Author: Sylvia Maxfield | Journal of Democracy

Articles by Sylvia Maxfield:

October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4

Comparing East Asia and Latin America: Capital Mobility and Democratic Stability

Sylvia Maxfield

Despite the persistent doomsaying about the political consequences of untrammeled international capital flows, financial liberalization may actually contribute to democratic consolidation.

Books:

The Self-Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies

Marc F. Plattner
Larry Diamond
Andreas Schedler

"[This] elegantly written and rigorously structured volume … constitutes an important landmark in the comparative study of democratization."—Carlos Santiso, Forum for Development Studies

Emerging Market Democracies: East Asia and Latin America

Laurence Whitehead

"Emerging Market Democracies provides useful insights into topics that connect market economies to various nations' politics, especially efforts at democratization, and compares and contrasts two important regions of the world in their quests for modernization."—John F. Copper, Asian Affairs