Comparative Democratization
Section 35 of the American Political Science Association

Newsletter
Volume 3, Number 1, February 2005

Table of Contents

1. Current Section Officers
2. Report from the Chair
3. Editor's Note
4. Section News
5. News From Members
6. Fellowship and Grant Opportunities
7. Professional Announcements
8. Recent Conferences
9. Future Conferences
10. New Research

1. CURRENT SECTION OFFICERS

Chair (2003-2005)
Cynthia McClintock
Professor of Political Science
George Washington University
e-mail: mcclin@gwu.edu

Vice-chair (2004-2006)
Gretchen C. Casper
Associate Professor of Political Science
Pennsylvania State University
e-mail: gcasper@psu.edu

Secretary (2004-2006)
Carrie Manning
Associate Professor of Political Science
Georgia State University
e-mail: polclm@panther.gsu.edu

Treasurer (2003-2005)
William Reisinger
Professor of Political Science
University of Iowa
e-mail: william-reisinger@uiowa.edu

Newsletter Editor (ex officio)
Thomas W. Skladony
Senior Program Officer
International Forum for Democratic Studies
National Endowment for Democracy
e-mail: tom@ned.org



2. REPORT FROM THE CHAIR

Lots of things are happening in our Section. Many members are graciously contributing their time and wisdom. Of course, we continue to welcome your thoughts and recommendations-and, as you will read below, your nominations for Section officers and prizes. Self-nominations for both service as an officer and for prizes are welcome.

Gretchen Casper, our Section vice-chair, has agreed to head this year's nominations committee. We will be electing both a new chair and a new treasurer for the 2005-2007 term. Please forward your suggestions to Gretchen at gcasper@psu.edu.

At the 2005 annual meeting, we will be offering four prizes for scholarly work: best book, best article, best field work, and our new Juan Linz best dissertation prize. I am grateful to all who are serving on this year's prize committees. I can think of no better way to build a stronger and larger section than by recognizing the outstanding scholarship of our members by these various awards, and I urge you to submit nominations. The guidelines for each award and the committee rosters are listed below in Section News; the deadline for most nominations is March 15.

Program Chair Eva Bellin (Hunter College) has been hard at work choosing the best panels and papers from the abundant excellent proposals. We expect a wonderful array of Comparative Democratization panels at this year's APSA meeting in Washington, D.C. Stay tuned-highlights will be featured in our May newsletter.

We are continuing to build the collection of comparative democratization syllabi on our Web site. We believe that this collection is a valuable service to our members, and we really hope that many of you will contribute. Syllabi for courses on democratization across the globe as well as for courses on democratization in specific regions are equally welcome. Please forward syllabi to Tom Skladony (tom@ned.org).

For our newsletters, Tom continues to compile a wonderful wealth of information about members' achievements as well as about democratization conferences and research. Enjoy!

Cynthia McClintock


3. EDITOR'S NOTE

"News from Members" continues to be the heart of our newsletter, and rightly so, in my view. In this issue we begin listing links to publishers' Web pages for new books, making it easier for all of us to get more information about these new publications. I encourage members to send us such links when submitting news items, not only for books but for journal articles, conference presentations, and anything else that would be of interest to our colleagues.

Over the past year some members have submitted book notices months in advance of their books' publication dates, and then again when these books were finally published. We have decided that it makes the most sense-both for authors and their readers-to publish book announcements just once, as close as possible to the actual date of publication. Some items submitted recently by members announcing books forthcoming in April and May have therefore been held for our May newsletter. I thank those authors for their understanding, and note that we have a number of very fine books to look forward to later in the spring.

With respect to Cynthia's call for submissions of more course syllabi for posting on the section Web site, I wish simply to echo and endorse her words. It would be wonderful to double-or even to triple-the number of course syllabi we have there. And while our section does not maintain a ListServ, I am always happy to circulate requests, queries, and time-sensitive announcements to all section members through e-mail. Write to me at Tom@ned.org.

Pia Niedermeier and Alek Potrzebowski, Spring semester interns at the International Forum, did an excellent job in compiling and proofreading this issue of our newsletter. It gives me great pleasure to thank them here.

Tom Skladony


4. SECTION NEWS

The Comparative Democratization Section will award four prizes for scholarly work at the APSA annual meeting in Washington, D.C. Members are strongly encouraged to submit nominations (including self-nominations) to the appropriate committees listed below. Please note the eligibility criteria, deadlines for submissions, and materials that must accompany nominations, and direct any queries to the committee chairs.

Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy:

Jonathan Hartlyn (chair)
Department of Political Science
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC 27599
hartlyn@unc.edu

Kathleen Collins
Department of Political Science
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, IN 46556
kcollins@nd.edu

Richard Snyder
Department of Political Science
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Richard_Snyder@brown.edu

Dissertations must have been accepted within the calendar years 2003 or 2004; a hard copy must be sent to each member of the committee.
Deadline: March 15, 2005.


