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How will civil-military relations affect efforts to consolidate new democracies in developing and postcommunist countries? How should democratic governments go about establishing civilian control of the armed forces? This volume brings together ten distinguished authorities from around the world to examine these questions as they relate to Latin America, Asia, Africa, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union.

This edition brings together esaays on democracy, covering a wide range of conceptual, historical, institutional, and policy issues. It addresses the question of civil society, which has become a central focus of popular as well as scholarly concern in both new and established democracies. Included here is Robert D. Putnam's article "Bowling Alone: America's Declining Social Capital". The problems confronting democratic governments and movemen...

Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Revisited" is must reading for anyone who considers him- or herself a political economist, and it should also appeal to those probing the uncertainties of contemporary democratization." -- Philippe C. Schmitter, Stanford University.