Toward Consolidated Democracies

A coauthor of the pathbreaking study Transitions from Authoritarian Rule reflects on the lessons that he has learned about democratic transition and consolidation since the publication of this work nearly 25 years…

A review of Democracy Without Democrats? The Renewal of Politics in the Muslim World, edited by Ghassan Salamé.

Must every state be a nation and every nation a state? Or should we look instead to the example of countries such as India, where one state holds together a…