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Consolidating the Third World Democracies: Regional Challenges.(Review) (book reviews)
Asian Affairs: An American Review, September, 1998 by COPPER, JOHN F.
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LARRY DIAMOND, MARC F. PLATTNER, YUN-HAN CHU, AND HUNG-MAO TIEN, Eds. Consolidating the Third World Democracies: Regional Challenges.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. 332 pages. $45.00 (hardcover), $14.95 (paperback).
These two volumes deal with the issue of whether the multitude of new democracies throughout the world can remain democracies. Democracy became a fad or, as some said, "the wave of the future," in the mid-1970s. Before that, as Diamond suggests in his introduction, there had been a low point when there were only forty democratic ...
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