Comparative Democratization
Section 35 of the American Political Science Association
Newsletter
Volume 4, Number 1, February 2006
Table of Contents
1. Current Section Officers
2. Report from the Chair
3. Editor's Note
4. Section Awards
5. News From Members
6. Professional Announcements
7. Recent Conferences
8. Future Conferences
9. New Research
1. CURRENT SECTION OFFICERS
Chair (2006-2008)
Jonathan Hartlyn
Professor of Political Science
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
e-mail: hartlyn@unc.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 (2006-2008)
Michael Coppedge
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Notre Dame
e-mail: Coppedge.1@nd.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
At this time, I particularly want to draw your attention to the five awards our Section will present this fall at the APSA meeting in Philadelphia: Best Book, Best Article, Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation, Best Convention Paper, and Best Field Work. Your nominations (and where appropriate, self-nominations) are strongly encouraged. The deadline for the awards is March 15, 2006, except for the Best Field Work award, for which the deadline is May 2, 2006. For full details on each award and the list of committee members, see Section Awards, below. Questions about specific awards should be directed to the respective committee chair. I am very grateful to the members who have agreed to serve on these award committees, as well as to all members who are graciously contributing their time and wisdom to the Section in multiple ways.
It is also time to consider nominations for a new vice-chair and a new secretary for our Section for the 2006-2008 term. Michael Coppedge has agreed to chair our nominations committee, and he welcomes suggestions and volunteers; you can reach him at coppedge.1@nd.edu.
Program Chair Mark Jones (Rice University) 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, including a special roundtable discussing the impact and legacy of Juan Linz’s research. Highlights of our Section’s APSA program will be featured in our May newsletter.
As always, Tom has compiled an extraordinary wealth of information about members’ achievements, recent research and bibliographical references, and information about conferences and new programs.
Don’t forget that our Section has a collection of comparative democratization syllabi on our Web site (www.ned.org/apsa-cd/Syllabi.html), and that we are eagerly looking for new contributions. We believe this collection is a valuable service to our members. 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).
Jonathan Hartlyn
3. EDITOR'S NOTE
The APSA annual meeting may seem a long way off, but the deadlines for nominating a colleague, student, or even yourself for one of the awards our section will present at the Philadelphia meeting are fast approaching. See below for details, then send your nominations to the relevant awards committees.
I also encourage members to review the notices below about the creation of new M.A. degree programs in democracy studies, one at Georgetown, the other at University College London, and to pass this information on to any of your students considering graduate study in democracy. (The latter program is directed by Sherrill Stroschein, a member of our section.)
As always, this newsletter includes a robust section of News from Members, followed by a lengthy bibliography of important new books and articles.
Sam Abrams and Fiona McCarthy, spring semester interns at the International Forum, helped draft text, check publication details, compile the listing of new books and articles, and proofread this issue of the newsletter. It gives me great pleasure to thank them here.
Tom Skladony
4. SECTION AWARDS
The Comparative Democratization Section will present five awards for scholarly work at the 2006 APSA annual meeting in Philadelphia: the Linz Prize for Best Dissertation, and Best Book, Best Article, Best Field Work, and Best Paper prizes. Members are strongly encouraged to submit nominations (including self-nominations, for certain awards) to the appropriate committees listed below. Please also forward this information to colleagues and graduate students. We ask you to note the eligibility criteria, deadlines for submissions, and materials that must accompany nominations. Please direct any queries to the committee chairs.
The best book award is given for the best book in the field of comparative democratization published in 2005 (authored, coauthored, or edited). Copies of the nominated book should be sent to each committee member in time to arrive by March 15, 2006. For inquiries concerning this award, contact Award Committee Chair Andreas Schedler.
Deadline: March 15, 2006
Award Committee:
Professor Andreas Schedler (Chair)
Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE)
Division de Estudios Politicos
Carretera Mexico-Toluca 3655
Col. Lomas de Santa Fe
CP 01210 Mexico, DF Mexico
andreas.schedler@cide.edu
Professor Anna Grzymala-Busse
Department of Political Science
University of Michigan
5700 Haven Hall, 505 South State Street
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109-1045
abusse@umich.edu
Professor Doh C. Shin
Departament of Political Science
University of Missouri at Columbia
113 Professional Building
Columbia, MO 65211
ShinD@missouri.edu
Best article award: Single-authored or coauthored articles published in 2005 are eligible. Nominations and self-nominations are encouraged and should be sent (preferably with a copy of the article) to the committee members via e-mail or regular mail.
Deadline: March 15, 2006
Professor Lisa Baldez (chair)
Department of Government
Dartmouth University
211 Silsby Hall
Hanover, NH 03755
lisa.baldez@Dartmouth.edu
Professor Michele Penner Angrist
Department of Political Science
Union College
Schenectady, New York 12308
angristm@union.edu
Professor Laurence Whitehead
Oxford University
Nuffield College
New Road
Oxford, OX1 1NF
United Kingdom
laurence.whitehead@nuffield.oxford.ac.uk
Best field research award: 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, 2006
Leslie Anderson (Chair)
Department of Political Science
University of Florida
P.O. Box 117325
Gainesville, FL 32611-7325
landerso@polisci.ufl.edu
Lucan Way
Temple University
1109 Stanfield Street
South Bend IN 46617
lway@temple.edu
Milada Vachudova
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB#3265 Hamilton Hall
Chapel Hill NC 27599-3265
vachudov@email.unc.edu
Juan Linz Prize for Best Dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy is given for the best dissertation in the Comparative Study of Democracy completed and accepted in the past two calendar years prior to the APSA Annual Meeting where the award will be presented (2004 or 2005 for the 2006 Annual Meeting). The comparative study of democracy includes analyses of individual country cases as long as they are clearly cast in a comparative perspective. A hard copy of the dissertation, accompanied by a letter of support from the dissertation chair or a member of the dissertation committee, should be sent to each member of the selection committee. For inquiries concerning this award, contact Award Committee Chair Nancy Bermeo.
Deadline: March 15, 2006
Award Committee:
Nancy Bermeo (chair)
Princeton University
144 Constitution Drive
Princeton, NJ 08540
bermeo@princeton.edu
Fabrice Lehoucq
Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas (CIDE)
Division de Estudios Politicos
Carretera Mexico-Toluca 3655
Col. Lomas de Santa Fe
CP 01210 Mexico, DF Mexico
Fabrice.Lehoucq@cide.edu
Marc Morjé Howard
Georgetown University
ICC 681
Washington, DC 20057-1034
mmh@georgetown.edu
Best paper at previous APSA Convention is given to the best paper presented on a panel organized or co-organized by the Comparative Democratization Section at the previous year’s APSA annual meeting.
Deadline: March 15, 2006
Kirk Bowman (chair)
Georgia Institute of Technology
kirk.bowman@inta.gatech.edu
Gabriella Montinola
University of California, Davis
grmontinola@ucdavis.edu
Arang Keshavarzian
Concordia University
arang.keshavarzian@concordia.ca
5. NEWS FROM MEMBERS
Leslie Elliott Armijo, cochair of the Organized Section on Economics and Politics, Latin American Studies Association, published “Mass Democracy: The Real Reason that Brazil Ended Inflation?” in the December 2005 World Development. Her research showed that the growth of political participation in Brazil in the mid-1980s, which gave the poor a political voice for the first time, may also have helped improve national economic management and end hyperinflation in that country.
After thirty-four years of teaching, Archie Brown became emeritus professor of politics at Oxford University and emeritus fellow of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford, on October 1, 2005. Mr. Brown nonetheless continues to conduct research and to supervise doctoral students. His latest publication is “The Past, Present, and Future of Post-Communist Political Culture Studies,” the concluding chapter in Political Culture and Post-Communism (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), a collection of essays edited by Stephen Whitefield.
Daniel Brumberg, associate professor of government, Georgetown University, published “Islam Is Not the Solution (or the Problem) in the winter 2005 Washington Quarterly. His article challenged the assumption that Islam provides the foundation of political identity in the Arab world and explored possible ways to engage Islamists in a democratic dialogue. Mr. Brumberg is also serving as a special adviser to the Muslim World Initiative at the United States Institute of Peace.
Javier Corrales, associate professor of political science, Amherst College, published “Hugo Boss,” a study of the development in Venezuela of what he called “competitive authoritarianism” during the presidency of Hugo Chavez. The article appeared in the January/February 2006 Foreign Policy. Mr. Corrales also published “In Search of a Theory of Polarization: Lessons from Venezuela, 1999–2005” in the October 2005 European Review of Latin American Studies. The study reviewed theoretical arguments offered to explain the rise of Chavez and explored the origins of polarization in politics.
Thomas S. De Luca, Jr., associate professor of political science and director of the International-Intercultural Studies Program at Fordham University, and John Buell published Liars! Cheaters! Evildoers! Demonization and the End of Civil Debate in American Politics (New York University Press, 2005). The book is a study of the decline of civility in public discourse in recent decades, and a reflection on its impact on American democracy.
From February to June 2006, Mr. De Luca will be the Thomas Jefferson Chair in American Social Studies at the University of Amsterdam, where he will lecture and work on a project entitled “What Drives American Political Decisions?”
John P. Entelis, professor of political science and director of the Middle East Studies Program, Fordham University, published “The Democratic Imperative vs. the Authoritarian Impulse: The Maghrib State between Transition and Terrorism” in the summer 2005 Middle East Journal. His article reviewed the survival strategies of authoritarian regimes in Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia and suggested ways to improve American efforts to promote democratic reform in the region.
Mr. Entelis’s review of François Burgat’s Face to Face with Political Islam appeared in the August 2005 International Journal of Middle East Studies.
Bonnie N. Field, assistant professor of international studies, Bentley College, published “De-Thawing Democracy: The Decline of Political Party Collaboration in Spain (1977 to 2004)” in the November 2005 Comparative Political Studies, in which she used the Spanish Congress of Deputies as a case study of whether pacted transitions depress the level of competition or contestations across political parties in new democracies.
Henry Hale, assistant professor of political science and international affairs, George Washington University, published Why Not Parties in Russia? Democracy, Federalism, and the State (Cambridge University Press, 2005). The book examined why powerful independent politicians and economic groups have crowded traditional political parties out of the electoral market in postcommunist Russia.
Baba Galleh Jallow, Ph.D. candidate in African Studies, Howard University, published The Anatomy of Powercracy and Other Essays (Wasteland Press 2005), a collection of writings on African politics, classical and modern political theory, and civil-rights issues in the United States.
Sharon Jumper, Ph.D. candidate in public policy and administration, Walden University, will travel to Afghanistan in March 2006 as part of a delegation organized by Global Exchange to study democratization and women’s right since the fall of the Taliban.
