Table of Contents

Introduction: Can Democracy be Designed? - Sunil Bastian and Robin Luckham 1. Democratic Institutions and Democratic Politics and Political Violence - Robin Luckham, Anne Marie Goetz and Mary Kaldor 2. The Politics of Institutional Design in the South African Transition - David Pottie and Shireen Hassim 3. The Reformulation of Ugandan Democracy - James Katalikawe and Aaron Griffiths 4. Ghana: The Political Economy of 'Successful' Ethno-Regional Conflict Management - E. Gyimah-Boadi 5. The Politics of Institutional Design: An Overview of the Case of Sri Lanka - Radhika Coomaraswamy 6. Proportional Representation, Political Violence and the Participation of Women in the Political Process in Sri Lanka - Kishali Pinto Jayawardena 7. The Political Economy of Electoral Reform: Proportional Representation in Sri Lanka - Sunil Bastian 8. Electoral Engineering and the Politicization of Ethnic Frictions in Fiji - Jon Fraenkel 9. Building Democracy from the Outside: The Dayton Agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Marcus Fox 10. Managing Ethnic Conflicts: Democratic Decentralization in Bosnia-Hercegovina - Vesna Bojicic 11. Conclusion: The Politics of Institutional Choice - Sunil Bastian and Robin Luckham

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This work explores how democratic institutions function and how they deal with the pressures of violence, poverty, globalization and democratization.

About the Author

DR SUNIL BASTIAN is a political economist and the director of the International Centre for Ethnic Studies, Colombo. DR ROBIN LUCKHAM is one of the UK's foremost authors on the military and a post-retirement research associate at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex. His previous books include The Nigerian Military (Cambridge University Press, 1971) and. with Gordon White, Democratization in the South (Manchester University Press, 1996). The CONTRIBUTORS are predominantly from the regions concerned.

Reviews

'There are no single unequivocal answers to the question this volume addresses.Yet these highly informed original contributions on the politics of institutional design offer a wealth of insights into the kind of processes that have led to recent successes and failures on the democratization front.' - Martin Doornbos, Institute of Social Studies, the Hague