ABSTRACT
The country studies that make up the bulk of this volume provide a broad, openended, and relatively non-prescriptive survey of the most significant real-world experiments underway in the post-Cold War world. They demonstrate the wide range of possible trajectories and consequences, and take us well away from the standard schema of “approved democracies versus illegitimate alternatives.” The factors motivating and constraining the strategies of these dominant parties
under pressure are laid out in a dispassionate and analytically helpful way in the introduction, and do not require repetition here.
