Contents -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: MACRO ISSUES OF DEMOCRATIC CONSTRUCTION -- 1 Building and Sustaining a Contemporary Democratic State -- 2 Strengthening Pluralism and Public Participation in New Democracies -- 3 Economic Challenges for the New Democracies -- PART II: ELECTED INSTITUTIONS OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE -- 4 Constitutional Design and the Construction of Democracy: A Citizenship Regime Perspective -- 5 Executive-Legislative Relations and Democratic Consolidation: A Review and Some Questions -- PART III: IMPLEMENTING THE POLICIES OF THE DEMOCRATIC STATE -- 6 Toward More Balanced Approaches in the Reform of the State -- 7 Military, Police, Politics, and Society: Does Latin America Have a Democratic Model? -- 8 Controlling Corruption: Government Accountability, Business Ethics, and Sectoral Reform -- PART IV: THE DEMOCRATIC STATE IN PRACTICE -- 9 Brazil: The Ethics of Responsibility -- 10 Latin America: National and Global Factors in Democratization and Democratic Consolidation -- 11 Democracy: A View from India -- 12 Portugal: Executive-Legislative Relations -- 13 The Latin American Military Enigma -- Epilogue -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.