Volume 31, Number 2, January 1999

  • Alexander J. Motyl, “Why Empires Reemerge: Imperial Collapse and Imperial Revival in Comparative Perspective”
  • Robert G. Moser, “Independents and Party Formation: Elite Partisanship as an Intervening Variable in Russian Politics”
  • Kevin J. O’Brien and Lianjiang Li, “Selective Policy Implementation in Rural China”
  • Steven K. Vogel, “When Interests Are Not Preferences: The Cautionary Tale of Japanese Consumers”
  • Robert Fatton, Jr., “The Impairments of Democratization: Haiti in Comparative Perspective”
  • Review Article: Xu Wang, “Mutual Empowerment of State and Society: Its Nature, Conditions, Mechanisms, and Limits”