Best Book:

Steve Fish (Chair)
Department of Political Science
University of California at Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
sfish@uclink.berkeley.edu

William Case
School of International Business and Asian Studies
Griffith University
Nathan 4111
AUSTRALIA
w.case@griffith.edu.au

Wendy Hunter
Helen Kellogg Institute
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame, Indiana 46556
whunter@mail.la.utexas.edu

Books (single-authored, coauthored, or edited) published in 2004 are eligible and must be sent to each committee member. Deadline: March 15, 2005.


Best Article:

Ellen Lust-Okar (Chair)
Department of Political Science
Yale University
New Haven, CT 06511
ellen.lust-okar@yale.edu

Timothy Frye
Department of Political Science
Ohio State University
Columbus, Ohio 43210
frye.51@osu.edu

Mark Jones
Department of Political Science
Rice University
Houston, TX 77521
mpjones@rice.edu

Single-authored or coauthored articles published in 2004 are eligible.
Deadline: March 15, 2005.


Best Field Work:

Joseph Klesner (Chair)
Department of Political Science
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH 43022
klesner@kenyon.edu

Claudia Dahlerus
Department of Political Science
Albion College
Albion, MI 49224
cdahlerus@albion.edu

Timothy Sisk
Graduate School of International Studies
University of Denver
Denver, CO 80208
tsisk@du.edu

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 within the past twelve months are eligible. Candidates must submit three chapters of their dissertation and a letter of nomination from the chair of their dissertation committee describing the field work. One or two chapters should also describe the field work and should provide one or two key insights from it. The chapters may be sent electronically or in triplicate hard copy.
Deadline: May 2, 2005.


Section Members Were Pleased to Attend the Journal of Democracy's Celebration of its Fifteenth Anniversary: On January 13, 2005 the Journal of Democracy celebrated the publication of its fifteenth anniversary issue. A panel discussion and reception took place at the Elliott School of International Affairs of the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. These were hosted by Harry Harding, dean of the Elliott School and a member of the Journal's editorial board. Marc F. Plattner, coeditor of the Journal, moderated the panel discussion, entitled "Building Democracy after Conflict," which featured presentations by four contributors to a symposium on that subject in the January 2005 issue. These included:
Larry Diamond, coeditor of the Journal of Democracy and senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, who spoke on Iraq;
Larry Goodson, Dwight D. Eisenhower Chair in National Security Studies, U.S. Army War College, who spoke on Afghanistan;
Gerald Knaus, president of the European Stability Initiative (ESI), who spoke on European conflicts; and
Francis Fukuyama, Bernard Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, who provided a comparative perspective on postconflict situations.


5. NEWS FROM MEMBERS

Felipe Agüero, associate professor of international studies, University of Miami, presented a paper entitled "The New 'Double Challenge:' Simultaneously Crafting Democratic Control and Efficacy Concerning Military, Police, and Intelligence" at the Third General Assembly of the Club of Madrid on November 12-13, 2004. He also contributed the chapter, "Authoritarian Legacies: The Military," to Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe, edited by Katherine Hite, Nancy Bermeo, and Paola Cesarini (University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).

Michael Baum, associate professor and chair of political science, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, and Ana Espírito-Santo published "Desigualdades de género em Portugal: a participaça?o poli?tica das mulheres" ("The Gender Gap in Portugal: Women's Political Participation") in Portugal a Votos: as eleições legislativas de 2002 (Portugal at the Polls: The Parliamentary Elections of 2002). The book was edited by A. Freire, M.C. Lobo, and P. Magalha?es, and was published in 2004 by the University of Lisbon ICS Press.

William F. Case, associate professor of Asian studies, Griffith University (Australia), published "New Uncertainties for an Old Pseudo-Democracy: The Case of Malaysia" in the October 2004 Comparative Politics. His study concluded that Malaysia's decades-long pseudodemocracy has continued its slide into authoritarianism. Mr. Case will spend February in Bangkok researching the upcoming general election in Thailand.

Eric Davis, professor of political science, Rutgers University, has just published Memories of State: Politics, History, and Collective Identity in Modern Iraq (University of California Press, 2005), a study of how the Ba'thist regime attempted to rewrite Iraq's history in an effort to expunge elements of that country's past that supported cultural pluralism, political participation, and social justice.

John P. Entelis, professor of political science and director of the Middle East studies program at Fordham University, published "Islamist Politics and the Democratic Imperative: Comparative Lessons from the Algerian Experience" in the Journal of North African Studies (Vol 9, no. 2, 2004). Mr. Entelis also contributed "The Sad State of Political Reform in Tunisia" to the November 2004 Arab Reform Bulletin (published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace) and "Abandoning Reformist Islam" to the November 2004 Democracy at Large, a new quarterly publication of the International Foundation for Election Systems (IFES).

Jonathan Fox, professor of Latin American and Latino Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, contributed "Unpacking Transnational Citizenship" to the forthcoming 2005 Annual Review of Political Science. A Spanish-language edition of Indigenous Mexican Migrants in the U.S., a 2004 publication edited by Mr. Fox and Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, was published in January 2005.

