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 21, Issue 4

The Authoritarian Challenge

A review of Victorious and Vulnerable: Why Democracy Won in the 20th Century and How It Is Still Imperiled by Azar Gat.

Volume 1, Issue 2

Stabilizing Latin Democracy

A review of Democracy in the Americas: Stopping the Pendulum, edited by Robert A. Pastor.

Volume 17, Issue 1

Islam and Liberty

A review of The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations Is Not Inevitable. By Michael Novak.