Publications on Democracy


and Democratization


by Michael Coppedge



Refereed Journal Articles
  • (with Wolfgang Reinicke) "Measuring Polyarchy," Studies in Comparative International Development 25:1 (Spring 1990): 51-72. Reprinted in Alex Inkeles, ed., On Measuring Democracy: Its Consequences and Concomitants, pp. 47-68 (Transaction, 1991).

    Articles Published by University Presses
  • "Modernization and Thresholds of Democracy: Evidence for a Common Path and Process," in Manus Midlarsky, ed., Inequality, Democracy, and Economic Development, pp. 177-201 (Cambridge UP, 1997).
  • "Venezuela," in The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World (Oxford University Press, 1993).

    Articles Published by Commercial Presses
  • "El concepto de la gobernabilidad: Modelos positivos y negativos," in Esteban Vega, ed., Ecuador: Un problema de gobernabilidad (Quito: Corporación de Estudios para el Desarrollo (CORDES), 1997).
  • "Polyarchy," in S.M. Lipset, ed., The Encyclopedia of Democracy (Congressional Quarterly Books, 1995).
  • "Andean Countries," in S.M. Lipset, ed., The Encyclopedia of Democracy (Congressional Quarterly Books, 1995).
  • "Mexican Democracy: You Can't Get There from Here," in Riordan Roett, ed., Political and Economic Liberalization in Mexico: At a Critical Juncture?, pp. 127-40 (Lynne Rienner, 1993). Also published in Spanish by Siglo XXI (1993).
  • (with Wolfgang Reinicke) "A Scale of Polyarchy," in Raymond D. Gastil, ed., Freedom in the World: Political Rights and Civil Liberties, 1987-1988 (Freedom House, 1988).

    Articles in Non-refereed Journals
  • "Instituciones y gobernabilidad democrática en América Latina," Síntesis (Madrid) 22 (julio-diciembre 1995).

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