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  • Contents of Volume 19, 2008

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Copyright © 2008 by the National Endowment for Democracy and the Johns Hopkins University Press.

Contents of Volume 19, 2008

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January 2008

Sheri Berman, Taming Extremist Parties: Lessons from Europe 5

Morocco's Elections

Michael McFaul and Tamara Cofman Wittes, The Limits of Limited Reforms 19

Mohamed Tozy, Islamists, Technocrats, and the Palace 34

Driss Khrouz, A Dynamic Civil Society 42

Abdou Filali-Ansary, Questions for the Future 50

Zeyno Baran, Turkey Divided 55

Christopher Wyrod, Sierra Leone: A Vote for Better Governance 70

The Democracy Barometers (Part II)

Peter R. deSouza, Suhas Palshikar, and Yogendra Yadav, Surveying South Asia 84

Amaney Jamal and Mark Tessler, Attitudes in the Arab World 97

Marta Lagos, Latin America's Diversity of Views 111

Christian Welzel and Ronald Inglehart, The Role of Ordinary People in Democratization 126

Paul D. Hutchcroft, The Arroyo Imbroglio in the Philippines 141

Penda Mbow, Senegal: The Return of Personalism 156

Books in Review

Ahmed H. al-Rahim, Inside Iraq's Confessional Politics 170

April 2008

Pierre Hassner, Russia's Transition to Autocracy 5

Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo, Argentina: From Kirchner to Kirchner 16

Lourdes Sola, Politics, Markets, and Society in Lula's Brazil 31

Catherine M. Conaghan, Ecuador: Correa's Plebiscitary Presidency 46

The 2007 Freedom House Survey

Arch Puddington, Is the Tide Turning? 61

Yun-han Chu, Michael Bratton, Marta Lagos, Sandeep Shastri, and MarkTessler, Public Opinion and Democratic Legitimacy 74

Yang Jianli, China: From Prison to Freedom 88

Progress and Retreat in Africa

Richard Joseph, Challenges of a "Frontier" Region 94

H. Kwasi Prempeh, Presidents Untamed 109

Joel D. Barkan, Legislatures on the Rise? 124

Larry Diamond, The Rule of Law versus the Big Man 138

Trends in Democracy Assistance

Dinorah Azpuru, Steven E. Finkel, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, and Mitchell A. Seligson, What Has the United States Been Doing? 150

Richard Youngs, What Has Europe Been Doing? 160

Books in Review Sumit Ganguly, India's Improbable Success 170

July 2008

Islamist Parties and Democracy

Tamara Cofman Wittes, Three Kinds of Movements 5

Husain Haqqani and Hillel Fradkin, Going Back to the Origins 13

Tarek Masoud, Are They Democrats? Does It Matter? 19

Ihsan Dagi, Turkey's AKP in Power 25

Malika Zeghal, Participation Without Power 31

Laith Kubba, Institutions Make the Difference 37

Bassam Tibi, Why They Can't Be Democratic 43

Amr Hamzawy and Nathan J. Brown, A Boon or a Bane for Democracy? 49

Lucan Way, The Real Causes of the Color Revolutions 55

Donald K. Emmerson, ASEAN's "Black Swans" 70

Mark R. Beissinger, A New Look at Ethnicity and Democratization 85

John Coakley, Has the Northern Ireland Problem Been Solved? 98

Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully, Latin America: Eight Lessons for Governance 113

Hahm Chaibong, South Korea's Miraculous Democracy 128

Seth Kaplan, The Remarkable Story of Somaliland 143

Kateryna Yushchenko, The Orange Revolution and Beyond 158

Maina Kiai, The Crisis in Kenya 162

Books in Review

Satu P. Limaye, Asia's Progress 169

October 2008

Pakistan After Musharraf

Larry P. Goodson, The 2008 Elections 5

Aqil Shah, Praetorianism and Terrorism 16

Sumit Ganguly, The Burden of History 26

Zafarullah Khan and Brian Joseph, The Media Take Center Stage 32

S. Akbar Zaidi, An Emerging Civil Society? 38

Michael Bratton and Eldred Masunungure, Zimbabwe's Long Agony 41

Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy

Ethan B. Kapstein and Nathan Converse, Why Democracies Fail 57

Francis Fukuyama, The Latin American Experience 69

Mitchell A. Orenstein, Postcommunist Welfare States 80

Peter Lewis, Growth Without Prosperity in Africa 95

Fabrice Lehoucq, Bolivia's Constitutional Breakdown 110

Michael Chege, Kenya: Back from the Brink? 125

Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Thailand Since the Coup 140

Miriam Lanskoy and Giorgi Areshidze, Georgia's Year of Turmoil 154

Books in Review

Marc F. Plattner, Mistaken Identity 169

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