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October 2008, Volume 19, Issue 4

Mistaken Identity

• Marc F. Plattner

A review of Defending Identity: Its Indispensable Role in Protecting Democracy by Natan Sharansky.

April 2007, Volume 18, Issue 2

Are New Democracies War-Prone?

• Michael McFaul

A review of Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War by Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder

January 2006, Volume 17, Issue 1

Soldiers and Islamists in Pakistan

• Aqil Shah

Read the full essay here. A review of Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military, by Hussain Haqqani.

January 2005, Volume 16, Issue 1

What’s in Store for China

• Merle Goldman

A review of China's Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead by Bruce Gilley.

July 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3

Thinking Big

• Laurence Whitehead

A review of Arguing Comparative Politics by Alfred Stepan.

April 2001, Volume 12, Issue 2

Revisiting Florida 2000: Failures of Law

• R. Doug Lewis

Read the full essay here.

April 2001, Volume 12, Issue 2

Rediscovering Culture

• Michael Novak

A review of Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington.

January 2001, Volume 12, Issue 1

How People View Democracy: Africans’ Surprising Universalism

• Michael Bratton
• Robert Mattes

Although Africa is a latecomer to democratization, Africans overwhelmingly support democracy, and their conception of democracy is surprisingly liberal.

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Nurturing Nationalism

• Ghia Nodia

A review of Jack Snyder's From Voting to Violence.

July 1999, Volume 10, Issue 3

Resurrecting Sultanism

• Crawford Young

Review of Sultanistic Regimes, by H.E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, ed.

April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2

Regime Change in Africa

• Joel D. Barkan

Review of Democratic Experiments in Africa: Regime Transitions in Comparative Perspective, by Michael Bratton and Nicolas Van de Walle

January 1999, Volume 10, Issue 1

Contributing to a Culture of Debate in Morocco

• Halima El-Glaoui
• Alexandre Lamy
• Xerxes Spencer

Read the full essay here.

July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3

Chinese Culture and Democracy

• Edward Friedman

A review of China’s Transition, by Andrew Nathan. 

April 1998, Volume 9, Issue 2

Surveying Postmaterialism

• Alex Inkeles

A review of Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies, by Ronald Inglehart.

January 1998, Volume 9, Issue 1

A Solid Smorgasbord

• Richard Rose

A review of Democracy’s Victory and Crisis, edited by Axel Hadenius.

October 1997, Volume 8, Issue 4

Bulgaria’s Symphony of Hope

• Venelin I. Ganev

Read the full essay here.

October 1997, Volume 8, Issue 4

Islam’s Democratic Essence?

• Ibrahim Karawan

A review of Islam and Democracy, by John L. Esposito and John O. Voll.

July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3

East Asian Prospect: Tale of Three Systems

• Robert A. Scalapino

Read the full essay here.

April 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2

Can Africa Develop?

• Michael Chege

A review of Development and Democracy in Africa, by Claude Ake.

July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3

Crafting Constitutions

• John M. Carey

A review of Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes, by Giovanni Sartori.