April 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2
Ghana’s Encouraging Elections: A Major Step Forward
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Subject: Democratic transition
January 1997, Volume 8, Issue 1
Where is Russia Headed? Toward Stability or Crisis?
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October 1996, Volume 7, Issue 4
How Different Are the Postcommunist Transitions?
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July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3
Is the Third Wave Over?
Democracy’s global advance is facing headwinds, but there are still opportunities for progress in pseudodemocratic and authoritarian states.
July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3
Democratization in the Middle East: Pluralism and the Palestinians
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July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3
Democratization in the Middle East: Power and Opposition in Morocco
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July 1996, Volume 7, Issue 3
Democratization in the Middle East: Quandaries of the Peace Process
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April 1996, Volume 7, Issue 2
Is the Middle East Different?
A review of Democracy Without Democrats? The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World, edited by Ghassan Salamé.
January 1996, Volume 7, Issue 1
Civil Society After Communism: From Opposition to Atomization
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January 1996, Volume 7, Issue 1
The New South Africa: Renewing Civil Society
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January 1996, Volume 7, Issue 1
The New South Africa: A Season for Power-Sharing
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October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4
Armed Forces and Democracy: Reforming Civil-Military Relations
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October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4
Armed Forces and Democracy: Security and Transition in South Africa
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October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4
The Indispensable Man
Review of Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela (1994).
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Reexamining Russia: Institutions and Incentives
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April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Economic Reform and Democracy
The Editors’ introduction to “Economic Reform and Democracy.”
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
Economic Reform and Democracy: Beyond Shock Therapy
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January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
Democracy’s Future
The Editors’ introduction to “Democracy’s Future.”
January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
Democracy’s Future: Between Africa’s Extremes
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October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
Economic Reform and Democracy
The Editors’ introduction to the Journal of Democracy’s special issue on “Economic Reform and Democracy.”
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
South Africa Turns the Corner
A review of South Africa: The Political Economy of Transformation, edited by Stephen John Stedman.
July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
Rethinking Civil Society: Russia’s Fourth Transition
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July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
Rethinking Civil Society: Pluralism in the Arab World
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July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
Latin America’s Critical Elections: Five Scenarios for Mexico
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July 1994, Volume 5, Issue 3
Latin America’s Critical Elections: Brazil at an Impasse
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April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
The Key Role of the Working Class
A review of Capitalist Development and Democracy, by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, and John D. Stephens.
January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
The Axis Powers 50 Years Later: Japan’s New Politics
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January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
The Axis Powers 50 Years Later: Italy—The Twilight of the Parties
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January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
The Axis Powers 50 Years Later: Germany—A New “Wall in the Mind”?
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January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
The Road from Athens
A review of Democracy: The Unfinished Journey, 508 BC to AD 1993, edited by John Dunn.
January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
The Role of Elites
A review of Elites and Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe, edited by John Higley and Richard Gunther.
October 1993, Volume 4, Issue 4
The Challenge of Ethnic Conflict: Democracy in Divided Societies
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July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
International Organizations & Democracy: The OAS—Putting Principles into Practice
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July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
Politics After Communism: A Horizon of Hope and Fear
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July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
Politics After Communism: Ukraine—A View from Within
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April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2
The Morass in Moscow: Boris Yeltsin and Russia’s Four Crises
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April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2
Reflections on Capitalism, Socialism & Democracy
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April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2
Labor in Post-Franco Spain
A review of Working-Class Organization and the Return to Democracy in Spain, by Robert M. Fishman.
January 1993, Volume 4, Issue 1
God and the Death of Communism
A review of The Final Revolution: The Resistance Church and the Collapse of Communism, by George Weigel.
October 1992, Volume 3, Issue 4
The Islamist Challenge: Religion and Modernity in Algeria
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October 1992, Volume 3, Issue 4
Eastern Europe After Communism
A review of After the Fall: The Pursuit of Democracy in Central Europe, by Jeffery Goldfarb and Reinventing Politics: Eastern Europe from Stalin to Havel, by Vladimir Tismaneanu.
April 1992, Volume 3, Issue 2
Problems of Postcommunism: The Battle of the Trade Unions
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April 1992, Volume 3, Issue 2
Problems of Postcommunism: From Solidarity to Fragmentation
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