Comparative Democratization
\nSection 35 of\u00a0the American Political Science Association<\/i><\/p>\n
Newsletter
\nVolume 1, Number 2, August 2003<\/p>\n
Table of Contents<\/p>\n 1.\u00a0Current Section Officers <\/strong> Chair (2001\u20132003) Vice-chair (2002\u20132004) Secretary (2002\u20132004) Treasurer (2001\u20132003) Member-at-Large (2001\u20132003) Newsletter Editor (ex officio) <\/a>NOTE FROM THE CHAIR\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n We have a terrific program of panels for this year’s APSA meetings, which Tom Skladony has outlined for you in an earlier message.\u00a0 I want to urge you to attend as many of these panels as possible, not only because they are topical and cutting edge but because the more people who attend our panels the more panels we get to field next year.<\/p>\n I want to urge you all to come to our business meeting and reception which promise to be very exciting.\u00a0 We have two very exciting proposals, from Larry Diamond and Nancy Bermeo, which will do great things for our Section and for the cause of democratization research.\u00a0 Come and find out what they are from them!<\/p>\n I want to express our section\u2019s appreciation to the National Endowment for Democracy\u2019s International Foundation for Democratic Studies for graciously cosponsoring our reception this year. This has happened because the International Forum is bringing several visiting democracy scholars from abroad to the APSA meetings.\u00a0 They will be introduced at our business meeting and will be our special guests at the reception.\u00a0 Come meet them and help give personal meaning to our Section\u2019s international commitment to democratization!<\/p>\n If that were not enough, our Section will make its first best article and best book awards at the business meeting.\u00a0 Do come and learn who the winners are and for what publications!<\/p>\n It has been a terrific honor and great fun to be the Comparative Democratization Section\u2019s first chair. In this, my final message as chair, I want to take this opportunity to thank everyone who has worked so hard to make the section work over its first two years of existence, beginning with the over 600 members we have acquired in that time!\u00a0Particular thanks to Cynthia McClintock (see the first section news item, below) who succeeds me and to at large member Carol Nechemias, who also leaves the Steering Committee at these meetings, who collaborated with me in founding the section.\u00a0 I am deeply indebted, too, to those who have served on the Steering Committee over this period for generous and indispensable collaboration: Nancy Bermeo, Harry Blair, Carol Nechemias, Bill Reisinger, Fred Schaffer, Andreas Schedler, and Leslie Anderson. Special thanks, too, to Tom Skladony who has served so capably as our Communications Director.\u00a0 Atul Kohli and Michael McFaul have constructed outstanding programs for our APSA meetings.\u00a0My thanks to the committees who sifted through many outstanding books and articles to come up with the first award winners.\u00a0The book committee:\u00a0 Gretchen Casper (chair), Michael Foley, and Abdeselam Maghraoui. The article committee: Nic van de Walle (chair), Eva Bellin, Valerie Bunce, and Eric Thun.\u00a0 And thanks to Bill Reisinger, Goran Hyden and Deborah Yashar for finding this year\u2019s new officers.\u00a0Lastly, may I express my appreciation to Michael Brintnall and his predecessor Catherine Rudder of the APSA for the wonderful support our section has received from them and their colleagues.<\/p>\n Finally my congratulations and best wishes to Cynthia and Bill who I know will do outstanding work\u2014along with the continuing members of the Steering Committee\u2014in leading the Section from strength to strength.\u00a0 I know you will all give them the same wonderful support you have given your retiring officers.<\/p>\n Very best wishes to one and all, <\/a>EDITOR\u2019S NOTE I would like to second John Harbeson\u2019s invitation to participate in our section\u2019s annual business meeting and to attend the reception on Saturday, August 30. As you will read below, the International Forum for Democratic Studies will cosponsor the reception with the Comparative Democratization section in honor of eleven democracy scholars from abroad who are attending this year\u2019s APSA meeting. Our guests are eager to meet their U.S. counterparts, and we hope that many of you will have an opportunity to do so at this reception.<\/p>\n In closing, I wish to extend my thanks to John Harbeson for the opportunity to collaborate with him in launching this newsletter. It has been a true pleasure to work with John and to see our section grow rapidly under his leadership.<\/p>\n Tom Skladony<\/p>\n <\/a>SECTION NEWS<\/strong><\/p>\n Election of New Section Officers:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Elections for the two section officers whose terms expire in 2003 (section chair and treasurer) were conducted by electronic ballot in June 2003. We are pleased to report that Cynthia McClintock, professor of political science at George Washington University, was elected chair and that William Reisinger, associate provost, University of Iowa, was elected treasurer. Congratulations to both new officers, who will serve two-year terms ending in 2005.<\/p>\n Comparative Democratization Panels at 2003 APSA Annual Meeting:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The Comparative Democratization section will sponsor twenty panel sessions at the 2003 annual meeting of the American Political Science Association in Philadelphia, August 27\u201331. Program chair Michael McFaul has done a\u00a0tremendous job in organizing the many ideas submitted to him into coherent sessions; a preliminary listing of our section\u2019s panels is available at\u00a0http:\/\/www.apsanet.org\/mtgs\/program\/divisions.cfm<\/a>.