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Breaking Han Silence

China’s recent protests marked a crucial milestone: The mainstream Chinese public, at home and abroad, finally spoke up for the Uyghurs and their plight. | Tenzin Dorjee

October 2004, Volume 15, Issue 4

The Quality of Democracy: Addressing Inequality

Dietrich Rueschemeyer

Democracy requires robust political equality, but the persistence of social, economic and cultural inequality complicates its realization.

July 2004, Volume 15, Issue 3

World Religions and Democracy: The Ironies of Confucianism

Hahm Chaibong

Confucianism has had a long history of involvement with the state in East Asia, but today there are reasons to think that it can become a positive force in encouraging democracy.

April 2004, Volume 15, Issue 2

Christianity and Democracy: The Catholic Wave

Daniel Philpott

Long wary of the modern state as such, the Roman Catholic church became a champion of democratic government around the time of Vatican II, and helped to set off the Thrird Wave of democratization.

April 2004, Volume 15, Issue 2

Change in Uganda: A New Opening?

Edward Kannyo

The decision by Uganda’s leaders to abandon the country’s “movement” system and adopt multiparty pluralism creates a significant opportunity for democratic progress.

January 2004, Volume 15, Issue 1

Fox’s Mexico at Midterm

Chappell Lawson

Mexico’s 2003 congressional elections confirmed both the transition to fully competitive politics and the persistence of structural deficiencies associated with a multiparty presidential system.

January 2004, Volume 15, Issue 1

Research Report: Does Diversity Hurt Democracy?

It has been claimed in the pages of this journal that a homogeneous society is an advantage when it comes to democratization. How might this suggestion be empirically tested, and with what (perhaps preliminary) results?

January 1999, Volume 10, Issue 1

Galina Starovoitova (1946-1998)

On the evening of 20 November 1998, Galina Vasilievna Starovoitova was shot to death outside her St. Petersburg apartment. She was the sixth member of the Russian Duma to have been murdered since that body’s creation in 1993. Most observers agree that this was a political assassination. Starovoitova was a tireless, persistent voice for freedom,…

July 2013, Volume 24, Issue 3

Latin America’s Authoritarian Drift: The Threat from the Populist Left

Kurt Weyland

The left-populist authoritarianism that is taking hold across a swath of Latin America bears many resemblances to the rightist populism that was once widespread in the region. There are signs, however, that the leftist variant will be an even bigger problem for liberal democracy. Listen to the podcast.

July 2012, Volume 23, Issue 3

Election Watch

Reports on elections in Armenia, Belize, Burma, Dominican Republic, Egypt, El Salvador, Lesotho, Senegal, Serbia, South Korea, and Timor-Leste.

January 2004, Volume 15, Issue 1

Documents on Democracy

Excerpts from: a November 2003 interview with Iranian human rights activist Shirin Ebadi, winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize; a September 2003 speech by Hossein Khomeni, grandson of the founder and Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran; a September 2003 statement issued by Václav Havel, Arpád Göncz, and Lech Wałęsa, former presidents…

October 1993, Volume 4, Issue 4