How Burma could democratize

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 95-108

  Reynolds, Andrew ^a   Stepan, Alfred ^c   Oo, Zaw ^c   Levine, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^c NONE

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EID: 0035598101     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.2001.0081     Document Type: Review

References (12)

1. The meetings were held in Bangkok and Chiang Mai, Thailand, in June 2001, under the auspices of the Burma Fund (which is closely connected to the Burmese democratic opposition) with the support of the Ford Foundation.
2. For an excellent overview of political developments in modern Burma, see Peter Carey, ed., Burma: The Challenge of Change in a Divided Society (New York: St. Martin's, 1997). See, in particular, ch. 2, Robert Taylor, "The Constitutional Future of Myanmar in Comparative Perspective"; ch. 4, Martin Smith, "Burma's Ethnic Minorities: A Central or Peripheral Problem in the Regional Context"; and ch. 5, Josef Silverstein, "The Civil War, the Minorities, and Burma's New Politics." For a recent discussion of constitutional design in a democratizing Burma, see Claire M. Smith, "Adapting Consociationalism: Viable Democratic Structures in Burma" (Washington, D.C.: Technical Advisory Network of Burma, 2000).
3. For an excellent overview of political developments in modern Burma, see Peter Carey, ed., Burma: The Challenge of Change in a Divided Society (New York: St. Martin's, 1997). See, in particular, ch. 2, Robert Taylor, "The Constitutional Future of Myanmar in Comparative Perspective"; ch. 4, Martin Smith, "Burma's Ethnic Minorities: A Central or Peripheral Problem in the Regional Context"; and ch. 5, Josef Silverstein, "The Civil War, the Minorities, and Burma's New Politics." For a recent discussion of constitutional design in a democratizing Burma, see Claire M. Smith, "Adapting Consociationalism: Viable Democratic Structures in Burma" (Washington, D.C.: Technical Advisory Network of Burma, 2000).
4. For an excellent overview of political developments in modern Burma, see Peter Carey, ed., Burma: The Challenge of Change in a Divided Society (New York: St. Martin's, 1997). See, in particular, ch. 2, Robert Taylor, "The Constitutional Future of Myanmar in Comparative Perspective"; ch. 4, Martin Smith, "Burma's Ethnic Minorities: A Central or Peripheral Problem in the Regional Context"; and ch. 5, Josef Silverstein, "The Civil War, the Minorities, and Burma's New Politics." For a recent discussion of constitutional design in a democratizing Burma, see Claire M. Smith, "Adapting Consociationalism: Viable Democratic Structures in Burma" (Washington, D.C.: Technical Advisory Network of Burma, 2000).
5. For an excellent overview of political developments in modern Burma, see Peter Carey, ed., Burma: The Challenge of Change in a Divided Society (New York: St. Martin's, 1997). See, in particular, ch. 2, Robert Taylor, "The Constitutional Future of Myanmar in Comparative Perspective"; ch. 4, Martin Smith, "Burma's Ethnic Minorities: A Central or Peripheral Problem in the Regional Context"; and ch. 5, Josef Silverstein, "The Civil War, the Minorities, and Burma's New Politics." For a recent discussion of constitutional design in a democratizing Burma, see Claire M. Smith, "Adapting Consociationalism: Viable Democratic Structures in Burma" (Washington, D.C.: Technical Advisory Network of Burma, 2000).
6. For an excellent overview of political developments in modern Burma, see Peter Carey, ed., Burma: The Challenge of Change in a Divided Society (New York: St. Martin's, 1997). See, in particular, ch. 2, Robert Taylor, "The Constitutional Future of Myanmar in Comparative Perspective"; ch. 4, Martin Smith, "Burma's Ethnic Minorities: A Central or Peripheral Problem in the Regional Context"; and ch. 5, Josef Silverstein, "The Civil War, the Minorities, and Burma's New Politics." For a recent discussion of constitutional design in a democratizing Burma, see Claire M. Smith, "Adapting Consociationalism: Viable Democratic Structures in Burma" (Washington, D.C.: Technical Advisory Network of Burma, 2000).
7. See Richard Snyder, "Does Lootable Wealth Breed Disorder? The Political Economy of 'Chaosocracy,'" unpubl. ms., Department of Political Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, July 2001.
8. Thomas Crampton, "Crackdown Does Little to Help Burma's Economy," International Herald Tribune, 11 July 2001.
9. See Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 1.
10. For the argument that every democracy with a territorially based and politically active multinational population is federal and asymmetrical, see Alfred Stepan, "Toward a New Comparative Politics of Federalism, (Multi)Nationalism, and Democracy: Beyond Rikerian Federalism," in Alfred Stepan, Arguing Comparative Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 315-62. See also Alfred Stepan, "Federalism and Democracy: Beyond the U.S. Model," Journal of Democracy 10 (October 1999): 19-34.
11. For the argument that every democracy with a territorially based and politically active multinational population is federal and asymmetrical, see Alfred Stepan, "Toward a New Comparative Politics of Federalism, (Multi)Nationalism, and Democracy: Beyond Rikerian Federalism," in Alfred Stepan, Arguing Comparative Politics (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 315-62. See also Alfred Stepan, "Federalism and Democracy: Beyond the U.S. Model," Journal of Democracy 10 (October 1999): 19-34.
12. See, for example, Donald Horowitz, "Presidents vs. Parliaments: Comparing Democratic Systems," Journal of Democracy 1 (Fall 1990): 73-79.