This book proposes a range of new perspectives on the complex linkages between democratization and state formation, on the logic of paired comparisons and comparisons between large regions of the world and on the relationship between ...

The essays in this volume examine democracy’s development in the United States, demonstrating how that process has shaped—and continues to shape—the American political system.

Democratization covers several key themes including: 1. Theories of democratization and their relation to democratic theory; 2. Critical prerequisites and driving social forces of democratic transition; 3.

This book examines the prospects for democracy in the world today and frames the central dilemma confronting all states touched by the process of democratization.

Yet data produced by the American government are getting worse and costing more. In Democratizing Our Data, Julia Lane argues that good data are essential for democracy.

This book provides balanced, critical, and comprehensive coverage of the theories and realities of autocratization and democratization.

What are the pitfalls and the positive potentials in the growing trend toward democratization?This book examines the prospects for democracy in the world today and frames the central dilemma confronting all states touched by the process of ...

The second edition of this popular and authoritative text provides a truly global assessment of democratization in theory and practice in the contemporary world.

Applying more than a year of original fieldwork in Egypt, Iran, Malaysia, and the Philippines, in this book Jason Brownlee shows that the mixed record of recent democratization is best deciphered through a historical and institutional ...

This volume takes readers in the direction of predicting and foretelling the future of democracy and democratization with greater accuracy.