Vice-chair (2008-2010)
Leslie Anderson
University of Florida Research Professor in Political Science
University of Florida
e-mail: landerso@polisci.ufl.edu
Secretary (2008-2010)
Jose Antonio Cheibub
Associate Professor of Political Science
University of Illinois
e-mail: cheibub@ad.uiuc.edu
Treasurer (2007-2009)
Marc Morjé Howard
Associate Professor of Government
Georgetown University
e-mail: mmh@georgetown.edu
Newsletter Editor (ex officio)
Diego Abente
Deputy Director
International Forum for Democratic Studies
National Endowment for Democracy
e-mail: diegoa@ned.org
Associate Newsletter Editor (ex officio)
Melissa Aten
Research and Conferences Officer
International Forum for Democratic Studies
National Endowment for Democracy
e-mail: MelissaA@ned.org
Dear Colleagues,
3. SECTION NEWS
ECPR, EUSA, IPSA, and Skytte Prizes for Philippe C. Schmitter
Charles H. Blake, professor of political science, James Madison University, has been selected as the next chair of the department. He will begin his service in the 2009–2010 academic year.
Call for Panel, Roundtable, and Paper Proposals for the SPSA
I am delighted to inform you of good news on three fronts. First, we have an outstanding set of new section officers. Ashutosh Varshney of Brown University will become Chair of the section replacing yours truly, while Juliet Johnson of McGill University will become Treasurer, replacing Marc Morjé Howard. We look forward to their inauguration at the next annual meetings.
The second piece of good news regards the annual meetings in 2010. I am delighted to report that Bo Rothstein of Gothenburg University, Sweden has agreed to be our Program Chair and build on the excellent work Omar Encarnación has done for us this year.
Finally, I am happy to announce that we have 74 new graduate student members working on an exciting array of dissertations. Their names and dissertation titles appear in a separate section of this newsletter along with the names of their advisors. The fact that over 50 faculty members from three continents nominated students for membership indicates the breadth of our section’s reach.
In an effort to expand our membership and our section’s intellectual reach even further, this year’s executive committee will be soliciting applications from members who would take responsibility for soliciting substantive articles for our newsletter. Working alongside Diego Abente and Melissa Aten, we would hope that they might add articles on debates in our field, methodological discussions, and interviews, to the features we already include. Ideally, these members would be located in a single department which could provide support for their efforts. Stay tuned for more specifics on this in the weeks to come.
See you all in Toronto.
Nancy Bermeo
Nuffield Professor of Comparative Politics
University of Oxford
Philippe C. Schmitter, professorial fellow and professor emeritus in the department of political and social sciences at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, was recently bestowed with the Lifetime Achievement Award by the European Consortium for Political Research in September 2008 and the Lifetime Achievement Award of the European Union Studies Association in April 2009.
In July 2009, the International Political Science Association will honor Mr. Schmitter with the 2009 Mattei Dogan Award, one of IPSA’s highest honors for lifetime achievement. IPSA’s Awards Committee states that he “has made an enormous contribution to the growth and development of Political Science…[His] rigorous research, his conceptual clarity and creativity and ability to transcend the boundaries of the discipline’s subfields have pushed the notion of what political scientists do to capture the meaning of what takes place in the polis to new heights.” The award, which is given every three years, will be presented at the 21st IPSA World Congress in Santiago, Chile, in July.
In September 2009, the University of Uppsala, Sweden, will present Mr. Schmitter with the Johan Skytte Prize in political science for “his path-breaking work on the role of corporatism in modern democracies, and for his stimulating and innovative analysis of democratization.”
The Comparative Democratization Section’s Officers and Editors would like to congratulate Mr. Schmitter on behalf of the Section for all his contributions to the field.
Comparative Democratization Section Panels Announced
Our section is proud to present the following panels at the forthcoming APSA meeting and to thank Omar Encarnacion for organizing them.
1. Violence, Uncivil Politics and Democratization
2. China's Third Sector: Dynamics and Consequences
3. Revisiting Regime Change: Cross-Regional Perspectives
4. The Political Economy of Democratization
5. Civil Society, Citizenship and Participatory Democracy
6. "New" Social Movements and Democratization
7. Democracy, Transitional Justice and the Memory of Dictatorship
8. Authoritarian Regime Building and Breakdown in Post-Soviet Eurasia
9. Religious Actors in Democratization Processes: Evidence from Five Muslim Democracies
10. Democracy, Diffusion and Contingency: Lessons from Europe
11. The Politics of Democratic Reversals
12. Who/What Are Elections Good For? Electoral Participation and Voters' Motivation in Developing Countries
13. Post-Civil War Processes
14. Democratization and Ethnic Minorities: Conflict, Protection, Accommodation
15. Protest and Democratization in East Asia and Latin America
16. Varieties of Presidentialism in Latin America: Origins, Scope and Consequences
17. George Bush's Democratic Promotion Legacy
18. Post-War Democratization
19. Religion and Democracy
20. Authoritarian Regime Consolidation
21. Agency under Authoritarianism
22. Democracy, Elections and Political (In)stability
23. Local Politics in New Democracies: Patterns of Democratization in the Mexican States
Graduate Student Member Recruitment Drive
The names of our new members along with their dissertation titles, affiliations, and advisors are listed below. Welcome to the section!
Jerome Y. Bachelard, Governance Reform in Africa: International and Domestic Pressures and Counter-Pressures, Graduate Institute of International Affairs and Development, Geneva. Advisor: Anne Pitcher.
Ban Cornel, Neoliberalism in Translation: Economic Ideas and Economic Policy Change in Spain and Romania, Brown University. Advisor: Marilyn Rueschemeyer.
Andrew Barwig, Beyond the Ballot Box: Elections and Autocrats in the Arab World, University of Denver. Advisor: Tim Sisk.
Regina Bateson, Violent Peace? Order and Violence in Post-Conflict Communities, Yale University. Advisor: Susan Stokes.
Olga Beznosova, Opposition and Dissent in Petro States, University of British Columbia. Advisor: Lisa Sundstrom.
Helga Malmin Binningsbø, Post-Conflict Peace: Political Inclusion and Pardon or Preclusion and Punishment?, Norwegian University for Science and Technology. Advisor: Scott Gates.
Jennifer Brick, The Microfoundations of State Building: Informal Institutions and Local Public Goods in Rural Afghanistan, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Advisor: Melanie Frances Manion.
Jetsabe Caceres, Social Movements in Puerto Rico: Between Neoliberalism and United States Imperialism, University of Florida. Advisor: Leslie Anderson.
Guillermo Cejudo, From Democracy to Good Government: How Liberal Democracies Improve the Quality of Government, Boston University. Advisor: Strom Thacker.
Laryssa Chomiak, Rethinking Public Space and Political Participation in Tunisia and the Ukraine, University of Maryland. Advisor: Jillian Schwedler.
Margarita Corral, Public Opinion and Democratization, Vanderbilt University. Advisor: Manuel Alcanta.
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, Rules or Rebellion? A Tale of “Two Mexicos”: Institutions, the Economy, and Uncivil Modes of Political Action in Oaxaca and Nuevo León, New School. Advisor: David Plotke.
