July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
The Rise of Election Monitoring: The Observers Observed
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July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
The East Asian Prospect: The Illusion of Exceptionalism
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January 1997, Volume 8, Issue 1
Reviving Local Government
A review of Local Government in Latin America, by R. Andrew Nickson.
October 1996, Volume 7, Issue 4
Latin America’s Parties
A review of Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully.
January 1996, Volume 7, Issue 1
The Question of Citizenship in the Baltics
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October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4
The History of the Word “Democracy” in France
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July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
Updates on Japan & Italy: The Birth of the “Second Republic”
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January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
The Road from Athens
A review of Democracy: The Unfinished Journey, 508 BC to AD 1993, edited by John Dunn.
October 1993, Volume 4, Issue 4
Fundamentalism’s Future
A review of The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, by Mark Juergensmeyer.
January 1993, Volume 4, Issue 1
Choosing an Electoral System: The Primacy of the Particular
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October 1992, Volume 3, Issue 4
The Islamist Challenge: The Failure of Reform in Tunisia
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Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1
The Crumbling of the Soviet Bloc: Poland and Hungary in Transition
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Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1
The Crumbling of the Soviet Bloc: Overcoming Totalitarianism
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April 2014, Volume 25, Issue 2
The Freedom House Survey for 2013: The Democratic Leadership Gap
Civil-liberties scores have notably declined over the past several years, while political-rights scores have slightly improved—perhaps because modern authoritarians have begun to adopt subtler means of repression. Overall, however, freedom experienced a global decline for the eighth straight year in 2013.
January 2002, Volume 13, Issue 1
South Asia Faces the Future: New Dimensions in Indian Democracy
India defies the widely held view that poor societies are unlikely to remain democratic. What explains the resilience of India’s democracy in the face of long odds? The answer lies in the ways the country has responded to the varied challenges of the past decade.
April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2
Chile’s Elections: The New Face of the Right
The unexpectedly strong showing of media-savvy rightist candidate Joaquín Lavín in the 1999 presidential elections and the move to the center by Concertación candidate Ricardo Lagos suggest that Chile has begun to put the ghosts of Allende and Pinochet to rest.
July 2008, Volume 19, Issue 3
Asia’s Progress
A review of Pacific Asia in Quest of Democracy by Roland Rich.