James L. Gibson, Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government, Washington University in St. Louis, received the 2005 Decade of Behavior Research Award from the American Psychological Association, which noted that Mr. Gibson's "research on democracy issues has contributed to the use of social and behavioral science knowledge in policy settings and has enhanced public understanding of behavioral and social science principles." His article "Overcoming Apartheid: Can Truth Reconcile a Divided Nation?" appeared in the November 2004 Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies.
Mr. Gibson's most recent conference papers include "Can Truth Reconcile Divided Nations?" (presented at the conference, "After the Storm: Reconstructing States, Reconciling Societies," University of North Texas) and "Overcoming Land Injustices: An Experimental Investigation into the Justice and Injustice of Land Squatting in South Africa" (Annual Meeting of the Society for Personality and Social Psychology, New Orleans), both in January 2005.

Christian Haerpfer, associate professor of political science, University of Vienna (Austria), recently accepted a position as reader in politics in the department of politics and international relations, University of Aberdeen (UK). He is spending the 2004-2005 academic year as a fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, where he is writing a book on political and economic change in eight post-Soviet countries.

Henry E. Hale, assistant professor of political science, Indiana University, published "Yabloko and the Challenge of Building a Liberal Party in Russia" in the November 2004 Europe-Asia Studies. His study focused on the weakness of liberal parties in postsoviet Russia. With Michael McFaul and Timothy J. Colton, Mr. Hale also wrote "Putin and the 'Delegative Democracy' Trap: Evidence from Russia's 2003-04 Elections" (Post-Soviet Affairs, October-December 2004).

Jennifer S. Holmes, assistant professor of government, University of Texas at Dallas, will become managing editor of e-Extreme in summer 2005. The publication is the electronic newsletter of the Standing Group on Extremism and Democracy, an organized section of the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information about the Standing Group and back issues of its newsletter, visit www.essex.ac.uk/ecpr/standinggroups/eandd/index.htm.

Anne Holohan, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Trento (Italy) recently completed her Ph.D. degree in sociology at the University of California/Los Angeles. Her book, Networks of Democracy: Lessons from Kosovo for Afghanistan, Iraq, and Beyond, will be published by Stanford University Press in March 2005.

Victor T. Le Vine, professor emeritus of political science, Washington University in St. Louis, published Politics in Francophone Africa: The States of West and Equatorial Africa (Lynne Rienner, 2004). The book included a chapter on what Mr. Le Vine terms "redemocratization" that analyzes the use of Sovereign National Conferences in Francophone Africa (and elsewhere) and explores the prospects for further democratic reform.

Staffan I. Lindberg, assistant professor of political science at Lund University (Sweden), recently received funding from the Crafoord Foundation to conduct survey research on voters' perceptions of political clientelism in Ghana in summer 2005. This second round of research will update a 2003 survey that Mr. Lindberg conducted with K.C. Morrison of the University of Missouri.

Mariano Magalhães, associate professor of political science, Augustana College, was elected editor of the Illinois Political Science Review in November 2004. He also served as program chair for the 2004 annual conference of the North Central Council of Latin Americanists, which met in October at Luther College. The theme of the meeting was "Latin America: Visions of Social Justice in a Global World."

Eileen McDonagh, professor of political science, Northeastern University, has received a two-year grant from the American Association of University Women to write a book on gender and democratization focusing on cross-national analysis of constitutions, political institutions, and public policies as they impact upon women's political citizenship. The grant includes a scholar-in-residence position for two years in the political science department of the City College of New York. Ms. McDonagh also delivered a talk entitled "Forging a New Grammar of Difference and Equality: 'Progressive Suffrage' and Social Reform" at an October 2004 Yale University symposium on "Political Action and Political Change: Leaders, Entrepreneurs, and Agents in American Political Development."

David Mednicoff, assistant professor of legal studies, University of Massachusetts, received a national award for innovative teaching about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Dickinson College and the Smithsonian National Museum of American History sponsored the award, which also recognized three other educators for their work. Mr. Mednicoff and his fellow awardees participated in a September 2004 symposium at the museum on "Teaching 9-11: The Role of Media, Museums, and Schools in the Construction of National Memory."

Monika Anna Nalepa, Ph.D. candidate in political science, Columbia University, and Marek Kaminski, associate professor of political science, University of California at Irvine, organized an October 2004 workshop in Laguna Beach, California on transitional justice in new democracies. The event featured scholars from the Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Poland, South Africa, and the United States. Presentations ranged from the restitution of property rights and international criminal tribunals to lustration and truth commissions. For more information visit www.columbia.edu/~man70/web-pages/TJ_Laguna_Beach.htm.

Joan M. Nelson, senior scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and scholar in residence, School of International Service, American University; and Robert K. Kaufmann, professor of political science, Rutgers University, edited Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Reforms, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America (Woodrow Wilson Center/Johns Hopkins University Presses, 2004), a volume of case studies of health- and education-sector reforms in Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela.

David Ost, professor of political science, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, published "Politics as the Mobilization of Anger: Emotions in Movements and in Power" in the May 2004 European Journal of Social Theory. The study examined how opposition movements and mainstream parties alike attempt to capture citizens' anger and to focus it on their opponents.

Vincent K. Pollard, associate lecturer in political science and Asian studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, organized a panel on "Globalization, Democratization, and Preferred Futures of Social Movements" for the 2005 annual convention of International Studies Association, which will meet in Honolulu in March.

Susan Rose-Ackerman, Henry R. Luce Professor of Law and Political Science, Yale University, and János Kornai, emeritus professor of economics, Harvard University, edited Building a Trustworthy State in Post-Socialist Transition. With Bo Rothstein and János Kornai she also edited Creating Social Trust in Post-Socialist Transition. Both volumes, part of a Collegium Budapest project on "Honesty and Trust in the Light of Post-Socialist Transformation," were published by Palgrave Macmillian in 2004.
Ms. Rose-Ackerman also contributed a paper on governance and corruption to the Copenhagen Consensus project on global priority setting that was published in Global Crises, Global Solutions (Cambridge University Press, 2004). Bjørn Lomborg edited the anthology.

Sebastian Royo, associate professor of government, Suffolk University in Boston, has been named director of that university's Madrid campus.

Ben Ross Schneider, professor and chair of political science, Northwestern University, published Business Politics and the State in the Twentieth Century in Latin America (Cambridge University Press, 2004). The book examines the history of business politics in Mexico, Chile, Colombia, Brazil, and Argentina to show how state actions best explain the wide variations in collective action and organization by business. He also contributed an article entitled "Organizing Interests and Coalitions in the Politics of Market Reform in Latin America" to the October 2004 World Politics.

Jay Ulfelder, research director of the Political Instability Task Force, Science Applications International Corporation; and Jack A. Goldstone, Hazel Professor of Public Policy, George Mason University, contributed "How to Construct Stable Democracies" to the Winter 2004-2005 Washington Quarterly. The complete text is available at www.twq.com/05winter/docs/05winter_goldstone.pdf.

Tatu Vanhanen, professor emeritus of political science, University of Helsinki, published "Struggle for Democracy in Sub-Saharan Africa" in the September 2004 Acta Politica.


6. FELLOWSHIP AND GRANT OPPORTUNITIES

The East Asia Institute, a policy-research center based in Seoul, South Korea (and institutional home of the Journal of East Asian Studies), invites applications for the inaugural year of its Fellows Program on Peace, Governance, and Development in East Asia. The program, open to U.S.-based scholars in political science, international relations, and sociology, seeks to promote interdisciplinary, comparative research on East Asia. Fellows are expected to spend a minimum of three weeks in East Asia, during which they will prepare and present an original paper. For more information and an application form visit www.eai.or.kr/eng/program/fellows.html. The deadline for applications for this year's Fellows Program is May 31, 2005.

The Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford University invites applications for its pre- and postdoctoral fellowships for the 2005-2006 academic year. The Center is particularly interested in scholars pursuing research in the areas of democracy, economic development, the development (or obstacles to the development) of the rule of law in countries in transition, or governance (including the issue of state sovereignty). Applications are invited from predoctoral students at the write-up stage and from postdoctoral scholars no more than five years beyond receipt of their Ph.D. or equivalent degrees. Applicants working at the intersection of two or more of the issue areas described above will receive preferential consideration. Applicants may come from any of the fields of political science, economics, law, sociology, or history. The Center expects to award between two and four fellowships each year. Appointments are for nine months of the academic year and come with a modest stipend and shared office space.

Applicants are required to submit a letter of application, three letters of recommendation, a statement of proposed research, and complete undergraduate and graduate transcripts by March 1, 2005. The Center Committee will only review complete files. Notifications will be sent in April. For more information about the Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law visit http://cddrl.stanford.edu. Please direct inquiries and application materials to:

Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Associate Director for Research
Stanford University Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law
Encina Hall, 616 Serra Street E103
Stanford, CA 94305-6055
Phone: (650) 736-1820
Fax: (650) 724-2996
email: ksweiss@stanford.edu


7. PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Papers: The Research Committee of Legislative Specialists of the International Political Science Association will host a conference on "The Internationalization of Parliaments: The Role of National Parliaments in the European Union" on April 7-9 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. While the primary focus of this meeting will be legislatures in European Union member countries, the conference organizers would also like to include papers examining the functions of modern parliaments in an era of globalization and the impact of international organizations such as the World Bank and ASEAN on parliaments. For more information or to express an interest in participation, please contact Professor Drago Zajc at drago.zajc@fdv.uni-lj.si.

Call for Papers: The next triennial World Congress of the International Political Science Association will be held in Fukuoka, Japan in July 2006, where the overall meeting theme will be "Is Democracy Working?" Dirk Berg-Schlosser of Phillips University (Marburg, Germany), who is organizing a set of eight panels on the subtheme, "Crisis and Capacity of Democracy: Comparative Perspectives," invites fellow section members who wish to participate to write him at bergschl@staff.uni-marburg.de.

Call for Papers: Fordham University and the China University of Political Science and Law will cosponsor an international conference entitled "Constitutionalism and Political Democratization in China" on May 19-22, 2005 in Beijing. The conference will assess the present state and future prospects of human rights, democracy, and constitutionalism in China. The cosponsors invite participation by scholars and practitioners in law, political science, and related disciplines. For more information, write to Thomas S. De Luca, Jr., director of the Sino-American Seminar on Politics and Law at Fordham University (tdeluca@fordham.edu). The deadline for paper proposals (of 750 words) is February 7, 2005.


8. RECENT CONFERENCES

The Northeastern Political Science Association held its 2004 annual meeting in Boston on November 11-13. Panel sessions included topics ranging from civil society in Asia to postcommunist societies. For more information, including the complete program, visit http://facpub.stjohns.edu/~layachia/NPSA/Conference%20Announcement%20NPSA%202004.htm.

The African Studies Association held its annual meeting on November 11-14, 2004 in New Orleans. The theme of this year's event was "The Power of Expression: Identity, Language, and Memory in Africa and the Diaspora." Among the many subthemes addressed at the conference were "The Power of Expression: Political Transitions, Civil Conflict, and Democracy" and "Languages of Movement: Grassroots Activism and Popular Mobilization." For more details visit www.africanstudies.org/asa_annualmeeting2004.html.

The Middle East Studies Association held its 2004 annual meeting in San Francisco on November 20-23. It included panel sessions on such topics as "Nationalism and Islam," "State Building and Institutional Change in the Middle East," and "Variety and Versatility in Islamic Law." For a complete program visit http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/MESA04/2004programadjusted.htm.

The Southern Political Science Association held its annual meeting in New Orleans on January 6-8, 2005. Panel topics covered all major subfields of political science, ranging from "Bureaucratic and Public Sector Politics" and "Comparative Politics of Developing Nations" to "Religion and Politics." For a detailed program visit www.spsa.net/conference05.htm.


9. FUTURE CONFERENCES

The International Studies Association will hold its 46th annual convention on March 1-5, 2005 in Honolulu, Hawaii. The theme of this year's event will be "Dynamics of World Politics: Capacity, Preferences, and Leadership." The meeting will include several panels of interest to democracy scholars, such as those on the role of education in democracy promotion, building democracy in postconflict settings, and democratic consolidation. For a detailed preliminary program, visit www.isanet.org/hawaii/. The Western Political Science Association will hold its annual conference on March 17-19, 2005 in Oakland, California. The meeting will include panels subdivided into more than 20 sections. Many panels that will be of particular interest to democratization scholars will be featured, including one on "Comparative Democratization Transitions." A preliminary program is available at www.csus.edu/ORG/WPSA/mtgs.stm. On March 31-April 3, 2005, the Association for Asian Studies will hold its annual meeting in Chicago. The meeting includes two special events dealing with the recent Tsunami disaster and related issues. Among many other topics, panels will be devoted to political economy and development in Asia and the relationship of politics and the media. A detailed preliminary program can be found at www.aasianst.org/annmtg.htm. The Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom will hold its 55th annual conference on April 4-7, 2005 at the University of Leeds (UK). The meeting will include sessions on democratic theory and on democracies and violence, plus panels on all the major subfields of political science. A detailed program including a list of all papers to be presented can be found at www.psa.ac.uk/2005/default.htm. The Midwest Political Science Association will hold its 2005 annual meeting on April 7-10 in Chicago. The Midwest meeting is typically the second regional political science meeting and is second only to the APSA meeting in number of attendees. A preliminary program will soon be available at www.mwpsa.org/content/default.aspx.


10. NEW RESEARCH

Democratization

The December 2004 (Volume 11, no. 5) issue of Democratization is a special issue on "Consolidated and Defective Democracy? Problems of Regime Change." For abstracts of articles listed below, please visit www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13510347.asp.

"Introduction: Democratization in the Early Twenty-First Century" by Aurel Croissant and Wolfgang Merkel

"What Is a 'Good' Democracy?" by Leonardo Morlino

"Embedded and Defective Democracies" by Wolfgang Merkel

"Liberalization, Transition and Consolidation: Measuring the Components of Democratization" by Carsten Q. Schneider and Philippe C. Schmitter

"International Actors and Democracy Promotion in Central and Eastern Europe: the Integration Model and Its Limits" by Antoaneta Dimitrova and Geoffrey Pridham

"Autocracy and Democracy in Belarus, Russia and Ukraine" by Timm Beichelt

"The Slovak Republic: Explaining Defects in Democracy" by Karen Henderson

"From Transition to Defective Democracy: Mapping Asian Democratization" by Aurel Croissant

"Faltering Democratic Consolidation in South Korea: Democracy at the End of the 'Three Kims' Era" by Hug Baeg Im

"Conclusion: Good and Defective Democracies" by Wolfgang Merkel and Aurel Croissant

Journal of Democracy
The January 2005 (Volume 16, no. 1) issue of the Journal of Democracy features clusters of articles on "Building Democracy After Conflict" and "The Referendum in Venezuela," as well as individual articles on Hong Kong and India. For selected online articles and the tables of contents of all Journal issues, visit www.journalofdemocracy.org.

Building Democracy After Conflict
I. "Introduction" by Marc F. Plattner
In the 15 years since the Journal of Democracy's inception, democracy has made extraordinary progress. But no challenge is greater than building democratic institutions in postconflict situations.

II. "Lessons from Iraq" by Larry Diamond
The U.S.-led reconstruction effort has so far failed to establish democratic institutions in Iraq. But as troubled as that effort has been, it provides valuable lessons for future nation-building endeavors.

III. "Bullets, Ballots, and Poppies in Afghanistan" by Larry Goodson
By mid-2003, Afghanistan appeared in danger of reverting to "failed-state" status. Happily, the resilience of the Afghans plus some challenges by the United States and its partners have put things on the right track, though daunting challenges remain.

IV. "The 'Helsinki Moment' in Southeastern Europe" by Gerald Knaus and Marcus Cox
Why has the European Union, which has been so successful in transforming its candidate countries, failed in its efforts to promote democracy and development in Bosnia and Kosovo?

V. "Constitutional Medicine" by Andrew Reynolds
The art or science of designing constitutions can benefit from the insights and methods that undergird the arts and sciences of medical diagnosis and therapy.

VI. "The Case of Shared Sovereignty" by Stephen D. Krasner
In the conditions of today's world, countries that are in a bad way as regards some aspects of their governance may benefit from agreeing to share portions of their sovereignty with external actors.

VII. "'Stateness' First" by Francis Fukuyama
World events-recent, current, and almost certainly to come-drive home the truth that before there can be a democratic state, there must first be a functioning state, period. Creating workable states where they have been destroyed or have barely existed yields to none among the challenges of our time.

"The IMF and Democratic Governance" by Devesh Kapur and Moisés Naím
Like many other world-governance bodies, the International Monetary Fund is a necessarily nondemocratic organization that cannot help but have an impact on democracy's prospects in poorer countries.

The 2004 Freedom House Survey
"Worrisome Signs, Modest Shifts" by Arch Puddington and Aili Piano
Modest progress in the Muslim-majority countries is complemented by mass mobilization for democracy and freedom in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Russia ranks as Not Free for the first time since the fall of communism.

The Referendum in Venezuela
I. "One Act in an Unfinished Drama" by Jennifer McCoy
Both the supporters and the foes of President Hugo Chávez went into the August 2004 recall hoping for a complete and final win. While Chávez kept his job and even rides high, Venezuela is still nowhere close to closure.

II. "Elections versus Democracy" by Miriam Kornblith
While charges of electronic fraud in the actual voting or vote-counting are unproven, the dubious and even illegal tactics that the Chávez regime used throughout the larger process point to rampant 'institutional fraud' that is undermining Venezuelan democracy.

"Hong Kong's Democrats Stumble" by Joseph Y.S. Cheng
The democratic forces had an uphill climb going into the September 2004 legislative elections, but they made unforced errors as well. What were these, and how can the democrats do better next time?

"Elections in India: Behind the Congress Comeback" by Steven I. Wilkinson
To everyone's surprise, the Congress party defeated the incumbent BJP in the April-May 2004 parliamentary elections. What caused this political turnaround, and what will be its effects?


SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES ON DEMOCRACY
This section features selected articles on democracy that appeared in journals received by the NED's Democracy Resource Center, October-December 2004.

Asian Survey, Vol. XLIV, no. 5, September/October 2004
"Political Islam in Indonesia: Present and Future Trajectory" by Anies Rasyid Baswedan

"The 2003 District Council Elections in Hong Kong" by Joseph Y.S. Cheng

"Politics and Judiciary Verdicts on Vote-Buying Litigation in Taiwan" by Chung-Li Wu and Chi Huang

China Review, Vol. 4, no. 2, Fall 2004
"Great Disorder under Heaven: Endemic Corruption and Rapid Growth in Contemporary China" by Andrew Wedeman

"Dependent Judiciary and Unaccountable Judges: Judicial Corruption in Contemporary China" by Ting Gong

"An Empirical Study of Corruption within China's State-owned Enterprises" by Wenhao Cheng

"Lessons for Mainland China from Anti-Corruption Reform in Hong Kong" by Melanie Manion

"Regime and Curbing Corruption" by Shang Ying

Communist Studies and Transition Politics, Vol. 20, no. 4, December 2004
"How They Leave: A Comparison of How the First Presidents of the Soviet Successor States Left Office" by David C. Brooker

"The Formerly Dominant Marxist-Leninist Parties in the Developing World after the Collapse of Communism" by John T. Ishiyama

Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 37, no. 10, December 2004
"Democratization and the Left: Comparing East Asia and Latin America" by Joseph Wong

Comparative Politics, Vol. 37, no. 1, October 2004
"Risky Business: Decentralization from Above in Chile and Uruguay" by Kent Eaton

"Judicial Policy Implementation in Mexico City and Mérida" by Jeffrey K. Staton

"New Uncertainties for an Old Pseudo-Democracy: The Case of Malaysia" by William Case

Connections, Vol. III, no. 3, September 2004
"Defense Reform of the Albanian Armed Forces: Democratization and Transformation" by Enika Abazi

"Islamists in Democratic Elections: Threat or Solution?" by Anne Marie Baylouny

Current History, Vol. 103, no. 676, November 2004
"The Unbearable Lightness of Democracy: Poland and Romania after Communism" by Alina Mungiu-Pippidi

Current History, Vol. 103, no. 677, December 2004
"Democracy's Sobering State" by Thomas Carothers

Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 12, no. 4, Fall 2004
"Back to the Future: An Overview of Moldova under Voronin" by Paul D. Quinlan

"Socialism with Unclear Characteristics: The Moldovan Communists in Government" by Luke March

