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January 2000, Volume 11, Number 1
Democracy in the World: Tocqueville Reconsidered
Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America remains remarkably relevant to our time. A diverse group of authors reflects upon and "updates" Tocqueville's analysis in light of the worldwide experience with democracy as we enter the new millennium. (Transcript of the 20 January 2000 panel discussion entitled Alexis de Tocqueville and the Future of Democracy.)Introduction
The Editors
The March of Equality
Francis Fukuyama
Mores and Democracy in Latin America
Enrique Krauze
The Judiciary and the Rule of Law
Guillermo O'Donnell
The Problem of Executive Power in Russia
Lilia Shevtsova
Federalism and the Euro-Polity
Philippe C. Schmitter
The Indispensability of Political Parties
Seymour Martin Lipset
From the Press to the Media
Gautam Adhikari
Civil Society and the "Art of Association"
William A. Galston
Lawyers and Liberal Democracy
H. Kwasi Prempeh
The Challenge of an Asymmetrical World
Abdou Filali-Ansary
Does Democracy Need Religion?
Hillel Fradkin
Race and Ethnicity in America
Nathan Glazer
Democracy's Triumph, Philosophy's Peril
G.M. Tamás
Postmodern Prophet: Tocqueville Visits Vegas
Paul A. Cantor
Reflections on the Collapse of Communism
Adam Michnik
The Cultural Challenge to Individualism
Hahm Chaibong
The Perils of Prosperity
João Carlos Espada
Compassion and the Softening of Mores
Clifford Orwin
Economic Inequality and Democratic Instability
Terry Lynn Karl
Women, Equality, and the Family
Jean Bethke Elshtain
The End of Revolution?
Ghia Nodia
War and Foreign Policy, American-Style
Zbigniew Brzezinski
Did Tocqueville Foresee Totalitarianism?
Martin Malia
The 1999 Freedom House Survey: A Century of Progress Adrian Karatnycky
Although freedom did not make significant strides in 1999, democracy has made important and dramatic progress when viewed from the perspective of the century as a whole.Election Watch
- Reports on the elections in Argentina, Botswana, Central African Republic, Chile, Georgia, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, India, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Malaysia, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Russia, Sri Lanka, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uruguay, and Yemen.
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