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Comparative Democratization Section 35 of the American Political Science Association
Newsletter Volume 5, Number 2, May 2007
Table of Contents
1. Current Section Officers 2. Report from the Chair 3. Section News 4. News From Members 5. Professional Announcements 6. Recent Conferences 7. Future Conferences 8. New Research
1. CURRENT SECTION OFFICERS
Chair (2006-2008) Jonathan Hartlyn Professor of Political Science University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill e-mail: [email protected]
Vice-chair (2007-2009) Catherine Boone Professor of Government University of Texas, Austin [email protected]
Secretary (2007-2009) Ellen Lust-Okar Assistant Professor of Political Science Yale University [email protected]
Treasurer (2006-2008) Michael Coppedge Associate Professor of Political Science University of Notre Dame e-mail: [email protected]
Acting Newsletter Editor (ex officio) Melissa Aten Research and Conferences Coordinator International Forum for Democratic Studies National Endowment for Democracy e-mail: [email protected]
2. REPORT FROM THE CHAIR
I look forward to seeing many of you at the APSA Convention in Chicago. Our Program Chair, Valerie Bunce, has organized an extensive and rich array of panels. Don’t forget that your attendance at these
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panels not only is crucial to sustaining the lively intellectual exchanges which make our section so vital, but also helps determine our allocation for subsequent conventions. Do save early Saturday evening for our business meeting and reception, where we will celebrate the winners of our book, article, best paper and field work awards, as well as the winner of our Juan Linz dissertation award.
The Committee for the Section’s Best Field Work Award has extended its deadline for nominations until June 15. The requirements for the Award are described below. As much as our research is enriched by the use of datasets and internet resources, in the study of comparative democratization these cannot ever completely replace field work. Do urge all eligible graduate students to apply.
Over the summer, watch your e-mail for our electronic ballot for the Section positions of chair and treasurer. Our Nominations Committee, chaired by Catherine Boone, has identified excellent candidates for each of these positions. See more information below in the Newsletter.
Our section is open to your views and recommendations. Please don’t hesitate to contact me, especially regarding any items that you might want on the agenda for our business meeting in Chicago.
Jonathan Hartlyn
3. SECTION NEWS
Deadline for Best Field Work Award Extended: The deadline for the Best Field Work Award has been extended to June 15, 2007. Criteria for the award include the originality and importance of the research (especially the research sources) and the difficulty of the research. Scholars who are currently writing their dissertations or who have completed their dissertations in 2006 are eligible. Candidates must submit three chapters of their dissertation, and a letter of nomination from the chair of their dissertation committee. One or two of the chapters should describe the field work, and key insights from it. The chapters and nominating letter may be sent electronically or in hard copy directly to each committee member. Revised Deadline: June 15, 2007
Chair: Professor Milada Anna Vachudova University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Political Science CB3265 Hamilton Hall Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3265 Phone: 919-962-0415 Fax: 919-962-0432 Email: [email protected]
Member: Professor Sherrie Baver CUNY / City College of New York Department of Political Science, North Academic Center, Room 4/150 138th St. at Convent Ave. New York, NY 10031 Phone: 212-650-7491 Fax: 212-650-5464 Email: [email protected]
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Department of Political Science 77 Massachusetts Avenue Room E53-470 Cambridge, MA 02139-4307 Phone: 617-253-6243 Email: [email protected]
Elections to the Comparative Democratization Executive Committee This summer, the Section will hold elections for Section Chair and Treasurer. The nominees for Chair are Nancy Bermeo, professor of politics, Princeton University, and Steven Fish, professor of political science, University of California at Berkeley. The nominees for Treasurer are Mark Jones, associate professor of political science, Rice University, and Marc Morjé Howard, associate professor government and core faculty member of the Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Georgetown University. You will receive an electronic ballot with candidate statements and instructions on voting in June.
Section Member Running for APSA Council Leonard Wantchekon, currently a professor of politics and economics at New York University, previously taught at Yale University. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University and his M.A. in economics from Laval University and the University of British Columbia. He is the author of several articles on post-civil war democratization, resource curse, electoral clientelism and experimental methods in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, American Political Science Review, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Constitutional Political Economy, Political Africaine and Afrique Contemporaine.
Mr. Wantchekon is currently serving on the APSA international committee as well as the APSA Africa Initiative comittee. His goal is to improve the interaction between comparativists working on developing nations with those working on western democracies and the U.S.
4. NEWS FROM MEMBERS
Catherine Boone, professor of government, University of Texas at Austin, and vice-chair of APSA's Comparative Democratization section, received an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) research fellowship for 2006–2007 for research on land-related conflict and electoral politics in sub- Saharan Africa. She also published “Africa's New Territorial Politics: Regionalism and the Open Economy in Côte d'Ivoire” in the April 2007 African Studies Review.
Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics at Oxford University and Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony’s College, published Seven Years that Changed the World: Perestroika in Perspective (Oxford University Press, 2007). The book provides an interpretation of the liberalization and partial democratization of the Soviet system, the end of the Cold War, the disintegration of the Soviet state, and the role of political leadership, particularly the part played by Mikhail Gorbachev.
