The Debate on “Sequencing” Francis Fukuyama Thomas Carothers Edward D. Mansfield & Jack Snyder Sheri Berman When Will the Chinese People Be Free? Henry S. Rowen Minxin Pei Dali L. Yang Africa’s Institutional Progress Daniel N. Posner & Daniel J. Young John F. Clark Andrew M. Mwenda on Uganda Anna Seleny on Central and…
THE INSTITUTIONALIZATION OF POLITICAL POWER IN AFRICA Daniel N. Posner and Daniel J. Young O n 16 May 2006, after months of intense and divisive national de- bate, the Senate of Nigeria rejected a bill which would have changed that country’s constitution to permit President Olusegun Obasanjo a third term in office. By asserting…
India’s Unlikely Democracy Sumit Ganguly Rob Jenkins Pratap Bhanu Mehta Aseema Sinha Venezuela: Crowding Out the Opposition Javier Corrales & Michael Penfold The 2006 Freedom House Survey Arch Puddington Saad Eddin Ibrahim on Muslim Democracies Laurence Whitehead on Closely Fought Elections Pamela Constable on Afghanistan Herbert F. Weiss on Elections in the DRC Srdjan…
India’s Unlikely Democracy Sumit Ganguly Rob Jenkins Pratap Bhanu Mehta Aseema Sinha Venezuela: Crowding Out the Opposition Javier Corrales & Michael Penfold The 2006 Freedom House Survey Arch Puddington Saad Eddin Ibrahim on Muslim Democracies Laurence Whitehead on Closely Fought Elections Pamela Constable on Afghanistan Herbert F. Weiss on Elections in the DRC Srdjan…
India’s Unlikely Democracy Sumit Ganguly Rob Jenkins Pratap Bhanu Mehta Aseema Sinha Venezuela: Crowding Out the Opposition Javier Corrales & Michael Penfold The 2006 Freedom House Survey Arch Puddington Saad Eddin Ibrahim on Muslim Democracies Laurence Whitehead on Closely Fought Elections Pamela Constable on Afghanistan Herbert F. Weiss on Elections in the DRC Srdjan…
India’s Unlikely Democracy Sumit Ganguly Rob Jenkins Pratap Bhanu Mehta Aseema Sinha Venezuela: Crowding Out the Opposition Javier Corrales & Michael Penfold The 2006 Freedom House Survey Arch Puddington Saad Eddin Ibrahim on Muslim Democracies Laurence Whitehead on Closely Fought Elections Pamela Constable on Afghanistan Herbert F. Weiss on Elections in the DRC Srdjan…
How Democracies Emerge Thomas Carothers Sheri Berman Revolution Reconsidered Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. The Perpetual Crises of Democracy Guillermo O’Donnell Benjamin Reilly on the Asia-Pacific Gideon Maltz on Presidential Term Limits Thomas B. Pepinsky on Malaysia Axel Hadenius & Jan Teorell on Paths from Authoritarianism Gideon Rahat on Candidate Selection The Mexican Standoff Andreas…
How Democracies Emerge Thomas Carothers Sheri Berman Revolution Reconsidered Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. The Perpetual Crises of Democracy Guillermo O’Donnell Benjamin Reilly on the Asia-Pacific Gideon Maltz on Presidential Term Limits Thomas B. Pepinsky on Malaysia Axel Hadenius & Jan Teorell on Paths from Authoritarianism Gideon Rahat on Candidate Selection The Mexican Standoff Andreas…
How Democracies Emerge Thomas Carothers Sheri Berman Revolution Reconsidered Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. The Perpetual Crises of Democracy Guillermo O’Donnell Benjamin Reilly on the Asia-Pacific Gideon Maltz on Presidential Term Limits Thomas B. Pepinsky on Malaysia Axel Hadenius & Jan Teorell on Paths from Authoritarianism Gideon Rahat on Candidate Selection The Mexican Standoff Andreas…
Table I OFFICIAL RESULTS, MEXICO 2006 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS Votes % Felipe Calderón (PAN) 14,916,927 35.89 Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador (PRD-PT-Convergencia) 14,683,096 35.33 Roberto Madrazo (PRI-PVEM) 9,237,000 22.23 Roberto Campa (Nueva Alianza) 397,550 0.96 Patricia Mercado (Alternativa) 1,124,280 2.71 Write-in candidates 298,204 0.72 Valid votes 40,657,057 97.83 Annulled votes 900,373 2.17 TOTAL Votes 41,557,430 100…
Transitions to democracy, 1972–2003 Country First year of democratic regime Previous regime type First year of previous regime Albania 2002 limited multiparty 1997 Argentina 1973 pure military 1972 Argentina 1983 pure military 1976 Bangladesh 1991 military multiparty 1986 Benin 1991 transitional 1990 Bolivia 1982 transitional 1981 Botswana 1973 limited multiparty 1972 Brazil 1985 military…
Supplement to “A ‘Left Turn’ in Latin America? Explaining the Left’s Resurgence” by Matthew Cleary The Odd Combination of Inequality and Wealth in Latin America Arg MexChi Brz 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 Gini Coefficient 1000 5000 10000 20000 40000 GDP per capita (US$, logged scale) Latin America Other Source: Kevin Watkins,…
A “Left Turn” in Latin America? Hector E. Schamis Eduardo Posada-Carbó Arturo Valenzuela & Lucía Dammert Cynthia McClintock Matthew Cleary Christopher Sabatini & Eric Farnsworth Governance and Development Kemal Derviº History Repeats Itself in Pakistan Husain Haqqani Valerie Bunce & Sharon Wolchik on Electoral Revolutions Vitali Silitski on the Belarus Election Karen Kramer/Steven A.…
UNIVERSAL VALUES AND MUSLIM DEMOCRACY Anwar Ibrahim Anwar Ibrahim has served as education minister, finance minister, and deputy prime minister of Malaysia. Jailed in 1998, he was the victim of a highly politicized trial and spent six years in prison before the Malaysian Federal Court overturned the charges against him, leading to his release…
Identity, Immigration & Democracy Francis Fukuyama Electoral Systems Today Adeed Dawisha & Larry Diamond Andrew Reynolds Jih-wen Lin Richard Soudriette & Andrew Ellis Leon Aron on the Soviet Collapse Daniel Chirot on C^ote d’Ivoire Leila Alieva on Azerbaijan’s Elections Scott Radnitz on Kyrgyzstan Miguel Angel Rodríguez/Fabrice Lehoucq on Costa Rica Marc F. Plattner on…
Identity, Immigration & Democracy Francis Fukuyama Electoral Systems Today Adeed Dawisha & Larry Diamond Andrew Reynolds Jih-wen Lin Richard Soudriette & Andrew Ellis Leon Aron on the Soviet Collapse Daniel Chirot on C^ote d’Ivoire Leila Alieva on Azerbaijan’s Elections Scott Radnitz on Kyrgyzstan Miguel Angel Rodríguez/Fabrice Lehoucq on Costa Rica Marc F. Plattner on…
Identity, Immigration & Democracy Francis Fukuyama Electoral Systems Today Adeed Dawisha & Larry Diamond Andrew Reynolds Jih-wen Lin Richard Soudriette & Andrew Ellis Leon Aron on the Soviet Collapse Daniel Chirot on C^ote d’Ivoire Leila Alieva on Azerbaijan’s Elections Scott Radnitz on Kyrgyzstan Miguel Angel Rodríguez/Fabrice Lehoucq on Costa Rica Marc F. Plattner on…
