October 1999, Volume 10, Issue 4
Federalism and Democracy: Beyond the U.S. Model
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October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4
PR and Southern Africa: The Case for Proportionality
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Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3
Debate—Proportional Representation: PR and Democratic Statecraft
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January 2001, Volume 12, Issue 1
Devaluing the Vote in Latin America
Malapportionment poses a serious, yet hitherto neglected, challenge to the quality and fairness of democracy in many Latin American countries.
October 1999, Volume 10, Issue 4
Southeast Asia After the Crisis: Thailand’s Successful Reforms
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July 1999, Volume 10, Issue 3
Latin America’s Imperiled Progress: Cardoso and the Struggle for Reform in Brazil
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April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Economic Reform and Democracy: Can the Middle East Compete?
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January 2016, Volume 27, Issue 1
The Authoritarian Threat: The Hijacking of “Soft Power”
Although the leading authoritarian regimes are today integrated in many ways into the global system, they have not become more like the democracies; instead, they have been devising policies and practices aimed at blocking democracy’s advance.
April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2
Ethnic Power Sharing: Three Big Problems
In severely divided societies, ethnic cleavages tend to produce ethnic parties and ethnic voting. Power-sharing institutions can ameliorate this problem, but attempts to establish such institutions, whether based on a consociational or a centripetal model, face formidable difficulties.
October 2016, Volume 27, Issue 4
The Specter Haunting Europe: Populism and Protest in Poland
Once the poster child for successful postcommunist transitions to democracy, Poland is now governed by populist nationalists. What happened?
January 1993, Volume 4, Issue 1
Choosing an Electoral System: The Primacy of the Particular
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January 1993, Volume 4, Issue 1
Choosing an Electoral System: South Africa Seeks New Ground Rules
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January 2009, Volume 20, Issue 1
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Azerbaijan, Belarus, the Czech Republic, Guinea-Bissau, Lithuania, the Maldives, Romania, Rwanda, Slovenia, Swaziland, Vanuatu, and Zambia.
July 2001, Volume 12, Issue 3
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Albania, Benin, Chad, Guyana, Iran, Micronesia, Mongolia, Peru, Philippines, Senegal, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, Uganda, and Yugoslavia (Montenegro).
July 2015, Volume 26, Issue 3
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Benin, El Salvador, Ethiopia, Guyana, Kazakhstan, Mexico, Nigeria, Poland, Sudan, Suriname, Togo, and Turkey.