Matthew R. Cleary, assistant professor of political science, Syracuse University, published “Electoral Competition, Participation, and Government Responsiveness in Mexico” in the April 2007 American Journal of Political Science. Using an original dataset that combines electoral, socioeconomic, and public-financial indicators for Mexico’s 2,400 municipalities from 1989–2000, Mr. Cleary tests two competing visions on how democracy produces responsive government: electoral and participatory theories. Based on his results that show electoral competition has no effect on municipal government performance, he concludes that the quality of municipal government in Mexico depends on an engaged citizenry and cooperation between political leaders and their constituents, rather than the threat of electoral punishment.
Mr. Clearly also published “A ‘Left Turn’ in Latin America? Explaining the Left’s Resurgence” in the October 2006 Journal of Democracy, in which he attempts to explain the recent increase in leftist victories in the region and to predict how far it will spread.
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Javier Corrales, associate professor and chair of political science, Amherst College, and Michael Penfold examine the rise of Hugo Chávez and his recent comprehensive centralization campaign in the April 2007 Journal of Democracy article “Venezuela: Crowding out the Opposition.” The authors argue Chávez’s regime demonstrates how a public desire for change plus state resources can be exploited to undermine democracy.
James L. Gibson, Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government, Washington University in St. Louis, published “‘Truth’ and ‘Reconciliation’ as Social Indicators” in the April 2007 Social Indicators Research, in which he examines whether truth causes reconciliation and if reconciliation contributes to democratization. Based on a large survey conducted in South Africa, Mr. Gibson finds that truth does contribute to reconciliation, but because reconciliation is capable of changing over times, efforts must be made to track reconciliation as an important social indicator.
Mary Alice Haddad, assistant professor of government and East Asian studies, Wesleyan University, recently published Politics and Volunteering in Japan: A Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Noting that our current understandings of civil society have been based on a U.S. model that does not adequately consider participation patterns found in other parts of the world, Ms. Haddad builds a Community Volunteerism Model, which explains and predicts both the types and rates of volunteering in communities around the world. The model is tested using four cross-national case studies (Finland, Japan, Turkey, and the United States) and three sub-national case studies in Japan.
Marc Morjé Howard, associate professor government and core faculty member of the Center for Democracy and Civil Society, Georgetown University, and James L. Gibson, Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government, Washington University in St. Louis, published “Russian Anti-Semitism and the Scapegoating of Jews” in the April 2007 British Journal of Political Science. The authors investigate anti-Jewish attitudes in Russia over time and cross-sectionally, carefully scrutinizing the hypothesis that perceptions of economic, social, and political upheaval activate latent authoritarianism into anti- Semitism. The authors find little if any support for this hypothesis.
Mr. Howard contributed “The Politics of Immigration and Citizenship in Europe” to Debating Immigration, edited by Carol M. Swain and published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. The volume explores the nuances of contemporary immigration and citizenship affecting the United States and Europe. Mr. Howard also delivered the keynote address on “What is Democratization?” at a University of Puget Sound conference on “Is Democracy the Global Solution? Navigating Democratic Ideals and Realities” on April 12–14, 2007.
The National Democratic Institute for International Affairs has installed a new user guide to improve the search function of its “Database of Party Laws.” Created by Kenneth Janda, Payson S. Wild Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Northwestern University, and Ray Kuo, the Internet database consists of 1,100 national regulations of political parties representing 169 nations. To read more about the project and to search the database, visit www.ndi.org/globalp/polparties/programspp/db.asp.
Staffan I. Lindberg, assistant professor of political science and Center for African studies, University of Florida, presented “The Power of Elections Revisited,” an updated look at his work on elections and democratization in Africa at the April 28–29, 2007, Yale University conference on “Elections and Political Identities in New Democracies.”
Carrie Manning, associate professor of political science and director of graduate studies, Georgia State University, published “Party-Building on the Heels of War: El Salvador, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Mozambique” in the April 2007 Democratization. Using El Salvador, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Mozambique as case studies, Ms. Manning shows how inter-party competition shapes identities, priorities, tactics, and strategies, which in turn affect the prospects for democratization in post-conflict situations.
Nancy Maveety, associate professor of political science, Tulane University, has been awarded a Fulbright teaching/research grant to the People’s Republic of China for 2007–2008, where she will teach classes on U.S. Constitutional law and judicial-process studies. Ms. Maveety will also conduct research on the development of the Chinese political science curriculum, as well as on methods of decision- http://www.compdem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/May07.html Page 4 of 16 APSA Comparative Democratisation Section 2017-11-29, 18 04
making and the implementation of new curriculum content in the Chinese university system over the last two decades.
Gerardo Munck, associate professor of international relations, University of Southern California, and Richard Snyder, associate professor of political science, Brown University, published Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007). Organized under a broad set of themes – intellectual formation and training; major works and ideas; the craft and tools of research; colleagues, collaborators, and students; and the past and future of comparative politics – the authors compiled their collection of interviews with some of the most prominent scholars in comparative politics since World War II and shed light on the human dimension of scholarship.
Several section members contributed chapters to the volume, including Juan Linz, Sterling Professor Emeritus of Political and Social Science, Yale University; Guillermo O'Donnell, Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame; Alfred C. Stepan, Wallace S. Sayre Professor of Government, Columbia University; and David Collier, professor of political science, University of California at Berkeley.
