Foreword - Robert K Merton Notes on the Young Lipset Seymour Martin Lipset and the Study of Democracy - Larry Diamond and Gary Marks PART ONE: THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES Democracy in Permanently Divided Systems - James S Coleman Democracy as Political Competition - Kaare Strom Rational Sources of Chaos in Democratic Transition - Gary Marks On the Place of Virtues in a Pluralistic Democracy - Amitai Etzioni The Concept of National Development, 1917-1989 - Immanuel Wallerstein Elegy and Requiem PART TWO: COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES Economic Development and Democracy Reconsidered - Larry Diamond Capitalism, the Market, and Democracy - Carlos H Waisman Interest Systems and the Consolidation of Democracies - Philippe C Schmitter Change and Continuity in the Nature of Contemporary Democracies - Juan J Linz Two New Nations - Amos Perlmutter Israeli and American Foreign Policies PART THREE: POLITICS AND SOCIAL CHANGE IN AMERICAN DEMOCRACY State Formation and Social Policy in the United States - Theda Skocpol The Insurgent Origins of Union Democracy - Maurice Zeitlin Class, Race, and Higher Education in America - Martin Trow Inequality and American Culture - Ann Swidler The Persistence of Voluntarism Off With Their Heads - William Schneider The Confidence Gap and the Revolt Against Professionalism in American Politics