Contents:
I - DEMOCRATIC CONSOLIDATION 1. Toward consolidated democracies - Juan J. Linz, Alfred Stepan 2. Illusions about consolidation - Guillermo O' Donnell 3. O'Donnell's illusions: a rejoinder - Richard Gunther, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, Hans-Jürgen Puhle 4. Illusions and conceptual flaws - Guillermo O' Donnell 5. What is democratic consolidation? - Andreas Schedler II - THE TRANSITION PARADIGM 6. The end of the transition paradigm - Thomas Carothers 7. In partial defense of an evanescent "paradigm" - Guillermo O' Donnell 8. The democratic path - Ghia Nodia 9. Retaining the human dimension - Kenneth Wollack 10. Tilting at straw men - Gerald Hyman 11. A reply to my critics - Thomas Carothers III - SEQUENCING 12. The "sequencing" fallacy - Thomas Carothers 13. How democracies emerge - Sheri Berman 14. The sequencing "fallacy" - Edward D. Mansfield, Jack Snyder 15. Liberalism versus state-building - Francis Fukuyama 16. The vain hope for "correct" timing - Sheri Berman 17. Misunderstanding gradualism - Thomas Carothers IV - THE COLOR REVOLUTIONS 18. Transitions from postcommunism - Michael McFaul 19. Favorable conditions and electoral revolutions - Valerie Bunce, Sharon Wolchik 20. The real causes of the color revolutions - Lucan Way 21. Getting real about "real causes" - Valerie Bunce, Sharon Wolchik 22. An Interrrelated wave - Mark R. Beissinger 23. Popular autocrats - Martin K. Dimitrov 24. Necessary distinctions - Charles H. Fairbanks, Jr. 25. What are trying to explain - Vitali Silitski 26. A reply to my critics - Lucan Way - PRESIDENTIALISM 27. The perils of presidentialism - Juan J. Linz 28. Comparing democratic systems - Donald L. Horowitz 29. The centrality of political culture - Seymour Martin Lipset 30. The virtues of parliamentarism - Juan J. Linz 31. Variations on a theme - Robert Elgie
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