RC13 - Democratization in Comparative Perspective

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We would like to kindly remind you that the deadline of July 8th for the OPEN PANELS submission for the next World Congress of Political Science (Istanbul - July 23 to 28, 2016) is fast approaching! Under the theme "Politics in a World of Inequality", we invite you to share your research on issues of redistribution and recognition in all their complexity, and to which political science can bring important insights. It is an opportunity to once again demonstrate the relevance of political science to political  practice. If you would like to submit a panel proposal, please see the instructions provided below. 

 

 

June 2, 2014 Dear Colleagues, This issue of Worth Reading features the “Democracy Works” project, a joint initiative of three members of the Network of Democracy Research Institutes—the Centre for Development and Enterprise (South Africa), the Legatum Institute (United Kingdom), and the Centre for Policy Research (India)—and the Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade (Brazil). The Center for International Private Enterprise partially funded this project and its Executive Director, John Sullivan, served as a senior advisor. The project examines “the democratic alternative from the South” as a counterargument to developmental authoritarianism and examines several key dimensions of these countries’ development, including their democratic achievements and the advantages their democratic systems provide to combat corruption. It also explains the critical need for these democracies to pursue further policy reform.

Western style democracy has arrived by different paths to Arab countries, but what is common throughout is that it has so far only legitimized state failure, stresses Marcus Marktanner.