<\/p>\n Papers from the 2002 Annual Meeting:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Papers presented at the 2002 APSA annual meeting are still available at\u00a0http:\/\/apsaproceedings.cup.org\/Site\/panels\/045\/D045.htm<\/a>, but only until the 2003 APSA meeting begins, when they will be replaced by papers from the forthcoming meeting. If you have been waiting to download or print a paper from last year\u2019s meeting, there are only a few more days to do so.<\/p>\n Annual Business Meeting and Reception:<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The Comparative Democratization section will hold its annual business meeting and reception as part of the APSA annual meeting in Philadelphia. We will meet in the Philadelphia Marriott, Salon I, on Saturday, August 30 at 6:15 p.m. Please note that our meeting is listed incorrectly as being on Friday in the APSA preliminary program. The correct day is Saturday. Among the more important items on this year\u2019s agenda are new officers and the presentation of our section\u2019s first best paper, best article, and best book awards. Despite the full agenda we do expect to finish the business meeting by 7 p.m. so we may immediately begin our annual reception. This year\u2019s reception will be cohosted by the International Forum for Democratic Studies, which is bringing eleven international scholars from its Network of Democracy Research Institutes (see next item) to this year\u2019s APSA annual meeting. Please make every effort to join us at the meeting, then stay to socialize with a\u00a0fascinating group of our colleagues from abroad.<\/p>\n The Network of Democracy Research Institutes (NDRI)<\/strong>, a\u00a0global association of organizations that conduct research on democratization, will host eleven scholars from international think-tanks at the 2003 APSA annual meeting in Philadelphia. Political scientists from China, Colombia, Georgia, Ghana, Korea, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, South Africa, Thailand, and Turkey will attend APSA panel sessions, meet with U.S.-based colleagues, and then participate in a day-long workshop for think-tank researchers on August 31. For more information about the NDRI or the August 31 workshop, please see\u00a0http:\/\/www.wmd.org\/ndri\/ndri.html<\/a>, or write to Tom Skladony (tom@ned.org<\/a>).<\/p>\n <\/a>NEWS FROM MEMBERS<\/strong><\/p>\n With this issue we are pleased to inaugurate a new section of the newsletter, featuring news items submitted by members about their latest publications, conference presentations, appointments, and other activities.<\/p>\n The Committee on Concepts and Methods of the International Political Science Association (IPSA) has announced that the recipients of its 2003 Award for Conceptual Innovation in Democratic Studies are Gerardo L. Munck (University of Southern California) and Jay Verkuilen (University of Illinois, Champaign\u2013Urbana). The two scholars were honored for their article, \u201cConceptualizing and Measuring Democracy: Evaluating Alternative Indices,\u201d which was published in the February 2002 issue of\u00a0Comparative Political Studies<\/em>. The $1,500 award is presented every three years by the IPSA Committee on Concepts and Methods and the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) in Mexico City. For more information visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.concepts-methods.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n Kay Lawson, professor emerita, San Francisco State University (klawson@sfsu.edu<\/a>); and James Meadowcroft, professor of politics, University of Sheffield (j.meadowcroft@sheffiled.ac.uk<\/a>), invite section members to correspond with them in their capacity as editors of the\u00a0International Political Science Review<\/em>. The editors would be happy to hear both from scholars who have manuscripts to submit as well as those willing to review submissions in particular subfields. For more information about the IPSR please visit\u00a0http:\/\/www.ipsa.ca\/en\/publications\/review.shtml<\/a>.<\/p>\n William J. Crotty, professor of political science and director of the Center for the Study of Democracy at Northeastern University, edited\u00a0The Politics of Terror: The U.S. Response to 9\/11<\/em>\u00a0(Northeastern University Press, forthcoming 2003), in which a team of experts address the question of how a democracy faces the challenge of balancing legitimate homeland security concerns against the rights and freedoms of its citizens.<\/p>\n John P. Entelis, professor of political science and director of the Middle East Studies Program at Fordham University, encourages section members who conduct research on North Africa (from Morocco to Egypt and Sudan) to consider submitting manuscripts to the\u00a0Journal of North African Studies<\/em>, a quarterly published by Frank Cass Publishers. Please write to Professor Entelis at\u00a0entelis@fordham.edu<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n <\/a>RECENT CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n eps<\/em>Net (www.epsnet.org<\/a>) a new association of European political scientists, held it 2003 plenary conference, \u201cPolitical Scientists in the New Europe,\u201d in Paris on June 13\u201314, 2003. The meeting focused on the challenges facing the political science profession due to increasing student mobility, the development of a pan-Europe labor market, different national standards for research and teaching, and the role of political scientists in public-policy debates. For more information, visit\u00a0www.epsnet.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 2003 World Congress of the International Political Science Association was held in Durban, South Africa from June 29 to July 4. The theme of the 2003 meeting was \u201cDemocracy, Tolerance, Justice: Challenges for Political Change.