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POLITICS-AFRICA: Constitutions Affirmed as Essential for Democracy - 0 views

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    One of Africa's main challenges is ensuring that constitutions reflect a consensus amongst all sectors of the population, including vulnerable groups such as women, are rarely taken into account in constitutional strengthening initiatives.
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The Court » The Prime Minister and Prorogation: Time for a New SCC Reference? - 0 views

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    Legitimate concerns have been expressed over what Harper has asked of the Governor General. The most compelling, in my view, is that Jean's approval of the prorogation request sets a dangerous precedent in which a Prime Minister may seek prorogation or di
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Deliberative democracy, elite politics and electoral reform - Policy Studies - 0 views

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    Many advanced liberal democracies exhibit 'democracy deserts' in which high levels of social exclusion among large sections of the population are compounded by low levels of democratic engagement. How to reverse declining levels of electoral participation
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Public Support for Democratic Governance in Southeast Asia - Asian Journal of Political... - 0 views

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    The transition and consolidation of democracy in Southeast Asia has proven fragile and tenuous some 30 years after the current wave of democratization began. A critical ingredient in the process of democratization is the role of public opinion and the ext
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World Politics - Federalism in Europe and Latin America: Conceptualization, Causes, and... - 0 views

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    Recent events in Europe and Latin America have triggered serious debate over federalism. In response, political scientists have turned to the new institutionalism literature in the attempt to understand both the causes and the consequences of federal inst
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World Politics - Does Landholding Inequality Block Democratization?: A Test of the "Bre... - 0 views

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    Recent cross-national studies have returned their attention to the structural determinants of political regimes, highlighting in particular the factor of as a decisive barrier to democratization. This article provides the first systematic test of such hyp
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The Fallacy of the 'Failed State' - Third World Quarterly - 0 views

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    This article examines the origins and evolution of the concepts of 'failed' and 'failing' states, arguing that the terms have come to be used in such widely divergent and problematic ways that they have lost any utility. The article details six serious pr
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Pew Global Attitudes Project: Overview: Global Public Opinion in the Bush Years (2001-2... - 0 views

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    America's image gap is the central, unmistakable finding from surveys conducted over the course of this decade by the Pew Research Center's Pew Global Attitudes Project. Since 2002, interviewers have polled over 175,000 people in 54 nations and the Palest
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China's Charter 08 - The New York Review of Books - 0 views

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    The document below, signed by more than two thousand Chinese citizens, was conceived and written in conscious admiration of the founding of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia, where, in January 1977, more than two hundred Czech and Slovak intellectuals formed a
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On the Danger and Necessity of Democratisation: trade-offs between short-term stability... - 0 views

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    This paper argues that the Rwandan government's reconciliation strategy will need to be accompanied by a process of democratisation if it is to achieve its objective of fostering long-term peace. If the discourse of national unity is not reflected in an e
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INDIA: Kashmiri Women Repose Faith in Electoral Politics - 0 views

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    With voting for the provincial elections in Indian Kashmir safely over, observers say that what was remarkable about the process -- apart from its relative peacefulness -- was the active participation of women in a Muslim-majority state.
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Democratization, sequencing, and state failure in Africa: Lessons from Kenya -- Branch ... - 0 views

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    Looking beyond the immediate trigger for the subsequent violence - namely, the election itself - the paper instead locates the roots of the crisis within three historical trends: elite fragmentation, political liberalization, and state informalization.The
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The plundering of Zambian resources by Frederick Chiluba and his friends: A case study ... - 0 views

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    Three specific themes appear. First, there is a danger of oversimplification of these conflicts as between the international community and national governments. The political struggles tend to be more complicated than generally presented, and internationa
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Understanding Cleavages in Party Systems: Issue Position and Issue Salience in 13 Post-... - 0 views

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    There has been considerable debate about the characteristics of political cleavages underlying post-Communist Central and Eastern European party competition, with views ranging from no structure, to unidimensionality, to structured diversity, to entirely
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positions: east asia cultures critique - From the "People" to the "Citizen": Tsurumi Sh... - 0 views

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    What could be more emblematic of postwar Japanese democracy than the spontaneous birth of the "citizen" (shimin) in the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty struggle (Anpo toso) of 1960? As the story goes, it was during Anpo that thousands of ordinary citizens came
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Ethics & International Affairs - Human Rights and Global Democracy - 0 views

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    Human rights and global democracy are widely assumed to be compatible, but the conceptual and practical connection between them has received little attention. As a result, the relationship is under-theorized, and important potential conflicts between them
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Ethics & International Affairs - On Promoting Democracy - 0 views

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    The first question that we have to ask about promoting democracy is the question of agency: Who are the promoters? Most of the recent arguments have focused on the state, that is, on the already democratic states and, particularly, the United States. Regi
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Mass uprising of Greece's youth, by Valia Kaimaki LMD - 0 views

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    Why did Greek youth take to the streets? For the first time since the second world war young people have no hope of a better life than their parents. But there is also a failure of trust in politicians and all state institutions, particularly the police
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Discourses on Salt and Iron and China's Ancient Strategic Culture -- Zhongbo and Ning 2... - 0 views

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    'A generation ago, the predominant view among analysts of China was that Chinese leaders in the early 1900s had only a rather limited and confining repertoire of strategic thought available to them. ... But perhaps most important, recent scholarship has d
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Government and Opposition - Still the Anomalous Democracy? Politics and Institutions in... - 0 views

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    Until the early 1990s, the Italian political system was regarded as anomalous among advanced democracies because of its failure to achieve alternation in government. Since then, that problem has been overcome, but Italy has been popularly viewed as contin
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