"These lively, stimulating contributions to one of the central political problems of the twentieth century deserve to become the focus of the debate on why democracies fail."--'International Affairs'
Alfred Stepan is the Wallace Sayre Professor of Government at Columbia University. His books include Democracies in Danger, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation, and The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes, all also published by Johns Hopkins, the last two with Juan J. Linz.
