This article reviews recent events in Russia and demonstrates that future progress in
developing private property rights will require not only sound economic policies but also …

Populism and Liberal Democracy is the first book to offer a comprehensive theory about
populism during both its emergence and consolidation phases in three geographical …

Why do some autocracies remain stable while others collapse? This article presents a
theoretical framework that seeks to explain the longevity of autocracies by referring to three …

Offering a single, coherent framework of the political, economic, and social phenomena that
characterize post-communist regimes, this is the most comprehensive work on the subject to …

Several years after the Arab Spring began, democracy remains elusive in the Middle East.
The Arab Spring that resides in the popular imagination is one in which a wave of mass …

By 1996, 66% of the countries of the world were using elections to choose their top leaders.
This wave of democratization was accompanied by a paradigm shift that took the large …

The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to
risk's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth …

Efforts to install democracy in African countries are powerfully shaped by the continent's
recent political and institutional legacies. In this book, Michael Bratton and Nicolas van de …

This article proposes revisions to the theory of political transitions by analyzing patterns of
recent popular challenges to neopatrimonial rule in Africa. The approach is explicitly …

The author's objective within this book is to place the Arab world within a theoretical and
comparative framework that avoids both orientalist and fundamentalist insistence on the …