July 1997, Volume 8, Number 3

The Rise of Election Monitoring

• The Observers Observed
  Thomas Carothers
  
  
• What Makes Elections Free and Fair?
  Jørgen Elklit & Palle Svensson
  
  
• The Role of Domestic Observers
  Neil Nevitte & Santiago A. Canton
  

Public Opinion in New Democracies

• Where are Postcommunist Countries Going?
  Richard Rose
  
  
• Political Ambivalence in South Korea and Taiwan
  Doh Chull Shin & Huoyan Shyu
  
  
• Latin America's Smiling Mask
  Marta Lagos
  

The East Asian Prospect

• A "Recipe" for Democratic Development
  Gerald L. Curtis
  
  
• The Illusion of Exceptionalism
  Francis Fukuyama
  
  
• A Tale of Three Systems
  Robert A. Scalapino
  

Books in Review

• Theory in Pursuit of Practice by Thomas J. Biersteker
  Review of Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman's The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions

Election Watch

• Reports on the elections in Albania, Algeria, Bolivia, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Croatia, El Salvador, Indonesia, Iran, Mali, Mongolia, and Yemen.