Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist
Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and …

Why do we compare nations? How do we compare nations? What are the'big issues' in
comparative politics? Issues and Methods in Comparative Politics provides students with the …

The transition from communism in Europe and the former Soviet Union has only sometimes
produced a transition to democracy. Since the crumbling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the …

This book provides a framework for analyzing the impact of the separation of powers on
party politics. Conventional political science wisdom assumes that democracy is impossible …

Since the collapse of communism the states of postcommunist Europe and Asia have
defined for themselves, and have had defined for them, two primary tasks: the construction of …

Edward Schatz explores the politics of kin-based clan divisions in the post-Soviet state of
Kazakhstan. Drawing from extensive ethnographic and archival research, interviews, and …

" Focusing on regime trajectories across the former Soviet Union, Pluralism by Default posits
that political competition in" new democracies" has often been grounded less in well …

In order to assess the real impact of different governmental arrangements on
democratization, we must penetrate beyond general categories for classifying constitutional …

This article measures the process of democratization by subdividing it into three
components: the liberalization of autocracy, the mode of transition and the consolidation of …

This article is an overview of the types and level of institutionalization of party systems in
seven young democracies in East and Southeast Asia. By applying Alan Siaroff's typology of …