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Founded in 1990, the Journal of Democracy is an influential quarterly journal which focuses on analyzing democratic regimes and movements around the world. The Journal is a branch of the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy, and is published by The Johns Hopkins University Press. Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner are its editors. [read more...]
Highlights — October 2009
The cluster "Iran in Ferment" looks at the turmoil in Iran following the disputed presidential election in June. A second group of essays explores the relationship between poverty, inequality, and democracy, particularly in Latin America and East-Central Europe. Other essays address elections in India and South Africa, postwar reconstruction, and more. And be sure to look for the latest volume in our book series—Democracy: A Reader.Free articles (PDF):
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Iran in Ferment: The Green Wave
By Ali Afshari and H. Graham Underwood
Iran's massive protest movement against June's electoral coup is now moving into a new phase. What are its prospects?
Iran in Ferment: Cracks in the Regime
By Abbas Milani
The Islamic Republic is struggling, with the Revolutionary Guard Corps more and more the only thing propping it up.
Iran in Ferment: Civil Society's Choice
By Ladan Boroumand
When students and other rights activists decided to seize a tactical opening that the regime cynically offered them during the 2009 campaign, they were making a choice that was even more fateful than they knew.
An Accidental Advance? South Africa's 2009 Elections
By Steven Friedman
The ANC saw its first-ever decline in vote share in South Africa's 2009 parliamentary elections. Will the ANC heed this warning to mend internal divisions and reconnect with voters?
Highlights — July 2009
The cluster "China Since Tiananmen" explores the recent rise of various forms of popular protest in China and whether they represent a serious threat to CCP rule, while a second group of essays examines the relationship between democratization and elections. Other articles address recent events in Bangladesh, El Salvador, Malaysia, Moldova, Nicaragua, and Scotland.
Free articles (PDF):
- The Massacre’s Long Shadow
By Jean Philippe-Béja
The Tiananmen Square Massacre of 4 June 1989 still deeply affects the behavior of China’s rulers and their opposition alike.
Authoritarian Impermanence
By Andrew J. Nathan
China's lack of certain stabilizing features, such as a culture of open dissent and the robust rule of law, may make the regime more vulnerable than it appears.
Malaysia’s Electoral Upheaval
By James Chin and Wong Chin Huat
In March 2008, Malaysian voters dealt the long-ruling National Front coalition
an enormous shock—pushing that party closer to losing power than it has ever
been in Malaysia’s entire history as an independent country.
Highlights — April 2009
In the cluster "Reading Russia," ten authors explore the nature of the Russian political system. In other essays, Jean Bethke Elshtain considers the relationship between religion and democracy, while Zoltan Barany looks at NATO's role in the world today. Also featured in this issue are articles on Ghana, Singapore, and Venezuela, the 2008 Freedom House survey, and more.Free articles (PDF):
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Religion and Democracy
By Jean Bethke Elshtain
The secularization hypothesis has failed, and failed spectacularly. We must find a new paradigm to help us understand the complexities of the relationship between religion and democracy.
Reading Russia: The Siloviki in Charge
By Andrei Illarionov
The holders of political power in Russia today are the siloviki—the people who work for, or who used to work for, “the ministries of force.”
Reading Russia: The Rules of Survival
By Ivan Krastev
The centrality of the sovereign state is the binding bond in the political imagination of both the Kremlin and Russian society at large.
Highlights — January 2009
The first issue of the new year features two essays that explore the potential for change in Cuba. A cluster of articles debates the causes of the color revolutions, while other essays examine approaches to democracy assistance, the end of one-party rule in Paraguay, Finland's clean politics, and Hong Kong's 2008 Legislative Council election.Free articles (PDF):
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Democracy Assistance: Political vs. Developmental?
By Thomas Carothers
Democracy-aid providers are moving away from one-size-fits-all strategies and are adapting their programs to diverse political contexts. Two distinct overall approaches to assisting democracy have emerged in response.
Can Cuba Change? Ferment in Civil Society
By Carl Gershman and Orlando Gutierrez
The opposition within Cuba has become more diverse as well as more unified, and the regime, despite its enduring capacity for repression, is showing signs of underlying weakness.
Is Democracy Possible?
By Bruce Gilley
While the belief in democracy has spread around the world, it has begun to crumble in some of the West’s finest academic institutions.
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