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Democracy is very much back in vogue. Not only in theory but in practice. And possibly even more in practice than in theory. At the moment the news is, to be sure, encouraging; so, too, is the weight of evidence both bracing and positive for students of government and politics.
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Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela (eds), The Failure of Presidential Democracy: Comparative Perspective (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994).
Robert A. Dahl, Democracy and Its Critics (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1989), p. 275.
Dankwart Rustow, A World of Nations: Problems of Political Modernization (Washington, DC: The Brookings Institution 1967).
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G. Bingham Powell, Jr., Contemporary Democracies: Participation, Stability, and Violence (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1982), p. 5.
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Samuel P. Huntington, ‘Will more countries become democratic?’, Political Science Quarterly, 99: 2, Summer 1984, 217.
John Dunn (ed), Democracy: The Unfinished Journey, 508 BC to AD 1993 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), p. 239.
See Nancy Bermeo, ‘Rethinking Regime Change’, Comparative Politics 22:3, April 1990 359–77.
Examples include Giuseppe Di Palma, To Craft Democracies (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990);
Yossi Shain and Juan J. Linz, Between States: Interim Governments and Democratic Transitions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
See Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), p. 25.
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Shain, Y., Klieman, A. (1997). Introduction. In: Shain, Y., Klieman, A. (eds) Democracy: The Challenges Ahead. St Antony’s Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-25776-8_1
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