July 2001, Volume 12, Issue 3
A review of Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries by Arend Lijphart and Elections as Instruments of Democracy: Majoritarian and Proportional Views, by G. Bingham Powell, Jr.
April 2001, Volume 12, Issue 2
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
A review of Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-being in the World 1950-1990, by Adam Przeworski, Michael E. Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi.
October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4
A review of Jack Snyder's From Voting to Violence.
July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3
The (Un)Rule of Law and the Underprivileged in Latin America, edited by Juan E. Méndez, Guillermo O’Donnell, and Paulo Sérgio Pinheiro, offers a harsh appraisal of the region’s legal and justice systems.
April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2
A review of Francois Furet's last book, The Passing of an Illusion.
October 1999, Volume 10, Issue 4
Review of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman.
July 1999, Volume 10, Issue 3
Review of Sultanistic Regimes, by H.E. Chehabi and Juan J. Linz, ed.
July 1999, Volume 10, Issue 3
Review of Democracy and Its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies, by Richard Rose, William Mishler, and Christian Haerpfer.
April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2
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
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
A review of After 1989: Morals, Revolution, and Civil Society, by Ralf Dahrendorf.
July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
A review of Fifty Years of Indian Parliamentary Democracy, 1947-1997, by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
A review of China’s Transition, by Andrew Nathan.
April 1998, Volume 9, Issue 2
A review of Modernization and Postmodernization: Cultural, Economic, and Political Change in 43 Societies, by Ronald Inglehart.
January 1998, Volume 9, Issue 1
A review of Democracy’s Victory and Crisis, edited by Axel Hadenius.
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
A review of The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions, by Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman.
April 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2
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 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2
A review of Development and Democracy in Africa, by Claude Ake.
January 1997, Volume 8, Issue 1
A review of The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Narrative of the Nigerian Crisis, by Wole Soyinka.
January 1997, Volume 8, Issue 1
A review of Local Government in Latin America, by R. Andrew Nickson.
October 1996, Volume 7, Issue 4
A review of Enlightenment’s Wake: Politics and Culture at the Close of the Modern Age, by John Gray and An Intellectual History of Liberalism, by Pierre Manet.
October 1996, Volume 7, Issue 4
A review of Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America, edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully.
July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3
A review of Comparative Constitutional Engineering: An Inquiry into Structures, Incentives and Outcomes, by Giovanni Sartori.
July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3
A review of Political Legitimacy in Southeast Asia: The Quest for Moral Authority, edited by Muthiah Alagappa.
April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2
A review of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity, by Francis Fukuyama.
April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2
A review of Democracy Without Democrats? The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World, edited by Ghassan Salamé.
January 1996, Volume 7, Issue 1
A review of Why Parties? The Origin and Transformation of Party Politics in America, by John H. Aldrich.
October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4
Review of Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (1994).
October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4
A review of Conditions of Liberty: Civil Society and Its Rivals, by Ernest Gellner.
July 1995, Volume 6, Issue 3
A review of From Reform to Revolution: The Demise of Communism in China and the Soviet Union, by Minxin Pei and Sowing the Seeds of Democracy in China: Political Reform in the Deng Xiaoping Era, by Merlec Goldman.
July 1995, Volume 6, Issue 3
A review of Strong Parties and Lame Ducks: Presidential Partyarchy and Factionalism in Venezuela, by Michael Coppedge and Democracy for the Privileged: Crisis and Transition in Venezuela, by Richard S. Hillman.
July 1995, Volume 6, Issue 3
A review of To Catch a Traitor in Lee Kuan Yew’s Prison, by Francis T. Seow.
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
A review of The Failure of Presidential Democracy, edited by Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela.
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
A review of Civil Society and the State in Africa, edited by John W. Harbeson, Donald Rothchild, and Naomi Chazan.
January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
A review of The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991, by Martin Malia and Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age, by Daniel Chirot.
January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
A review of Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, by Robert D. Putnam, with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti.
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
A review of South Africa: The Political Economy of Transformation, edited by Stephen John Stedman.
July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
A review of The Idea of Civil Society, by Adam B. Seligman and Civil Society and Political Theory, by Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato.
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
A review of Capitalist Development and Democracy, by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens.
January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
A review of Democracy: The Unfinished Journey, 508 BC to AD 1993, edited by John Dunn.
January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
A review of Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, edited by John Higley and Richard Gunther.
October 1993, Volume 4, Issue 4
A review of The New Cold War? Religious Nationalism Confronts the Secular State, by Mark Juergensmeyer.
July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
A review of The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age, by Thomas Pangle.
July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
A review of Freedom House’s Freedom in the World: The Annual Survey of Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1992-1993.
April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2
A review of Working-Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain, by Robert M. Fishman.
January 1993, Volume 4, Issue 1
A review of The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, by George Weigel.
October 1992, Volume 3, Issue 4
A review of After the Fall: The Pursuit of Democracy in Central Europe, by Jeffery Goldfarb and Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel, by Vladimir Tismaneanu.
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
A review of Democracy and Discontent: India’s Growing Crisis of Governability, by Atul Kohli and The Politics of India Since Independence, by Paul Brass.
April 1992, Volume 3, Issue 2
A review of The End of History and the Last Man, by Francis Fukuyama.
January 1992, Volume 3, Issue 1
A review of The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century, by Samuel P. Huntington
Fall 1991, Volume 2, Issue 4
A review of Exporting Democracy: Fulfilling America’s Destiny, by Joshua Muravchik and Exporting Democracy: The United States and Latin America, edited by Abraham F. Lowenthal.
Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3
A review of A Democratic South Africa? Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society, by Donald L. Horowitz.
Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3
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.
Spring 1991, Volume 2, Issue 2
A review of To Craft Democracies: An Essay on Democratic Transitions, by Giuseppe Di Palma.
Spring 1991, Volume 2, Issue 2
A review of Hidden Nations: The People Challenge the Soviet Union, by Nadia Diuk and Adrian Karatnycky.
Winter 1991, Volume 2, Issue 1
A review of Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, by Donald Kagan.
Fall 1990, Volume 1, Issue 4
A review of Between East and West: Writings from “Kultura”, edited by Robert Kostrzewa.
Fall 1990, Volume 1, Issue 4
A review of Unruly Corporatism: The Associational Life in Twentieth-Century Egypt, by Robert Bianchi.
Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3
A review of Power, Press, and the Technology of Freedom: The Coming Age of ISDN, by Leonard R. Sussman.
Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2
A review of Islamic Liberalism: A Critique of Development Ideologies, by Leonard Binder.
Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2
A review of Democracy in the Americas: Stopping the Pendulum, edited by Robert A. Pastor.
Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1
A review of Anthills of the Savannah, by Chinua Achebe.
Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1
A review of Rethinking Military Politics: Brazil and the Southern Cone, by Alfred Stepan.