Joan M. Nelson, senior scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and scholar-in- residence of international service, American University, published “Elections, Democracy, and Social Services” in the January 2007 Studies in Comparative International Development, in which she argues that democracy’s impact on social services is much more complex, contingent, and nuanced than recent theorizing suggests.
From September 2006–May 2007, Ms. Nelson has been the holder of the Pok Rafaeh Chair in International Studies at the Institute of Malaysian and International Studies at the National University of Malaysia, where she is working with Malaysian colleagues on a collegial research project.
Conor O’Dwyer, assistant professor of political science, University of Florida, and Branislav Kovalcík recently published “And the Last Shall Be First: Party System Institutionalization and Second- Generation Economic Reform in Post-Communist Europe” in the March 2007 Studies in Comparative International Development. The authors investigate the conditions under which state reformers in postcommunist Europe can implement radical policies aimed at boosting investment now that the fundamental economy reforms are in place. The authors assert that party system institutionalization offers the best explanation for who adopts second-generation reforms, to what degree, and when. They tested their hypothesis by comparing recent reform attempts in Slovakia, Estonia, Hungary, the Czech Republic, and Romania.
Vincent K. Pollard, assistant professor of political science and lecturer of Asian studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, contributed “Power Sharing,” an examination of democracy and foreign policy, in the Encyclopedia of Governance, which was edited by Mark Bevir and published by Sage Publishers in 2006.
Peter M. Sanchez, associate professor of political science and graduate program director of the department, Loyola University, examines the interaction between Panama's democratic advancement and the larger context of U.S. hegemony during the twentieth century in Panama Lost?: U.S. Hegemony, Democracy, and the Canal (University Press of Florida, 2007). Mr. Sanchez argues that the policies of the United States toward Panama, motivated principally by the goal of preserving its hegemony in Latin America, produced a formidable barrier to developing democratic politics in Panama.
Eve Sandberg, associate professor of politics, Oberlin College, recently testified before the House Judiciary Committee on the recent federal elections in Ohio. Entitled “Protecting the Right to Vote: Election Deception and Irregularities in Recent Federal Elections,” the hearing focused on election intimidation and deception and hoped to expose some of the problems that voters have experienced, the causes of those problems, and offer leadership in developing meaningful solutions.
Jay Ulfelder, research director at the Political Instability Task Force, Science Applications International Corporation, and Michael Lustik, published “Modeling Transitions to and from Democracy” in the June http://www.compdem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/May07.html Page 5 of 16 APSA Comparative Democratisation Section 2017-11-29, 18 04
2007 Democratization. The paper describes models of transition to and from democracy over the past several decades and identifies a number of factors related to differences in the likelihood of progressing towards a democratic state or retreating back towards autocratic rule.
Mr. Ulfelder also presented “Gambling on Reform” at the annual meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association in Chicago, in which he employed game theory to investigate the origins of political liberalization in authoritarian states.
Georgina Waylen, reader in politics, University of Sheffield, published Engendering Transitions: Women’s Mobilization, Institutions, and Gender Outcomes (Oxford University Press, 2007). Using empirical material drawn from eight case study countries in East Central Europe, Latin America, and South Africa, Ms. Waylen explores the gendered constraints and opportunities provided by processes of democratization and economic restructuring. She finds that transitions to democracy can result in some positive gender outcomes, such as improvements in women’s political representation and more “gender sensitive” policy in areas such as domestic violence, but she also argues that women’s mobilization during transitions is no guarantee of success.
5. PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call for Submissions: Papers for the AUDEM’s 2007 Conference The Alliance of Universities for Democracy (AUDEM) is an organization of universities from the U.S. and primarily Central and Eastern Europe whose mission is to provide an opportunity for universities from both sides of the Atlantic to become more familiar with each other and to pursue collaborative institutional partnerships and other joint activities. AUDEM also collaborates with other organizations, such as the American Association of State Colleges and Universities and the Council for Social Work Education on specific projects. Its 2007 annual conference will be held November 4–7, 2007, in Cluj, Romania at the Babes-Bolyai University. The tentative conference theme will be “Tensions and Opportunities in Post-Transitional and Transitional Societies.” A call for papers will be released in March. Additional information is available at www.audem.org or by contacting Henry J. Steck, Distinguished Service Professor of political science, and interim director of the James M. Clark Center for International Education, SUNY Cortland, at [email protected]. Submissions are due by Friday, May 18, 2007.
Master’s Degree Program in Democratic Governance at the University of Cape Town The Democracy in Africa Research Unit of the University of Cape Town announces the launch of a new postgraduate Honors/M.A. program in democratic governance within the university’s department of political studies. The program will combine strong training in basic research methods and social statistics with focused courses on the empirical study of democratic politics. Visit http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/politics/pg/pg.htm for detailed course descriptions and admission requirements. Application information is available at http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/hum/new or by e-mail ([email protected]).
Master’s Degree Program in Democracy and Democratization at University College London The Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy at University College London offers a master’s degree program in democracy and democratization. The program focuses on the design and operation of democratic institutions in old and new democracies. Visit www.ucl.ac.uk/spp/teaching/msc-democracy-democratisation/ or write to Sherrill Stroschein ([email protected]) for more information.
