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October 1996, Volume 7, Issue 4

Soft Authoritarianism in Malaysia and Singapore

• Gordon P. Means

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July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3

In Praise of the Art of Politics

• Fernando Henrique Cardoso

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July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3

Democratization in the Middle East: Quandaries of the Peace Process

• Etel Solingen

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July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3

Curbing Corruption in Venezuela

• Gustavo Coronel

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April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2

Civil Society in Africa

• E. Gyimah-Boadi

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January 1996, Volume 7, Issue 1

Nation Building in the Former USSR

• Pål Kolstø

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October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4

“Creeping Democratization” in China

• Minxin Pei

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October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4

PR and Southern Africa: Elections in Agrarian Societies

• Joel D. Barkan

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April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2

The Morass in Moscow: Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s Four Crises

• Leon Aron

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July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3

In Defense of Neoliberalism

• Jeremy Shearmur

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Fall 1991, Volume 2, Issue 4

Confronting Dictatorship in Kenya

• Gibson Kamau Kuria

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Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3

Civil Society in South Africa

• Khehla Shubane

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Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3

Consolidation in Chile

• Edgardo Boeninger

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Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3

Strategies for Change in China

• Liang Heng

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Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3

Third World Communism in Crisis: The Fall of Afro-Marxism

• Jeffrey Herbst

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Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1

Organizing “People Power” in the Philippines

• Dette Pascual

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January 2025, Volume 36, Issue 1

The Return of Politics in Bangladesh

• Nusrat Sabina Chowdhury

The student movement that toppled Bangladesh’s longtime autocratic ruler wants more than a return to the old order. These young revolutionaries are seizing a chance to start anew. How and by whom will the country’s future be decided?

April 2025, Volume 36, Issue 2

Rebuilding the State in Post-Assad Syria

• Daniel Neep

Despite a brutal thirteen-year civil war, Syrians are not building from scratch. In fact, Syria has a long and rich history of state-building to guide them.

Drowning Democracy

Afghanistan taught us that a firehose of unaccountable aid can destroy a country’s democratic future. In Ukraine, we are making the same mistake all over again. | By Jennifer Brick Murtazashvili and Nataliia Shapoval

July 2007, Volume 18, Issue 3

The Institutionalization of Political Power in Africa

• Daniel N. Posner
• Daniel J. Young

Sub-Saharan Africa has been traditionally depicted as a place where formal institutional rules are largely irrelevant-yet in the past fifteen years these rules have come to matter, and this trend is unlikely to reverse.