These essays explore the global resurgence of democracy and examine its future prospects, dealing mainly with conceptual, historical, institutional and policy issues relevant to a range of countries. Topics include the tasks of democratic opposition and the case for proportional representation.
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"This is an anthology of articles from The Journal of Democracy, a quarterly sponsored by the quasi-official National Endowment for Democracy. For those unfamiliar with it, the Journal of Democracy since its founding four years ago has published some of the best contemporary writing on the subject of modern liberal democracy." -- Foreign Affairs
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Larry Diamond, senior fellow at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace, and Marc F. Plattner, counselor at the National Endowment for Democracy, are co-directors of the International Forum for Democratic Studies.
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Between 1974 and 1990, at least 30 countries made transitions to democracy, just about doubling the number of democratic governments in the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extrinsic dilemmas, constitutional choices for new democracies, third reverse wave, plurality countries, plurality elections, presidential ism, political conditionality, many new democracies, postcommunist countries, delegative democracy, plurality systems, presidential constitution, delegative democracies, liberal capitalist democracy, contingent consent, democratic performance, confining conditions, nondemocratic countries, vigorous civil society, associational membership, presidential government, presidential regimes, democratic quality, presidential systems, new political leaders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Latin America, Third World, Soviet Union, New York, Journal of Democracy, Central Europe, East European, World Bank, East Asia, South Africa, Middle East, South Korea, Cold War, Arend Lijphart, Seymour Martin Lipset, World War, New Haven, Western Europe, Larry Diamond, Yale University Press, Juan Linz, Guillermo O'Donnell, Robert Dahl, Sri Lanka New!
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Between 1974 and 1990, at least 30 countries made transitions to democracy, just about doubling the number of democratic governments in the world. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
extrinsic dilemmas, constitutional choices for new democracies, third reverse wave, plurality countries, plurality elections, presidential ism, political conditionality, many new democracies, postcommunist countries, delegative democracy, plurality systems, presidential constitution, delegative democracies, liberal capitalist democracy, contingent consent, democratic performance, confining conditions, nondemocratic countries, vigorous civil society, associational membership, presidential government, presidential regimes, democratic quality, presidential systems, new political leaders Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Latin America, Third World, Soviet Union, New York, Journal of Democracy, Central Europe, East European, World Bank, East Asia, South Africa, Middle East, South Korea, Cold War, Arend Lijphart, Seymour Martin Lipset, World War, New Haven, Western Europe, Larry Diamond, Yale University Press, Juan Linz, Guillermo O'Donnell, Robert Dahl, Sri Lanka New!
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