Contents of Volume 27, 2016

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January 2016

Nancy Bermeo, On Democratic Backsliding	5
What’s Wrong with East-Central Europe?
James Dawson and Seán Hanley, The Fading Mirage of the “Liberal Consensus”	20
Ivan Krastev, Liberalism’s Failure to Deliver	35
Stephan Ortmann and Mark R. Thompson, China and the “Singapore Model”	39
The Authoritarian Threat
Christopher Walker, The Hijacking of “Soft Power”	49
Lucan Way, Weaknesses of Autocracy Promotion	64
Ethiopia
Leonardo R. Arriola and Terrence Lyons, The 100% Election	76
Simegnish Yekoye Mengesha, Silencing Dissent	89
The Quest for Good Governance
Alina Mungiu-Pippidi, Learning from Virtuous Circles	95
Alexander Kupatadze, Georgia’s Break with the Past	110
Christian Goebel, Taiwan’s Fight Against Corruption	124
Daniel Buquet and Rafael Piñeiro, Uruguay’s Shift from Clientelism	139
Neil DeVotta, A Win for Democracy in Sri Lanka	152
Books in Review
Alfred Stepan, Transition Leaders Speak	167

April 2016

Andrew J. Nathan, The Puzzle of the Chinese Middle Class	5
Latin America’s New Turbulence
Benigno Alarcón, Ángel E. Álvarez, and Manuel Hidalgo, Can Democracy Win in Venezuela?	20
Noam Lupu, The End of the Kirchner Era	35
Marcus André Melo, Crisis and Integrity in Brazil	50
Gustavo A. Flores-Macías, Mexico’s Stalled Reforms	66
Forrest D. Colburn and Arturo Cruz S., Trouble in the “Northern Triangle”	79
The Freedom House Survey for 2015
Arch Puddington and Tyler Roylance, Anxious Dictators, Wavering Democrats	86
Burma Votes for Change
Igor Blaževič, The Challenges Ahead	101
Min Zin, The New Configuration of Power	116
Bridget Welsh, Kai-Ping Huang, and Yun-han Chu, Clashing Attitudes Toward Democracy	132
Ziya Öniş, Turkey’s Two Elections: The AKP Comes Back	141
Jacqueline Behrend and Laurence Whitehead, The Struggle for Subnational Democracy	155
Books in Review
Sheri Berman, Making Democratic Waves	170

July 2016

The Danger of Deconsolidation
Roberto Stefan Foa and Yascha Mounk, The Democratic Disconnect	5
Ronald F. Inglehart, How Much Should We Worry?	18
Henry E. Hale, 25 Years After the USSR: What’s Gone Wrong?	24
The Struggle Over Term Limits in Africa
Brett L. Carter, How International Pressure Can Help	36
Janette Yarwood, The Power of Protest	51
Filip Reyntjens, A New Look at the Evidence	61
Bojan Bugarič and Tom Ginsburg The Assault on Postcommunist Courts	69
Suisheng Zhao, Xi Jinping’s Maoist Revival	83
Delegative Democracy Revisited	98
Santiago Anria, More Inclusion, Less Liberalism in Bolivia	99
Catherine M. Conaghan, Ecuador Under Correa	109
Frances Hagopian, Brazil’s Accountability Paradox	119
Juan Pablo Luna, Chile’s Crisis of Representation	129
Lindsay R. Mayka, Colombia’s Surprising Resilience	139
Alberto Vergara and Aaron Watanabe, Peru Since Fujimori	148
Juan Pablo Luna and Alberto Vergara, Latin America’s Problems of Success	158
Clive H. Church and Adrian Vatter, Shadows in the Swiss Paradise	166
Books in Review
Daniel O’Maley, The Internet of Things	176

October 2016

Minxin Pei, Transition in China? More Likely than You Think	5
The Specter Haunting Europe	20
Takis S. Pappas, Distinguishing Liberal Democracy’s Challengers	22
Timo Lochocki, Will the German Center Hold?	37
Dominique Reynié, “Heritage Populism” and France’s National Front	47
Joanna Fomina and Jacek Kucharczyk, Populism and Protest in Poland	58
Sheri Berman, The Lost Left	69
Jacques Rupnik, Surging Illiberalism in the East	77
Ivan Krastev, The Unraveling of the Post-1989 Order	88
Abdou Filali-Ansary, Tunisia: Ennahda’s New Course	99
Mieczysław P. Boduszyński, Iraq’s Year of Rage	110
The Vote in the Philippines
Julio C. Teehankee and Mark R. Thompson, Electing a Strongman	125
David G. Timberman, Elite Democracy Disrupted	135
Eduardo Dargent and Paula Muñz, Peru: A Close Win for Continuity	145
Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz, When Dictators Die	159
Books in Review	172
Edward Aspinall, Particularism’s Empire	179