Staffan Lindberg, assistant professor of political science, Kent State University, published “The Surprising Significance of African Elections” in the January 2006 Journal of Democracy, in which he argued that holding regular multiparty elections, even if these are not fully free and fair, leads to increases in human freedom and to the spread of democracy.
Mr. Lindberg also published “Better Turn the Other Cheek: The Effects of Opposition Behavior on Democratization” in the January 2006 Journal of Contemporary African Politics. He and Minion K.C. Morrison contributed “Exploring Voter Alignments in Africa: Core and Swing Voters in Ghana” to the December 2005 Journal of Modern African Studies.
James Mahoney, associate professor of political science and sociology, Northwestern University; along with Kirk Bowman and Fabrice Lehoucq, published “Measuring Political Democracy: Case Expertise, Data Adequacy, and Central America” in the October 2005 Comparative Political Studies. Noting the error that derives from the use of inaccurate, partial, or misleading data to measure democracies, the authors called for the development of an index whose construction relies on case expertise and on a wide range of sources, and employed that approach to develop an index of democracy for five Central American countries during the twentieth century.
Carrie Manning, associate professor of political science, Georgia State University, published “Assessing African Party Systems after the Third Wave” in the November 2005 Party Politics. Her study explored the political party systems that emerged in Africa after 1990, which she found to differ significantly from the party systems in advanced industrial democracies.
Heather Marquette, lecturer in governance, University of Birmingham, is participating in a multinational consortium supported by the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development that will study the relationships between values, beliefs, societies, states, and development. The consortium, which will conduct research over the next five years, includes partners from Nigeria, Tanzania, India, and Pakistan.
Shaheen Mozaffar, professor of political science, Bridgewater State College, traveled to Baghdad to assess electoral preparations and the polling process, and then to observe the December 2005 elections to the Iraqi Council of Representatives as part of the International Mission on Iraqi Elections (IMIE). Mr. Mozaffar previously served in Iraq as an IMIE assessor for the January 2005 elections and for the October 2005 constitutional referendum.
Stephen Poulson, assistant professor of sociology, James Madison University, published Social Movements in Twentieth-Century Iran: Culture, Ideology, and Mobilizing Frameworks (Lexington Books, 2005), a study of cycles of social protest from 1890 to the present that have shaped contemporary Iran.
Harald M. Sandström, associate professor of politics and government, University of Hartford, received the Roy E. Larsen Award for Excellence in Teaching in May 2005. In June he presented two papers at the International Conference on Human Development at Covenant University in Nigeria: “The Place of Human Development in Development Theory” and “The Political Psychology of Postcolonial Development: A Neglected Area of Inquiry.”
Kim Lane Scheppele, director of the program in law and public affairs and Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Public Affairs, Princeton University, contributed a chapter entitled “Democracy by Judiciary (Or Why Courts Can Sometimes Be More Democratic than Parliaments)” to Rethinking the Rule of Law in Post-Communist Europe: Past Legacies, Institutional Innovations, and Constitutional Discourses (Central European University Press, 2005), an essay collection edited by Wojciech Sadurski, Martin Krygier, and Adam Czarnota.
Ms. Scheppele’s article “‘We Forgot about the Ditches:’ Russian Constitutional Impatience and the Challenge of Terrorism” appeared in the summer 2005 Drake Law Review.
John Schiemann, assistant professor of administrative science, Fairleigh Dickinson University, published The Politics of Pact-Making: Hungary’s Negotiated Transition to Democracy in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), a study that compared Hungary’s democratic transition with those that took place in Poland, South Africa, and China to explain how and where risk-taking promotes democratization in times of transition.
Richard L. Sklar, professor emeritus of political science, University of California at Los Angeles, published “The Open Door to Peace in Africa” in the fall 2005 International Journal of African Studies. The article focused on ways in which commerce, investment, and the sharing of ideas can reduce the incidence of armed conflict among African countries.
Lahra Smith, adjunct assistant professor of political science, Hamline University; and Edmond J. Keller have published “Obstacles to Implementing Territorial Decentralization: The First Decade of Ethiopian Federalism” in Sustainable Peace: Power and Democracy after Civil Wars (Cornell University Press, 2005), edited by Philip G. Roeder and Donald Rothchild.
Strom C. Thacker, professor of international relations, Boston University; John Gerring, and Carola Morena contributed “Centripetal Democratic Governance: A Theory and Global Inquiry” to the November 2005 American Political Science Review. In it the authors developed a new theory of governance called centripetalism, which holds that democratic institutions work best when they are able to reconcile the twin goals of centralized authority and broad inclusion.
6. PROFESSIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS
Call for Nominations
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers proudly announces the tenth year of the Rowman & Littlefield Award for Innovative Teaching in Political Science. The award, which carries a $500 cash stipend, will be presented at the 2006 Honors Reception at the American Political Science Association Annual Meeting in Philadelphia.
The Innovative Teaching Award recognizes political scientists who have developed effective new approaches to teaching in the discipline. The award seeks to honor a wide range of new directions in teaching, not a particular new direction.
Nominations for the tenth annual award, together with supporting documentation (including five copies), should be sent to L. Sandy Maisel, Department of Government, Colby College, Waterville, ME 04901. The nomination deadline is April 10, 2006. For more information on this award, see www.apsanet.org/section_452.cfm.
APSA’s Teaching and Learning Committee Seeking Guidance
APSA’s Teaching and Learning Committee would like your help in mapping diverse programs, practices, and policies relating to teaching and learning in political science. To learn more go to www.apsanet.org/imgtest/Teaching%20and%20Learning%20Committee%20Letter.pdf.
