For four decades, Venezuela prided itself for having one of the most stable representative democracies in Latin America. Then, in 1992, Hugo Ch+ívez Fr+¡as attempted an unsuccessful military coup. Six years later, he was elected president. Once in power, Ch+ívez redrafted the 1961 constitution, dissolved the Congress, dismissed judges, and ......
Beyond Free and Fair: Monitoring Elections and Building Democracy draws on worldwide experience since the mid-1980s to evaluate international election monitoring and domestic monitoring, and their contributions to democracy promotion and democratic change. In this book, Eric Bjornlund provides an overview of what election monitoring is, where it ......
Culture and Social Thought in the Depression Years
This edition of Richard H. Pells's classic work of American intellectual history includes a new preface. ''The best explanation I have seen of why Marxism attracted so many intelligent people forty years ago.'' -- Newsweek ''A rich, satisfying, well-written book. . . . It is not only an analysis ......
`The book makes a successful attempt to map the potentially transformative effects of new media on various aspects of political insitiutions and culture, both at a theorectical and empirical level. Barrie Axford's discussion of the changing nature of political practice and technologies of political communication in relation to wider discourse of ......
The intelligence community's flawed assessment of Iraq's weapons systemsand the Bush administration's decision to go to war in part based on those assessmentsillustrates the political and policy challenges of combating the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. In this comprehensive assessment, defense policy specialists Jason Ellis and ......
the Wood's Halfpence Controversy in Ireland - 1724-1725
This scholarly study contains critical new research as well as over 100 reprints of documents, broadsides, ballads that comprise the heart of the pamphlet controversy aroused by Wood's halfpenny scheme; the scheme which prompted Swift's Drapier's Letters. Many of these documents are of extreme rarity and are unrecorded by even the finest ......
Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917
Radical Protestant Christianity became widespread in rural parts of southern Russia and Ukraine in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Russia's Lost Reformation: Peasants, Millennialism, and Radical Sects in Southern Russia and Ukraine, 1830-1917, studies the origins and evolution of the theology and practices of these radicals ......
How should those exercising power be made more accountable, and what roles should the mass media play in that process? Can the public monitor the exercise of power without the existence of a strong and inquisitive media? The Communication of Politics examines these and other questions vital to the debate on the media's role in the democratic process. Ralph Negrine explores the complexity of the links between the media, the institutional political world and the public through case studies drawn from contemporary British politics and other political systems including the United States. He examines some of the often overlooked problems faced by the media in its efforts to create an `informed citizenry'. Questioning the practices that filter information and confronting the idea that information itself is unproblematic, Negrine shows why the essential task of uncovering truths remains elusive.