\u201d Panels were organized under such subthemes as the politics of remembrance; political tolerance; globalization then and now; justice, race, and ethnicity; parties and elections; and the prospects for democracy in Africa. For more information, visit\u00a0www.ipsa.ca\/congress\/congress\/congress.asp<\/a>.<\/p>\n The\u00a0first Central American Political Science Congress was held in San Jos\u00e9, Costa Rica from August 12\u201314, 2003. The meeting included panel sessions on political parties, electoral processes, political economy and civil society in Central America, democracy audits, transparency and human rights, and the \u201cNew Citizen\u201d migration in Central American\u00a0democracies. For more information please write to the conference organizers at\u00a0congreso@fcs.ucr.ac.cr<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>FUTURE CONFERENCES<\/strong><\/p>\n The Foreign Policy Research Institute (Philadelphia) and the Institute of International Relations (Taipei) will cosponsor a conference entitled \u201cDemocratization (and its Limits) in Greater China: Implications for Governance and Security in East Asia\u201d on September 18\u201319, 2003. The meeting will be held at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. For registration information and conference costs, write to FPRI\u2019s Alan Luxenberg (lux@fpri.org<\/a>.)<\/p>\n The 2003 annual meeting of the African Studies Association will be held from October 30\u2013November 2 at the Sheraton Boston Hostel in Boston. The theme of the meeting will be \u201cYouthful Africa in the Twenty-first Century.\u201d Panel sessions will examine, among many other topics, the role of young people in resisting authoritarian governments and in promoting democratic change. For more information, visit\u00a0www.africanstudies.org\/asa_annualmeetingmain.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 2003 annual meeting of the Middle East Studies Association will be held from November 6\u20139 at the Hilton Anchorage and Egan Convention Center in Anchorage, Alaska. For more information, visit\u00a0http:\/\/w3fp.arizona.edu\/mesassoc\/MESA03\/mesa03.htm<\/a><\/p>\n The 35th national convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies will be held in Toronto, Ontario from November 20\u201323. For more information, visit\u00a0www.fas.harvard.edu\/~aaass\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n The 2004 annual meeting of the Southern Political Science Association will be held from January 8\u201310 at the Inter-Continental Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana. For more information, visit\u00a0www2.gasou.edu\/spsa\/conference.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/a>NEW RESEARCH<\/strong><\/p>\n Democratization<\/strong><\/em> \u201cPromoting Democracy From Without\u2014Learning From Within (Part II)\u201d by Gordon Crawford<\/p>\n \u201cThe State of the Art in International Democracy Promotion: Results of a Joint European-North American Research Network\u201d by Peter J. Schraeder<\/p>\n \u201cDemocratic Transition and Institutional Crafting: The South Korean Case\u201d by Carl J. Saxer<\/p>\n \u201cBeyond Pacted Transitions in Spain and Chile: Elite and Institutional Differences\u201d by Omar Sanchez<\/p>\n \u201cPost-Soviet Transitions and Democratization: Towards Theory-Building\u201d by Vladimir Gel\u2019man<\/p>\n \u201cComparing Theories of Democratic Support: Lessons from Post-Communist Europe\u201d by Richard Samuels<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s Our Time to \u2018Chop\u2019: Do Elections in Africa Feed Neo-Patrimonialism rather than Counter-Act It?\u201d by Staffan Lindberg<\/p>\n \u201cRising-Class Politics and its Impact on China\u2019s Path to Democracy\u201d by An Chen<\/p>\n Journal of Democracy<\/strong><\/em> \u201cA Model for Post-Saddam Iraq\u201d by Kanan Makiya \u201cIraqi Opposition Report on the Transition to Democracy\u201d by Democratic Principles Working Group \u201cAn \u2018Arab\u2019 More Than a \u2018Muslim\u2019 Democracy Gap\u201d by Alfred Stepan with Graeme B. Robertson Lessons from Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/p>\n I. \u201cThe Limits of Electoral Engineering\u201d by Carrie Manning and Miljenko Antiae II. \u201cTravails of the European Raj\u201d by Gerald Knaus and Felix Martin \u201cPolitical Freedom, Economic Liberty, and Prosperity\u201d by Richard Roll and John R. Talbott \u201cDemocracy, Dictatorship, and Infant Mortality Revisited\u201d by Patricio Navia and Thomas D. Zweifel \u201cWhy Post-Settlement Settlements?\u201d by Pierre du Toit \u201cTibet: Exiles\u2019 Journey\u201d by Lobsang Sangay \u201cNigeria: Elections in a Fragile Regime\u201d by Peter M. Lewis \u201cKenya: Third Time Lucky?\u201d by Stephen N. Ndegwa \u201cAfrica: States in Crisis\u201d by Richard Joseph SELECTED JOURNAL ARTICLES ON DEMOCRACY<\/strong><\/p>\n This section of the newsletter features selected articles that appeared in journals received by the NED\u2019s Democracy Resource Center.