Comparative Democratization and Peaceful Change in Single-Party-Dominant Countries.(Review) (book review)

Edited by Marco Rimanelli. New York: St. Martin's, 1999. 454p. $49.50 cloth, $18.50 paper.

Democracies enjoyed banner years during the last decade of the twentieth century. Worldwide, both military and communist dictatorships were in retreat, while numerous countries on all continents gave enhanced preference to the ballot box as the basis for selecting their political rulers. Nearly 120 of the world's roughly 190 states can now plausibly claim to be democracies, and for the first time in history the proportion of the world's population living in such countries exceeds 50%. Of ...

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