Description
Book SynopsisLindberg, University of Florida; Sara Meerow, University of Amsterdam; James Raymond Vreeland, Georgetown University; Sharon L. Wolchik, George Washington University
Trade ReviewThis volume is an engaging survey of what is known and not known about the causes and consequences of democratization. Foreign Affairs
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Part I: Democracy and Dictatorship
Chapter 1. Hybrid Regimes: When Democracy and Autocracy Mix
Chapter 2. Dictatorship and Democracy through the Prism of Arab Elections
Chapter 3. The Unexpected Resilience of Latin American Democracy
Chapter 4. Sustaining Party Rule in China: Coercion, Co- optation, and Their Consequences
Chapter 5. Fighting Reversion: Strong Legislatures as the Key to Bolstering Democracy
Part II: Democracy and Development
Chapter 6. Economic Development and Demo cratization
Chapter 7. Persistent Authoritarianism and the Future of Democracy in Africa
Chapter 8. Democracy and Development: Legacy Effects
Part III: Does Democracy Diffuse?
Chapter 9. Policy Makers, Intellectuals, and Democracy Promotion in Twentieth-Century American Foreign Policy
Chapter 10. International Dimensions of Elections
Chapter 11. International Diffusion and Demo cratic Change
Conclusion
List of Contributors
Index