<\/p>\n African Affairs: The Journal of Royal African Society, Vol. 102, no. 408, July 2003<\/strong> American Political Science Review, Vol. 97, no. 2, May 2003<\/strong> Asian Survey, Vol. XLIII, no. 2, March\/April 2003 Asian Survey, Vol. XLIII, no. 3, May\/June 2003 British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 33, part 1, January 2003 British Journal of Political Science, Vol. 33, part 3, July 2003 Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 36, no. 5, June 2003 Comparative Politics, Vol. 35, no. 3, April 2003 Demokratizatsiya, Vol. 11, no. 2, Spring 2003 East European Politics and Societies, Vol. 17, no. 3, Summer 2003 Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 55, no. 2, March 2003 Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 55, no. 3, May 2003 Europe-Asia Studies, Vol. 55, no. 4, June 2003 Foreign Affairs, Vol. 82, no. 4, July\/August 2003 Human Right Quarterly, Vol. 25, no. 2, May 2003 International Affairs, Vol. 79, no. 3, May 2003 Japan Review of International Affairs, Vol. 16, no. 4, Winter 2002 Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 12, no. 35, May 2003 Journal of Contemporary China, Vol. 12, no. 36, August 2003 Journal of East Asian Studies, Vol. 3, no. 2, May-August 2003 Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 41, no. 2, June 2003 Journal of Peace Research, Vol. 40, no. 3, May 2003 Journal of Politics, Vol. 65, no. 1, February 2003 Journal of Politics, Vol. 65, no. 2, May 2003 Journal of Politics, Vol. 65, no. 3, August 2003 Latin American Politics and Society, Vol. 45, no. 2, Summer 2003 Middle East Journal, Vol. 57, no. 2, Spring 2003 National Interest, No. 72, Summer 2003 Nationalities Papers, Vol. 31, no. 2, June 2003 Orbis: A Journal of World Affairs, Vol. 47, no. 3, Summer 2003 Pacific Affairs, Vol. 76, no. 1, Spring 2003 Party Politics, Vol. 9, no. 2, March 2003 Perspectives on Politics, Vol. 1, no. 2, June 2003 Policy Review, No. 119, June\/July 2003 Studies in Comparative International Development, Vol. 38, no. 2, Summer 2003 Third World Quarterly: Journal of Emerging Areas, Vol. 24, no. 3, June 2003 Washington Quarterly, Vol. 26, no. 3, Summer 2003 World Affairs, Vol. 165, no. 4, Spring 2003 SELECTED NEW BOOKS RECENTLY RECEIVED BY THE\u00a0JOURNAL OF DEMOCRACY<\/em> Democracy is Dangerous: Resisting the Tyranny of the Majority. By John L. Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic From Cold War to New World Order: The Foreign Policy of George H.W. Bush. Edited by Meena Bose and Rosanna Perotti. Greenwood, 2002. 577 pp.<\/p>\n Information and American Democracy: Technology in the Evolution of Political Power. By Bruce Bimber. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 268 pp.<\/p>\n Inside the Campaign Finance Battle: Court Testimony on the New Reforms. Edited by Anthony Corrado, Thomas E. Mann, and Trevor Potter. Brookings Institution, 2003. Lubavitchers as Citizens: A Paradox of Liberal Democracy. By Jan Feldman. Cornell University Press, 2003. 212 pp.<\/p>\n Madam President: Women Blazing the Leadership Trail. By Eleanor Clift and Tom Brazaitis. Routledge, 2003. 340 pp.<\/p>\n Overruling Democracy: The Supreme Court vs. the American People. By Jamin B. Raskin. Routledge, 2003. 290 pp.<\/p>\n Privileges and Immunities: A Reference Guide to the United States Constitution. By David Skillen Bogen. Praeger, 2003. 171 pp.<\/p>\n Public Spaces, Private Lives: Democracy Beyond 9\/11. By Henry A. Giroux. Rowman and Littlefield, 2003. 204 pp.<\/p>\n Stalemate: Causes and Consequences of Legislative Gridlock. By Sarah A. Binder. Brookings Institution, 2003. 202 pp.<\/p>\n The Two Majorities and the Puzzle of Modern American Politics. By Byron E. Shafer. University Press of Kansas, 2003. 356 pp.<\/p>\n Africa Human Rights Under African Constitutions: Realizing the Promise for Ourselves. Edited by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na\u2019im. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2003. Robert Mugabe: A Life of Power and Violence. By Stephen Chan. University of Michigan Press, 2003. 244 pp.<\/p>\n Asia Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali. Edited by Thomas A. Reuter. Routledge, 2003. 222 pp.<\/p>\n Japan and Okinawa: Structure and Subjectivity. Edited by Glenn D. Hook and Richard Siddle. RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 256 pp.<\/p>\n Japan\u2019s Dysfunctional Democracy. By Roger W. Bowen. M.E. Sharpe, 2003. 139 pp.<\/p>\n The Political Economy of Cambodia\u2019s Transition, 1991\u20132001. By Caroline Hughes. Routledge, 2003. 260 pp.<\/p>\n The Politics of NGOs in Indonesia: Developing Democracy and Managing a Movement. By Bob S. Hadiwinata. Routledge, 2003. 304 pp.<\/p>\n The Scandal of the State: Women, Law, Citizenship in Postcolonial India. By Rajeswari Sunder Rajan. Duke University Press, 2003. 336 pp.<\/p>\n Taiwan: A Political History. By Charles K. Armstrong. Cornell University Press, 2003. 255 pp.<\/p>\n Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union En Escarpins dans les Neiges de Siberie. Sandra Kalniete. Editions des Syrtes, 2003. National Interest and Violent Conflict in Post-Soviet Societies: The Cases of Estonia and Moldova. Edited by P\u00e5l Kolst\u00f8. Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. 320 pp.<\/p>\n Putin\u2019s Russia. By Lilia Shevtsova. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 2003. 306 pp.<\/p>\n Religious Separation and Political Intolerance in Bosnia-Herzegovina. By Mtja Velikonja. Texas A&M University Press, 2003. 365 pp.<\/p>\n Uncivil Society? Contentious Politics in Post-Communist Europe. Edited by Petr Kopecky and Cas Mudde. Routledge, 2003. 188 pp.<\/p>\n Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East Iranian History and Politics: The Dialectic of State and Society. By Homa Katouzian. RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. 274 pp.<\/p>\n The Middle East Peace Process: Vision Versus Reality. Edited by Joseph Ginat, U.S. Policy in Post-Saddam Iraq: Lessons from the British Experience. Edited by Michael Eisenstadt and Eric Mathewson. Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2003. 84 pp.<\/p>\n The United Nations and Iraq: Defanging the Viper. By Jean E. Krasno and James S. Sutterlin. Praeger, 2003. 238 pp.