Part 1. Historical perspectives 1900-2000
Cycles of electoral democracy
Transitions and continuities
The military : heading for the exits?
Global contexts, international forces
Part 2. The electoral arena
Presidents or parliaments
Elections : voters, winners, and losers
Part 3. Qualities of democracy
State capacity and policy performance
The politics of social equity
Freedoms, rights, and illiberal democracy
Part 4. Democracy considered
The dialectic of democracy
Epilogue : the future of democracy.