"Federalization and Constitution-Making as an Instrument of Conflict Resolution" by Steven D. Roper

"The Tyranny of Small Differences: The Relationship between Ethnic Diversity and Democracy in the Former Socialist Bloc" by Scott Radnitz

"The Internet and Democratization: The Development of Russian Internet Policy" by Marcus Alexander

East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 18, no. 4, Fall 2004
"EU Accession of Central and Eastern European Countries: Democracy and Integration as Conflicting Logics" by Kristi Raik

Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 56, no. 7, November 2004
"Yabloko and the Challenge of Building a Liberal Party in Russia" by Henry E. Hale

"The Unrule of Law in the Making: the Politics of Informal Institution Building in Russia" by Vladimir Gel'man

Foreign Policy, Vol. 83, no. 6, November/December 2004
"Middle East Democracy" by Marina Ottaway and Thomas Carothers

Human Rights Review, Vol. 5, no. 2, January-March 2004
"Human Rights in Africa: From Communitarian Values to Utilitarian Practice" by Sirkku K. Hellsten

Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 26, no. 4, November 2004
"The Political Repression of Women" by Conway W. Henderson

Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 42, no. 4, December 2004
"The Hand that Stirs the Pot Can Also Run the Country: Electing Women to Parliament in Namibia" by Gretchen Bauer

Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. XXVIII, no. 1, Fall 2004
"Reform Initiatives for Iraq and the Middle East: The Search for What Works" by Robert Looney

Latin American Politics and Societies, Vol. 46, no. 4, Winter 2004
"Horizontal Accountability in Transitional Democracies: The Human Rights Ombudsman in El Salvador and Guatemala" by Michael Dodson and Donald Jackson

Middle East Policy, Vol. XI, no. 4, Winter 2004
"Democratization in Gulf Monarchies: A New Challenge to the GCC" by Joseph A. Kéchichian

National Interest, No. 78, Winter 2004/2005
"Downloading Democracy" by Robert Conquest

"Close, but No Democracy" by Ray Takeyh

Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 119, no. 3, Fall 2004
"Managed Participation in China" by Yongshun Cai

Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 119, no. 4, Winter 2004-05
"Rebuilding Bosnia: A Model to Emulate or to Avoid?" by Patrice C. McMahon

"The Iraqi Intervention and Democracy in Comparative Historical Perspective" by Eva Bellin

SAIS Review of International Affairs, Vol. XXIV, no. 2, Summer/Fall 2004
"Iran: The Gridlock Between Demography and Democracy" by Sanam Vakil

"The Bible and the Ballot Box: Evangelicals and Democracy in the 'Global South' by Timothy Samuel Shah

Washington Quarterly, Vol. 28, no. 1, Winter 2004-2005
"How to Construct Stable Democracies" by Jack A. Goldstone and Jay Ulfelder

"Strengthening Governance: Ranking Countries Would Help" by Robert I. Rotberg

"Democracy Promotion as a World Value" by Michael McFaul


SELECTED NEW BOOKS ON DEMOCRACY

ADVANCED DEMOCRACIES

Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society. By Robert Higgs. Independent Institute, 2004. 424 pp.

The Big Vote: Gender, Consumer Culture, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s- 1920s. By Liette Gidlow. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 260 pp.

Citizenship and Democratic Doubt: The Legacy of Progressive Thought. By Bob Pepperman Taylor. University of Kansas Press, 2004. 196 pp.

Claiming the Mantle: How Presidential Nominations Are Won and Lost Before the Votes Are Cast. By R. Lawrence Butler. Westview, 2004. 195 pp.

Congress: The Electoral Connection. 2nd ed. By David R. Mayhew. Yale University Press, 2004. 194 pp.

The Congressional Experience. 3rd ed. By David E. Price. Westview, 2004. 336 pp.

The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed. By Ivan Eland. Independent Institute, 2004. 294 pp.

For the Many or the Few: The Initiative, Public Policy, and American Democracy. By John G. Matsusaka. University of Chicago Press, 2004. 206 pp.

Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: The Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Its Legacy. By Kenneth T. Andrews. University of Chicago Press, 2004. 265 pp.

Philosophy of the United States: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness. By Gordon L. Anderson. Paragon House, 2004. 320 pp.

The Policy Partnership: Presidential Elections and American Democracy. By Bruce Buchanan. Routledge, 2004. 140 pp.

Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn about Politics. By Vincent L. Hutchings. Princeton University Press, 2003. 171 pp.

Steps Toward Making Every Vote Count: Electoral System Reform in Canada and Its Provinces. Edited by Henry Milner. Broadview, 2004. 319 pp.

That Eminent Tribunal: Judicial Supremacy and the Constitution. Edited by Christopher Wolfe. Princeton University Press, 2004. 256 pp.

What's Wrong with America? How the Rich and Powerful Have Changed America and Now Want to Change the World. By Jonathan Neale. Vision Paperbacks, 2004. 282 pp.


AFRICA

Crafting the New Nigeria: Confronting the Challenges. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Lynne Rienner, 2004. 273 pp.

The Heart and Soul of the Party: Candidate Selection in Ghana and Africa. By Magnus Öhman. Uppsala University Press, 2004. 313 pp.

