Parties, Movements, and Democracy in the Developing World

Nancy Bermeo holds the Nuffield Chair of Comparative Politics at the University of Oxford and is a PIIRS Senior Scholar at Princeton University, New Jersey. Deborah J. Yashar is Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University, New Jersey, and chief-editor of World Politics.

• 1. Parties, movements and the making of democracy Nancy Bermeo and Deborah J. Yashar; 2. The content of democracy: nationalist parties and inclusive ideologies in India and Indonesia Maya Tudor and Dan Slater; 3. Social cleavages, political parties, and the building of performance legitimacy in Southeast Asia Erik Martinez Kuhonta; 4. Democratic divergence and party systems in Latin America's third wave Kenneth M. Roberts; 5. Strong parties, weak parties: divergent pathways to democracy in sub-Saharan Africa Rachel Beatty Riedl; 6. Parties in transitional democracies: authoritarian legacies and post-authoritarian challenges in the Middle East and North Africa Ellen Lust and David Waldner; 7. Mechanisms matter Nancy Bermeo and Deborah J. Yashar.

'This book is an important contribution to the literatures on democratization, parties, and movements. The volume focuses on why democracy sometimes emerges in unlikely places and circumstances. The authors argue persuasively that parties and movements are the primary actors in creating and undermining political regimes, and that these actors' preferences and behaviors are not predictable on the basis of structural variables. The contributors are among the foremost scholars of the developing world …' Scott Mainwaring, Harvard University, Massachusetts