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July 2003, Volume 14, Issue 3

Measuring Democratic Commitment

• Thomas O. Melia

A review of Defending Democracy: A Global Survey of Foriegn Policy Trends 1992–2002, edited by Robert G. Herman and Theodore J. Piccone.

April 2003, Volume 14, Issue 2

Latin America’s Lost Illusions: The Future of Structural Reform

• Eduardo Lora
• Ugo Panizza

As Latin America suffers from its worst economic crisis in decades, the reform of political institutions remains the region’s best hope.

January 2003, Volume 14, Issue 1

China’s Changing of the Guard: The Rise of the Technocrats

• Gongqin Xiao

With both reformists and leftists pushed aside, political center-stage now belongs to new pragmatists both inside and outside the Communist Party.

October 2002, Volume 13, Issue 4

Flogging a Dead God?

• John Gould

A review of Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism by Joshua Muravchik.

July 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3

Debating the Transition Paradigm: In Partial Defense of an Evanescent “Paradigm”

• Guillermo O’Donnell

The coauthor of the seminal work on democratic transitions sets the record straight on what the scholarly literature actually says.

July 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3

The Balkans: Democracy Without Choices

• Ivan Krastev

The gravest challenges facing democracy in the Balkans are problems not of ethnicity or postcommunism, but of citizen disaffection and disillusionment.

July 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3

Cape Verde: An African Exception

• Peter Meyns

The small, Portuguese-speaking island republic of Cape Verde offers a suggestive case study of successful democratic consolidation.

July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3

Japan’s Political Transition

• Steven K. Vogel

In The Logic of Japanese Politics, Gerald Curtis portrays the political history of Japan in the 1990s in its full complexity.   

April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2

Explaining Communism’s Appeal

• Carl Gershman

A review of Francois Furet's last book, The Passing of an Illusion.

January 1999, Volume 10, Issue 1

Taiwan Gets it Right

• Lucian W. Pye

Review of The First Chinese Democracy: Political Life in the Republic of China on Taiwan, by Linda Chao and Ramon H. Myers.

October 1998, Volume 9, Issue 4

Judicial Review and the Arab World

• Nathan J. Brown

Read the full essay here.

October 1998, Volume 9, Issue 4

Eastern Europe’s Constitutional Courts

• Herman Schwartz

Read the full essay here.

October 1998, Volume 9, Issue 4

Liberalism of Sorts

• João Carlos Espada

A review of After 1989: Morals, Revolution, and Civil Society, by Ralf Dahrendorf.

July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3

India’s Cold-Eyed Introspection

• Satu P. Limaye

A review of Fifty Years of Indian Parliamentary Democracy, 1947-1997, by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.

July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3

The Rise of Election Monitoring: The Role of Domestic Observers

• Neil Nevitte
• Santiago A. Canton

Read the full essay here.

April 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2

Clarifying Consolidation

• Philippe C. Schmitter

A review of Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, by Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan.

April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2

Opening the Economic Mind

• S. Gordon Redding

A review of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama.

April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2

Is the Middle East Different?

• Steven Heydemann

A review of Democracy Without Democrats? The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World, edited by Ghassan Salamé.

January 1996, Volume 7, Issue 1

What Are Parties For?

• Seymour Martin Lipset

A review of Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Party Politics in America, by John H. Aldrich.

April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2

Parliaments Over Presidents

• Matthew Soberg Shugart

A review of The Failure of Presidential Democracy, edited by Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela.