Politics and Development

Issue Date January 2001
Volume 12
Issue 1
Page Numbers 170-174
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A review of Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-being in the World 1950-1990, by Adam Przeworski, Michael E. Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, and Fernando Limongi.

About the Author

Yi Feng, associate professor at Claremont Graduate University’s School of Politics and Economics, is the author of Financial Market Reform in China: Problems, Progress, and Prospects (2000), as well as numerous articles on economic and political development.

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Further Reading

Volume 10, Issue 3

The Churchill Hypothesis

Review of Democracy and Its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies, by Richard Rose, William Mishler, and Christian Haerpfer. 

Volume 24, Issue 4

Separated at Birth?

A review of The Promise of Power: The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan by Maya Tudor.

Volume 8, Issue 3

Theory in Pursuit of Practice

A review of The Political Economy of Democratic Transitions, by Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman.