Nationalists Flirt with Democracy

• Pål Kolstø

Russia has witnessed a growing rapprochement between some of its nationalists and some of its democrats, but this trend is threatened by divisions over the annexation of Crimea.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

Is Small Really Beautiful? The Microstate Mistake

• Jan Erk
• Wouter Veenendaal

Tiny countries have come in for praise as miniature models of democracy, but closer examination tells a mainly more somber tale.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

El Salvador’s Beleaguered Democracy

• Forrest D. Colburn
• Arturo Cruz S.

In February 2014, Salvadorans narrowly elected as president a former FMLN guerrilla commander, but he will have to deal with a dire economy and horrific levels of crime.

July 2014, Volume 25, Issue 3

V-Dem: A New Way to Measure Democracy

• Staffan I. Lindberg
• Jan Teorell
• Michael Coppedge
• John Gerring
• et al.

In order to mark democracy’s progress and to inform policy, we need to be able to measure democracy in sufficient detail. The V-Dem Project aims to deliver exactly such a tool.

April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2

A New Twilight in Zimbabwe? The Perils of Power Sharing

• Adrienne LeBas

After four years of sharing power with the opposition, Zimbabwe’s longtime president Robert Mugabe and his party claimed a huge victory in the 2013 elections. What accounts for the opposition’s stunning electoral decline?

April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2

A New Twilight in Zimbabwe? The Military vs. Democracy

• Charles Mangongera

By militarizing key state institutions and using violence against the opposition, Zimbabwe’s military elites have hindered the country’s transition to democracy. In return, they have been richly rewarded. Can the military’s tentacles be untangled from Zimbabwean politics?