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1 online resource (xv, 233 pages) |
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Introduction: Participation, the state and the people / Brendan Howe and Vesselin Popovski -- Venezuela: democratic possibilities -- Colombia: not the oldest democracy in Latin America, but rather a fake one / Olga Lucía Castillo-Ospina -- Consensus or conflict? The problem of an anti-political imagery of democracy in contemporary Argentina / Mariana Garzón Rogé and Mariano Perelman -- Democracy, pluralism and nation-building: the Nigerian case / Moses Metumara Duruji -- Ethno-linguistic vitality and democratic practice in Kenya / James Ogola Onyango -- The democratization process in Ghana: key issues and challenges / Gbenga Emmanuel Afolayan -- Democratic bewilderments of the world's largest democracy- India / K. Deepamala -- The 2006 coup and the evolving democratic and political party system in Thailand / Narayanan Ganesan -- Consolidating democracy in the Philippines: breaking monopolies of local power / Gladstone A. Cuarteros -- Concluusion / Vesselin Popovski and Brendan Howe |
| Summary |
Traditionally, studies on democracy have focused on the orthodox so-called Northern models of democratic governance, and within this framework, the extent to which Southern models are considered democratic. Democracy in the South is the first truly international collaboration that draws attention to the complex problems of democratic consolidation across the majority world. Nine case studies, three each from Africa, Latin America and Asia, shed light on the contemporary challenges faced by democratizing countries, mostly from the perspective of emerging theorists working in their home countrie |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
Democratization -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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Democracy -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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Political participation -- Developing countries -- Case studies
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Comparative government -- Case studies
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
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Comparative government
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Democracy
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Democratization
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Political participation
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Politics and government
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Demokratisierung
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| SUBJECT |
Developing countries -- Politics and government -- Case studies
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Developing countries
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Entwicklungsländer
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Case studies
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Case studies.
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Études de cas.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Howe, Brendan M.
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Popovski, Vesselin.
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Notaras, Mark.
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| ISBN |
9789280871470 |
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9280871471 |
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