Michael Danielson, Politics At Home Abroad: Migrants and Their Home Towns in Mexico and El Salvador, American University. Advisor: Todd Eisenstadt.
Maureen Donaghy, Does Civil Society Matter for Policy Outcomes? An Examination of Participatory Governance Institutions and Participation in Brazilian Housing Policy, University of Colorado at Boulder. Advisor: Sam Fitch.
Boniface Dulani, The Political Dynamics of Presidential Term Limit Struggles in Africa, Michigan State University. Advisor: Michael Bratton.
Sebastian Elischer, Political Parties and Ethnicity in Africa, Jacobs University Bremen. Advisor: Matthijs Bogaards.
Annabella Espana, Party Systems and Democracy after the Conflicts, University of Notre Dame. Advisor: Scott Mainwaring.
Sam Fayyaz, Competing Governmentalities: The Subject and Power in Post-Revolutionary Iran, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Advisor: Jillian Schwedler.
Evgeny Finkel, Building on Suffering: Genocide, State Building and Democracy in Armenia, Israel, and Ukraine, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Advisor: Yitzhak Brudny, Hebrew University.
Sarah Fischer, The Impact of Secularism on Women's Political Participation in Contemporary Turkey, American University. Advisor: Todd Eisenstadt.
Brian Fried, The End of the Closed Corral: Understanding the Decline of Clientelism in Brazil, Yale University. Advisor: Susan Stokes.
Rahman Ford, Equality, Democracy and Constitutional Precommitments to Affirmative Action, University of Pennsylvania. Advisor: Tulia G. Falleti.
Carlos Gervasoni, A Rentier Theory of Sub-National Democracy: The Politically Regressive Effects of Redistributive Fiscal Federalism in Argentina, University of Notre Dame. Advisor: Michael Coppedge.
Leah Gilbert, State Mobilization Strategies and Competition in Hybrid Regimes, Georgetown University. Advisor: Marc Morjé Howard.
Maria Agustina Giraudy, Sub-National Undemocratic Regimes in Argentina and Mexico, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Advisor: Jonathan Hartlyn.
Farid Guliyev, Oil-Dependent States: Institutional Variation and Regime Change, Jacobs University Bremen. Advisor: Matthijs Bogaards.
Jeffrey Hamill, Reclaiming the Social Contract: Electoral Systems and Support for Democracy, University of Florida. Advisor: Bryon Moraski.
Petra Hejnova, Message from the State: Uncovering Effects of Policy Coherence on Women’s Movements in Chile and the Czech Republic, Syracuse University. Advisor: Kristi Andersen.
Timothy Hildebrandt, Forging a Harmonious Middle Path: Chinese Social Organizations and the State, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Advisor: Melanie Frances Manion.
Gergely Hudecz, Signs and Prospects of Democracy in Morocco: Transition Paradigm in Muslim Context, Corvinus University Budapest. Advisor: Laurence Whitehead.
Heather N. Hughson, Institutional Design and Reform of Upper Houses in Established Democracies, with Emphasis on the Canadian Senate, McGill University. Advisor: Juliet Johnson.
John Hulsey, Building Limited States: Post-Conflict State-Building at the Local Level in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Indiana University. Advisor: Jack Bielasiak.
Jonathan Jones, Negotiating Development: A Study of the Grassroots Resistance to India's 2005 Special Economic Zones Act, University of Florida. Advisor: Leslie Anderson.
Barbara Junisbai, Economic Reform Regimes, Elite Defection, and Political Opposition in the Post-Soviet States: Evidence from Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Kyrgyzstan, Indiana University. Advisor: Jack Bielasiak.
Katja Kalandadze, Electoral Revolutions and Democratization, Syracuse University. Advisor: Brian Taylor.
Diloro Kadirova, Analysing Project Effectiveness in Post-Conflict Reconstruction and Development: Afghanistan 2002-2007, Oxford University, Advisor: Nancy Bermeo.
Ekrem Karakoc, Democracy and the Inequality Paradox: How Democracy Has Increased Income Disparities in Post-Communist and Southern Europe, Penn State University. Advisor: Michael Bernhard.
Craig Kauffman, Building Better Governance: Innovative Resource Management in Ecuadorian Municipalities, George Washington University. Advisor: Nathan Brown and Cynthia McClintock.
Brandon Kendhammer, Muslims Talking Politics: Framing Support for Democracy in Northern Nigeria, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Advisor: Michael Schatzberg.
Nicholas Kerr, The Impact of Electoral Commission Characteristics on the Quality of Elections in Africa, Michigan State University. Advisor: Michael Bratton.
Kevin Koehler, Comparing Electoral Dynamics under Autocracy: Competition and Control in Egypt, Kyrgyzstan, and Yemen, OSCE Academy. Advisor: Holger Albrecht.
Karrie Koesel, A Belief in Authoritarianism: Religious Revivals and the Local State in Russia and China, Cornell University. Advisor: Kenneth Roberts.
Dominika Koter, The Salience of Ethnicity in African Politics, Yale University. Advisor: Ellen Lust-Okar.
Spyridon Kotsovilis, Connecting the Dots: Complex Social Networks and the Success and Failure of Mass Mobilization in Electoral Revolutions, McGill University. Advisor: Juliet Johnson.
Joel Lazarus, Political Party and Party System Institutionalization and Western Democracy Promotion in Georgia, University of Oxford. Advisor: Nancy Bermeo.
Luis Felipe Mantilla, Religion in the Political Arena: Explaining the Formation of Religious Parties in the Middle East and Latin America, Georgetown University. Advisor: Marc Morjé Howard.
Mona Mehta, Corrosive Consensus: Democracy and Ethnic Conflict in India, University of Chicago. Advisor: Lloyd Rudolph.
Julie Moreau, The Role of Gender-Based Mobilization in the Process of Democratic Consolidation in Latin America and Africa, McGill University. Advisor: Juliet Johnson.
Mohammad Daud Munir, Constitutionalism and Rule of Law in Pakistan, Princeton University. Advisor: Mirjam Künkler.
Scott Nissen, Off-Color Revolutions: Examining the Democratic Impacts of the Colored Revolutions in Georgia and Ukraine, Indiana University. Advisor: Henry Hale.
Kunle Olowabi, The Colonial Origins of Development and Democracy: How Distinct Patterns of European Colonization Shaped Human Well-Being and Political Regime Outcomes in the Developing World, 1946–2004, University of Notre Dame. Advisor: Scott Mainwaring.
Olga Onuch, Revolutionary Moments and Revolutionary Movements: Comparing Mass Mobilization in Ukraine (2004) and Argentina (2001), University of Oxford. Advisor: Gwen Sasse.
Wooyeal Paik, Political Participation, Clientelism, and State-Society Relations in China and Other East Asian Authoritarian Regimes, University of California, Los Angeles. Advisor: Barbara Geddes.
Robert Person, Nothing to Gain but Your Chains: Popular Support for Authoritarianism in the Former Soviet Union, Yale University. Advisor: Ellen Lust-Okar.
