This essay synthesizes the results of the large number of studies of late–20th-century
democratization published during the last 20 years. Strong evidence supports the claims that …

Authoritarian populist parties have advanced in many countries, and entered government in
states as diverse as Austria, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland, and Switzerland. Even small …

It is important to emphasize the fact that in Latin America today all social movements enact a
cultural politics. This chapter shows that the conceptualization and investigation of the …

Stephens sCapitalist Development and Democracyin: 992 was an intellectual milestone, for
this book rep-esents some ofthe finest thinking ever conducted con: erning the reasons for …

Is Russia a democracy? What about Ukraine, Nigeria, Indonesia, Turkey, or Venezuela?
There was a time when these were simple questions of regime classification. But the …

What makes political regimes rise, endure, and fall? The main question is whether the
observed close relation between levels of economic development and the incidence of …

Who watches over the party-state? In this engaging analysis, Maria Repnikova reveals the
webs of an uneasy partnership between critical journalists and the state in China. More than …

A new orthodoxy dominates official Western aid policy and development thinking. At its core
is the confident assertion that'good governance'and democracy are not simply desirable but …

Development and Political Legitimacy, &dquo; has proved one of the most contro-versial,
durable, and frequently cited articles in the social sciences. Asserting a broad and …

Poland is the only country in which popular protest and mass opposition, epitomized by the
Solidarity movement, played a significant role in bringing down the communist regime. This …