This is the latest in the At the Polls series, in which Duke University Press has joined with the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research to publish studies on the electoral process as it functions around the world. Cited by Choice for its "high standard of scholarly analysis and objectivity," the series provides both a chronicle of events and a thorough analysis of the election results.

Myron Weiner and Ergun Özbudun

Tables and Figures vii
Preface xi
Introduction
1. Empirical Democratic Theory / Myron Weiner 3
Postcolonial Democracies
2. India / Myron Weiner 37
3. Sri Lanka / Robert N. Kearney 77
4. Malaysia / Lee Kam Hing and Michael Ong 112
5. Costa Rica and Jamaica / Mitchell A. Seligson 147
Postauthoritarian Democracies
6. Nigeria / Henry Bienen 201
7. Venezuela / Daniel H. Levine 248
8. Portugal / Howard J. Wiarda 283
9. Turkey / Ergun Ozbudun 328
A Democratic Imitation
10. Romania, 1919-1938 / Mattei Dogan 369
Conclusion
11. Institutionalizing Competitive Elections in Developing Societies / Argun Ozbudun 393
Index 423
Contributors 431