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  • Is East-Central Europe Backsliding?
  • Marc F. Plattner and Larry Diamond

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January 2007

Guillermo O'Donnell, The Perpetual Crises of Democracy     5

How Democracies Emerge
Thomas Carothers, The "Sequencing" Fallacy     12
Sheri Berman, Lessons From Europe     28

Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr., Revolution Reconsidered     42

Benjamin Reilly, Political Engineering in the Asia-Pacific     58

The Mexican Standoff
Luis Estrada and Alejandro Poiré, Taught to Protest, Learning to Lose     73
Andreas Schedler, The Mobilization of Distrust     88
Jorge G. Casta~neda and Marco A. Morales, Looking to the Future     103

Thomas B. Pepinsky, Malaysia: Turnover Without Change     113

Gideon Maltz, The Case for Presidential Term Limits     128

Axel Hadenius and Jan Teorell, Pathways from Authoritarianism     143

Gideon Rahat, Candidate Selection: The Choice Before the Choice     157

Books in Review
Bruce Gilley, Is China Stuck?     171

April 2007

Saad Eddin Ibrahim, Toward Muslim Democracies     5

Laurence Whitehead, The Challenge of Closely Fought Elections     14

India's Unlikely Democracy     29
Sumit Ganguly, Six Decades of Independence     30
Aseema Sinha, Economic Growth and Political Accommodation     41
Rob Jenkins, Civil Society versus Corruption     55
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, The Rise of Judicial Sovereignty     70

Pamela Constable, A Wake-Up Call in Afghanistan     84

Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold, Venezuela: Crowding Out the Opposition     99 [End Page 189]

Another Russia?
Garry Kasparov, Battling KGB, Inc.     114
Leon Aron, After the Leviathan     120
Stephen Sestanovich, Putin's Invented Opposition     122

The 2006 Freedom House Survey
Arch Puddington, The Pushback Against Democracy     125

Herbert F. Weiss, Voting for Change in the DRC     138

Srdjan Darmanoviæ, Montenegro: A Miracle in the Balkans?     152

Books in Review
Michael McFaul, Are New Democracies War-Prone?     160
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Assisting Political Parties     167

July 2007

Exchange
Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder, The Sequencing "Fallacy"     5
Francis Fukuyama, Liberalism versus State-Building     10
Sheri Berman, The Vain Hope for "Correct" Timing     14
Thomas Carothers, Misunderstanding Gradualism     18

Andrew M. Mwenda, Personalizing Power in Uganda     23

Henry S. Rowen, When Will the Chinese People Be Free?     38

Comment
Minxin Pei, How Will China Democratize?     53
Dali L. Yang, China's Long March to Freedom     58

The Democracy Barometers (Part I)     65
Yu-tzung Chang, Yun-han Chu, and Chong-Min Park, Authoritarian     66
Nostalgia in Asia
Mitchell A. Seligson, The Rise of Populism and the Left in Latin America     81
Michael Bratton, Formal versus Informal Institutions in Africa     96
Richard Rose, Learning to Support New Regimes in Europe     111

Daniel N. Posner and Daniel J. Young, The Institutionalization of Political     126 Power in Africa

John F. Clark, The Decline of the African Military Coup     141

Anna Seleny, Communism's Many Legacies in East-Central Europe     156

Books in Review
Clifford Orwin, Democracy contra Politics     171

October 2007

Is East-Central Europe Backsliding?     5
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, EU Accession Is No "End of History"     8
Jacques Rupnik, From Democracy Fatigue to Populist Backlash     17
Krzysztof Jasiewicz, The Political-Party Landscape     26
Vladimir Tismaneanu, Leninist Legacies, Pluralist Dilemmas     34
Béla Greskovits, Economic Woes and Political Disaffection     40
Martin Bútora, Nightmares from the Past, Dreams of the Future     47
Ivan Krastev, The Strange Death of the Liberal Consensus     56

Iran's Resilient Civil Society
Ladan Boroumand, The Untold Story of the Fight for Human Rights     64
Ali Afshari and H. Graham Underwood, The Student Movement's Struggle     80

Rotimi T. Suberu, Nigeria's Muddled Elections     95

Thomas Carothers, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Larry Diamond, Anwar Ibrahim,     111
and Zainab Hawa Bangura, A Quarter-Century of Promoting Democracy

Donna Lee Van Cott, Latin America's Indigenous Peoples     127

Russell J. Dalton, Doh C. Shin, and Willy Jou, Understanding Democracy:     142
Data from Unlikely Places

Michael C. Davis, The Quest for Self-Rule in Tibet     157

Books in Review
Liu Junning, China's Would-Be Citizens     172

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