Ellen Psychas, Building State Failure in a Natural Resource-Rich-Microstate: Patterns of Political Competition and Authority and Constraints to Private Sector Activity in Timor-Leste (1999–2008), John Hopkins University, SAIS. Advisor: Julie Micek
Megan Reif, Making Democracy Safe: Institutional Causes and Consequences of Electoral Coercion and Violence, University of Michigan. Advisor: Allen Hicken.
Mihaiela Ristei, Competing Formal and Informal Institutions in a Democratizing Setting: An Institutional Analysis of Corruption in Romania, Western Michigan University. Advisor: Sybil Rhodes.
Emily Rodio, More than Truth: Democracy and South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Advisor: Miriam Fendius Elman.
Assel Rustemova, Governmentality in Central Asia: Development, National Ideas and Regional Cooperation. Rutgers State University, Newark. Advisor: Peter Rutland.
Naaborle Sackeyfio, The Politics of Reform: National Electrification in Ghana in an Era of Political and Economic Liberalization, City University of New York. Advisor: Irving Leonard Markovitz.
Inga Saikkonen, Russian Regional Political Regimes 1991-2005: Structural and Political Resources, University of Oxford. Advisor: Petra Schleiter.
Sarah Shair-Rosenfield, Minority Representation and Democratization in Indonesia and the Philippines, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Advisor: Jonathan Hartlyn.
Jae Hyeok Shin, Electoral System Choice and Personalistic Parties in New Democracies, University of California, Los Angeles. Advisor: Barbara Geddes.
Esther Skelley, Judging Democracy Assistance: Idealism vs. Utility, University of Georgia. Advisor: Howard Wiarda.
Heather Sullivan, Democratization and Repression in Contemporary Mexico, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Advisor: Graeme Robertson.
Honggang Tan, Dancing in Chains: Policy Influence of Chinese NGOs, Syracuse University. Advisor: Hongying Wang.
Netina Tan, Recruitment, Renewal and Resilience: A Comparative Study of Hegemonic Party Rule in Singapore and Taiwan, University of British Columbia. Advisor: Maxwell Cameron.
Kharis Templeman, Opposition Party Success and Failure in Dominant Party Regimes, University of Michigan. Advisor: Allen Hicken.
Tariq Thachil, Poor Choices: The Rise of Subaltern Religious Nationalism in India, Cornell University. Advisor: Kenneth Roberts.
Michael Touchton, Institutions, Ideology, and Credible Commitment: Democracy and the Rule of Law, University of Colorado at Boulder. Advisor: Sam Fitch.
Haley Swedlund, Doing Good or Doing Harm? The Role of International Actors in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding and Democratization, Syracuse University. Advisor: Hans Peter Schmitz.
Bozena Welborne, Between the Veil and the Vote: Exploring Incentives to Politically Incorporate Women Across the Middle East and North Africa, University of Colorado at Boulder. Advisor: Sam Fitch.
Verónica A. Zebadúa Yáñez, Sex, Violence, and Politics: Sexual Violence and the Refoundation of Community in Ciudad Juárez, México, New School. Advisor: David Plotke.
Bree Zuckerman, Can’t Stop the Party: Elections and Dynamics of Regime Endurance in Zimbabwe, City University of New York. Advisor: Irving Leonard Markovitz.
Archie Brown, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Oxford University, has published The Rise and Fall of Communism (Ecco Press). The book draws on a wide range of sources, including freshly available archival materials, and covers communism worldwide, paying particular attention to the sixteen states in which consolidated communist systems existed or still exist. The book is divided into five parts: origins and development; communism ascendant; surviving without Stalin; pluralizing pressures; and interpreting the fall of communism.
Jason Brownlee, assistant professor of government, University of Texas at Austin, published “Portents of Pluralism: How Hybrid Regimes Affect Democratic Transitions” in the July 2009 American Journal of Political Science. The article reports on Mr. Brownlee’s quantitative study of breakdown and democratization during 1975–2004 and shows that competitive elections do not independently weaken authoritarian regimes but do raise the likelihood that the next regime will be an electoral democracy.
Gretchen Casper, associate professor of political science and Asian studies, Pennsylvania State University, will serve as section chair for the Comparative Politics: Transitions toward Democracy organized section of the 2010 Midwest Political Science Association’s annual meeting in Chicago on April 22–25. Ms. Casper encourages people to submit proposals for the conference using the MPSA’s 2010 Participation Proposal Form available at www.mpsanet.org/. The deadline is October 9, 2009.
Javier Corrales, visiting scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, and associate professor of political science, Amherst College, published “States, Markets, and Neighbors: Latin American 25 Years from Now” in the Spring 2009 Americas Quarterly in which he predicts the region will have a future of less economic growth—“less than previously, less than most other developing regions of the world will experience, and less than most Latin Americans will expect”—and argues that this condition is caused by the uneven development of states and markets.
Mr. Corrales has also agreed to serve as program chair for the October 2010 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association.
Roman David, lecturer in politics, University of Newcastle, and Susanne Y.P. Choi, published “Getting Even, or Getting Equal? Retributive Desires and Transitional Justice” in the April 2009 Political Science, in which they examine the “effect that different policy interventions of transitional justice have on the desires of the victims of human rights violations for retribution.” The authors suggest that victims and perpetrators should “get equal” in relation to their respective statuses (which were affected by political crimes) in order to reduce victims’ retributive desires.
Bonnie N. Field, assistant professor of global studies, Bentley University, and Kerstin Hamann edited Democracy and Institutional Development: Spain in Comparative Theoretical Perspective (Palgrave Macmillan). The volume analyzes the development of political parties and institutions during the first thirty years of democracy in Spain. Two primary themes unite the book: first, institutionalization and second, the relationship between institutional design and representation. Ms. Field also contributed a chapter on “Interparty Politics in Spain: The Role of Informal Institutions” to the book.
Ms. Field also published an election note on “The Parliamentary Election in Spain, March 2008” in the March 2009 Electoral Studies.
M. Steven Fish, professor of political science, University of California at Berkeley, and Matthew Kroenig published The Handbook of National Legislatures: A Global Survey (Cambridge University Press) in which the authors assess the strength of the national legislature of every country in the world with a population of at least a half-million inhabitants. Using the Legislative Powers Survey, which was generated by an international survey of experts, extensive study of secondary sources, and analysis of constitutions and other relevant documents, they generate a list of 32 items to gauge the legislature’s sway over the executive, its institutional autonomy, its authority in specific areas, and its institutional capacity.
David J. Galbreath was recently promoted to senior lecturer in politics and international relations at the University of Aberdeen.
John Gerring, professor of political science, Boston University, Strom C. Thacker, associate professor of international affairs and director of Latin American studies program, Boston University, and Carola Moreno published “Are Parliamentary Systems Better?” in the March 2009 Comparative Political Studies. The authors use a global data set to examine the relationship between a historical measure of parliamentary rule and fourteen indicators ranging across political, economic, and human development. They find a strong relationship between parliamentarism and good governance, especially in the latter two policy areas.
Ahmet T. Kuru, postdoctoral research scholar and assistant director of the Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion, Columbia University, published Secularism and State Policies toward Religion: The United States, France, and Turkey (Cambridge University Press), a book that “provides a generalizable argument about the impact of ideological struggles on the public policy making process, as well as a state-religion regimes index of 197 countries.” Comparing the United States’ policies toward religion to those in France and Turkey, Mr. Kuru argues that the former has a dominant ideology of “passive secularism,” which requires the state to play a passive role while the latter have dominant ideology of “assertive secularism,” which demands that the state actively exclude religion from the public sphere.
Yoonkyung Lee, assistant professor of sociology and political science, SUNY at Binghamton, published “Divergent Outcomes of Labor Reform Politics in Democratized Korea and Taiwan” in the March 2009 Studies in Comparative International Development in which he “seeks to explain the conditions that determine the divergent fates of union actors under democratic governments by examining union activism around four labor reform episodes in democratized Korea and Taiwan.”
Mr. Lee also published “Democracy without Parties? Political Parties and Social Movements for Democratic Representation in Korea” in the Spring 2009 Korean Observer, in which he argues that Korea’s unstable political parties are the result of legacies of authoritarian intervention into electoral politics.
Finally, Mr. Lee was awarded a visiting research fellowship at the University of California-San Diego’s Korea-Pacific program from January to June 2009.
James Mahoney, professor of political science and sociology, Northwestern University, Erin Kimball, and Kendra Koivu published “The Logic of Historical Explanation in the Social Sciences” in the January 2009 Comparative Political Studies in which the authors provide an inventory of the five types of causes that are normally used in historical explanations and then introduce a new method—sequence elaboration—for evaluating the relative importance of causes.
Tarek Masoud was recently appointed as assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He was also named a 2009 Carnegie Scholar, which awards him a grant of $100,000 for his work on Islamist political parties in semi-authoritarian regimes.
Kelly McMann, assistant professor of political science, Case Western Reserve University, will publish “Market Reform as a Stimulus to Particularistic Politics” in the July 2009 Comparative Political Studies, in which she examines how market reforms can result in individuals making particularistic demands of government officials instead of relying on nonstate actors (as market reform advocates prescribe) in countries where state economic intervention was substantial and where reforms reduced the state’s economic role but failed to develop market-enhancing institutions.
Cas Mudde, associate professor of political science, University of Antwerp, Belgium, was awarded a visiting fellowship at the Kellogg Institute at the University of Notre Dame for the 2009–2010 academic year. His book, Populist Radical Right Parties in Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2007), was named a 2008 Choice Outstanding Academic Title and was awarded the 2008 Stein Rokkan Prize for Comparative Social Science Research.
Richard Rose, chair in politics, University of Aberdeen, and Neil Munro published Parties and Elections in New European Democracies (ECPR Press) in which they develop a model to explain how “the supply of parties by political elites shapes the responses of inexperienced electors” and show “how this creates a floating system of parties and prevents the establishment of durable party identifications.” They then apply this model to elections in ten Central and East European democracies that are now members of the European Union.
Sebastian Royo has been promoted to full professor of government at Suffolk University.
Eve Sandberg, associate professor of politics, Oberlin College, has been appointed as the director of the Oberlin Initiative in Electoral Politics. More information about the Initiative can be found at www.oberlin.edu/politics/initiative.htm.
Gwendolyn Sasse, university reader in comparative politics and professorial fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford University, has been awarded the Alexander Nove Prize by the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies. The award honors her book, The Crimea Question: Identity, Transition, and Conflict (Harvard University Press, 2007). The monograph deals with the puzzle of why a conflict did not occur in the Crimea after the break-up of the Soviet Union. Regional diversity such as Ukraine's often embodies potential for friction and conflict, in particular when it involves territorialized ethnicity and divergent historical experiences. In the early to mid-1990s, the Western media, policymakers, and academics alike warned that Crimea was a potential center of unrest in the aftermath of the Soviet Union's dissolution. However, large-scale conflict in Crimea did not materialize, and Kyiv has managed to integrate the peninsula into the new Ukrainian polity. This book explores the factors that led to the largely peaceful transition and places the situation in the larger context of conflict-prevention studies, explaining this critical case in which conflict did not erupt despite a structural predisposition to ethnic, regional, and even international enmity. It argues that the key to the positive outcome lies not in any particular institutional design but in the process of constitution-making.
Carsten Q. Schneider, associate professor of political science and director of the Center for the Study of Imperfections in Democracy, Central European University, has been appointed as a John F. Kennedy Memorial Fellows at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University. During the 2009–2010 academic year, Mr. Schneider will pursue his project on the impact of social inequalities on the quality of democracies.
Mr. Schneider has also been elected for a five-year term as a member of the Young Academy (www.diejungeakademie.de), a joint project of Germany’s two oldest academies: the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina.
Mitchell A. Seligson, Centennial Professor of Political Science and professor of sociology, Vanderbilt University, and John A. Booth, published The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Democracy and Political Support in Eight Nations (Cambridge University Press) in which they examine declining levels of citizens’ support for their regimes and the survival or breakdown of democracy in eight Latin American states. The authors find that despite dissatisfaction with their governments, citizens continue to participate in politics at high rates—in both conventional methods, such as elections, and alternative arenas, such as communal improvement and civil society—and that support for democracy remains high.
Oxana Shevel, assistant professor of political science, Tufts University, published “The Politics of Citizenship Policy in New States” in the April 2009 Comparative Politics in which she argues that national identity is a major source of citizenship policies in new states, though its impact may be different from what exiting theories posit. Using Ukraine as a case study, Ms. Shevel shows how civic citizenship laws may result from contested identity politics in states where there is no conception of dominant national identity.
Dan Slater, assistant professor of political science, University of Chicago, delivered presentations on party cartelization and democratic accountability in Indonesia at Johns Hopkins, Columbia, and Princeton Universities, as well as the annual meeting of the Association of Asian Studies. The January–March 2009 Inside Indonesia published a version of Mr. Slater’s AAS remarks that is available at http://insideindonesia.org/content/view/1198/47.
Etel Solingen, professor of political science, University of California at Irvine, contributed a chapter on “Economic and Political Liberalization in China: Implications for U.S.-China Relations” to Power and Restraint: A Shared Vision for the U.S.-China Relationship (edited by Richard Rosecrance and Gu Guoliang and published by Public Affairs Press). The book features contributions by influential Chinese and American scholars and addresses issues that affect both nations “in an attempt to stave off future confrontation.” It concludes that the US and China “can exist side by side and establish mutual understanding to cope with the common challenges they face.”
Ms. Solingen also published “The Genesis, Design and Effects of Regional Institutions: Lessons from East Asia and the Middle East” in the June 2008 International Studies Quarterly, in which she focuses “on regional organizations as productive arenas for developing contingent propositions on institutions.”
Lars Svåsand, professor of comparative politics, University of Bergen, Lise Rakner, and Sabiti Makara, published “Turnaround: The National Resistance Movement and the Reintroduction of a Multiparty System in Uganda” in the March 2009 International Political Science Review. The authors argue that Uganda’s National Resistance Movement’s decision to reintroduce multiparty politics was “stimulated by internal conflicts between factions within the NRM and much less by international (donor) pressure. The NRM also made the move to multiparty politics contingent on constitutional changes that allowed the central political leadership to remain in power.
Oisin Tansey, lecturer of politics and international relations, University of Reading, published Regime-Building: Democratization and International Administration (Oxford University Press). Using East Timor, Bosnia, and Kosovo as case studies, the author examines “regime change in the context of international administration, where the United Nations and other multilateral organizations hold temporary executive authority at the domestic level” and concludes that international organizations can have both positive and negative effects on democracy building in the countries they administer.
Maya Tudor, Pre-doctoral Fellow in the Intra-State Conflict Program at Harvard’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, was recently appointed to be the first Post Doctoral Fellow at Oxford University’s newly created Centre for the Study of Inequality and Democracy (http://ocsid.politics.ox.ac.uk/) as well as a Research Fellow at Nuffield College.
Milada Anna Vacudova, associate professor of political science, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, published “Tempered by the EU? Political Parties and Party Systems Before and After Accession” in the September 2008 Journal of European Public Policy, in which she examines the tendency of political parties to moderate their policies and converge in the direction of domestic policy-making during the EU accession process.
Ms. Vacudova also published “Centre-Right Parties and Political Outcomes in East Central Europe” in the July 2008 Party Politics.
Tatu Vanhanen, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Tampere, Finland, and visiting researcher of political science, University of Helsinki, published The Limits of Democratization: Climate, Intelligence, and Resource Distribution (Washington Summit Publishers) in which he argues that “it is probably never possible to achieve the same level and quality of democracy in all countries of the world because of the impact of the two ultimate constraining factors—“annual mean temperature and national IQ.”
Ming Xia, professor of political science, City University of New York, was one of the producers (in collaboration with Jon Alpert, Matthew O’Neill, Peter Kwong, and Michelle Mi) for the HBO Documentary on “China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province.” The documentary examines the May 12, 2008, earthquake in the Sichuan Province in rural China that killed nearly 70,000 people, including 10,000 children. In many towns, poorly constructed school buildings crumbled, wiping out classrooms filled with students, most of them their parents’ only child. When grieving mothers and fathers sought explanations and justice, they faced incompetence, corruption, and empty promises. The movie had its premiere on HBO on May 7 and 12, 2009.
The Southern Political Science Association has issued a call for proposals for its annual conference in Atlanta Georgia on January 7–9, 2010. Proposals will be considered for any of the conference’s 27 sections, which include “Elections and Voting,” “Public Opinion,” and “Political Parties.” More information about the conference and instructions for submitted proposals is available at www.spsa.net. Proposals must be received by August 5, 2009.
Call for Applications: Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowships
The Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship Program at the Washington, D.C.-based National Endowment for Democracy invites applications for fellowships in 2010–2011. The program enables democracy activists, practitioners, scholars, and journalists from around the world to deepen their understanding of democracy and enhance their ability to promote democratic change. Dedicated to international exchange, this five-month, residential program offers a collegial environment for fellows to reflect on their experiences and consider lessons learned; conduct research and writing; develop contacts and exchange ideas with counterparts in Washington, D.C.; and build ties that contribute to the development of a global network of democracy advocates. The program is intended primarily to support activists, practitioners, and scholars from developing and aspiring democracies; distinguished scholars from established democracies are also eligible to apply. A working knowledge of English is required. All fellows receive a monthly stipend, health insurance, travel assistance, and research support. The application deadline for fellowships in 2010–2011 is Monday, November 2, 2009. For more information and application instructions, please visit www.ned.org/forum/reagan-fascell.html or contact fellowships@ned.org.
Master’s Degree in Democracy and Democratization at University College London
The Master’s Degree in Democracy and Democratization at University College London focuses on the design and operation of democratic institutions in new and old democracies. More information about the program is available at www.ucl.ac.uk/spp/teaching/masters-programme/msc-democracy-democratisation or by contacting Sherrill Stroschein at s.stroschein@ucl.ac.uk.
6. RECENT CONFERENCES
On February 15–18, 2009, the International Studies Association held its 50th annual meeting in New York City. The theme of this year’s convention was “Exploring the Past, Anticipating the Future” and featured panels included “Regions, Borders, and Democracy,” “Democracy and Legitimacy,” and “The Resource Curse and Democracy.” A preliminary program is available at www.isanet.org/newyork2009/.
On March 26–29, 2009, the Asian Studies Association held its annual conference in Chicago, Illinois. Panel topics included “Migration and Political Incorporation in Asian Democracies,” “Explosions of Democracy: Conflict and Consensus in New Modalities of Governance in South Asia,” and “Ten Years of Indonesian Electoral Democracy.” Papers presented at the conference are available at www.aasianst.org/absts/2009abst/main-toc.htm.
On April 7–9, 2009, the Political Studies Association held its 59th annual conference in Manchester, England. The theme of this year’s conference was “Challenges for Democracy in a Global Era.” Panel topics include “Comparative Democracy,” “Social Democracy and Political Economy,” and “Media and European Democracies.” The conference program and full text of the papers presented are available at www.psa.ac.uk/2009/index.html.
7. FUTURE CONFERENCES
On July 12–16, 2009, the International Political Science Association will hold its XXI IPSA World Congress of Political Science in Santiago, Chile. The theme of this year’s conference is “Global Discontent? Dilemmas of Change.” More information about the Congress is available at http://secure.santiago2009.org/.
On September 3–6, 2009, the American Political Science Association will hold its annual meeting in Toronto, Canada. The theme of this year’s conference is “Politics in Motion: Change and Complexity in the Contemporary Era.” More information is available at www.apsanet.org/content_2665.cfm?navID=193.
8. NEW RESEARCH
Journal of Democracy
The April 2009 (Volume 20, no. 2) issue of the Journal of Democracy features a cluster of articles on Reading Russia, as well as individual articles on religion and democracy, Singapore, Venezuela, Ghana, Kosovo, and NATO. The full text of selected articles and the tables of contents of all issues are available on the Journal’s Web site.
“Religion and Democracy” by Jean Bethke Elshtain
The secularization hypothesis has failed, and failed spectacularly. We must find a new paradigm to help us understand the complexities of the relationship between religion and democracy.
“Singapore: Does Authoritarianism Pay?” by Marco Verwij and Riccardo Pelizzo
The same policies that fostered decades of prosperity in Singapore have also led to longer-term economic ills that might have been averted in a freer society.
Reading Russia
There is no consensus about the name of the political system in Moscow today. Yet how one understands the motivations propelling Russian policy abroad depends on how one understands its regime at home.
I. “The Wounds of Lost Empire” by Ghia Nodia
II. “It’s No Mystery” by Garry Kasparov
III. “Tools of Autocracy” by Vitali Silitski
IV. “Forms Without Substance” by Archie Brown
V. “The Dying Mutant” by Andrei Piontkovsky
VI. “Is There a Key?” by Nadia Diuk
VII. “The Return of Personalized Power” by Lilia Shevtsova
VIII. “The Merger of Power and Property” by Leon Aron
IX. “The Siloviki in Charge” by Andrei Illarionov
X. “The Rules of Survival” by Ivan Krastev
“Hugo Chávez’s ‘Petro-Socialism’” by Manuel Hidalgo
Will Hugo Chávez’s victory in the 15 February 2009 vote to end term limits enable to drive Venezuela toward “Bolivarian socialism”? There are reasons to doubt this, but for now democracy’s prospects do not look encouraging.
The 2008 Freedom House Survey
“A Third Year of Decline” by Arch Puddington
Although 2008 was marked by democratic setbacks as well as authoritarian “pushback” against reformers, democracy remains the only system of government that commands global respect.
“NATO at Sixty” by Zoltan Barany
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization played a key role in safeguarding Western democracy during the Cold War. With that conflict over, NATO must continually adapt and evolve in a fast-changing world.
“The Consequences of Democratization” by Giovanni Carbone
For the past few decades, scholars have been focusing on the causes of democratization. It is now time to devote systematic attention to analyzing the costs and benefits that democracy brings.
“Another Step Forward in Ghana” by E. Gyimah-Boadi
Ghana held its fourth successful elections in late 2008 and subsequently witnessed the peaceful handover of power from ruling party to opposition. The country’s leaders must now reform its institutions of governance.
“Kosovo: Independence and Tutelage” by Oisín Tansey
In February 2008, Kosovo broke away from Serbia and declared its independence. But to what extent is it making progress toward its goals of sovereignty and democracy?
Democratization
The February 2009 (Volume 16, no. 1) issue of Democratization is a special issue on “The European Union’s Democratization Agenda in the Mediterranean: A Critical Inside-Out Approach.”
“The EU’s Democratization Agenda in the Mediterranean: A Critical Inside-Out Approach” by Michelle Pace, Peter Seeberg, and Francesco Cavatorta
“Political Islam in the Mediterranean: The View from Democratization Studies” by Frederic Volpi
“Paradoxes and Contradictions in EU Democracy Promotion in the Mediterranean: The Limits of EU Normative Power” by Michelle Pace
“Hamas in Transition: The Failure of Sanctions” by Are Hovdenak
“The EU as a Realist Actor in Normative Clothes: EU Democracy Promotion in Lebanon and the European Neighbourhood Policy” by Peter Seeberg
“Constraints on the Promotion of the Rule of Law in Egypt: Insights from the 2005 Judges’ Revolt” by Sarah Wolff
“Egypt’s Moment of Reform and Its Reform Actors: The Variety-Capability Gap” by Thomas Demmelhuber
“‘Divided They Stand, Divided They Fail:’ Opposition Politics in Morocco” by Francesco Cavatorta
“Islamist Moderation without Democratization: The Coming of Age of the Moroccan Party of Justice and Development?” by Eva Wegner and Miquel Pellicer
“Promoting Democracy in Algeria: The EU Factor and the Preferences of the Political Elite” by Ayse Aslihan Celenk
“A Clash of Norms: Normative Power and EU Democracy Promotion in Tunisia” by Brieg Tomos Powel
The April 2009 (Volume 16, no. 2) issue of Democratization includes articles on democratization after Iraq, democratic reform in the Netherlands, three worlds of post-communism, Ukraine after the Orange Revolution, and lustration programs in Romania and Poland.
“Losing ‘the Force?’ The ‘Dark Side’ of Democratization after Iraq” by Laurence Whitehead
“Democratic Reform between the Extreme Makeover and the Reinvention of Tradition: The Case of the Netherlands” by Frank Hendriks
“Leaders or Laggards: Engendering Sub-National Governance through Women’s Policy Machineries in Spain and Poland” by Meg E. Rincker and Candice D. Ortbals
“The Three Worlds of Post-Communism: Revisiting Deep and Proximate Explanations” by Jørgen Møller and Svend-Erik Skaaning
“Problems of Post-Post-Communism: Ukraine after the Orange Revolution” by Paul Kubicek
“Late Lustration Programmes in Romania and Poland: Supporting or Undermining Democratic Transitions?” by Cynthia M. Horne
“Popular Perceptions of Political Regimes in East and Southeast Asia” by Matthew Carlson and Mark Turner
“How to Classify Hybrid Regimes? Defective Democracy and Electoral Authoritarianism” by Matthijs Bogaards
SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES ON DEMOCRACY
This section features selected articles on democracy that appeared in journals received by the NED’s Democracy Resource Center, February 1–June 1.
American Political Science Review, Vol. 103, no. 1, February 2009
“Shaping Democratic Practice and the Causes of Electoral Fraud: The Case of Nineteenth-Century Germany” by Daniel Ziblatt
“Do Electoral Quotas Work after They Are Withdrawn? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in India” by Rikhil R. Bhavnani
“The Electoral Implications of Candidate Ambiguity” by Michael Tomz and Robert P. Van Houweling
Central Asian Survey, Vol. 28, no. 1, March 2009
“Centre-Periphery Relations in Afghanistan: Badakhshan between Patrimonialism and Institution-Building” by Antonio Giustozzi and Dominique Orsini
“Family Resources, Sitting at Home and Democratic Choice: Investigating Determinants of Educational Attainment in Post-Soviet Tajikistan” by Christopher M. Whitsel
“NGO Networks in Central Asia and Global Civil Society: Potentials and Limitations” by Charles Buxton
“Home-Grown Strategies for Greater Agency: Reassessing the Outcome of Civil Society Strengthening in Post-Soviet Kyrgyzstan” by Maija Paasiaro
Central Asian Survey, Vol. 27, no. 3-4, September–December 2008
“March and After: What Has Changed? What Has Stayed the Same?” by Erica Marat
“Situating the ‘Tulip Revolution’” by Sally N. Cummings and Maxim Ryabkov
“Kyrgyz Democracy? The Tulip Revolution and Beyond” by Shairbek Juraev
“The Dynamics of Regime Change: Domestic and International Factors in the ‘Tulip Revolution’” by David Lewis
“The North-South Cleavage and Political Support in Kyrgyzstan” by Maxim Ryabkov
“Informal Actors and Institutions in Mobilization: The Periphery in the ‘Tulip Revolution” by Azamat Temirkulov
“March 2005: Parliamentary Elections as a Catalyst of Protests” by Emir Kulov
“Diffusion as Discourse of Danger: Russian Self-Representations and the Framing of the Tulip Revolution” by Stefanie Ortmann
Communist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 42, no. 1, March 2009
“Membership in Voluntary Organizations and Democratic Performance: European Post-Communist Countries in Comparative Perspective” by Nikolay Valkov
“Old Welfare State Theories and New Welfare Regimes in Eastern Europe: Challenges and Implications” by Jolanta Aidukaite
“Diasporas and Democratization in the Post-Communist World” by Maria Koinova
“Varieties of Capitalism in Eastern Europe (with special emphasis on Estonia and Slovenia)” by Frane Adam, Primož Kristan, and Matevž Tomšic
“Contestable Constitutions: Ambiguity, Conflict, and Change in East Central European Dual Executive Systems” by Jasper de Raadt
“The Slovak Greens: A Complex Story of a Small Party” by Lubomír Kopecek
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 42, no. 5, May 2009
“What Moves Parties? The Role of Public Opinion and Global Economic Conditions in Western Europe” by James Adams, Andrea B. Haupt, and Heather Stoll
“The Armed Forces and Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Explaining the Role of the Military in 1986 Philippines and 1998 Indonesia” by Terence Lee
Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 42, no. 3, March 2009
“Are Parliamentary Systems Better?” by John Gerring, Strom C. Thacker, and Carola Moreno
“From Patronage to Program: The Emergence of Party-Oriented Legislators in Brazil” by Frances Hagopian, Carlos Gervasoni, and Juan Andres Moraes
“In the Shadow of Democracy Promotion: Strategic Manipulation, International Observers, and Election Boycotts” by Emily Beaulieu and Susan D. Hyde
“On the Duration of Political Power in Africa: The Role of Oil Rents” by Luc Désiré Omgba
“Constructing Tolerance: How the Welfare State Shapes Attitudes about Immigrants” by Markus M. L. Crepaz and Regan Damron
Contemporary Southeast Asia, Vol. 31, no. 1, April 2009
“Vietnam and the Challenge of Political Civil Society” by Carlyle A. Thayer
“Public Sector Reforms and Financial Transparency: Experiences from Indonesian Districts” by Stein Kristiansen, Agus Dwiyanto, Agus Pramusinto, and Erwan Agus Putranto
“Beyond the Barisan National? A Gramscian Perspective of the 2008 Malaysian General Election” by Michael O’Shannassy
East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 23, no. 2, Spring 2009
“The Politics of Public Spending in Post-Communist Countries” by Romana Careja and Patrick Emmenegger
East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 23, no. 1, Winter 2009
“The End of Postcommunism: Trade Unions in Eastern Europe’s Future” by David Ost
“Policing Yugoslavism: Surveillance, Denunciations, and Ideology during King Aleksandar’s Dictatorship, 1929–1934” by Christian Axboe Nielsen
“The Roots of the ‘Fourth Republic’: Solidarity’s Cultural Legacy to Polish Politics” by Robert Brier
“Too Ill to Find the Cure? Corruption, Institutions, and Health Care Sector Performance in the New Democracies of Central and Eastern Europe and Former Soviet Union” by Dagmar Radin
Foreign Affairs, Vol. 88, no. 2, March/April 2009
“How Development Leads to Democracy” by Ronald Inglehart and Christian Welzel
“Free at Last?” by Bernard Lewis
“Cambodia’s Curse” by Joel Brinkley
Government and Opposition, Vol. 44, no. 2, April 2009
“Analysing Women’s Substantive Representation: From Critical Mass to Critical Actors” by Sarah Childs and Mona Lena Krook
“Party Competition and the Resilience of Corporatism” by Mette Anthonsen and Johannes Lindvall
“Party-System Reform in Democracy’s Grey Zone: A Response to Moraski” by Kenneth Wilson
“Revisiting Russia’s Electoral System Reform: The Importance of Context and Comparative Perspective” by Bryon Moraski
“Party-System Reform in Democracy’s Grey Zone: An Addendum” by Kenneth Wilson
Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 31, no. 2, May 2009
“How ‘Transitions’ Reshaped Human Rights: A Conceptual History of Transitional Justice” by Paige Arthur
“Economic Rights and Political Decision Making” by Lanse Minkler
“Through the Window of Opportunity: The Transitional Justice Network in Peru” by Rebecca K. Root
“What Is Global Justice and Who Decides? Civil Society and Victim Responses to the International Criminal Court’s First Investigations” by Marlies Glasius
International Political Science Review, Vol. 30, no. 2, March 2009
“Presidentialization, Pluralization, and the Rollback of Itamaraty: Explaining Change in Brazilian Foreign Policy Making in the Cardoso-Lula Era” by Jeffrey W. Cason and Timothy J. Power
“The Politics of Tripartite Cooperation in New Democracies: A Multi-Level Analysis” by Jose Aleman
“From Insurgency to Democracy: The Challenges of Peace and Democracy-Building in Nepal” by Ganga B. Thapa and Jan Sharma
Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 9, no. 1, January–April 2009
“The Transnational Protection Regime and Taiwan’s Democratization” by Su-Mei Ooi
“The 2008 Malaysian Elections: An End to Ethnic Politics? By Thomas B. Pepinsky
“Japanese Lower House Campaigns in Transition: Manifest Changes or Fleeting Fads?” by Patrick Koellner
Pacific Affairs, Vol. 81, no. 4, Winter 2008–2009
“Democratization and Decentralization in Post-Soeharto Indonesia: Understanding Transition Dynamics” by Paul J. Carnegie
“Understanding Social Trajectories: Structure and Actor in the Democratization Debate” by Vedi R. Hadiz
“Were Chinese Liberals Liberal? Reflections on the Understanding of Liberalism in Modern China
Party Politics, Vol. 15, no. 2, March 2009
“Multi-Level Relations in Political Parties: A Delegation Approach” by Pieter van Houten
“Patterns of Party Integration, Influence and Autonomy in Seven Federations” by Lori Thorlakson
“The Saliency of Regionalization in Party Systems: A Comparative Analysis of Regional Decentralization in Party Manifestos” by Martino Mazzoleni
Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 124, no. 1, Spring 2009
“How Countries Democratize” by Samuel P. Huntington
World Politics, Vol. 61, no. 2, April 2009
“Institutions, Partisanship, and Inequality in the Long Run” by Kenneth Scheve and David Stasvage
“The Competitive Road to Proportional Representation: Partisan Biases and Electoral Regime Change under Increasing Party Competition” by Ernesto Calvo
“Revisiting the Role of Labor: Worker Solidarity, Employer Opposition, and the Development of Old-Age Pensions in the Netherlands and the United Kingdom” by Dennie Oude Nijhuis
“Seeing Double: Human Rights Impact through Qualitative and Quantitative Eyes” by Emilie M. Hafner-Burton and James Ron
SELECTED NEW BOOKS ON DEMOCRACY
ADVANCED DEMOCRACIES
Creating a Nation of Joiners: Democracy and Civil Society in Early National Massachusetts. By Johann N. Neem. Harvard University Press, 2008. 259 pp.
Europe’s Global Role: External Policies of the European Union. Edited by Jan Orbie. Ashgate, 2008. 267 pp.
Muslims in Western Politics. Edited by Abdulkader H. Sinno. Indiana University Press, 2008. 301 pp.
Presidential Constitutionalism in Perilous Times. By Scott M. Matheson, Jr. Harvard University Press, 2009. 235 pp.
Real Enemies: Conspiracy Theories and American Democracy, World War I to 9/11. By Kathryn S. Olmsted. Oxford University Press, 2009. 320 pp.
Social Democracy in Sweden: The Threat from a Globalized World. By Dimitris Tsarouhas. Tauris Academic Studies, 2008. 275 pp.
The Life of Benjamin Franklin. Vol. 3, Soldier, Scientist, and Politician, 1748–1757. By J.A. Leo Lemay. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 768 pp.
AFRICA
Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Africa. Edited by Terence O. Ranger. Oxford University Press, 2008. 267 pp.
Human Rights NGOs in East Africa: Political and Normative Tensions. Edited by Makau Mutua. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 390 pp.
Reconstructing the Third Wave of Democracy: Comparative African Democratic Politics. By Rita Kiki Edozie. University Press of America, 2009. 220 pp.