Call for Submissions
The editor of Polity, the journal of the Northeastern Political Science Association, invites submissions on topics that engage questions of interest to scholars across an entire field within political science, to the discipline as a whole, and to related disciplines. Contact Andrew J. Polsky (polity@gc.cuny.edu) for more information.
Call for Papers
The University of the West Indies in Trinidad and Tobago will host an international conference on Governance, Institutions, and Networks on October 18–20, 2006. Conference organizers call for papers on the themes of re-engineering government, the crisis of governance in small states, development in an interconnected world, peace and security, and e-democracy. Please send abstracts (of no more than 150 words) to Michelline Gowandan (mgowandan@fss.uwi.tt), Rosa Seepersad (rseepersad@fss.uwi.tt), or Michylle Arthur (marthur@fss.uwi.tt) by March 17, 2006. For additional information visit www.apsanet.org/content_25065.cfm.
Call for Submissions
The editors of Development and Transition, a quarterly journal published jointly by the London School of Economics and the United Nations Development Programme, seek abstract submissions on poverty and inequality in the postcommunist world for a future issue. Submissions should not exceed 800 words and may be submitted electronically to developmentandtransition@lse.ac.uk. The deadline is May 1, 2006. Visit www.lse.ac.uk/collections/developmentAndTransition/ifc.htm for more information.
New Master’s Degree Program in Democracy Studies
The Center for Democracy and the Third Sector and Georgetown University’s Department of Government announced the creation of a new master’s degree program in democracy studies that will begin in fall 2006. The program will address the diverse needs of a growing population working in the field of democracy promotion, with a specific focus on issues of democracy and development, and on improving the quality of democratic life around the world. For additional information visit www.georgetown.edu/centers/cdats/maprogramaims.htm.
New Master’s Degree Program in Democracy and Democratization
The Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy at University College London have launched 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/ for more information.
7. RECENT CONFERENCES
The Southern Political Science Association held its 77th annual conference on January 5–7, 2006, in Atlanta, Georgia. Visit www.spsa.net/conference06.htm for more information.
8. FUTURE CONFERENCES
The Western Political Science Association will hold its annual meeting on March 16–18, 2006, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where the theme will be “Democracy and Diversity.” A preliminary program is available at www.csus.edu/org/wpsa/mtgs.stm.
The International Studies Association will hold its 47th annual conference on March 22–25, 2006, in San Diego, California, where the topic will be “The North-South Divide and International Studies.” Scheduled panel sessions include “The 2006 Mexican Elections,” “Iraq: The Uneven Road to Democracy,” and “Peaceful Regime Change: The European Union’s Democratization Strategy in Eastern Europe and Beyond.” A preliminary program is available at www.isanet.org/sandiego/program.html.
The Political Studies Association of the United Kingdom will hold its 56th annual conference at the University of Reading on April 3–6, 2006, where the theme will be “Liberty, Security, and the Challenge of Government.” A preliminary program is available at www.psa.ac.uk/2006/.
The Association for Asian Studies will hold its annual meeting on April 6–9, 2006 in San Francisco, California. A full list of scheduled panels is available at www.aasianst.org/annmtg.htm.
The Southwestern Political Science Association will hold its 86th annual conference on April 11–15, 2006 in San Antonio, Texas. Panel topics include “Dynamics of Democratic Consolidation in Comparative Perspective,” “Who Cares? Democracy, Care Ethics, and Public Policy,” and “Governance and the Challenge of Democracy.” A preliminary program is available at www.swpsa.org/.
The Midwest Political Studies Association will hold its annual conference on April 20–23, 2006 in Chicago. More information, including instructions for submitting a paper or panel proposal is available at www.indiana.edu/~mpsa/.
9. NEW RESEARCH
Democratization
The December 2005 (Volume 12, no. 5) issue of Democratization is a special issue devoted to the state of democracy and includes articles on political parties, globalization, and economic conditions. For abstracts of articles listed below, visit www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13510347.asp.
“On the State of Democracy: Introduction” by Julio Faundez
“Populism, Politics, and Democracy” by Bernard Crick
“Political Parties and Democracy: The Ambiguous Crisis” by Paul Webb
“Truth, Honesty, and Spin” by Aidan White
“Globalizations and Democracy” by Donatella Della Porta
“Democracy and Development: Is There Institutional Incompatibility?” by Adrian Leftwich
“Markets, States, and Democracy: Patron–Client Networks and the Case for Democracy in Developing Countries” by Mushtaq H. Khan
“Social Rights, Courts, and Constitutional Democracy: Poverty and Welfare Rights in the United States” by William E. Forbath
“Democratization through Law: Perspectives from Latin America” by Julio Faundez
“Political Security and Democratic Rights” by John F. McEldowney
“Democratizing Democracy: Feminist Perspectives” by Andrea Cornwall and Anne Marie Goetz
“Democratic Thought and Practice in Rural China” by Susanne Brandtstädter and Gunter Schubert
“Building Inclusive Democracies: Indigenous Peoples and Ethnic Minorities in Latin America” by Donna Lee Van Cott
The February 2006 (Volume 13, no. 1) issue of Democratization featured articles on corruption, women’s issues, civil society, as well as case studies of India, Central Europe, the Baltics, Russia, Algeria, Nigeria, and Libya. For abstracts of articles listed below, visit www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/13510347.asp.
“The Dynamics of Political Corruption: Re-Examining the Influence of Democracy” by Charles H. Blake and Christopher G. Martin
“Engendering Local Democracy: The Impact of Quotas for Women in India’s Panchayats” by Niraja Gopal Jayal
“Why Hungary and Poland Differed in 1989: The Role of Medium-Term Frames in Explaining the Outcomes of Democratic Transition” by Alan Renwick
“A New Turn to Authoritarian Rule in Russia?” by Graeme Gill
“Meteoric Trajectory: The Res Publica Party in Estonia” by Rein Taagepera
“Searching for the Origins of Civic Community in Central Europe: Evidence from Eastern and Western Germany” by Louise K. Davidson-Schmich
“The German Left and Democracy: A Difficult Relationship” by Heidrun Abromeit and Tobias Auberger
“The Limits to Democracy Posed by Oil Rentier States: The Cases of Algeria, Nigeria, and Libya” by Camilla Sandbakken
Journal of Democracy
The January 2006 (Volume 17, no. 1) issue of the Journal of Democracy featured clusters of articles on Arab democracy and Burundi’s transition, as well as individual articles on legislatures, postcommunist Central Banks, Bulgaria, African elections, and public integrity. For selected online articles and the tables of contents of all Journal issues, visit www.journalofdemocracy.org
“Stronger Legislatures, Stronger Democracies” by M. Steven Fish
Evidence from the postcommunist countries shows that the strength of the legislature may be the institutional key to democratic consolidation.
Getting to Arab Democracy?
I. “Lebanon Springs Forward” by Oussama Safa
Taking advantage of the withdrawal of Syrian troops, Lebanese voters capped the “Beirut Spring” by electing a new majority in parliament.
II. “What Do Iraqis Want?” by Mark Tessler, Mansoor Moaddel, and Ronald Inglehart
There is a widespread desire for democracy among the Iraqi public, but when it comes to the roles of religion, ethnicity, and gender equality in Iraq’s new democracy, attitudes are more varied.
III. “Dealing with Communalism” by Barry Rubin
Whether ethnic, sectarian, or some combination of the two, communalism is one of the massive realities of Middle Eastern life and politics. It is usually seen as an obstacle to democracy, but need that always be the case?
IV. “The Promise of Pacts” by Steven A. Cook
Strategies based on transition pacts that reduce rulers’ risks and cushion their retreat from total power may be the most promising route to democracy in the Arab world.
“Ballots, Bribes, and State Building in Bulgaria” by Venelin I. Ganev
The successful completion of yet another general election in June 2005 should dispel any residual doubts about Bulgarian democracy. But the election results made clear that the country now faces a new set of challenges.
“Postcommunist Central Banks: A Democratic Deficit?” by Juliet Johnson
Independent central banks throughout the former Soviet Union suffer from a dual democratic deficit. How can they gain greater democratic legitimacy without compromising their countries’ economic health?
“Russia: Authoritarianism Without Authority” by Kathryn Stoner-Weiss
Vladimir Putin has pulled the plug on democracy in Russia in an effort to strengthen the authority of the central state. But a look at Russian federal relations shows that the state is growing weaker rather than stronger.
The 2005 Freedom House Survey
“Progress in the Middle East” by Aili Piano and Arch Puddington
The gains for freedom in the Middle East were the most significant seen since the Freedom House survey began in 1972.
Burundi’s Transition
I. “A Beacon for Central Africa” by Dave Peterson
After a long and bloody civil conflict, Burundi has established a new democratic regime. Does its tenuous but hopeful example hold lessons that might help its troubled neighbors?
II. “Training Leaders for Peace” by Howard Wolpe and Steve McDonald
Burundi’s leaders are learning to embrace a culture of discussion and consensus that offers a way out of the abyss of civil war.
“The Surprising Significance of African Elections” by Staffan I. Lindberg
Data from Africa show that repeated elections, regardless of their relative freeness or fairness, appear to have a positive impact on the growth of civil liberties and democratic values.
“Measuring Public Integrity” by Marianne Camerer
Measurements that rely on perceptions of corruption can be misleading. What is needed is a method of gauging how well a country has set itself up to defend public integrity systematically and in all its dimensions.
SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES ON DEMOCRACY
This section features selected articles on democracy that appeared in journals received by the NED's Democracy Resource Center.
Asian Survey, Vol. XLV, no. 5, September/October 2005
“The evolution of China’s Engagement with International Governmental Organizations: Toward a Liberal Foreign Policy?” by Justin S. Hempson-Jones
“Explaining Corruption at the Village and Individual Level in India: Findings from a Study of the Panchayati Raj Reforms” by Sten Widmalm
Central Asian Survey, Vol. 24, no. 4, December 2005
“Coping with the Islamist Threat: Analysing Repression in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan” by Jessica Nicole Trisko
China Quarterly, No. 184, December 2005
“Political and Media Liberalization and Political Corruption in Taiwan” by Dafydd Fell
“China’s Religious Freedom Policy: The Art of Managing Religious Activity” by Beatrice Leung
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 38, no. 4, December 2005
“The Political Effects of Referendums: An Analysis of Institutional Innovations in Eastern and Central Europe” by Simon Hug
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 38, no. 9, November 2005
“Globalization, Democracy, and Effective Welfare Spending in the Developing World” by Nita Rudra and Stephan Haggard
“De-Thawing Democracy: The Decline of Political Party Collaboration in Spain (1977 to 2004)” by Bonnie N. Field
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 38, no. 10, December 2005
“Endogenous Institutional Change in the Mexican Senate” by Alberto Diaz-Cayeros
Crafting Democracy: How Novgorod Has Coped with Rapid Social Change by Nicolai Petro. Reviewed by Barbara P. McCrea
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 39, no. 1, February 2006
“Courts, Democracy, and Governance” by Rachel A. Cichowski
“Courts, Rights, and Democratic Participation” by Rachel A. Cichowski
Comparative Politics, Vol. 38, no. 1, October 2005
“Ethnic Cleavages and Electoral Volatility in Latin America” by Raul Madrid
“The Politics of Decentralization in a Centralized Party System: The Case of Democratic Spain” by Alfred P. Montero
Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 27, no. 3, December 2005
“Delegitimizing Global Jihadi Ideology in Southeast Asia” by Kumar Ramakrishna
“Non-official Diplomacy in Southeast Asia: ‘Civil Society’ or ‘Civil Service’?” by See Seng Tan
“Democracy in Cambodia: One Decade, US$5 Billion Later: What Went Wrong?” by Ronald Bruce St. John
Current History, Vol. 104, no. 684, October 2005
“Is the Orange Revolution Fading?” by Dominque Arel
“The Great Powers in Central Asia” by Martha Brill Olcott
“Autocrats, Islamists, and the Rise of Radicalism in Central Asia” by Eric McGlinchey
Current History, Vol. 104, no. 685, November 2005
“The Balkans Ten Years After: From Dayton to the Edge of Democracy” by Lenard J. Cohen
“In Eastern Europe, Corruption in the Crosshairs” by Rasma Karklins
Current History, Vol. 105, no. 686, January 2006
“Democracy in the Rough” by Phebe Marr
“Iraq and Democracy: The Lessons Learned” by Larry Diamond
Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 13, no. 3, Summer 2005
“Threats of Judicial Counterreform in Putin’s Russia” by Peter H. Solomon, Jr.
“Federalism and Electoral Authoritarianism under Putin” by Cameron Ross
“The Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan: A Case Study in Economic Liberalization, Intraelite Cleavage, and Political Opposition” by Barbara Junisbai and Azamat Junisbai
“Post-Soviet Azerbaijan: Transition to Sultanistic Semiauthoritarianism? An Attempt at Conceptualization” by Farid Guliyev
“Orthodox Christianity, Civil Society, and Russian Democracy” by Christopher Marsh
East European Politics and Society, Vol. 19, no. 4, Fall 2005
“Inequality, Political Participation, and Democratic Deepening in Poland” by Agnieszka Paczynska
“Once upon a Time There Was a Big Party: The Social Bases of the Romanian Communist Party (Part 1)" by Catalin Augustin Stoica
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 84, no. 6, November/December 2005
“Independence for Kosovo” by Charles A. Kupchan
“Mbeki’s South Africa” by Jeffrey Herbst
“Iraq and the Democratic Peace” by John M. Owen IV
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 85, no. 1, January/February 2006
“Women, Islam, and the New Iraq” by Isobel Coleman
“Furthering Democracy in Mexico” by Enrique Krauze
Government and Opposition, Vol. 40, no. 4, September 2005
“Democracy, Islam, and Dialogue: The Case of Turkey” by Bora Kanra
“From Fujimori to Toledo: The 2001 Elections and the Vicissitudes of Democratic Government in Peru” by Lewis Taylor
International Political Science Review, Vol. 26, no. 4, October 2005
“The Truth about Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa” by James L. Gibson
“How Does Democratic Regime Change Affect Mass Political Ideology? A Case Study of South Korea in Comparative Perspective” by Doh Chull Shin and Byong-Kuen Jhee
Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 43, no. 4, December 2005
“Beyond Clannishness and Colonialism: Understanding Political Disorder in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, 1991–2004” by Tobias Hagmann
“Exploring Voter Alignments in Africa: Core and Swing Voters in Ghana” by Staffan Lindberg
Journal of Politics, Vol. 67, no. 4, November 2005
“Beacons of Hope? The Impact of Imposed Democracy on Regional Peace, Democracy, and Prosperity” by Andrew J. Enterline and J. Michael Greig
Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. XXVIII, no. 4, Summer 2005
“Profiles of Corruption in the Middle East” by Robert Looney
Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. XXIX, no. 1, Fall 2005
“The Jamaat-e-Islami Bangladesh’s Electoral Setback in 1996 and the Aftermath” by Bhuian Md. Monoar Kabir and Anwara Begum
Middle East Journal, Vol. 59, no. 4, Autumn 2005
“The Democratic Imperative vs. the Authoritarian Impulse: The Maghrib State between Transition and Terrorism” by John P. Entelis
“Negotiating Rights in Iraq: Women and the Personal Status Law” by Noga Efrati
Palestinian NGOs in Israel: The Politics of Civil Society by Shany Payes. Reviewed by As’ad Ghanim
Rethinking Islam and Liberal Democracy: Islamist Women in Turkish Politics by Yesim Arat. Reviewed by Elisabeth Özdalga
National Interest, No. 82, Winter 2005/06
“Jihad, Unintended” by Dimitri K. Simes
“Prone to Violence” by Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder
Nationalities Papers, Vol. 33, no. 4, December 2005
“Constitutionalism and Identity in Eastern Europe: Uncovering Philosophical Fragments” by Stephen Deets
Orbis, Vol. 50, no. 1, Winter 2006
“Sovereignty as Responsibility” by Amitai Etzioni
“What is Democracy? Liberal Institutions and Stability in Changing Societies” by William Anthony Hay
“Cultural Challenges to Democratization in Russia” by Laurence Jarvik
Party Politics, Vol. 11, no. 5, September 2005
“Decomposition of Regional Voting in South Korea: Ideological Conflicts and Regional Interests” by Woojin Moon
“Political Parties in Bulgaria: Organizational Trends in Comparative Perspective” by Maria Spirova
Party Politics, Vol. 11, no. 6, November 2005
“Emerging Party Systems: An Introduction” by Alexander C. Tan
“The Impact of Democratic Transition on Elections and Parties in South Korea” by Uk Heo and Hans Stockton
“Sources of Post-Communist Party System Consolidation: Ideology Versus Institutions” by Shale Horowitz and Eric C. Browne
“Assessing African Party Systems after the Third Wave” by Carrie Manning
“Variations on a Theme: Societal Cleavages and Party Orientations through Multiple Transitions in Thailand” by James Ockey
“Manufacturing Parties: Re-examining the Transient Nature of Philippine Political Parties” by Rodelio Cruz Manacsa and Alexander C. Tan
Policy Review, No. 133, October/November 2005
“What to Do about Russia” by James M. Goldgeier and Michael McFaul
Policy Review, No. 134, December 2005/January 2006
“Making Democracy Stick” by Gerard Alexander
Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 120, no. 4, Winter 2005-06
Democracy from Above: Regional Organizations and Democratization by Jon C. Pevehouse. Reviewed James Lee Ray.
Health Democracies: Welfare Politics in Taiwan and South Korea by Joseph Wong. Reviewed by Tieh-Chih Chang
Negotiation Revolutions: The Czech Republic, South Africa, and Chile by George Lawson. Reviewed by Tony Roshan Samara
Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time by William E. Scheuerman. Reviewed by Robert B. Talisse
Third World Quarterly, Vol. 26, no. 7, October 2005
“Citizenship and Governance in Mercosur: Arguments for a Social Agenda” by Jean Grugel
“Urbanisation, Nativism, and the Rule of Law in South Africa’s ‘Forbidden’ Cities” by Loren B. Landau
“The Post-Cold War Political Topography of the Middle East: Prospects for Democracy” by Sandra Halperin
Washington Quarterly, Vol. 29, no. 1, Winter 2005-2006
“Soviet Nostalgia: An Impediment to Russian Democratization” by Sarah E. Mendelson and Theodore P. Gerber
“Islam Is Not the Solution (or the Problem)” by Daniel Brumberg
Wilson Quarterly, Vol. XXIX, no. 4, Autumn 2005
“Kosovo: Mission Not Yet Accomplished” by Martin C. Sletzinger and Nida Gelazis
World Affairs, Vol. 168, no. 2, Fall 2005
“Corruption in a Third World Country: Why Nigerians Cannot Handle Garbage” by Herbert H. Werlin
SELECTED NEW BOOKS ON DEMOCRACY
ADVANCED DEMOCRACIES
American Exceptionalism and Human Rights. Edited by Michael Ignatieff. Princeton
University Press, 2005. 353 pp.
If the Workers Took a Notion: The Right to Strike and American Political Development. By Josiah Bartlett Lambert. Cornell University Press, 2005. 259 pp.
Popular Efficacy in the Democratic Era: A Reexamination of Electoral Accountability in the United States, 1828–2000. By Peter F. Nardulli. Princeton University Press, 2005. 266 pp.
Resurgence of the Warfare State: The Crisis Since 9/11. By Robert Higgs. Independent Institute, 2005. 252 pp.
Terms of Trust: Arguments Over Ethics in Australian Government. By John Uhr. University of New South Wales Press, 2005. 237 pp.
Who Leads Whom? Presidents, Policy, and the Public. By Brandice Canes-Wrone. University of Chicago Press, 2006. 192 pp.
AFRICA
The African Union: Pan-Africanism, Peacebuilding and Development. By Timothy Murithi. Ashgate, 2005. 182 pp.
Beyond Plunder: Toward Democratic Governance in Liberia. By Amos Sawyer. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 243 pp.
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide. By Gerard Prunier. Cornell University Press, 2005. 212 pp.
Democracy in Senegal: Tocquevillian Analytics in Africa. By Sheldon Gellar. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 222 pp.
We Are Fighting the World: A History of the Marashea Gangs in South Africa, 1947–1999. By Gary Kynoch. Ohio University Press, 2005. 200 pp.
ASIA
Democracy Without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in a One-Party State. By Ethan Scheiner. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 267 pp.
From Comrade to Citizen: The Struggle for Political Rights in China. By Merle Goldman. Harvard University Press, 2005. 304 pp.
From Deng Xiaoping to Jiang Zemin: Two Decades of Political Reform in the People’s Republic of China. By Yiu-chung Wong. University Press of America, 2005. 356 pp.
Governing China’s Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics. By Susan Greenhalgh and Edwin A. Winckler. Stanford University Press, 2005. 388 pp.
Unbecoming Citizens: Culture, Nationhood, and the Flight of Refugees from Bhutan. By Michael Hutt. Oxford University Press, 2005. 308 pp.
EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
Central Asia’s Second Chance. By Martha Brill Olcott. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2005. 250 pp.
Constraints and Opportunities of Leadership in Post-Communist Europe. By Tim Haughton. Ashgate, 2005. 186 pp.
Defending Rights in Russia: Lawyers, the State, and Legal Reforms in the Post-Soviet Era. By Pamela A. Jordan. University of British Columbia Press, 2005. 285 pp.
Democracy Derailed in Russia: The Failure of Open Politics. By M. Steven Fish. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 313 pp.
Georgia from National Awakening to Rose Revolution. By Jonathan Wheatley. Ashgate, 2005. 258 pp.
Nations in Transit 2005: Democratization in East Central Europe and Eurasia. Edited by Jeannette Goehring and Amanda Schnetzer. Freedom House, 2005. 731 pp.
A Quest for Political Integrity. By Romanian Coalition for a Clean Parliament. Polirom, 2005. 119 pp.
Serbia Since 1989: Politics and Society Under Milosevic and After. Edited by Sabrina P. Ramet and Vjeran Pavlokovic. University of Washington Press, 2005. 440 pp.
Taming Nationalism? Political Community Building in the Post-Soviet Baltic States. By Dovile Budryte. Ashgate, 2005. 244 pp.
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Características, Dinámicas y Condiciones de Emergencia: De las Pandillas en Bogotá. By Leandro Ramos. Georgetown University Press, 2005. 275 pp.
Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela: A Comparative Perspective. By Harold A. Trinkunas. University of North Carolina Press, 2005. 297 pp.
Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World Making in the Tropics. By Consuelo Cruz. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 281 pp.
Social Movements and Free-Market Capitalism in Latin America: Telecommunications Privatization and the Rise of Consumer Protest. By Sybil Rhodes. SUNY Press, 2005. 228 pp.
MIDDLE EAST
The Islam/West Debate: Documents from the World Debate on Terrorism, U.S. Policy, and the Middle East. Edited by David Blankenhorn, et al. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 299 pp.
Israeli Democracy at the Crossroads. Edited by Raphael Cohen-Almagor. Routledge, 2005. 288 pp.
The Long War for Freedom: The Arab Struggle for Democracy in the Middle East. By Barry Rubin. John Wiley & Sons, 2006. 296 pp.
Revolt on the Tigris: The Al-Sadr Uprising and the Governing of Iraq. By Mark Etherington. Cornell University Press, 2005. 252 pp.
COMPARATIVE, THEORETICAL, GENERAL
Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going on Together. By Josiah Ober. Princeton University Press, 2005. 273 pp.
Civilocracy: Equality and Diversity in Democracy. By Association for Global Equity
Studies. Fultus Corporation, 2005. 545 pp.
Cowardly Lions: Missed Opportunities to Prevent Deadly Conflict and State Collapse. By I. William Zartman. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 260 pp.
Demilitarizing Politics: Elections on the Uncertain Road to Peace. By Terrence Lyons. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 232 pp.
Democracy and Exchange: Schumpeter, Galbraith, T.H. Marshall, Titmuss, and Adam Smith. By David Reisman. Edward Elgar, 2005. 356 pp.
Democracy at Risk: How Political Choices Undermine Citizen Participation, and What We Can Do About It. By Stephen Macedo. Brookings, 2005. 228 pp.
Democracy Rising: Assessing the Global Challenges. Edited By Heraldo Munoz. Lynne Rienner, 2005. 173 pp.
Democratic Hope: Pragmatism and the Politics of Truth. By Robert B. Westbrook. Cornell University Press, 2005. 246 pp.
Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War. By Edward D. Mansfield and Jack Snyder. MIT Press, 2005. 300 pp.
The Frontiers of Democracy. By Robert Pinkney. Ashgate, 2005. 226 pp.
Law and the State: A Political Economy Approach. Edited by Alain Marciano and Jean-Michel Josselin. Edward Elgar, 2005. 413 pp.
Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence. By Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel. Cambridge University Press, 2005. 333 pp.
Pluralism and Liberal Democracy. By Richard E. Flathman. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. 256 pp.
The Politics of Attention: How Government Prioritizes Problems. By Bryan D. Jones and Frank R. Baumgartner. University of Chicago Press, 2005. 304 pp.
Protecting Human Rights: A Comparative Study. By Todd Landman. Georgetown University Press, 2005. 231 pp.
Protecting Liberty in an Age of Terror. By Philip B. Heyman and Juliette N. Kayyem. MIT Press, 2005. 194 pp.
Redefining Sovereignty. Edited by Orrin C. Judd. Smith and Kraus Global, 2005. 521 pp.
Renegade Regimes: Confronting Deviant Behavior in World Politics. By Miroslav Nincic. Columbia University Press, 2005. 219 pp.
Sharing Power: Women, Parliament, Democracy. Edited by Yvonne Galligan and Manon Tremblay. Ashgate, 2005. 271 pp.
Silenced: International Journalists Expose Media Censorship. Edited by David Dadge. Prometheus, 2005. 295 pp.
Sovereignty, Democracy, and Global Civil Society: State-Society Relations at UN World Conferences. By Elisabeth Jay Friedman, Kathryn Hochstetler, and Ann Marie Clark. SUNY Press, 2005. 221 pp.
The UN Role in Promoting Democracy: Between Ideals and Reality. Edited by Edward Newman and Roland Rich. UN University, 2004. 370 pp.
When Islam and Democracy Meet: Muslims in Europe and in the United States. By Jocelyne Cesari. Palgrave MacMillan, 2004. 267 pp.
Who’s Watching the Spies? Establishing Intelligence Service Accountability. Edited by Hans Born, Loch K. Johnson, and Ian Leigh. Potomac Books, 2005. 254 pp.