<\/p>\n Comparative, Theoretical, General Constructing Human Rights in the Age of Globalization. Edited by Andrew J. Nathan, Mahmood Monshipouri, Neil E. Englehart, and Kavita Philip. M.E. Sharpe, 2003. Corruption in Contemporary Politics. Edited by Martin J. Bull and James L. Newell. Democracy and the Foreigner. By Bonnie Honig. Princeton University Press, 2001. Democracy\u2019s Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity, and the Global Economy. The Democratic Peace and Territorial Conflict in the Twentieth Century. By Emancipating Cultural Pluralism. Edited by Cris E. Toffolo. State University of European Christian Democracy: Historical Legacies and Comparative Perspectives. Edited by Thomas Kselman and Joseph A. Buttigieg. University of Notre Dame Press, 2003. 339 pp.<\/p>\n Foundations for Democracy: Approaches to Comparative Political Finance. Edited by Karl-Heinz Nassmacher. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, 2001. 515 pp.<\/p>\n Meaning and International Relations. Edited by Peter Mandaville and Andrew Williams. Routledge, 2003. 186 pp.<\/p>\n The Moral Foundations of Politics. By Ian Shapiro. Yale University Press, 2003. 289 pp.<\/p>\n Reconciliation After Violent Conflict: A Handbook. Edited by David Bloomfield, Teresa Barnes, and Luc Huyse. International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance, 2003. 177 pp.<\/p>\n Responses to Governance: Governing Corporations, Societies and the World. By John Dixon, David Goodwin, and Jack Wing. Praeger, 2003. 340 pp.<\/p>\n Social Movements and Democracy. Edited by Pedro Ibarra. Palgrave, 2003. 238 pp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Comparative Democratization Section 35 of\u00a0the American Political Science Association Newsletter Volume 1, Number 2, August 2003 Table of Contents 1.\u00a0Current Section Officers 2.\u00a0Note from the Chair 3.\u00a0Editor\u2019s Note 4.\u00a0Section News 5.\u00a0News From Members 6.\u00a0Recent Conferences 7.\u00a0Future Conferences 8.\u00a0New Research CURRENT SECTION OFFICERS Chair (2001\u20132003) John W. 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\n2.\u00a0Note from the Chair
\n3.\u00a0Editor\u2019s Note
\n4.\u00a0Section News
\n5.\u00a0News From Members
\n6.\u00a0Recent Conferences
\n7.\u00a0Future Conferences
\n8.\u00a0New Research<\/p>\n
\n<\/a>CURRENT SECTION OFFICERS<\/strong><\/p>\n
\nJohn W. Harbeson
\nProfessor of Political Science
\nCity University of New York
\ne-mail:\u00a0jwharbeson@aol.com<\/a><\/p>\n
\nNancy Bermeo
\nAssociate Professor of Politics
\nDirector of the Graduate Studies Program
\nDepartment of Politics
\nPrinceton University
\ne-mail:\u00a0bermeo@princeton.edu\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n
\nHarry W. Blair
\nSenior Research Scholar
\nDepartment of Political Science
\nYale University
\ne-mail:\u00a0harry.blair@yale.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
\nLeslie Anderson
\nAssociate Professor
\nDepartment of Political Science
\nUniversity of Florida
\ne-mail:\u00a0landerso@polisci.ufl.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
\nCarol Nechemias
\nAssociate Professor of Public Policy
\nSchool of Public Affairs
\nPennsylvania State University
\ne-mail:\u00a0c4n@psu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThomas W. Skladony
\nSenior Program Officer
\nInternational Forum for Democratic Studies
\nNational Endowment for Democracy
\ne-mail:\u00a0tom@ned.org<\/a><\/p>\n
\nJohn Harbeson
\nChair<\/p>\n
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\nAs the Comparative Democratization Section continues to grow, so does its newsletter. We are pleased to announce several new editorial features in this issue. First\u2014and most important\u2014is News from Members, which contains brief items submitted by section members about their recent publications and activities. It is gratifying to see that members not only reported about their work but also invited colleagues to correspond with them about article submissions, research interests, and teaching. We hope this feature will grow to include many such items in future issues. The New Research section of the newsletter now includes, in addition to the tables of contents of\u00a0Democratization<\/em>\u00a0and the\u00a0Journal of Democracy<\/em>\u00a0and Books Received, a listing of selected recent articles, culled from journals received by the International Forum for Democratic Studies. Additional political science and regional studies associations have been added to the list of those whose annual meetings are noted in the Recent and Future Conferences sections. And we have added links in the table of contents that allow readers to jump quickly to sections of interest and to cut and paste sections they wish to keep. We hope you find these features useful and we welcome your suggestions for other features we should consider adding to the newsletter.<\/p>\n
\nThe Summer 2003 issue (Volume 10, no. 2) of\u00a0Democratization<\/em>\u00a0features studies of South Korea, Spain, Chile, and China; a major article on the state of the art in democracy promotion; and reviews of important new books. For abstracts of the articles listed below, visit\u00a0www.frankcass.com\/jnls\/index.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThe July 2003 issue of the\u00a0Journal of Democracy<\/em>\u00a0features two articles on the prospects for democracy in post-Saddam Iraq, another pair of articles on the lessons of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and a study of the relationship of democracy to rates of infant mortality and public health. For selected online articles and the tables of contents of all Journal issues, visit\u00a0www.journalofdemocracy.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nIf Iraq is successfully to democratize and an inclusive democratic culture is to emerge, the Iraqi state must be reconstituted as a federal and strongly liberal system and thoroughly demilitarized.<\/p>\n
