January 2001, Volume 12, Issue 1
Political Competition and Economic Growth
Under many nondemocratic systems, good policy is bad politics, and bad policy helps leaders stay in office. The result is poorer performance in terms of economic growth.
January 2001, Volume 12, Issue 1
Under many nondemocratic systems, good policy is bad politics, and bad policy helps leaders stay in office. The result is poorer performance in terms of economic growth.
January 2001, Volume 12, Issue 1
A review of Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-being in the World 1950-1990, by Adam Przeworski, Michael E. Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi.
October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4
Any serious discussion of Mexico’s future must take into account its relations with the United States.
October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4
Global trends toward economic and political liberalization are presenting East Asian and Latin American democracies with increasingly convergent international opportunities and constraints.
October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4
Such a comparison clearly shows a higher prevalence of democracy in Latin America and a better economic performance in East Asia. The two regions are likely to converge on both dimensions, but the gaps will remain.
July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3
Democracy is spreading everywhere except in the Arab world. Arab elections are an immense masquerade. Corrupt dictatorships seek to stifle freedom of thought and to control the flow of information.
July 2000, Volume 11, Issue 3
The promotion of democracy in Africa has become the dominant theme of South Africa’s foreign policy. Yet the dilemmas this policy has confronted in practice have forced the government to alter its approach.
April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2
A quarter-century after the classic study The Crisis of Democracy was published, three distinguished political scientists find that, though the “crisis” may have disappeared, public confidence is on the decline in almost all the world’s advanced democracies.
April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2
Recent disappointments have led to excessive pessimism about Latin America’s economic and democratic prospects. International recognition of the region’s diversity and a sense of perspective about its setbacks will improve its chances for further success.
April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2
A country's political regime, regardless of its level of development, affects its social performance. Fewer children die in democracies than in dictatorships.
April 2000, Volume 11, Issue 2
The political dimensions of the 1997-99 Asian financial crisis have been largely ignored. Yet political factors are crucial to understanding the crisis and the differing ways in which the democracies and authoritarian regimes in the region responded to it.
January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
October 1999, Volume 10, Issue 4
October 1999, Volume 10, Issue 4
October 1999, Volume 10, Issue 4
October 1999, Volume 10, Issue 4
October 1999, Volume 10, Issue 4
Review of The Lexus and the Olive Tree, by Thomas L. Friedman.
July 1999, Volume 10, Issue 3
April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2
April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2
April 1999, Volume 10, Issue 2
October 1998, Volume 9, Issue 4
October 1998, Volume 9, Issue 4
July 1998, Volume 9, Issue 3
A review of Fifty Years of Indian Parliamentary Democracy, 1947-1997, by the Lok Sabha Secretariat.
January 1998, Volume 9, Issue 1
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
July 1997, Volume 8, Issue 3
A review of The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions, by Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman.
April 1997, Volume 8, Issue 2
A review of Development and Democracy in Africa, by Claude Ake.
January 1997, Volume 8, Issue 1
October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4
October 1995, Volume 6, Issue 4
July 1995, Volume 6, Issue 3
April 1995, Volume 6, Issue 2
January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
October 1994, Volume 5, Issue 4
A review of South Africa: The Political Economy of Transformation, edited by Stephen John Stedman.
April 1994, Volume 5, Issue 2
January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
January 1994, Volume 5, Issue 1
July 1993, Volume 4, Issue 3
April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2
April 1993, Volume 4, Issue 2
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
July 1992, Volume 3, Issue 3
Spring 1991, Volume 2, Issue 2
Spring 1991, Volume 2, Issue 2
Winter 1991, Volume 2, Issue 1
Winter 1991, Volume 2, Issue 1
Spring 1990, Volume 1, Issue 2
Beijing’s focus has been on strong and steady economic growth for decades. But China’s leader has just put an end to that era. For Xi, it’s only about power—at home and abroad.