Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy

Asking what makes a good democracy is a noble and sensible enterprise, but it will always point beyond the borders of empirical political science.

The Chinese state is much weaker than most people realize, which bodes ill for the country’s democratic prospects.

In March 2002, three-fifths of Ukraine’s voters chose a party or coalition opposed to the overbearing presidential apparatus of Leonid Kuchma, but the antipresidential forces found themselves frozen out in…