Call for Applications: Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowships The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program at the Washington, D.C.-based National Endowment for Democracy invites applications from candidates throughout the world for fellowships in 2008–2009. Established in 2001, the program enables democracy activists, practitioners, scholars, and journalists from around the world to deepen their understanding of democracy and to enhance their ability to promote democratic change. The program is intended primarily to support activists, practitioners, and scholars from new and aspiring democracies; distinguished scholars from the United States and other
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established democracies are also eligible to apply. Projects may focus on the political, social, economic, legal, and cultural aspects of democratic development and may include a range of methodologies and approaches. A working knowledge of English is an important prerequisite for participation in the program. The application deadline for fellowships in 2008–2009 is Thursday, November 1, 2007. For more information and application materials, visit www.ned.org/forum/fellows.html.
East Asia Institute Fellowship Opportunities The East Asia Institute (EAI), based in Seoul, Korea invites applications to its Fellows Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia. Established in 2005 with support from the Henry Luce Foundation, the Fellows Program targets United States-based East Asianists with cutting-edge expertise in political science, international relations, and sociology for an international exchange program with the goal of encouraging interdisciplinary research with a comparative perspective in the study of East Asia. Fellows choose the subjects of their articles, seminars and lectures within the broadly defined themes of peace, governance, and development in East Asia in order to make the visitation an integral part of their on-going research. Fellows are free to decide how they will divide their time among two or more Member Institutions, giving a seminar and a lecture apiece at each of the site chosen. The Member Institutions are The East Asia Institute in Seoul, Fudan University in Shanghai, Keio University in Tokyo, Peking University in Beijing, and Taiwan National University in Taipei. The East Asia Institute plans to select five Fellows in 2007. The program provides a total of $10,000 for each of the Fellows for a three-week visit or more. More information is available at http://www.eai.or.kr/english/fandj/FP01_temp.asp. The application deadline is July 31, 2007. For further information, contact [email protected], ATTN: Executive Director Ha-jeong Kim or call us at +82-2-2277-1683.
6. RECENT CONFERENCES
On February 28–March 3, 2007, the International Studies Association held its forty-eighth annual convention on “Politics, Policy, and Responsible Scholarship” in Chicago, Illinois. Democracy-related panel topics included democracy and human rights, democracy and terrorism, and development, democracy, and justice. A 444-page final program, participant list, conference papers, and a conference blog are available at www.isanet.org/chicago2007/.
The Association for Asian Studies held its annual meeting on March 22–25, 2007, in Boston, Massachusetts. Panel topics included political reform in the Philippines, civil society in Vietnam, governance reforms in rural India, democracy and China, the state of democracy in Southeast Asia, and democracy and the politics of Islamism in Bangladesh. A final program and list of participants are available at www.aasianst.org/annual-meeting/index.htm.
On April 11–13, 2007, the Political Studies Association held its fifty-seventh annual conference at the University of Bath. The theme of this year’s conference was “Europe and Global Politics” and panel topics included “Europe, Globalization, and Democracy,” “Democratic Transition and Institution Building,” and “Development Politics: International Democracy Promotion.” A final program and conference papers are available at www.psa.ac.uk/2007/default.htm.
7. FUTURE CONFERENCES
On June 22–23, 2007, epsNet will hold its plenary conference at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The theme of this year’s conference is “Europe: Integration and/or Fragmentation,” which is divided into three sub-themes: “Europe’s Citizens and Civil “Society,” “Internal and External Security,” and “Organizing and Governing the State.” A detailed preliminary program is available at www.epsnet.org/2007/programme.htm.
The American Political Science Association will hold its 103rd annual conference on August 30– September 2, 2007, in Chicago, Illinois. The theme of this year’s conference is “Political Science and Beyond.” This year’s conference will feature forty-six thematic divisions, with 730 panel and roundtable http://www.compdem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/May07.html Page 7 of 16 APSA Comparative Democratisation Section 2017-11-29, 18 04
presentations. More information is available at www.apsanet.org/section_222.cfm.
On September 6–8, 2007, the European Consortium for Political Research will hold its fourth general conference in Pisa, Italy. A preliminary program will be available in May. Visit www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/events/generalconference/pisa/index.aspx for more information.
The Latin American Studies Association’s 2007 International Congress will be held on September 6–8, 2007 in Montreal, Canada. The theme of this year’s Congress is “After the Washington Consensus: Collaborative Scholarship for a New America” and will feature over sixty democracy-related panels. More information is available at http://lasa.international.pitt.edu/congress/about.html.
On September 24–26, 2007, the Australasian Political Studies Association will hold its annual conference at Monash University. A call for papers has been issued for the conference. The main themes include Australian and New Zealand politics, feminism and gender politics, international relations, international political economy/comparative politics, media and popular culture, political and social theory, and public policy. The deadline for submission of abstracts of 300 words or less is June 1, 2007. Visit www.arts.monash.edu.au/psi/news-and-events/apsa/#call-for-papers for more information.
8. NEW RESEARCH
Journal of Democracy The April 2007 (Volume 18, no. 2) issue of the Journal of Democracy features clusters of articles on India and Mexico, as well as individual articles on Afghanistan, Venezuela, Montenegro, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The full texts of selected articles and the tables of contents of all issues are available on the Journal’s Web site.
“Toward Muslim Democracies” by Saad Eddin Ibrahim About two-thirds of the world’s Muslims live under governments chosen through competitive elections. The remaining third lives mostly in the Arab world, a region that poses the hardest challenges for democratization.
“The Challenge of Closely Fought Elections” by Laurence Whitehead Closely fought elections are often fraught with conflict, splitting societies asunder. How can democracy survive such rough and close contests?
India’s Unlikely Democracy I. “Six Decades of Independence” by Sumit Ganguly By most theoretical accounts, Indian democracy should not even exist. Yet, despite serious challenges, it shows signs of enduring and even deepening.
II. “Economic Growth and Political Accommodation” by Aseema Sinha So far, economic liberalization and globalization have not served to undermine India’s democracy. Indeed, they may even be strengthening it.
III. “Civil Society versus Corruption” by Rob Jenkins Pervasive corruption hampers India’s democracy, yet anticorruption movements may be helping to improve government accountability.
IV. “The Rise of Judicial Sovereignty” by Pratap Bhanu Mehta India’s courts have been playing a growing role in the country’s political life. Yet even as judicial interventions have become more sweeping, the principles undergirding their legitimacy have become less clear.
“A Wake-Up Call in Afghanistan” by Pamela Constable Much has been achieved both in the war against the Taliban and in the larger struggle to create a democratic Afghanistan, but dire problems remain.
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“Venezuela: Crowding Out the Opposition” by Javier Corrales and Michael Penfold President Hugo Chávez’s regime demonstrates how a public desire for change plus state resources can be exploited to undermine democracy.
Another Russia? I. “Battling KGB, Inc.” by Garry Kasparov The Putin regime is plunging Russia into a deepening crisis. It is time to end the fiction that today’s Russia is a democracy.
II. “After the Leviathan” by Leon Aron There is a future for democracy in Russia, but it may have to wait until the people begin to feel the problems created by the current system.
III. “Putin’s Invented Opposition” by Stephen Sestanovich The Kremlin’s ultimate need for democratic legitimacy, both at home and abroad, may be the key vulnerability of the Putin regime.
The 2006 Freedom House Survey I. “The Pushback against Democracy” by Arch Puddington Although the overall state of democracy in the world differed little from that in 2005, a series of worrisome trends seem to be contributing to a stagnation of freedom.
“Voting for Change in the DRC” by Herbert F. Weiss The holding of competitive elections in this vast, strife-torn country must count as a significant achievement, even though voters signaled their disaffection with the entire array of political elites that had been ruling them.
“Montenegro: A Miracle in the Balkans?” by Srdjan Darmanovic Tiny Montenegro gained its independence in a referendum in May 2006. What forces lay behind its completely peaceful break from its much larger neighbor, Serbia?
Democratization The April 2007 (Volume 14, no. 2) issue of Democratization includes articles on democracy and security, post-conflict party-building, democracy assistance, as well as case studies of Russia, Venezuela, and Central Asia.
“Democracy and Security: Process versus Outcome in Assistance Policy?” by Vincent Boudreau
“Venezuela and the Collective Defence of Democracy Regime in the Americas” by Randall Parish, Mark Peceny, and Justin Delacour
“Insulating Russia from a Colour Revolution: How the Kremlin Resists Regional Democratic Trends” by Thomas Ambrosio
“Party-building on the Heels of War: El Salvador, Bosnia, Kosovo, and Mozambique” by Carrie Manning
“Aiding the Internet in Central Asia” by Eric Mcglinchey and Erica Johnson
“Democracy Assistance to Domestic Election Monitoring Organizations: Conditions for Success” by Sharon F. Lean
“Security and Democracy: Process and Outcome in a New Policy Context” by Vincent Boudreau
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SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES ON DEMOCRACY This section features selected articles on democracy that appeared in journals received by the NED’s Democracy Resource Center, February 2007-April 2007.
American Prospect, Vol. 18, no. 3, March 2007 “America’s China Fantasy” by James Mann
Asian Affairs, Vol. XXXVIII, no. 1, March 2007 “A Nepalese Triange: Monarchy, Maoists and Political Parties” by Michael Hutt
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 40, no. 3, March 2007 “Democratization and Economic Liberalization in the Postcommunist World” by M. Steven Fish and Omar Choudhry
“Voting in Open Economies: The Electoral Consequences of Globalization” by Timothy Hellwig and David Samuels
“The Congressional Politics of Decentralization: The Case of Chile” by Rodrigo Mardones
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 40, no. 4, April 2007 Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism, and the State by Henry E. Hale. Reviewed by Vicki Hesli.
Reaching for Power: The Shi’a in the Modern Arab World by Yitzhak Nakash. Reviewed by Pamela J. Stumpo.
