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KENYA: Resounding Yes to New Constitution - IPS ipsnews.net - 0 views

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    Jubilant supporters say it is a new dawn for Kenya. Sixty-seven percent of votes cast endorsed a new constitution more than two decades after reform was first raised. Speaking to IPS soon after the results were announced, Senior Counsel Paul Muite, a for
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The Heuristic Value of the Left-Right Schema in East Asia - International Political Sci... - 0 views

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    The semantics of left and right provide an efficient heuristic to understand and organize political information. Most studies on the left-right schema have focused on established democracies, but the anchoring function that it serves for party systems may
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Beyond the Radial Delusion: Conceptualizing and Measuring Democracy and Non-democracy -... - 0 views

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    Typologies of political regimes in general and of democracy in particular proliferate in the literature. However, few efforts have been devoted to systematically scrutinizing the empirical relationship between the constitutive components of liberal democr
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At the Borders of Citizenship: A Democracy in Translation? - European Journal of Social... - 0 views

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    Borders are never purely local institutions, never reducible to a simple history of conflicts and agreements between neighboring groups and powers. Borders are already global, ways of dividing the world into regions and thus make possible place and a 'map
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Constituent Power in Motion: Ten Years of Transformation in Venezuela - Socialism and D... - 0 views

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    One of the main issues in recent years for those desiring profound social transformation - especially in Latin America - has been the question of taking power. Should we to some extent collaborate with State institutions, or should we reject any involveme
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Governments and Movements: Autonomy or New Forms of Domination? - Socialism and Democracy - 0 views

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    this change at the top level arose from years of steady electoral growth (notably, in Brazil and Uruguay), while in other countries it was the fruit of social movements capable of overthrowing neoliberal parties and governments (Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuel
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Eldis The impact of democracy in Zimbabwe: assessing political, social and economic dev... - 0 views

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    This paper briefly outlines some of the perceptions of Zimbabweans regarding the various changes that have occurred in the country in the past 10-15 years, particularly where the democratisation process is concerned. The paper seeks to ascertain whether t
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Liberal nationalism, nationalist liberalization, and democracy: the cases of post-Sovie... - 0 views

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    The bulk of scholarly literature views nationalism as harmful to democratic transition. Yet Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan indirectly suggest that nationalism may benefit democratization. This study shows that under the right conditions nationalism can benef
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Africa Today - The Democratic Republic of the Congo? Corruption, Patronage, and Competi... - 0 views

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    This article proposes that because democratization in the DRC is based on external, rather than domestic, pressure, particularly the effect of Western foreign aid on corrupt patronage networks, the regime is vulnerable to authoritarian drift. In the final
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The impact of democracy in Mozambique: assessing political, social and economic develop... - 0 views

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    Civil war, sabotage from neighbouring states, and economic collapse characterised the first decade of Mozambican independence. During most of the civil war, the government was unable to exercise effective control outside of urban areas, many of which were
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The impact of democracy in Botswana: assessing political, social and economic developme... - 0 views

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    Since independence in 1966, Botswana has been a non-racial, multiparty democracy operating within the framework of a constitution, which enshrines freedom of speech, of association, and of worship, and affords all citizens equal rights. However, much has
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The quality of democracy and governance in Africa Eldis updates - 0 views

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    This handbook aims primarily to create a record of mass attitudes of citizens in selected African countries towards democracy, markets, civil society, and other aspects of civil-state relations. However, while there has been a great deal of information on
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Giving the People a Voice? Experiments with consultative authoritarian institutions in ... - 0 views

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    In the last decade Chinese consultative authoritarianism has been renewed through many political and administrative innovations and tools. Authoritarian rule in China is now permeated by a wide variety of consultative and deliberative practices. These pra
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Ethnic party bans in Africa: an introduction - Democratization - 0 views

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    During the 1990s the number of African states allowing multiparty elections increased dramatically. Paradoxically, this has been accompanied in the majority of countries by legal bans on ethnic and other particularistic parties. The main official reason h
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AFRIQUE: L'extension de l'assiette fiscale pour "promouvoir le développement ... - 0 views

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    Les pays africains doivent élargir leurs assiettes fiscales afin d'avoir plus de recettes pour financer leur développement, construire les institutions étatiques, renforcer le dialogue national et, plus généralement, leurs contrats sociaux avec les citoye
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    On Zuckerberg and power "It's as if the president of a university "Save Darfur" club was appointed the UN envoy to the region." Evgeny Morozov is a fellow at Georgetown University. His book about the internet and democracy will be published in November.
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Aesthetics of emptiness and withdrawal: contemporary European art and actually existing... - 0 views

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    Why, since the late 1980s, have a number of European artists critiqued democracy as the political, critical and aesthetic frame within which to identify their work? How have they done this? And what aesthetic and political discourses have artists proposed
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Journal of Democracy - Liberation Technology - 0 views

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    The Internet, mobile phones, and other forms of "liberation technology" enable citizens to express opinions, mobilize protests, and expand the horizons of freedom. Autocratic governments are also learning to master these technologies, however. Ultimately,
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    Must every state be a nation and every nation a state? Or should we look instead to the example of countries such as India, where one state holds together a congeries of "national" groups and cultures in a single and wisely conceived federal republic?
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    Democratization is never easy, smooth, or linear, but as Indonesia's experience in building a multiparty and multiethnic democracy shows, it can succeed even under difficult and initially unpromising conditions.
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