July 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3 Debating the Transition Paradigm: In Partial Defense of an Evanescent “Paradigm” Guillermo O’Donnell The coauthor of the seminal work on democratic transitions sets the record straight on what the scholarly literature actually says.
October 2001, Volume 12, Issue 4 Ten Years After the Soviet Breakup: Russia’s Hybrid Regime Lilia Shevtsova In Russia, formally democratic institutions coexist uneasily with the reality of tightly consolidated bureaucratic and executive power.
July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3 Classical Liberalism Catches On in China Liu Junning A specter is haunting China-the specter of classical liberalism.
January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1 The Problem of Executive Power in Russia Lilia Shevtsova Read the full essay here.
October 1999, Volume 10, Issue 4 Southeast Asia After the Crisis: Challenges of Change in Indonesia Bambang Harymurti Read the full essay here.
July 1999, Volume 10, Issue 3 Latin America’s Imperiled Progress: Chavez and the End of “Partyarchy” in Venezuela Jennifer McCoy Read the full essay here.
July 1999, Volume 10, Issue 3 Latin America’s Imperiled Progress: Fujimori and Post-Party Politics in Peru Steven Levitsky Read the full essay here.
April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2 What Went Wrong in Russia? The Ravages of “Market Bolshevism” Dmitri Glinski Peter Reddaway Read the full essay here.
April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2 What Went Wrong in Russia? The Feudalization of the State Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr Read the full essay here.
April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2 What Went Wrong in Russia? The Roots of the Economic Crisis Andrei Illiarionov Read the full essay here.
January 1999, Volume 10, Issue 1 Eastern Europe a Decade Later: A New Phase in Czech Politics Steven Saxonberg Read the full essay here.
January 1999, Volume 10, Issue 1 Contributing to a Culture of Debate in Morocco Halima El-Glaoui Alexandre Lamy Xerxes Spencer Read the full essay here.
October 1998, Volume 9, Issue 4 Free Politics and Free Markets in Latin America Jorge I. Domínguez Read the full essay here.
April 1998, Volume 9, Issue 2 The Politics of Corruption in Latin America Kurt Weyland Read the full essay here.
April 1998, Volume 9, Issue 2 Elite Settlements in Taiwan John Higley Tong-yi Huang Tse-min Lin Read the full essay here.
January 1998, Volume 9, Issue 1 Consolidation and Public Opinion in South Africa Robert Mattes Hermann Thiel Read the full essay here.
October 1997, Volume 8, Issue 4 Teaching Human Rights in Cambodia Kassie Neou Jeffrey C. Gallup Read the full essay here.
April 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2 Constraints & Opportunities in the Arab World Emmanuel Sivan Read the full essay here.
April 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2 Tensions and Trade-Offs in Latin America Michael Shifter Read the full essay here.