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 40, no. 5, May 2007 “Women’s Mobilization and Gender Outcomes in Transitions to Democracy: The Case of South Africa” by Georgina Waylen
“Partisan Preferences, Electoral Prospects, and Economic Expectations” by Matthew Ladner and Christopher Wlezien
Comparative Politics, Vol. 39, no. 2, January 2007 “The Politics of Violence in Democratization: Lessons from Kenya and South Africa” by Jacqueline M. Klopp and Elke Zuern
“The Politics of Deepening Local Democracy: Decentralization, Party Institutionalization, and Participation” by Benjamin Goldfrank
“The Revolt of the Post-Soviet Generation: Youth Movements in Serbia, Georgia, and Ukraine” by Olena Nikolayenko
Current History, Vol. 106, no. 698, March 2007 “Romania, Bulgaria, and the EU’s Future“ by Robin Shepherd
“Turkey’s Fading Dream of Europe” by Omer Taspinar
“Europe and America in the Middle East” by Charles A. Kupchan
Current History, Vol. 106, no. 699, April 2007 “Pakistan and the Islamists” by Husain Haqqani
“Bangladesh and the Burdens of History” by William B. Milam
“Toward a New Nepal?” by Rhoderick Chalmers
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“Malaysia at 50: Midlife Crisis Ahead?” by Bridget Welsh
“Thailand’s Elusive Equilibrium” by Catharin Dalpino
East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 21, no. 1, Winter 2007 “Democracy in the Post-Communist World: An Unending Quest?” by Grzegorz Ekiert, Jan Kubik, and Milada Anna Vachudova
“From Elections to Democracy in Central Europe: Public Participation and the Role of Civil Society” by Susan Rose-Ackerman
“Linkage, Leverage, and the Post-Communist Divide” by Lucan A. Way and Steven Levitsky
“The Uncertain Future of Russia’s Weak State Authoritarianism” by Stephen E. Hanson
“Democracy in the Post-Communist World: Unfinished Business” by Fabrizio Coricelli
“European Regional Organizations, Political Conditionality, and Democratic Transformation in Eastern Europe” by Frank Schimmelfennig
“Between Historical Legacies and the Promise of Western Integration: Democratic Conditionality after Communism” by Grigore Pop-Eleches
“The Quality of Democracy after Joining the European Union” by Jan Zielonka
Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 59, no. 1, January 2007 “Conflicting Patterns of Thought in the Russian Debate on Transition: 1992–2002” by Joachim Zweynert
“Extricating the State: The Move to Competitive Capture in Post-Communist Bulgaria” by Andrew Barnes
“The Different Impact of State Finance on the Romanian Party System” by Steven D. Roper
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 86, no. 2, March/April 2007 “Iraq’s Civil War” by James D. Fearon
“Time for Detente with Iran” by Ray Takeyh
“India’s Democratic Challenge” by Ashutosh Varshney
“The Moderate Muslim Brotherhood” by Robert S. Leiken and Steven Brooke
Government and Opposition, Vol. 42, no. 2, Spring 2007 “Institutionalization of Party Systems? Stability and Fluidity among Legislative Parties in Africa’s Democracies” by Staffan I. Lindberg
Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 29, no. 1, February 2007 “Religious Legal Traditions, Muslim States, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child: An Essay on the Relevant UN Documentation” by Kamran Hashemi
“Truth with Consequences: Justice and Reparations in Post-Truth Commission Peru” by Lisa Laplante and Kimberly Theidon
International Affairs, Vol. 83, no. 2, March 2007 “Continuity and Change: Prospects for Civil-Military Relations in Turkey” by Gareth Jenkins
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Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 23, no. 1, March 2007 “Oligarchs, Tapes, and Oranges: ‘Kuchmagate’ to the Orange Revolution” by Taras Kuzio
“State Institutions, Political Context, and Parliamentary Election Legislation in Ukraine, 2000–2006” by Erik S. Herron
“Revolutionary Bargain: The Unmaking of Ukraine’s Autocracy through Pacting” by Serhiy Kudelia
“Patriotism, Order, and Articulations of the Nation in Kyiv High Schools Before and After the Orange Revolution” by Anna Fournier
“Rock, Pop, and Politics in Ukraine’s 2004 Presidential Campaign and Orange Revolution” by Bohdan Klid
“Anti-Orange Discourses in Ukraine’s Internet: Before the Orange Split” by Olga Filippova
“Gender and the Orange Revolution” by Alexnadra Hrycak
Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 45, no. 1, March 2007 Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa by Adam Ashforth. Reviewed by Luise White.
Mandela’s World: The International Dimension of South Africa’s Political Revolution, 1990–1999 by James Barber. Reviewed by Roger Pfister.
