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Rousseau: A Free Community of Equals

Joshua Cohen
Oxford University Press, 2010

In famously beautiful and laconic prose, Jean- Jacques Rousseau presents us a forceful picture of a democratic society, in which we live together as free and equal, and our politics focuses on the common good. In Rousseau: Free Community of Equals Joshua Cohen explains how the values of freedom, equality, and community all work together as parts of the democratic ideal expressed in Rousseau's conception of the ‘society of the general will'.

Institutions and Organizations Governance Religion Society Book
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Journal Article

The Game of Electoral Fraud and the Ousting of Authoritarian Rule

Beatriz Magaloni
American Journal of Political Science, 2010
International Development Science and Technology Journal Article
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Book

Satellite Television, the War on Terror and Political Conflict in the Arab World

Lina Khatib
Spaces of Security and Insecurity: Geographies of the War on Terror, ed. Alan Ingram and Klaus Dodds, 2010
International Development Science and Technology Security Conflict Book
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Journal Article

Political Order and One-Party Rule

Beatriz Magaloni, Ruth Kricheli
Annual Review of Political Science, 2010
International Development Science and Technology Journal Article
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Working Paper

Maximizing Co-Benefits: Exploring Opportunities to Strengthen Equality and Poverty Reduction Through Adaptation to Climate Change

Leisa Perch, Stephanie Gimenez Stahlberg
UNDP IPC-IG, 2010
Climate change Environment Climate Working Paper
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Commentary

PHR Fall 2010 Newsletter

2010

Welcome back to Stanford! Our quarterly newsletter has taken on this new two-page format which we hope you will enjoy. This issue gives you a brief look at the year ahead as well as describing key aspects of our inaugural 2009-2010 events and activities.

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Working Paper

Varieties of Clientelism: Machine Politics During Elections

Jordan Gans-Morse, Sebastian Mazzuca, Simeon Nichter
CDDRL Working Papers, 2010

Clientelist parties (or political machines) engage in a variety of strategies during elections. Most studies focus exclusively on "vote buying," a strategy that rewards opposing voters for switching their vote choices. Yet in many countries, machines also adopt other strategies, such as activating their passive constituencies through "turnout buying." What factors explain variation in patterns of clientelism during elections? We develop an analytical framework and formal model that emphasize the role of individual and contextual factors.

Elections Governance Working Paper
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Policy Brief

Racial Inequality and Affirmative Action in Education in Brazil

Stephanie Gimenez Stahlberg
Stanford Progressive, 2010
Education International Development Society Policy Brief
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Journal Article

No Picnic: The Dynamics of Culture in the Contemporary Arab World

Hicham Ben Abdallah
Le Monde Diplomatique, 2010
An Abstract

All too frequently, students of democracy and democratization view the politics they analyze exclusively through the prism of constitutions, elections, and political actors. In the case of the Middle East, this involves worn out questions of religious fundamentalism, neo-colonialism, entrenched autocracy, the politics of oil and Israel, etc. While all of these are indeed relevant to understanding the perseverance of authoritarian political structures, it is equally crucial to understand the dynamics of culture, and the ways in which forms of cultural

Democracy Governance History Society Culture Islam Oil Energy Environment Elections International Development Journal Article
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Working Paper

When can External Actors Influence Democratization?

Jakob Tolstrup
CDDRL Working Papers, 2010

This paper put forward a theoretical explanation of when and to what degree external actors matter in democratization.

Democracy Governance Democracy promotion International Relations Working Paper
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Journal Article

The Sorcerer's Apprentice: Islamist Militancy in South Asia

Sumit Ganguly, Paul Kapur
The Washington Quarterly, 2010

Throughout its history, Pakistan has deliberately used non-state actors as a strategy of asymmetric warfare against stronger adversaries such as India and the Soviet Union. Islamist militants were armed and trained by elements of the Pakistani military and intelligence services, and funded by a sophisticated international financial network. This enabled Pakistan to attrite Indian and Soviet resources via proxy, without having to face either country in a direct conflict.

History Society Institutions and Organizations Governance Military Security Conflict Journal Article
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Journal Article

Why Are There No Arab Democracies?

Larry Diamond
Journal of Democracy, 2010

(excerpt) During democratization’s “third wave,” democracy ceased being a mostly Western phenomenon and “went global.” When the third wave began in 1974, the world had only about 40 democracies, and only a few of them lay outside the West. By the time the Journal of Democracy be- gan publishing in 1990, there were 76 electoral democracies (accounting for slightly less than half the world’s independent states). By 1995, that number had shot up to 117—three in every five states.

Governance Democracy Journal Article
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