Deferring democracy

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 they are determined to hold onto power, these governments are broadly viewed as political intransigents, out of step with post-cold war democratic governments. Some are also the subject of intense policy debates because they play important roles in U.S. security and economic policy. But examined on...

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