Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation.(Review) (book review)

Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation. By Larry Diamond. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999. 26lp. $55.00.

Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe. By Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. 479p. $55.00 cloth, $18.95 paper.

In recent years, the global advance of polyarchy has fostered the integration of comparative politics by encouraging area specialists to look outside their regions and examine the process of democratization in a truly ...

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