Economic Reform and Democracy
The Editors’ introduction to the Journal of Democracy’s special issue on “Economic Reform and Democracy.”
October 1994
Volume 5, Issue 4
The Challenges of Consolidation
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The Myth of the Authoritarian Advantage
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Latin America: The Second Stage of Reform
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Linkages Between Politics and Economics
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The Case for Radical Reform
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Understanding Postcommunist Transitions
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The Puzzle of East Asian Exceptionalism
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Challenging the Conventional Wisdom
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An Alternative for Africa
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Africa: Back to the Future?
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Democratization and Business Interests
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The Problems of Simultaneous Transitions
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South Africa Turns the Corner
A review of South Africa: The Political Economy of Transformation, edited by Stephen John Stedman.
Election Watch
Reports on elections in Barbados, Belarus, Colombia, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Guinea-Bissau, Mexico, Panama, Sri Lanka, Ukraine.
Documents on Democracy
Excerpts from: the statement of Wangarí Maathai, the founder and head of the Kenyan Greenbelt Movement; recommendations from the First International Conference on the Peoples of the Arab World and the Middle East and the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Minorities.