Middle East Journal, Vol. 61, no. 1, Winter 2007 “The Internal Stakes of the 2005 Elections: The Struggle for Influence in Egypt’s National Democratic Party” by Virginie Collombier
Party Politics, Vol. 13, no. 2, March 2007 “Political Parties and Political Development: A New Perspective” by Russell J. Dalton and Ian McAllister
“Political Sequences and the Stabilization of Interparty Competition: Electoral Volatility in Old and New Democracies” by Scott Mainwaring and Edurne Zoco
“Partisanship and Party System Institutionalization” by Russell J. Dalton and Steven Weldon
“Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Post-Communist Societies” by Ian McAllister and Stephen White
“Party Mobilization and Political Participation in New and Old Democracies” by Jeffrey A. Karp and Susan A. Banducci
“Parties and Accountable Government in New Democracies” by John Carey and Andrew Reynolds
Policy Review, no. 141, February/March 2007 “China’s Stubborn Anti-Democracy” by Ying Ma
“The End of Balkan History” by Fatos Tarifa and Peter Lucas
Washington Quarterly, Vol. 30, no. 2, Spring 2007 “Hizballah and Syria: Outgrowing the Proxy Relationship” by Emile El-Hokayem
“Enhancing U.S. Engagement with North Korea” by Joel S. Wit
“Russia Redefines Itself and Its Relations with the West” by Dmitri Trenin
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“Russia Transimperialism and Its Implications” by Celeste A. Wallander
SELECTED NEW BOOKS ON DEMOCRACY
ADVANCED DEMOCRACIES Canon of American Legal Thought. Edited by David Kennedy and William W. Fisher III. Princeton University Press, 2006. 925 pp.
Collision Course: NATO, Russia, and Kosovo. By John Norris. Greenwood, 2005. 333 pp.
Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921–1996. By Peter Grose. 85th anniversary edition, Council on Foreign Relations, 2006. 83 pp.
Democracy in Europe: The EU and National Polities. By Vivien A. Schmidt. Oxford University Press, 2006. 317 pp.
In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America. By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. University of Chicago Press, 2007. 189 pp.
Modern America and the Legacy of the Founding. Edited by Ronald J. Pestritto and Thomas G. West. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 339 pp.
Our Undemocratic Constitution. By Sanford Levinson. Oxford University Press, 2006. 233 pp.
Perfecting Friendship: Politics and Affiliation in Early American Literature. By Ivy Schweitzer. University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 276 pp.
Red and Blue Nation? Characteristics and Causes of America’s Polarized Politics. Edited by Pietro S. Nivola and David W. Brady. Brookings, 2006. 317 pp.
Regime Change: U.S. Strategy Through the Prism of 9/11. By Robert S. Litwak. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. 406 pp.
AFRICA African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam. By Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im. Penn Press, 2006. 199 pp.
The Order of Genocide: Race, Power, and War in Rwanda. By Scott Straus. Cornell University Press, 2006. 273 pp.
ASIA Behind the Bamboo Curtain: China, Vietnam, and the World Beyond Asia. Edited by Priscilla Roberts. Stanford University Press, 2006. 559 pp.
China’s Deep Reform: Domestic Politics in Transition. Edited by Lowell Dittmer. Rowman & Littlefield, 2006. 517 pp.
Governance and Democracy in Asia. Edited by Takashi Inoguchi and Matthew Carlson. Trans Pacific, 2006. 201 pp.
Governments and Markets in East Asia: The Politics of Economic Crises. By Junjug Choi. Routledge, 2006. 140 pp.
India’s Political Parties: Readings in Indian Government and Politics. Edited by Peter Ronald deSouza and E. Sridharan. Sage, 2006. 418 pp.
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Japanese Politics: An Introduction. By Takashi Inoguchi. Trans Pacific, 2005. 235 pp.
Kim Il Sung in the Khrushchev Era: Soviet-DPRK Relations and the Role of North Korean Despotism, 1953–1964. By Balazs Szalontai. Stanford University Press, 2005. 343 pp.
Korean Society: Civil Society, Democracy, and the State. Edited by Charles K. Armstrong. 2nd edition. Routledge, 2007. 224 pp.
Sikhs, Swamis, Students, and Spies: The India Lobby in the United States, 1900– 1946. By Harold A. Gould. Sage, 2006. 460 pp.
Those Who Dare: Voices of Asia’s Democrats. By Sarwar Bari, Chee Soon Juan, Chua Tian Chang, Martin Lee, Loretta Ann P. Rosales, Shih Ming-Teh, Thich Quang Do, and Wang Dan. Alliance for Reform and Democracy in Asia, 2006. 304 pp.
EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION How Russia Really Works: The Informal Practices That Shaped Post-Soviet Politics and Business. By Alena V. Ledeneva. Cornell University Press, 2006. 270 pp.
Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town. By Rigers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox, and Liana Grancea. Princeton University Press, 2006. 439 pp.
Rebounding Identities: The Politics of Identity in Russia and Ukraine. Edited by Dominique Arel and Blair Ruble. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006. 365 pp.
Russia Transformed: Developing Popular Support for a New Regime. By Richard Rose, William Mishler, and Neil Munro. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 226 pp.
The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918–2005. By Sabrina P. Ramet. Woodrow Wilson Center, 2006. 817 pp.
The Tulip Revolution: Kyrgyzstan One Year After. Erica Marat. Brookings, 2006. 149 pp.
Voting for Russia’s Governors: Regional Elections and Accountability Under Yeltsin and Putin. By Andrew Konitzer. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 258 pp.
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN Citizenship in Latin America. Edited by Joseph S. Tulchin and Meg Ruthenburg. Lynne Rienner, 2007. 329 pp.
Panama Lost: U.S. Hegemony, Democracy, and the Canal. By Peter M. Sanchez. University Press of Florida, 2007. 251 pp.
