The International Economic Association - Preface - Acknowledgements - Abbreviations and Acronyms - List of Contributors and Participants - Introduction: Heritage, Aspirations and Reality;A.K.Bagchi - PART 1: THEORY, MODELS AND PRACTICE - Political Regimes and Economic Growth; A.Przeworski & F.Limongi - Comment; S.Giner- On the Relationship between Economic Development and Political Democracy; J.E.Roemer - Comment; S.Barbera - PART 2: THE REAL WORLD OF ELECTORAL DEMOCRACIES -Democracy: a Key to Development in Costa Rica?; J.R.Vargas - Comment; A.K.Bagchi - Democracy and Development in India; S.Kaviraj - Comment; K.Sangari - The Japanese Experience; M.Morishima - Comment; B.Cumings - PART 3: TRANSITION TO DEMOCRACY - Development Policy-Decision Making in Spain; J.M.Colomer - Comment; J.Ruiz-Castillo - Turkey: An Alternative Perspective; C.Keyder - Comment; D.Ghai - Authoritarianism, Egalitarianism and Illiberal Democracy in China; C.Riskin - Comment; M.Morishima - South Africa: The Problems in a Deeply Divided Society; F.Wilson - Comment; J.Leape - Marketization and Democratization: The Sino-Soviet Divergence; W.Brus - A Personal Postscript; A.B.Atkinson