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July 2019, Volume 30, Issue 3
Popular dissatisfaction and tensions within the long-ruling EPRDF have led to the rise of a young reformist leader who has begun a course of bold reversals in favor of greater freedom and openness.
October 2001, Volume 12, Issue 4
Excerpts from: writings by Human rights activist Elena Bonner on the situation in Chechnya; the first state address of Indonesian president Megawati Sukarnoputri; the African Union’s New Africa Initiative; Organization of American States General Assembly Resolution 1753.
July 1999, Volume 10, Issue 3
Excerpts from: a United Nations Commission on Human Rights resolution on the “Promotion of the Right to Democracy”; remarks by Aung San Suu Kyi, General Secretary of Burma’s National League for Democracy; the “Casablanca Declaration of the Arab Human Rights Movement”; Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo’s inaugural speech.
July 2004, Volume 15, Issue 3
A review of Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy by Nancy Bermeo.
January 1995, Volume 6, Issue 1
Something happened in America starting in the mid-to-late twentieth century to diminish civic engagement and social connectedness. What could that “something” be? Why were fewer and fewer Americans going the polls, the pews, and town halls?
October 2002, Volume 13, Issue 4
Since a tenuous political opening a decade ago, the Mubarak regime has systematically asphyxiated democracy in Egypt.
July 2002, Volume 13, Issue 3
The gravest challenges facing democracy in the Balkans are problems not of ethnicity or postcommunism, but of citizen disaffection and disillusionment.
October 2001, Volume 12, Issue 4
A leading Russian oppositionist speaks out against continuing official assaults on self-government and human rights.
October 2001, Volume 12, Issue 4
A review of Mexico’s Political Awakening, by Vikram K. Chand.
July 2001, Volume 12, Issue 3
The Editors’ introduction to “Francophone Africa in Flux.”
October 2000, Volume 11, Issue 4
The Editors’ introduction to “Is Iran Democratizing?”
January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
The Editors’ introduction to “Democracy in the World.”
January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
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January 2000, Volume 11, Issue 1
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January 1999, Volume 10, Issue 1
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October 1998, Volume 9, Issue 4
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April 1998, Volume 9, Issue 2
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