Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regim

The book examines the political importance of moral opposition to authoritarian rule in Chile, 1973-90, as a challenge to the government's systematic human righ

Power (political science, Florida International University) offers an appraisal of Brazilian democracy, focusing on implications of certain political continuiti

In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy