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July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
India has long baffled theorists of democracy. Democratic theory holds that poverty, widespread illiteracy, and a deeply hierarchical social structure are inhospitable conditions for the functioning of democracy. Yet except for 18 months in 1975-77, India has maintained its democratic institutions ever since it became independent of Britain in 1947. Over those five decades, there…
July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
The early 1990s saw a wave of competitive multiparty elections in Africa. These contests can be described as "founding" elections in the sense that they marked for various countries a transition from an extended period of authoritarian rule to fledgling democratic government. By the middle of the 1990s, this wave had crested. Although founding elections…
July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
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July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
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July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
A review of Fifty Years of Indian Parliamentary Democracy, 1947-1997, by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
A review of China’s Transition, by Andrew Nathan.
April 1998, Volume 9, Issue 2
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April 1998, Volume 9, Issue 2
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April 1998, Volume 9, Issue 2
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April 1998, Volume 9, Issue 2
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