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October 2014, Volume 25, Issue 4

External Influence and Democratization: Gatekeepers and Linkages

Jakob Tolstrup

Levitsky and Way’s account of linkage and leverage leaves out the key role of “gatekeeper” elites.

January 2014, Volume 25, Issue 1

Georgian Democracy: Seizing or Losing the Chance?

Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr

A year after the election that ended the rule of president Mikheil Saakashvili’s National Movement, Georgia has seen further remarkable developments that raise key questions for struggling postcommunist democracies and, indeed, democracies everywhere.

January 2012, Volume 23, Issue 1

Democracy Assistance: What Recipients Think

Joel D. Barkan

A groundbreaking new survey shows that democracy assistance is highly valued by its recipients but that there remains room for improvement.

July 2011, Volume 22, Issue 3

Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy: South African Disparities

Charles Simkins

Despite improvements in South Africa’s socioeconomic landscape and the expansion of the black middle class since the end of apartheid, the country’s levels of poverty and inequality remain high and heavily correlated with race.

April 2007, Volume 18, Issue 2

India’s Unlikely Democracy: Economic Growth and Political Accommodation

Aseema Sinha

So far, economic liberalization and globalization have not served to undermine India's democracy. Indeed, they may even be strengthening it.

January 2006, Volume 17, Issue 1

Getting to Arab Democracy: What Do Iraqis Want?

There is a widespread desire for democracy among the Iraqi public, but when it comes to the roles of religion, ethnicity, and gender equality in Iraq's new democracy, attitudes are more varied.

October 2005, Volume 16, Issue 4

Babel in Democratization Studies

Recent works on regime types have led to confusion and a tendency to overstate the differences between established and newer democracies.

January 2005, Volume 16, Issue 1

Building Democracy After Conflict: ‘Stateness’ First

Francis Fukuyama

World events-recent, current, and almost certainly to come-drive home the truth that before there can be a democratic state, there must first be a functioning state, period. Creating workable states where they have been destroyed or have barely existed yields to none among the challenges of our time.

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.

January 2004, Volume 15, Issue 1

Europe Moves Eastward: Consolidating Free Government in the New EU

Jiri Pehe

Since the fall of the Berlin Wall, the involvement of NATO and the EU with their prospective new members has worked strongly in favor of democratic governance in Central and Eastern Europe.

October 2003, Volume 14, Issue 4

Making Sense of the EU: The Achievements of the Convention

Yves Mény

Building democracy at the supernational level is an unprecedented task, but so once was building democracy at the level of the modern state. And the progress of the EU in the last half-century has been remarkable.

October 2003, Volume 14, Issue 4

Making Sense of the EU: Democracy in Europe and Europe’s Democratization

Philippe C. Schmitter

Europe faces a potentially dangerous “double bind”: The legitimacy of domestic democracy in the member states is waning, and citizens are increasingly unhappy with the EU’s lack of accountability—but the new draft Constitution fails to address the problem.

January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1