\nRepresentatives of the Iraqi democratic opposition to Saddam Hussein assess what must be done to overcome the legacy of dictatorship and pave the way toward a free and democratic future for their country.<\/p>\n
\nGauging electoral competitiveness relative to economic development reveals not only that Arab countries \u201cunder perform\u201d but, strikingly, that non-Arab Muslim-majority countries tend to \u201cover perform.\u201d<\/p>\n
\nThis troubled corner of Europe has become a test of the ability of outside experts and carefully designed institutions to overcome a legacy of intense ethnocommunal conflict. How are they faring?<\/p>\n
\nLike liberals in the British East India Company more than a century ago, European and international officials have become stewards of a people\u2019s fate. The intentions are good, but will self-government result?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nLiberty and self-government are not only good in themselves, but also have powerful and beneficial effects on a nation\u2019s level of economic development and prosperity.<\/p>\n
\nNew data covering most of the 1990s reveal that democracy, even when minimally defined, has a potent independent impact that tends to reduce infant mortality and promote overall social well-being.<\/p>\n
\nThe decaying trajectory of democratization in South Africa represents a kind of settlement failure, resulting from the main parties in the transition having come to the table with incompatible cultural paradigms of negotiation.<\/p>\n
\nAlmost a half-century after being forced from their homeland, Tibetans abroad, led by the Dalai Lama, have democratized their institutions in hopes that they may one day form the basis for a free and self-governing Tibet.<\/p>\n
\nThe election cycle concluding in the spring of 2003 was a guarded success. High hurdles to better governance and democratic consolidation remain, but Nigerians can now face them with greater hope.<\/p>\n
\nAfter falling short in 1992 and 1997, Kenya\u2019s large but fractious opposition coalition swept to victory at the polls in 2002. Transition has arrived, but can democratic transformation follow?<\/p>\n
\nDemocratic and economic development will become sustainable in sub-Saharan Africa only with the emergence of coherent, legitimate, and effective states.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cBriefing: Islam, democracy and public opinion in Africa\u201d by Michael Bratton<\/p>\n
\n\u201cIdentifying the Culprit: Democracy, Dictatorship, and Dispute Initiation\u201d by Dan Reiter and Allan Stam<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cTimor-Leste: Divided Leadership in a\u00a0Semi-Presidential System\u201d by Dennis Shoesmith
\n\u201cDemocracy and the Thai Middle Class: Globalization, Modernization, and Constitutional Change\u201d by Neil A. Englehart<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe Co-Evolution of the Internet and Civil Society in China\u201d by Guobin Yang
\n\u201cPreconditions and Prospects for Democratic Transition in Burma\/Myanmar\u201d by Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung
\n\u201cConstitutional Debates in the Philippines: From Presidentialism to Parliamentarianism?\u201d by J\u00fcrgen R\u00fcland<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cSocial Choice Theory and Deliberative Democracy: A\u00a0Reconciliation\u201d by John S. Dryzek and Christian List
\n\u201cEconomic Globalization and Democracy: An Empirical Analysis\u201d by Quan Li and Rafael Reuveny
\n\u201cThe Political Recrafting of Social Bases of Party Competition: Chile, 1973\u20131995\u201d by Mariano Torcal and Scott Mainwaring
\n\u201cDemocratic Institutions and Economic Reform: The Polish Case\u201d by John E. Jackson, Jacek Klich and Krystyna Poznanska<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cNon-Electoral Responsiveness Mechanisms: Evidence from the Asian Less Democratic Newly Industrializing Countries\u201d by O\u00a0Fiona Yap
\nCommunist and Post-Communist Studies, Vol. 36, No. 2, June 2003
\n\u201cThe Gender Gap in Political Culture and Participation in China\u201d by J. Tong
\n\u201cFrom \u2018Communism\u2019 to \u2018Democracy\u2019 in Cambodia: a\u00a0Decade of Transition and B\u201d by D. Roberts<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cEconomic Openness: Democracy and Income Inequality\u201d by Rafael Reuveny and Quan Li<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cWomen\u2019s Movements and Democratic Transition in Chile, Brazil, East Germany, and Poland\u201d by Lisa Baldez
\n\u201cThe Representation of Polish and Czech Women in National Politics: Predicting Electoral List Position\u201d by Sheri Kunovich
\n\u201cWho Opened the Window? Women\u2019s Activism in Islamist Parties\u201d by Janine Astrid Clark and Jillian Schwedler<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cU.S. Support for Anti-Soviet and Anti-Russian Guerrilla Movements and the Undermining of Democracy\u201d by Michael Powelson
\nEast European Politics and Societies, Vol. 17, no. 2, Spring 2003
\n\u201cWomen\u2019s Parties in Post-Communist Politics\u201d by John T. Ishiyama<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cWeak States and Pluralism: The Case of Moldova\u201d by Lucan A. Way<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cDecentralisation and Regionalisation after Communism: Administrative and Territorial Reform in Poland and the Czech Republic\u201d by Jennifer A. Yoder<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cPutin and His Supporters\u201d by Stephen White and Ian McAllister
\n\u201cElectoral System Design in Russian Oblasti and Republics: A\u00a0Four Case Comparison\u201d by Bryon J. Moraski<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cWhen Majorities Fail: the Russian Parliament, 1990\u20131993\u201d by Josephine T. Andrews. Reviewed by Iulia Shevchenko
