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Donald L. Horowitz

James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science
School of Law
Duke Law School, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708-0360
Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Reconsidering the Transition Paradigm

Journal Article Journal of Democracy · January 2014 Four leading experts on democracy—Larry Diamond, Francis Fukuyama, Donald L. Horowitz, and Marc F. Plattner—discuss the relevance of the "transition paradigm" in light of the "Arab Spring" and other developments in the world today. Full text Cite

Ethnic power sharing: Three big problems

Journal Article Journal of Democracy · January 1, 2014 In societies severely divided by ethnicity, race, religion, language, or any other form of ascriptive affiliation, ethnic divisions make democracy difficult, because they tend to produce ethnic parties and ethnic voting. Two commonly proposed methods of am ... Full text Cite

Where have all the parties gone? Fraenkel and Grofman on the alternative vote - Yet again

Journal Article Public Choice · October 1, 2007 The alternative vote (AV) is a preferential electoral system that tends to reward political moderation and compromise. Fraenkel and Grofman (2004, 2006a, 2006b) have repeatedly attempted to show that AV is not conducive to interethnic moderation in severel ... Full text Cite

Strategy takes a holiday: Fraenkel and Grofman on the alternative vote

Journal Article Comparative Political Studies · June 1, 2006 The alternative vote (AV) is an electoral system that tends to produce centripetal effects. It therefore has some potential to foster interethnic compromise and coalition in severely divided societies. Fraenkel and Grofman's attempt to show that AV will no ... Full text Cite

Constitutional courts: A primer for decision makers

Journal Article Journal of Democracy · January 1, 2006 Full text Cite

Foreward: Compared to What?

Journal Article Duke Journal of Comparative & International Law · October 2003 Cite

The cracked foundations of the right to secede

Journal Article Journal of Democracy · January 1, 2003 Full text Cite

Electoral systems: A primer for decision makers

Journal Article Journal of Democracy · January 1, 2003 Full text Cite

The Research University: A State of Mind

Journal Article Akademika · July 2002 Cite

"Provisional Pessimism: A Repl to Van Parjis" NOMOS

Journal Article Designing Democratic Institutions · 2000 Cite

Constitutional Design: An Oxymoron?" NOMOS

Journal Article Designing Democratic Institutions · 2000 Cite

Group loyalty and ethnic violence

Conference VIOLENT CONFLICT IN THE 21ST CENTURY: CAUSES, INSTRUMENTS, AND MITIGATION · January 1, 1999 Link to item Cite

Structure and strategy in ethnic conflict: A few steps toward synthesis

Conference ANNUAL WORLD BANK CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS 1998 · January 1, 1999 Link to item Cite

Self-Determination: Politics, Philosophy, and Law

Journal Article NOMOS, Ethnicity and Group Rights · 1997 Cite

The Qur'an and the Common Law: Islamic Law Reform and the Theory of Legal Change

Journal Article The American Journal of Comparative Law · 1994 Full text Cite

The Qur'an and the Common Law: Islamic Law Reform and the Theory of Legal Change

Journal Article The American Journal of Comparative Law · 1994 Full text Cite

Democracy in Divided Societies

Journal Article Journal of Democracy · October 1993 Cite

Irredentas and secessions: Adjacent phenomena, neglected connections

Journal Article International Journal of Comparative Sociology · December 1, 1992 Full text Cite

A Harvest of Hostility: Ethnic Conflict and Self-Determination After the Cold War

Journal Article Defense Intelligence Journal · October 1992 Cite

SOUTH-AFRICA - DIARY OF TROUBLED TIMES - MATHIANE,N

Journal Article NEW REPUBLIC · November 26, 1990 Link to item Cite

Democracy, Presidential and Parliamentary

Journal Article Journal of Democracy · October 1990 Cite

Incentives and Behavior in the Ethnic Politics of Sri Lanka and Malaysia

Journal Article Third World Quarterly · October 1989 Cite

Cause and consequence in public policy theory: Ethnic policy and system transformation in Malaysia

Journal Article Policy Sciences · October 1, 1989 Considering public policy as both a dependent and an independent variable, this article undertakes a systematic assessment of the sources and systemic consequences of policy. It begins with a statement of contrasting theories of the sources of policy. One ... Full text Cite

Is there a third-world policy process?

Journal Article Policy Sciences · October 1, 1989 The introduction to this special issue asks what is distinctive about public policy making in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. In field after field, some political scientists have argued for distinguishing Western polities from developing polities, whereas ... Full text Cite

IS THE PRESIDENCY FAILING

Journal Article PUBLIC INTEREST · June 1, 1987 Link to item Cite

Justification and Excuse in the Program of the Criminal Law

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 1986 Full text Cite

Foreward: The Deprivation of Labor Relations Law

Journal Article Law and Contemporary Problems · 1986 Cite

HOW MAJORITY-RULE CAN WORK - AFTER APARTHEID

Journal Article NEW REPUBLIC · January 1, 1985 Link to item Cite

Decreeing organizational change: judicial supervision of public institutions.

Journal Article Duke law journal · December 1983 In the last fifteen years or so, courts have issued a small but significant number of decrees requiring that governmental bodies reorganize themselves so that their behavior will comport with certain legal standards. Such decrees, addressed to school syste ... Cite

The Judiciary: Umpire or Empire?

Journal Article Law and Human Behavior · September 1982 Cite

The Ethnic Revival in the Modern World, by Anthony D. Smith

Journal Article Political Science Quarterly · September 1, 1982 Full text Cite

Pattterns of Ethnic Separatism

Journal Article Comparative Studies in Society and History · April 1981 Cite

About-Face in Africa: The Return to Civilian Rule Nigeria

Journal Article Yale Review · December 1978 Cite

Cultural Movements and Ethnic Change

Journal Article The Annals · September 1977 Cite

The Courts as Guardians of the Public Interest

Journal Article Public Administration Review · 1977 Cite

Color Differentiation in the American Systems of Slavery

Journal Article Journal of Interdisciplinary History · December 1973 Cite

Direct, Displaced, and Cumulative Ethnic Aggression

Journal Article Comparative Politics · October 1973 Cite

Three Dimensions of Ethnic Politics

Journal Article World Politics · January 1971 Cite