January 1999, Volume 10, Issue 1
Eastern Europe a Decade Later: A New Phase in Czech Politics
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January 1998, Volume 9, Issue 1
Will China Democratize? Current Trends and Future Prospects
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January 1998, Volume 9, Issue 1
A Solid Smorgasbord
A review of Democracy’s Victory and Crisis, edited by Axel Hadenius.
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
The Rise of Election Monitoring: The Role of Domestic Observers
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January 1997, Volume 8, Issue 1
Where is Russia Headed? Toward Stability or Crisis?
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January 1996, Volume 7, Issue 1
The Question of Citizenship in the Baltics
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July 1995, Volume 6, Issue 3
Trouble in Paradise
A review of To Catch a Traitor in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison, by Francis T. Seow.
Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3
Democrats and Bureaucrats
A review of Democracy in Botswana: The Proceedings of a Symposium Held in Gaborone, 1-5 August 1988, edited by John Holm and Patrick Molutsi.
Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3
Mexico: Salinas and the PRI at the Crossroads
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Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2
Islamic Liberalism
A review of Islamic Liberalism: A Critique of Development Ideologies, by Leonard Binder.
Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2
Stabilizing Latin Democracy
A review of Democracy in the Americas: Stopping the Pendulum, edited by Robert A. Pastor.
April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2
Documents on Democracy
Excerpts from: The statement that Chinese rights activist Xu Zhiyong read at his January 22 trial for gathering a crowd to disrupt public order, for which he received a four-year prison sentence. The March 4 statement issued by former presidents Oscar Arias (Costa Rica), Fernando Henrique Cardoso (Brazil), Ricardo Lagos (Chile), and Alejandro Toledo (Peru) on the deteriorating…
October 2006, Volume 17, Issue 4
Constitutional Courts: A Primer for Decision Makers
Courts empowered to overturn legislative acts have spread rapidly in recent years. If carefully designed and limited, constitutional courts may aid democratic consolidation, but if not, they can become objects of political strife, impediments to democracy, and bad influences on legal development.
January 2003, Volume 14, Issue 1
Afghanistan’s Long Road to Reconstruction
To forestall a worst-case scenario, the U.S. and the world must make a deeper commitment to peacekeeping and decentralized government.