Larry Diamond

Thinking About Hybrid Regimes

Many countries have adopted the form of democracy with little of its substance.This makes the task of classifying regimes more difficult,but also more important.

Economic Development and Democracy Reconsidered

First publis6ed in the Anrerican Political Science Review in 1959, Seymour Martin Lipset’s essay, &dquo;Some Social Requisites of Democracy: Economic Development and Political Legitimacy,&dquo; has proved one of the most controversial, durable, and frequently cited articles in the social sciences. Asserting a broad and multistranded relationship between economic development levels and democracy, it broke new ground in what came to be known (quite often disparagingly) as &dquo;modernization theory&dquo; and became an essential

The global resurgence of democracy

These essays explore the global resurgence of democracy and examine its future prospects, dealing mainly with conceptual, historical, institutional and policy issues relevant to a range of countries. Topics include the tasks of democratic opposition and the case for proportional representation.

Species of Political Parties A New Typology

While the literature already includes a large number of party typologies, they are increasingly incapable of capturing the great diversity of party types that have emerged worldwide in recent decades, largely because most typologies were based upon West European parties as they existed in the late nineteenth through mid-twentieth centuries. Some new party types have been advanced, but in an ad hoc manner and on the basis of widely varying and often inconsistent criteria. This article is an effort to set many of the commonly used conceptions of parties into a coherent framework, and to delineate new party types whenever the existing models are incapable of capturing important aspects of contemporary parties. We classify each of 15 ‘species’ of party into its proper ‘genus’ on the basis of three criteria: (1) the nature of the party’s organization (thick/thin, elite-based or mass-based, etc.); (2) the programmatic orientation of the party (ideological, particularistic-clientele-oriented, etc.); and (3) tolerant and pluralistic (or democratic) versus proto-hegemonic (or anti-system). While this typology lacks parsimony, we believe that it captures more accurately the diversity of the parties as they exist in the contemporary democratic world, and is more conducive to hypothesistesting and theory-building than others.

Political culture and democracy in developing countries

Introduction - Political Culture and Democracy, L. Diamond Culture and Democratisation in India, R. Sisson Between Liberalism and Statism - African Political Culture and Democracy, N. Chazan Paths to Democracy and the Political Culture of Costa Rica, Mexico, and Nicaragua, J.A. Booth and M. Seligson A Nonparadigmatic Search for Democracy in a Post-Confucian Culture - The Case of Taiwan, ROC, AYC King Autonomous Groups as Agents of Democratic Change in Communist and Post-Communist Eastern Europe, C.M. Sadowski State Elites and Democratic Political Culture in Turkey, E. Ozbudun Christian Democracy, Liberation Theology, and Political Culture in Latin America, P. Sigmund Conclusion - Causes and Effects, L. Diamond.

Democracy in developing countries : Latin America

This text reflects improvements in democratic trends and the erosion of democratic advances in different countries. It regards political actors and institutions, and is concerned about the impact on democratic consolidation of economic constraints, weak states, judicial inefficacy and inequality.

Why Are There No Arab Democracies

Abstract:Democracy has held its own or gained ground in just about every part of the world except for the Arab Middle East. Why has this crucial region remained such infertile soil for democracy?

Nationalism, ethnic conflict, and democracy

After an introduction by the volume editors, the book offers a look at the complex relationship between nationalism and democracy. The authors then examine the special challenges facing democracy in ethnically divided societies.

Class Formation in the Swollen African State

As the state has moved back to the centre of analysis of political change and conflict, increasing attention has focused on its role in forming new classes and in structuring the possibilities of class action. As Nelson Kasfir notes, both Marx and Weber ‘saw the vital role the state could play in consolidating the class position of a dominant social group’. 1 Neither, however, saw the state as the inherent locus of the process of class formation and of class domination. For Marx, the state was typically the instrument of a ruling class whose origin and basis was in control over the means of production. For Weber, power, class, and status were potentially independent dimensions of stratification.

Islam and democracy in the Middle East

Contents: PART I: Democratization in the Arab World Mohamed Talbi, A Record of Failure Emmanuel Sivan, Illusions of Change Laith Kubba, The Awakening of Civil Society Daniel Brumberg, The Trap of Liberalized Autocracy Jason Brownlee, The Decline of Pluralism in Mubaraks Egypt William Quandt, Algerias Uneasy Peace Abdeslam Maghraoui, Depoliticization in Morocco Jean-Francois Seznec, Stirrings in Saudi Arabia Michael Herb, Emirs and Parliaments in the Gulf Jillian Schwedler, Yemens Aborted Opening Russell Lucas, Deliberalization in JordanPART II: Iran and Turkey Shaul Bakhash, Irans Remarkable Election Haleh Esfandiari, Is Iran Democratizing? Observations on Election Day Ladan Boroumand, Is Iran Democratizing? Reform at an Impasse Daniel Brumberg, Is Iran Democratizing? A Comparativists Perspective Ramin Jahanbegloo, The Deadlock in Iran: Pressures from Below Mehrangiz Kar, The Deadlock in Iran: Constitutional Constraints Soli Ozel, Turkey at the Polls: A Historic Opportunity Ziya Onis & Fuat Keyman, Turkey at the Polls: A New Path EmergesPART III: Islam and Democracy Abdou Filali-Ansary, Muslims and Democracy Bernard Lewis, A Historical Overview Robin Wright, Two Visions of Reformation Abdou Filali-Ansary, The Challenge of Secularization Abdou Filali-Ansary, The Sources of Enlightened Muslim Thought Abdelwahab El-Affendi, The Elusive Reformation Radwan Masmoudi, The Silenced Majority Laith Kubba, Faith and Modernity Daniel Brumberg, Islamists and the Politics of Consensus Vickie Langohr, An Exit from Arab Autocracy Ladan & Roya Boroumand, Terror, Islam and Democracy