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Small Axe - Blackness Unbound: Interrogating Transnational Blackness - 0 views

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    The symposium title was, and is, meant to link the Prometheus myth to the traumatic recollection of the New World plantation harnessing and confining black bodies and black experiences
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Journal of Democracy - Arms and the Humanitarian review - 0 views

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    In Freedom's Battle, Gary J. Bass charts the nineteenth-century pre-history of what today we call humanitarian military invention. He offers richly detailed accounts of the Greek independence struggle of the 1820s, the Western intervention in Syria and th
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Journal of Democracy - Nicaragua: Progress Amid Regress? - 0 views

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    This essay examines Nicaragua's municipal elections of November 2008 against the backdrop of Daniel Ortega's return to the nation's presidency in 2006. While Ortega has engaged in authoritarian practices, municipal-level Sandinista politicians have helped
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Journal of Democracy - The Turnover in El Salvador - 0 views

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    On 15 March 2009, Mauricio Funes, the candidate of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN)-a former guerrilla movement that laid down its arms in 1992 and reconstituted itself as a political party-won the presidential election in El Salvador,
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Project MUSE - Journal of Democracy - Moldova's "Twitter Revolution" - 0 views

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    Few Europeans had heard of Moldova, a tiny state on the EU's eastern flank, before seeing images of the strife that broke out there in early April 2009 after the Communist Party (PCRM) won reelection in a landslide. Except for their international context,
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Journal of Democracy - Competitive Clientelism in the Middle East - 0 views

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    This article reconsiders the relationship between authoritarian elections and democratization. Examining legislative elections in the Middle East, it argues that elections are best understood as "competitive clientelism," a competition between elites over
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Journal of Democracy - Opposition Weakness in Africa - 0 views

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    The position of opposition parties in national legislature is critical to any strategy of "democratization by elections". But the third wave of democratization in Africa has resulted in only a limited increase in political competition. Regardless of the n
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Journal of Democracy - Postcommunist Ambiguities - 0 views

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    In the Balkans and the countries of the old Eastern Bloc, the years from 1996 to 2009 saw no fewer than fourteen major attempts to oust semiauthoritarian regimes by means of elections. Eight of these attempts actually toppled authoritarian leaders, bringi
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Journal of Democracy - A Mixed Record - 0 views

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    This article summarizes some of the key findings from a forthcoming book, Democratization by Elections: A New Mode of Transition? (Johns Hopkins, 2009, edited by the author). Building on Robert Dahl's insight that "the more the cost of suppression exceeds
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Journal of Democracy - Malaysia's Electoral Upheaval - 0 views

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    In the March 2008 General Elections, the ruling Barisan Nasional (National Front) lost its two-third majority. It was the first time since independence that the Opposition was able to threaten the BN. This paper looks at the roles played by Anwar Ibrahim,
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Journal of Democracy - Bangladesh's Fresh Start - 0 views

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    Recent elections have reestablished procedural democracy in Bangladesh. An alliance led by the center-left Awami League defeated a nationalist-Islamist coalition by a landslide. Democratic consolidation will depend on the new government's ability to deliv
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Journal of Democracy - Authoritarian Impermanence - 0 views

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    Like all contemporary nondemocratic systems, the Chinese system suffers from weak legitimacy at the level of regime type. The most likely form of transition for China remains the model of Tiananmen, when three elements came together: a robust plurality of
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'Of, by, and for are not merely prepositions': teaching and learning Conflict Resolutio... - 0 views

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    Universities that promote a liberal education through creative, cross-cultural curriculum nurture the goals of democracy and assist students in becoming 'citizens of the world.' Democratic education for social justice and global consciousness are necessar
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Saakashvili in the public eye: what public opinion polls tell us - Central Asian Survey - 0 views

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    Change of power through elections remains an unattainable goal of Georgian democracy. To a great extent, presidential power depends on public support. How does the public view Saakashvili? What changes occurred during his rule? To what extent has he fulfi
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Compromising democracy: state building in Saakashvili's Georgia - Central Asian Survey - 0 views

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    This article argues that the since the Rose Revolution, the Georgian government led by President Mikheil Saakashvili has created a false dichotomy between democracy and state building. They have prioritized the latter. Initially, in areas such as reducing
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euforic blog: The Heiligendamm Process and the reform of global governance - 0 views

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    Considering the challenges the world is facing today, including the financial, energy and climate crises, there is an urgent need for an inclusive global governance structure with a high-level body fully representing the world population. A new discussio
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G8: The Five Throw a Challenge - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    L'AQUILA, Italy, Jul 8 (IPS) - "The world needs a new global governance," the G5 declared Wednesday, "the construction of which must be based on inclusive multilateralism." As rhetoric goes, this might sound like more of the same. But the time and place o
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CJO - Abstract - Democratic Quality and Human Development in Latin America: 1972-2001 - 0 views

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    This paper analyzes the connection between democracy and human development. In so doing, it examines two main questions: Are democracies better than non-democracies in achieving human development? Among democracies, is there a direct relationship between
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CJO - Abstract - Histoire du mot «démocratie» au Canada et au Québec. Analyse... - 0 views

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    L'étude des discours des «pères fondateurs» du Canada moderne révèle qu'ils étaient ouvertement antidémocrates. Comment expliquer qu'un régime fondé dans un esprit antidémocratique en soit venu à être identifié positivement à la démocratie? S'inspirant d'
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Living without Freedom: Cosmopolitanism at Home and the Rule of Law -- Bohman 37 (4): 5... - 0 views

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    For Kant and many modern cosmopolitans, establishing the rule of law provides the chief mechanism for achieving a just global order. Yet, as Hart and Rawls have argued, the rule of law, as it is commonly understood, is quite consistent with "great iniquit
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