Contents of Volume 26, 2015

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January 2015

Marc F. Plattner, Is Democracy in Decline?	5
Francis Fukuyama, Why Is Democracy Performing So Poorly?	11
Robert Kagan, The Weight of Geopolitics	21
Philippe C. Schmitter, Crisis and Transition, But Not Decline	32
Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way, The Myth of Democratic Recession	45
Thomas Carothers, Democracy Aid at 25: Time to Choose	59
Tarek Masoud, Has the Door Closed on Arab Democracy?	74
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, The Splintering of Postcommunist Europe	88
E. Gyimah-Boadi, Africa’s Waning Democratic Commitment	101
Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Cross-Currents in Latin America	114
Alfred Stepan, India, Sri Lanka, and the Majoritarian Danger	128
Larry Diamond, Facing Up to the Democratic Recession	141
The Authoritarian Resurgence
Andrew J. Nathan, China’s Challenge	156
Lilia Shevtsova, Russia’s Political System: Imperialism and Decay	171
Review Essay
Carl Gershman, Michnik’s Homage to Havel	183

April 2015

Duncan McCargo, Transitional Justice and Its Discontents	5
The Authoritarian Resurgence	21
Lilia Shevtsova, Forward to the Past in Russia	22
Javier Corrales, Autocratic Legalism in Venezuela	37
Abbas Milani, Iran’s Paradoxical Regime	52
Alex Vatanka, Iran Abroad	61
Frederic Wehrey, Saudi Arabia’s Anxious Autocrats	71
Zoltan Barany, Exits from Military Rule: Lessons for Burma	86
Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement
Michael C. Davis, Beijing’s Broken Promises	101
Victoria Tin-bor Hui, The Protests and Beyond	111
The Freedom House Survey for 2014
Arch Puddington, A Return to the Iron Fist	122
Elisabete Azevedo-Harman, Patching Things Up in Mozambique	139
Yun-han Chu and Bridget Welsh, Millennials and East Asia’s Democratic Future	151
Review Essay
Harley Balzer, Stealing Russia Blind	165
Pierre Englebert, The “Power-Sharing” Trap	170

July 2015

Gerald Knaus, Europe and Azerbaijan: The End of Shame	5
Filip Reyntjens, Rwanda: Progress or Powder Keg?	19
János Kornai, Hungary’s U-Turn: Retreating from Democracy	34
Authoritarianism Goes Global
Alexander Cooley, Countering Democratic Norms	49
Ron Deibert, Cyberspace Under Siege	64
Patrick Merloe, Election Monitoring vs. Disinformation	79
Peter Lewis and Darren Kew, Nigeria’s Hopeful Election	94
Jørgen Møller, The Medieval Roots of Democracy	110
Francis Fukuyama, Comment on Møller: The Importance of Equality	124
Carl Minzner, China After the Reform Era	129
Grigore Pop-Eleches and Graeme B. Robertson, Structural Conditions and Democratization	144
James Loxton, Authoritarian Successor Parties	157
Books in Review
Benjamin Reilly, Weighing the Asian Model	171

October 2015

Steven Radelet, The Rise of the World’s Poorest Countries	5
Authoritarianism Goes Global (II)	20
Anne Applebaum, The Leninist Roots of Civil Society Repression	21
Douglas Rutzen, Civil Society Under Assault	28
Peter Pomerantsev, The Kremlin’s Information War	40
Anne-Marie Brady, China’s Foreign Propaganda Machine	51
Jean-Paul Faguet, Ashley M. Fox, and Caroline Pöschl, Decentralizing for a Deeper, More Supple Democracy	60
After the Arab Spring
Michele Dunne, Caught in History’s Crosswinds	75
Michael Robbins, People Still Want Democracy	80
Marc Lynch, How the Media Trashed the Transitions	90
Charles Kurzman and Didem Türkoğlu, Do Muslims Vote Islamic Now?	100
Kasper Ly Netterstrøm, The Islamists’ Compromise in Tunisia	110
Mieczysław P. Boduszyński, Kristin Fabbe, and Christopher K. Lamont, Are Secular Parties the Answer?	125
Richard Youngs, Exploring “Non-Western Democracy”	140
Rut Diamint, A New Militarism in Latin America	155
Books in Review
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, The Evolution of Political Order	169