January 1995

The Tide Underneath the “Third Wave”

• Henry S. Rowen

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Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital

• Robert D. Putnam

Something happened in America starting in the mid-to-late twentieth century to diminish civic engagement and social connectedness. What could that “something” be? Why were fewer and fewer Americans going the polls, the pews, and town halls?

Europe After Utopianism

• François Furet

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Toleration and the New Arab Politics

• Kanan Makiya

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Georgia’s Identity Crisis

• Ghia Nodia

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Ukraine at the Crossroads

• Adrian Karatnycky

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Malawi’s New Dream

• Daniel N. Posner

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Redemocratization in Chile

• Manuel Antonio Garretón

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Fighting for Press Freedom

• Adam Feinstein

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Tyranny and Myth

• Vladimir Tismaneanu

A review of The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991, by Martin Malia and Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age, by Daniel Chirot.

Italy’s Civic Divide

• Leonardo Morlino

A review of Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy, by Robert D. Putnam, with Robert Leonardi and Raffaella Y. Nanetti.

Documents on Democracy

Excerpts from: a speech by Secretary General of the Organization of American States César Gaviria-Trujillo, former president of Colombia; “Resolution on Democratization in the Asia-Pacific Region”; the inaugural address of Mexican president Ernesto Zedillo Ponce de León.

Election Watch

Reports on elections in Botswana, Brazil, Macedonia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, São Tomé and Príncipe, Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Uruguay.