April 1995, Volume 6, Number 2

Transcending the Clash of Cultures

• Democracy's Forgotten Dimension
  Václav Havel
  
  
• Freedom, Development, and Human Worth
  Aung San Suu Kyi
  

Reexamining Russia

• Crime Without Punishment
  Ariel Cohen
  
  
• Institutions and Incentives
  Peter C. Ordeshook
  

Economic Reform and Democracy

• Beyond Shock Therapy
  Padma Desai
  
  
• Can the Middle East Compete?
  Henri Barkey
  
  
• Crisis and Opportunity in Africa
  Nicolas van de Walle
  
  
• The Politics of Safety Nets
  Carol Graham
  

Field Reports

• A Mexican Milestone
  Sergio Aguayo Quezada

Books in Review

• Parliaments Over Presidents? by Matthew Soberg Shugart
  Review of Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela's The Failure of Presidential Democracy
  
  
• "Civil" and Other Societies by Peter M. Lewis
  Review of John W. Harbeson, Donald Rothchild, and Naomi Chazan's Civil Society and the State in Africa

Election Watch

• Reports on the elections in Benin, Bulgaria, Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, Mexico, Micronesia, Niger, and Uzbekistan.