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1. A Quick History of Modern Democracy Democratic (and Antidemocratic) Waves A Look Ahead 2. States, Social Movement Challengers and Elite Reformers Power and Myths about Power The Transnational Dimension An Example: The Abolition of Slavery in the Americas Social Movements in National and Transnational Contexts A World of States Reforming Insiders and the Challenge of Social Movements Conclusion 3. Eighteenth-Century Revolution, Nineteenth-Century Eddies Democratic Breakthrough How the Institutions and Ideas of Democracy Spread An Example: The Multicontinental Women's Movement Political Creativity in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries Emerging Critiques of Democracy Conclusion 4. Twentieth-Century Pendulum Swings The Eve of the Great War A Democratic Surge: 1910-1925 Alternating Currents Explaining the Ebb and Flow of Democratization Conclusion 5. Semidemocracy, Pseudodemocracy, Democracy Facade Democracy Democratic-Authoritarian Hybrids: Elections Democratic Sham A Two-Edged Sword Democracy... or Democratization? Why Democracy Canoot Be Reduced to Elections The "Invention" of Democracy Conclusions 6. Beyond the Great Democratic Wave Hope and Disappointment: A Haitian Example Even the Great Wave Had Limitis Containing Democratization New Movements for Democracy 7. Into the Twenty-First Century: New Challenges, New Opportunities An Election Campaign in Democratic Spain, 2011 Recapitulation Transnationalization A Small List of Big Questions New Democratic Challenges What's Next?