Driving Democracy

Pippa Norris is the McGuire Lecturer in Comparative Politics at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University and Director, Democratic Governance, United Nations Development Program. Her work compares elections and public opinion, gender politics, and political communications. Companion volumes by this author, also published by Cambridge University Press, include A Virtuous Circle (2000), Digital Divide (2001), Democratic Phoenix (2002), Rising Tide (2003), Electoral Engineering (2004), Sacred and Secular (2004), and Radical Right (2005).

• Part I. Do Power-Sharing Regimes Work?: 1. What drives democracy?; 2. Evidence and methods; 3. Democratic indicators and trends; 4. Wealth and democracy; Part II. The Impact of Power-Sharing Institutions: 5. Electoral systems; 6. Presidential and parliamentary executives; 7. Federalism and decentralization; 8. The fourth estate; Part III: Conclusions: 9. What works? Lessons for public policy.

'The scope of the book, combined with its methodological rigor, ensure that it will stand as an important contribution to the empirical study of democracy.' Journal of Politics