Traditional Leadership and Democratisation in Southern Africa: A Comparative Study of Botswana, Namibia, and South Africa. By Sandra Dusing. Transaction, 2002. 408 pp.


ASIA

Nobility and Civility: Asian Ideals of Leadership and the Common Good. By Wm. Theodore de Bary. Harvard University Press, 2004. 272 pp.

Transforming Korean Politics: Democracy, Reform, and Culture. By Young Whan Kihl. M.E. Sharpe, 2004. 404 pp.

Transparency and Authoritarian Rule in Southeast Asia: Singapore and Malaysia. By Garry Rodan. Routledge Curzon, 2004. 261 pp.

Will China Become Democratic? Elite, Class, and Regime Transition. By Zheng Yongnian. Eastern Universities Press, 2004. 372 pp.


EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION

Between Dictatorship and Democracy: Russian Post-Communist Political Reform. By Michael McFaul, Nikolai Petrov, and Andrei Ryabov. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2004. 364 pp.

Nations in Transit 2004: Democratization in East Central Europe and Eurasia. New Edition. Edited by Alexander Motyl and Amanda Schnetzer. Freedom House, 2004. 666 pp.


LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Authoritarianism and Corporatism in Latin America-Revisited. Edited by Howard J. Wiarda. University Press of Florida, 2004. 351 pp.

Courting Democracy in Mexico: Party Strategies and Electoral Institutions. By Todd A. Eisenstadt. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 354 pp.

Mexico's Democracy at Work: Political and Economic Dynamics. Edited by Russell Crandall, Guadalupe Paz, and Riordan Roett. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 232 pp.

Mexico's New Politics: The PAN and Democratic Change. By David A. Shirk. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 279 pp.

Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America. By Kathryn Sikkink. Century Foundation, 2004. 259 pp.

Politics Beyond the Capital: The Design of Subnational Institutions in South America. By Kent Eaton. Stanford University Press, 2004. 267 pp.


MIDDLE EAST

The Battle of Ideas in the War on Terror: Essays on U.S. Public Diplomacy in the Middle East. By Robert Satloff. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2004. 106 pp.

Iraq from Monarchy to Tyranny: From Hashemites to the Rise of Saddam. By Michael Eppel. University Press of Florida, 2004. 328 pp.

Operation Iraqi Freedom and the New Iraq: Insights and Forecasts. Edited by Michael Knights. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2004. 375 pp.


COMPARATIVE, THEORETICAL, GENERAL

Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy. By Eric C. Bjornlund. Woodrow Wilson Center/Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004. 383 pp.

Creating Citizens: Political Education and Liberal Democracy. By Eamonn Callan. Oxford University Press, 1997. 272 pp.

Democracy and Tradition. By Jeffrey Stout. Princeton University Press, 2004. 348 pp.

Democracy by Decree: What Happens When Courts Run Government. By Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod. Yale University Press, 2004. 288 pp.

Democracy Defended. By Gerry Mackie. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 483 pp.

The Democratic Constitution. By Neal Devins and Louis Fisher. Oxford University Press, 2004. 303 pp.

Democratization Through the Looking Glass: Perspectives on Democratization. Edited by Peter Burnell. Manchester University Press, 2004. 283 pp.

Freedom of the Press 2004: A Global Survey of Media Independence. Edited by Karin Deutsch Karlekar. Freedom House, 2004. 197 pp.

Globalizing Democracy and Human Rights. By Carol C. Gould. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 276 pp.

Human Rights and Narrated Lives: The Ethics of Recognition. By Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 303 pp.

The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era. By Ralph Ketcham. University Press of Kansas, 2004. 302 pp.

In Praise of Empires: Globalization and Order. By Deepak Lal. Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. 248 pp.

Islam, Gender, Culture, and Democracy: Findings from the World Values Survey and the European Values Survey. Edited by Ronald Inglehart. De Sitter, 2003. 213 pp.

Justice and Democracy. Edited by Keith Dowding, Robert E. Goodin, and Carole Pateman. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 228 pp.

The Leadership Dilemma in Modern Democracy: New Horizons in Leadership Studies. By Kenneth P. Ruscio. Edward Elgar, 2004. 136 pp.
Postconflict Development: Meeting New Challenges. Edited by Gerd Junne and Willemijn Verkoren. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 371 pp.

The Quality of Democracy: Theory and Applications. Edited by Guillermo O'Donnell, Jorge Vargas Cullell, and Osvaldo M. Iazzetta. University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. 274 pp.

Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace. By Charles Lipson. Princeton University Press, 2003. 259 pp.

Rules for the World: International Organizations in Global Politics. By Michael Barnett and Martha Finnemore. Cornell University Press, 2004. 226 pp.

Shifting Obsessions: Three Essays on the Politics of Anticorruption. By Ivan Krastev. Central European University Press, 2004. 118 pp.

State-Directed Development: Political Power and Industrialization in the Global Periphery. By Atul Kohli. Cambridge University Press, 2004. 466 pp.

Strategic Survey 2003/4: An Evaluation and Forecast of World Affairs. By the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Oxford University Press, 2004. 386 pp.