Deferring democracy

by Catharin E. Dalpino

"The Third Wave - the democratic revolution that marked the end of the cold war - broke the communist monopoly in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and leavened authoritarianism with democratic experiments in several countries of Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Fully one-third of the world's people, however, must still contend with repressive governments. In several of these countries, authoritarian regimes endure because they have launched cautious reforms designed to improve the lives of everyday citizens while fending off any direct challenge to their political supremacy. Because...

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