China’s Threat to Global Democracy
The Chinese Communist Party is deadly serious about its authoritarian designs, and it is bent on promoting them. It is time for the world’s democracies to get serious, too. | Michael Beckley and Hal Brands
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Electoral Reform Society charter 2025 'good governance charter'
July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3
Democratizing Civil Society in Latin America
As the experience of Latin America makes clear, a strong civil society is not necessarily a democratic one. Democratic deficits within civil society jeopardize its ability to perform its proper social functions.
July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
Conceptions of Civil Society
A review of The Idea of Civil Society, by Adam B. Seligman and Civil Society and Political Theory, by Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato.
Democracy’s Frontline Defenders
Across the globe, the people who run our elections are being undermined, targeted, and attacked. Here is how to shore them up—and protect democratic institutions, too.
July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3
Classical Liberalism Catches On in China
A specter is haunting China-the specter of classical liberalism.
April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2
What Went Wrong in Russia? The Feudalization of the State
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April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2
What Went Wrong in Russia? The Roots of the Economic Crisis
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January 1998, Volume 9, Issue 1
Will China Democratize? The Road From Socialism
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January 1998, Volume 9, Issue 1
Will China Democratize? Current Trends and Future Prospects
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April 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2
Constraints & Opportunities in the Arab World
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July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
Latin America’s Critical Elections: Brazil at an Impasse
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April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
The Key Role of the Working Class
A review of Capitalist Development and Democracy, by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens.
July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
Politics After Communism: A Horizon of Hope and Fear
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