PROMISE AND PROBLEMS OF OLD AND NEW DEMOCRACIES Xiaobo Lü, Editor 2000 ˇ 224 Pages ˇ $22.50 (APS Members: $18.00)

This book includes some of the best scholarship on democracy that has been published in the Political Science Quarterly. More often than not, studies of democracy in more advanced countries like the U.S. and U.K. are disconnected from studies of democratic transitions in developing countries. Grounded in political reality and guided by theoretical frameworks, Promise and Problems of Old and New Democracies attempts to bring the two seemingly unrelated bodies of literature together.

• Demetrios James Caraley, Preface

• Xiaobo Lü, Introduction

• Robert A. Dahl, On Removing Certain Impediments to Democracy in the United States
• Benjamin R. Barber, Three Scenarios for the Future of Technology and Strong Democracy
• Demetrios James Caraley, Elections and Dilemmas of American Democratic Governance
• Leon Epstein, Changing Perceptions of the British System

• Samuel P. Huntington, How Countries Democratize
• Michael McFaul, Lessons from Russia's Protracted Transition from Communist Rule
• Hermann Giliomee, Democratization in South Africa
• S. V. R. Nasr, Democracy and Islamic Revivalism
• Yongnian Zheng, Development and Democracy: Are They Compatible in China?