The Market Meets Its Match: Restructuring the Economies of Eastern Europeby Alice H. Amsden; Jacek Kochanowicz; Lance Taylor;Lost Opportunity: Why Economic Reforms in Russia Have Not Workedby Marshall I. Goldman

✍ Scribed by Review by: Richard N. Cooper

• Book ID: 125228249
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 337 KB
• Volume: 74
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0015-7120
• DOI: 10.2307/20047141

✦ Synopsis

Recent Books outlandish, trivial, nor misguided. Most are sensible and argued with a refreshing directness and force. On the other hand, they are also not very surprising and do not provide much by way of a new insight on the world after the Cold War. Referendums around the World: The Growing Use of Direct Democracy. EDITED BY DAVID BUTLER AND Austin RANNEY. Washington: aei Press, 1994,304 pp. $19.95 (paper). This volume suggests that referenda are not the threat to representative democracy and stability they are sometimes made out to be. Looking at the record of votes in Western Europe (including Switzerland, which has staged half the known referenda in history),