Assessing the prospects for democracy requires a simple definition of what is meant by"
democracy," a comparative survey of the world in terms of this defini tion, and an ability to …

This book is a thorough investigation into the requisites of democracy. Based on data from
all 132 sovereign states of the Third World, it first establishes a scale to measure the level of …

When Guillermo O'Donnell and I were writing Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Tentative
Conclusion about Uncertain Democracies a quarter of a century ago, we had few cases and …

The 1980s, and particularly the final stunning years of that decade, recorded extraordinary
progress for democracy around the world. It could even be argued that the decade saw the …

Over their long history, democratic governments have undergone extraordinary changes in
their scope and institutions. These changes were a result mainly of altered historical …

This chapter discusses the contested concept of democracy itself, and sketches the
problems of democratization. The major period of re-creation of democracy began with the …

Stalin, and Mussolini. For all of them insist in the shrillest tones, that the regimes they control
are actually, despite appearances, democracies “in a higher sense.” For example, Mussolini …

I have entitled my subject" the prospects of democracy"; but my object this evening is not to
prophesy the future, but simply to analyse existing conditions and perhaps also to open out …

In both contemporary practice and current theory, democracy has two striking qualities. First,
it is intimately associated with progress, legitimacy, fairness and other values which are …

Before turning to Moore's theory, two critical terms, democracy and stability, need to be
clarified. By democracy I mean that set of characteristics commonly understood to form the …