\n\u201cThe Bulgarian Constitutional Court, 1991\u20131997: A\u00a0Success Story in Context\u201d by Venelin Ganev<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cHow Best to Build Democracy\u201d by Chappell Lawson<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cFrom Conquest to Constitutions: Retrieving a Latin American Tradition of the Idea of Human Rights\u201d by Paolo G. Carozza
\n\u201cThe Ethics of Intervention in Self-Determination Struggles\u201d by Tom J. Farer<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe Idea of Global Civil Society\u201d by Mary Kaldor<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cSustainable Development and Governance in Africa\u201d by Ryutaro Hashimoto
\n\u201cNEPAD and Governance in the Twenty-first Century\u201d by Takahashi Motoki<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe Rule of Law as Transition to Democracy in China\u201d by Larry Diamond
\n\u201cPolitical Liberalization without Democratization: Pan Wei\u2019s Proposal for Political Reform\u201d by Suisheng Zhao
\n\u201cComing to Grips with Governance: the Lessons of Experience\u201d by Pierre Landell-Mills<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cInternet and Civil Society in China: a\u00a0Preliminary Assessment\u201d by Guobin Yang<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe End of History, the Rise of Ideology, and the Future of Democracy on the Korean Peninsula\u201d by Scott Snyder
\n\u201cThe U.S.\u2014South Korean Alliance: Anti-American Challenges\u201d by Byung-Kook Kim
\n\u201cStrong Demands and Weak Institutions: The Origins and Evolution of the Democratic Deficit in the Philippines\u201d by Paul D. Hutchcroft and Joel Rocamora<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cSierra Leone\u2019s Post-Conflict Elections of 2002\u201d by Jimmy D. Kandeh
\n\u201cKenyan Civil Society: Bridging the Urban-Rural Divide?\u201d by Stephen Orvis
\n\u201cAn Unlikely Success: South Africa and Lesotho\u2019s Election of 2002\u201d by Roger Southall
\n\u201cPresidentialism and Clientelism in Africa\u2019s Emerging Party System\u201d by Nicolas Van de Walle<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cWomen\u2019s Access to Politics and Peaceful States\u201d by Patrick M. Regan and Aida Paskeviciute<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cDefenders of Democracy? Legitimacy, Popular Acceptance and the South African Constitutional Court\u201d by James Gibson and Gregory Caldeira
\n\u201cThe Foundations of Latino Voter Partisanship: Evidence from the 2000 Election\u201d by R. Michael Alvarez and Lisa Garcia Bedolla
\n\u201cThe Dynamics of Presidential Popularity in Post-Communist Russia: Cultural Imperative versus Neo-Institutional Choice?\u201d by William Mishler and John Willerton<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe Relationship Between Independence and Judicial Review in Post-Communist Courts\u201d by Erik Herron and Kirk Randazzo<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cDemocratic Self-Criticism and the Other in Classical Political Theory\u201d by Gerald M. Mara<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cBrazil\u2019s Agrarian Reform: Democratic Innovation or Oligarchic Exclusion Redux?\u201d by Anthony Pereira
\n\u201cDemocracy in Latin America: (Re)constructing Political Society\u201d edited by Manuel Antonio Garret\u00f3n and Edward Newman. Reviewed by Fabrice Lehoucq<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cBy Conviction, Not by Infliction: The Debate Over Reforming the Palestinian Authority\u201d by Menachem Klein<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cZakaria\u2019s Complaint\u201d by Thomas Carothers (review of The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad by Fareed Zakaria)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cSources of Post-Communist Democratization: Economic Structure, Political Culture, War, and Political Institutions\u201d by Shale Horowitz<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cDemocratic Impulses versus Imperial Interests: American\u2019s New Mid-East Conundrum\u201d by Ray Takeyh and Nikolas K. Gvosdev<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cDemocratization in South Korea and Inter-Korean Relations\u201d by Chien-peng Chung
\n\u201cFrom Monopoly to Competition: Party Politics in the Bangladesh Parliament (1973\u20132001)\u201d by Nizam Ahmed<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cThe Nationalization of Parties and Party Systems: An Empirical Measure and an Application to the Americas\u201d Mark P. Jones and Scott Mainwaring
\n\u201cSpecies of Political Parties: A New Typology\u201d by Richard Gunther and Larry Diamond<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cStudying Democracy and Teaching Classics: What Is Happening in the Field of Comparative Politics?\u201d by Paulette Kurzer
\n\u201cDemocratic Theorizing from the Margins\u201d by Marla Brettschneider. Reviewed by Brooke A. Ackerly
\n\u201cDemocracy\u2019s Midwife: An Education in Deliberation\u201d by Jack Crittenden. Reviewed by Jason A. Scorza
\n\u201cMarx and Engels: Their Contribution to the Democratic Breakthrough\u201d by August H. Nimtz, Jr. Reviewed by Bradley J. Macdonald
\n\u201cMill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government\u201d by Nadia Urbinati. Reviewed by Suzanne Dovi
\n\u201cThe Sources of Democratic Consolidation\u201d by Gerard Alexander. Reviewed by Gianfanco Pasquino
\n\u201cPostcommunism and the Theory of Democracy\u201d by Richard D. Anderson, M. Steven Fish, Stephen E. Hanson, and Philip G. Roeder. Reviewed by Karol Edward Soltan
\n\u201cRedeeming the Communist Past: The Regeneration of Communist Parties in East Central Europe\u201d by Anna M. Grzymala-Busse. Reviewed by Jack Bielasiak.
\n\u201cMixed-Member Electoral Systems: The Best of Both Worlds?\u201d edited by Matthew Soberg Shugard and Martin P. Wattenberg. Reviewed by Burt L. Monroe
\n\u201cRich Democracies: Political Economy, Public Policy and Performance\u201d by Harold L. Wilensky. Reviewed by Wolfgang C. M\u00fcller
\n\u201cTechnology, Development and Democracy: International Conflict and Cooperation in the Information Age\u201d edited by Juliann Emmons Allison. Reviewed by William J. Long
\n\u201cCompound Dilemmas: Democracy, Collective Action, and Superpower Rivalry\u201d by Michael D. McGinnis and John T. Williams. Reviewed by Lisa J. Carlson and Raymond Dacey
\n\u201cDemocratization and Expansionism: Historical Lessons, Contemporary Challenges\u201d by Masayo Ohara. Reviewed by Herbert K. Tillema
\n\u201cDemocracy and Coercive Diplomacy\u201d by Kenneth A. Schultz. Reviewed by Karen A. Feste
\n\u201cDemocracy, Ethnic Diversity, and Security in Post-Communist Europe\u201d by Anita Inder Singh. Reviewed by David B. Carment
\n\u201cFrom Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict\u201d by Jack Snyder. Reviewed by T. David Mason<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cUniversal Democracy?\u201d by Larry Diamond<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cDemocratization through European Integration: The Case of Minority Rights in the Czech Republic and Romania\u201d by Melanie H. Ram<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cInching Towards Democracy: Religion and Politics in the Muslim World\u201d by Nader A. Hashemi (a review of five books on democracy in the Islamic world)<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cPromoting Democratization Can Combat Terrorism\u201d by Jennifer L. Windsor
\n\u201cDemocracy in Iraq?\u201d by Daniel Byman and Kenneth M. Pollack
\n\u201cToward Greater Democracy in the Muslim World\u201d by Richard N. Haass<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>\u201cChinese Kaleidoscope\u201d by Michael Gunter<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\nAdvanced Democracies
\n<\/strong>
\nDemocracy: How Direct? Views from the Founding Era and the Polling Era. Edited by Elliott Abrams. Rowman and Littlefield, 2002. 134 pp.<\/p>\n
\nSafford. University Press of America, 2002. 177 pp.<\/p>\n
\nLife. By Theda Skocpol. University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. 384 pp.<\/p>\n
\n333 pp.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\nAfrican Political Parties: Evolution, Institutionalisation and Governance. Edited by M.A. Mohamed Salih. Pluto Press, 2003. 368 pp.<\/p>\n
\n434 pp.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\nAutonomy and Disintegration in Indonesia. Edited by Damien Kingsbury and Harry Aveling. Routledge, 2003. 219 pp.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\nEmbodying Democracy: Electoral System Design in Post-Communist Europe. By Sarah Birch, Frances Millard, Marina Popescu, and Kieran Williams. Palgrave, 2002. 241 pp.<\/p>\n
\n269 pp.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\nThe Quiet Revolution: Decentralization and the Rise of Political Participation in Latin American Cities. By Tim Campbell. Duquesne University Press, 2003. 216 pp.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\nIslam and Democracy: The Failure of Dialogue in Algeria. By Frederic Volpi. Pluto Press, 2003. 168 pp.<\/p>\n
\nEdward J. Perkins, and Edwin G. Corr. University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. 444
\npp.<\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>
\nThe Coming Democracy: New Rules for Running a New World. By Ann Florini. Island Press, 2003. 257 pp.<\/p>\n
\n353 pp.<\/p>\n
\nPalgrave, 2003. 274 pp.<\/p>\n
\n204 pp.<\/p>\n
\nBy Robert C. Paehlke. MIT Press, 2003. 306 pp.<\/p>\n
\nPaul K. Huth and Todd L. Allee. Cambridge University Press, 2003. 488 pp.<\/p>\n
\nNew York Press, 2003. 282 pp.<\/p>\n