April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Transcending the Clash of Cultures: Democracy’s Forgotten Dimension
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Subject: Defining democracy
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Transcending the Clash of Cultures: Freedom, Development, and Human Worth
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January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
Democracy’s Future
The Editors’ introduction to “Democracy’s Future.”
January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
Democracy’s Future: More Liberal, Preliberal, or Postliberal?
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January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
Democracy’s Future: Do Economists Know Best?
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January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
Delegative Democracy
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July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
International Organizations & Democracy: The OAS and Democratic Governance
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July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
International Organizations & Democracy: Toward a Global “Guarantee Clause”
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July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
Philosophy and Democracy
A review of The Ennobling of Democracy: The Challenge of the Postmodern Age, by Thomas Pangle.
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
The Editors’ introduction to the Journal of Democracy‘s special issue marking the fiftieth anniversary of Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy by Joseph Schumpeter.
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
The Uncertain Triumph of Democratic Capitalism
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Summer 1991, Volume 2, Issue 3
What Democracy Is…and Is Not
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Winter 1991, Volume 2, Issue 1
The First Democracy
A review of Pericles of Athens and the Birth of Democracy, by Donald Kagan.
Summer 1990, Volume 1, Issue 3
Three Paradoxes of Democracy
While democracy is the most admired form of government, maintaining it requires contending with its contradictions.
Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1
Why the “Journal of Democracy”
The Journal of Democracy seeks to bridge some of these gaps. We hope that it will help to unify what is becoming a worldwide democratic movement. But like genuine democracy itself, the journal will be pluralistic. Its pages will be open to a wide variety of perspectives and shades of opinion, and it will seek…
Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1
Tiananmen and Beyond: After the Massacre
The following text is based upon remarks presented by Wuer Kaixi in Washington, D.C. on 2 August 1989 at a meeting cosponsored by the Congressional Human Rights Foundation and the National Endowment for Democracy.
Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1
Tiananmen and Beyond: Peering Over the Great Wall
Our goal at present is the thorough modernization of China. We all have a compelling sense of the need for this. There is a widespread feeling of dissatisfaction with the status quo among people in all walks of life.
Winter 1990, Volume 1, Issue 1
The Perils of Presidentialism
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World Religions and Democracy
Can religion be compatible with liberal democracy? This volume brings together insights from renowned scholars and world leaders in a provocative discussion of religions' role in the success or failure of democracy.