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Democratic Triumph, Scholarly Pessimism
- Journal of Democracy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 21, Number 1, January 2010
- pp. 160-167
- 10.1353/jod.0.0134
- Article
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By any measure, democratization has achieved remarkable advances over the past twenty years. Why, then, have so many of the leading works written on the topic during this period been so full of gloom?