Políticos y Política en América Latina. Edited by Manuel Alcántara Sáez. Fundación Carolina, 2006. 424 pp.
Politics of Policies: Economic and Social Progress in Latin America. Edited by Ernesto Stein, Mariano Tommasi, Koldo Echebarria, Eduardo Lora, and Mark Payne. Inter-American Development Bank, 2006. 290 pp.
The State of State Reform in Latin America. Edited by Eduardo Lora. Inter-American Development Bank, 2007. 446 pp.
MIDDLE EAST Between Islam and the State: The Politics of Engagement. By Berna Turam. Stanford University Press, 2006. 223 pp. http://www.compdem.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/May07.html Page 14 of 16 APSA Comparative Democratisation Section 2017-11-29, 18 04
Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Arab World. By Nicola Pratt. Lynne Rienner, 2007. 235 pp.
Europe and the Middle East: In the Shadow of September 11. By Richard Youngs. Lynne Rienner, 2006. 255 pp.
A Fevered Crescent: Security and Insecurity in the Greater Near East. By James F. Miskel and P.H. Liotta. University Press of Florida, 2006. 149 pp.
Human Rights in the Arab World: Independent Voices. Edited by Anthony Chase and Amr Hamzawy. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006. 322 pp.
Iran Oil: The New Middle East Challenge to America. By Roger Howard. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. 182 pp.
Iraq in Fragments: The Occupation and Its Legacy. By Eric Herring and Glen Rangwala. Cornell University Press, 2006. 354 pp.
Jasmine and Stars: Reading More than Lolita in Tehran. By Fatemeh Keshavarz. University of North Carolina Press, 2007. 174 pp.
Liberalism Without Democracy: Nationhood and Citizenship in Egypt, 1922– 1936. By Abdeslam M. Maghraoui. Duke University Press, 2006. 192 pp.
Religion and Nationalism in Iraq: A Comparative Perspective. Edited by David Little and Donald K. Swearer. Harvard University Press, 2006. 213 pp.
COMPARATIVE, THEORETICAL, GENERAL Annihilation from Within: The Ultimate Threat to Nations. By Fred Charles Iklé. Columbia University Press, 2006. 142 pp.
Bounding Power: Republican Security Theory from the Polis to the Global Village. By Daniel H. Deudney. Princeton University Press, 2007. 391 pp.
Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy. By Priscilla Clapp and Morton H. Halperin. 2nd edition. Brookings, 2006. 400 pp.
By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey. By Janos Kornai. MIT Press, 2006. 461 pp.
Civic Service Worldwide: Impacts and Inquiry. Edited by Amanda Moore McBride and Michael Sherraden. M.E. Sharpe, 2007. 272 pp.
Council Unbound: The Growth of UN Decision Making on Conflict and Postconflict Issues after the Cold War. By Michael J. Matheson. U.S. Institute of Peace, 2006. 422 pp.
Democracy and Counterterrorism: Lessons from the Past. Edited by Robert J. Art and Louise Richardson. U.S. Institute of Peace, 2007. 639 pp.
Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence. Edited by Roger D. Congleton and Birgitta Swedenborg. MIT Press, 2006. 373 pp.
Encyclopedia of Governance. Edited by Mark Bevir. Sage, 2007. 1027 pp.
Endurance of Nationalism: Ancient Roots and Modern Dilemmas. By Aviel Roshwald. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 349 pp.
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Ethnic Bargaining: The Paradox of Minority Empowerment. By Erin K. Jenne. Cornell University Press, 2007. 273 pp.
Ethnicity and Electoral Politics. By Johanna Kristin Birnir. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 279 pp.
Human Rights and Conflict: Exploring the Links Between Rights, Law, and Peacebuilding. Edited by Julie A. Mertus and Jeffrey W. Helsing. U.S. Institute of Peace, 2006. 549 pp.
Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action. Edited by Richard Pierre Claude and Burns H. Weston. 3rd edition. Penn Press, 2006. 543 pp.
Leashing the Dogs of War: Conflict Management in a Divided World. Edited by Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall. U.S. Institute of Peace, 2007. 726 pp.
Making Political Science Matter: Debating Knowledge, Research, and Method. Edited by Sanford F. Schram and Brian Caterino. New York University Press, 2006. 304 pp.
Oil, Profits, and Peace: Does Business Have a Role in Peacemaking? By Jill Shankleman. U.S. Institute of Peace, 2006. 235 pp.
The Perils and Promise of Global Transparency: Why the Information Revolution May Not Lead to Security, Democracy or Peace. By Kristin M. Lord. SUNY, 2006. 198 pp.
Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy. By José Antonio Cheibub. Cambridge University Press, 2007. 202 pp.
Promoting Democracy in Postconflict Societies: A Comparative Perspective. Edited by Jeroen de Zeeuw and Krishna Kumar. Lynne Rienner, 2006. 331 pp.
The Resilience of the State: Democracy and the Challenges of Globalization. By Samy Cohen. Lynne Rienner, 2006. 198 pp.
Tocqueville’s Road Map: Methodology, Liberalism, Revolution, and Despotism. By Roger Boesche. Lexington Books, 2006. 215 pp.
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