January 2000

Democracy in the World— Tocqueville Reconsidered

• The Editors

The Editors’ introduction to “Democracy in the World.”

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

Election Watch

Reports on elections in Argentina, Botswana, Central African Republic, Georgia, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, India, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Malaysia, Namibia, Niger, Tunisia, Ukraine, Uruguay, and Yemen.

Documents on Democracy

Excerpts from: a statement by Cuban dissidents entitled “All  United”; a letter by former dissidents of the Soviet  bloc to the so-called “Group of Four” critics of the Castro regime in Cuba; an address delivered by the Commonwealth’s outgoing secretary-general Chief Emeka Anayaoku;  the “Seoul Statement” on human rights in North Korea; Abdurrahman Wahid’s speech…

News and Notes

Tenth Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution; Durban Conference Considers Corruption; Third FDL-AP General Assembly; Federalism and Globalization; RFK Human Rights Award; The PRC Turns 50; New School Holds Conference on Roundtables; Report on NED’s International Forum.