ASIA
Beyond the Final Score: The Politics of Sport in Asia. By Victor D. Cha. Columbia University Press, 2009. 200 pp.
Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective, 1956–2006. Vol. 1, The Realm of Ideas: Inquiry and Theory. By Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. Oxford University Press, 2008. 324 pp.
Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective, 1956–2006. Vol. 2, The
Realm of Institutions: State Formation and Institutional Change. By Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. Oxford University Press, 2008. 344 pp.
Explaining Indian Democracy: A Fifty-Year Perspective, 1956–2006. Vol. 3, The Realm of the Public Sphere: Identity and Policy. By Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph. Oxford University Press, 2008. 435 pp.
Fighting for Foreigners: Immigration and Its Impact on Japanese Democracy. By Apichai W. Shipper. Cornell University Press, 2008. 216 pp.
Indian Secularism: A Social and Intellectual History, 1890–1950. By Shabnum Tejani. Indiana University Press, 2008. 302 pp.
Making U.S. Foreign Policy Toward South Asia: Regional Imperatives and the Imperial Presidency. Edited by Lloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph.
Indiana University Press, 2008. 439 pp.
Women and Politics in Thailand: Continuity and Change. Edited by Kazuki Iwanaga. NIAS Press, 2008. 284 pp.
Women’s Political Participation and Representation in Asia: Obstacles and Challenges. Edited by Kazuki Iwanaga. NIAS Press, 2008. 315 pp.
EASTERN EUROPE AND THE FORMER SOVIET UNION
How Ukraine Became a Market Economy and Democracy. By Anders Åslund. Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2009. 345 pp.
Transitional Justice in Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union: Reckoning with the Communist Past. Edited by Lavinia Stan. Routledge, 2009. 307 pp.
Understanding Post-Communist Transformation: A Bottom Up Approach. By Richard Rose. Routledge, 2009. 223 pp.
War and Peace in the Caucasus: Ethnic Conflict and the New Geopolitics. By Vicki Cheterian. Columbia University Press, 2009. 395 pp.
LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN
Bacardi and the Long Fight for Cuba. By Tom Gjelten. Viking, 2008. 413 pp.
The Cuba Wars: Fidel Castro, the United States, and the Next Revolution. By
Daniel P. Erikson. Bloomsbury Press, 2008. 368 pp.
Evangelical Christianity and Democracy in Latin America. Edited by Paul Freston. Oxford University Press, 2008. 250 pp.
Haiti in the Balance: Why Foreign Aid Has Failed and What We Can Do About It.
By Terry F. Buss with Adam Gardner. Brookings Institution Press, 2008. 230 pp.
The Illusion of Civil Society: Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico. By Jon Shefner. Pennsylvania University Press, 2008. 224 pp.
New Voices in the Study of Democracy in Latin America. Edited by Guillermo O’Donnell, Joseph S. Tulchin, and Augusto Varas, with Adam Stubits. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2009. 374 pp.
The Rise and Fall of Repression in Chile. By Pablo Policzer. University of Notre Dame Press, 2009. 242 pp.
Rural Resistance in the Land of Zapata: The Jaramillista Movement and the Myth of
the Pax Priista, 1940–1962. By Tanalis Padilla. Duke University Press, 2008. 285 pp.
Savage Democracy: Institutional Change and Party Development in Mexico. By Steven T. Wuhs. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 178 pp.
MIDDLE EAST
Palestinian Civil Society: Foreign Donors and the Power to Promote and Exclude. By Benoît Challand. Routledge, 2009. 266 pp.
Restoring the Balance: A Middle East Strategy for the Next President. By Richard N. Haass et al. The Brookings Institution Press and the Council on Foreign Relations,
2008. 232 pp.
COMPARATIVE, THEORETICAL, GENERAL
After Hitler: Recivilizing Germans, 1945–1995. By Konrad H. Jarausch. Oxford
University Press, 2009. 379 pp.
Assessing the Impact of Transitional Justice: Challenges for Empirical Research.
Edited by Hugo van der Merwe, Victoria Baxter, and Audrey R. Chapman.
U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2008. 376 pp.
Building Party Systems in Developing Democracies. By Allen Hicken. Cambridge
University Press, 2009. 207 pp.
China in Africa. Edited by Arthur Waldron. Jamestown Foundation, 2008. 113 pp.
China into Africa: Trade, Aid and Influence. Edited by Robert I. Rotberg. Brookings Institution Press, 2008. 339 pp.
The Consolidation of Democracy: Comparing Europe and Latin America. By Carsten Q. Schneider. Routledge, 2009. 184 pp.
Conversations with Tocqueville: The Global Democratic Revolution of the
Twenty-First Century. Edited by Aurelian Craiutu and Sheldon Gellar. Lexington, 2009. 337 pp.
Counter-Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust. By Pierre Rosanvallon, Translated by Arthur Goldhammer. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 336 pp.
Demagogue: The Fight to Save Democracy from Its Worst Enemies. By Michael Signer. Palgrave Macmillian, 2009. 272 pp.
Democracy: Anthropological Approaches. Edited by Julia Paley. School for Advanced
Research Press, 2008. 263 pp.
Democracy as Culture: Deweyan Pragmatism in a Globalizing World. Edited by Sor-hoon Tan and John Whalen-Bridge. State University of New York Press, 2008. 218 pp.
Democratic Deficits: Addressing Challenges to Sustainability and Consolidation Around the World. Edited by Gary Bland and Cynthia J. Arnson. Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2009. 204 pp.
Globalizing Democracy: Power, Legitimacy and the Interpretation of Democratic
Ideas. 2nd ed. By Katherine Fierlbeck. Manchester University Press, 2008. 269 pp.
The Handbook of National Legislatures: A Global Survey. By M. Steven Fish and Matthew Kroenig. Cambridge University Press, 2009. 800 pp.
Human Rights and Peace: Ideas, Laws, Institutions and Movements. Edited by Ujjwal Kumar Singh. Sage, 2008. 345 pp.
Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies: The Interplay of Values and Institutions.
By Vicki L. Birchfield. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008. 244 pp.
Legislative Voting and Accountability. By John M. Carey. Cambridge University Press, 2008. 199 pp.
Majority Rule Versus Consensus: The Political Thought of John C. Calhoun. By James H. Read. University Press of Kansas, 2009. 276 pp.
Power and Responsibility: Building International Order in an Era of Transnational Threats. By Bruce Jones, Carlos Pascual, and Stephen John Stedman. Brookings Institution Press, 2009. 360 pp.
The Robust Federation: Principles of Design. By Jenna Bednar. Cambridge University
Press, 2008. 242 pp.
The Soul of a Leader: Character, Conviction, and Ten Lessons in Political Greatness.
By Walter R. Newell. HarperCollins, 2009. 344 pp.
The State of Access: Success and Failure of Democracies to Create Equal Opportunities. Edited by Jorrit de Jong and Gowher Rizvi. Brookings Institution
Press, 2009. 298 pp.
Taking Leave of Abraham: An Essay on Religion and Democracy. By Troels Nørager. Aarhus University Press, 2008. 260 pp.
Voting and Elections the World Over. By Vassia Gueorguieva and Rita J. Simon. Lexington, 2008. 187 pp.