January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
Democracy’s Future
The Editors’ introduction to “Democracy’s Future.”
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January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
The Editors’ introduction to “Democracy’s Future.”
July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
The Editors’ introduction to “Rethinking Civil Society.”
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
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July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
The Editors’ introduction to “International Organizations & Democracy.”
July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
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Fall 1991, Volume 2, Issue 4
The Editors’ introduction to “Political Corruption.”
Fall 1990, Volume 1, Issue 4
The Editors’ introduction to “South Africa’s Future.”
Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2
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April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2
Civil-liberties scores have notably declined over the past several years, while political-rights scores have slightly improved—perhaps because modern authoritarians have begun to adopt subtler means of repression. Overall, however, freedom experienced a global decline for the eighth straight year in 2013.
January 2002, Volume 13, Issue 1
India defies the widely held view that poor societies are unlikely to remain democratic. What explains the resilience of India’s democracy in the face of long odds? The answer lies in the ways the country has responded to the varied challenges of the past decade.
April 2001, Volume 12, Issue 2
One key source of the weakness of democracy in the Andean region is the isolation of the “political class” from the rest of society. There are growing signs that this problem is becoming more serious in Bolivia.
April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2
The unexpectedly strong showing of media-savvy rightist candidate Joaquín Lavín in the 1999 presidential elections and the move to the center by Concertación candidate Ricardo Lagos suggest that Chile has begun to put the ghosts of Allende and Pinochet to rest.
October 2013, Volume 24, Issue 4
The phenomenon of the “interrupted presidency” remains a key source of democratic instability in Latin America, as was demonstrated once again by the 2012 impeachment of Paraguayan president Fernando Lugo.
October 2001, Volume 12, Issue 4
In Peru in 2000, the OAS made an unprecedented diplomatic intervention in a member state. Could this be a model for the future?
July 2001, Volume 12, Issue 3
The elections of 2000 reflected the profound disillusionment of the Romanian electorate with the performance of the centrist government of the past four years, rather than a turn away from democracy itself.