Exporting and Importing Democracy, Law and Human Rights
Following the Vietnam-related dissolution of the Cold War consensus in the 1960s, the Democratic Party divided between hawks who favored ...
The Democracy Network
The National Endowment for Democ- racy (NED) was set up by the Reagan Administration in 1983 to bolster U.S. foreign ...
Haiti Undone
Haiti's Parliament building stands empty, except for a few deputies off in a side room who recline in their armchairs, ...
Chavez and Democracy in Venezuela
The ongoing deliberations of an elected Assembly charged with rewriting Venezuela's Constitution (see "Venezuelans Give Chávez Control of Constituent Assembly," ...
In Defense of Polyarchy
In an interview a few years ago, the political scientist Robert Dahl commented that what troubled him most about his ...
The PT Experience in Porto Alegre
THE PT EXPERIENCE IN PORTO ALEGRE Participatory democracy has flourished under the control of the leftist Workers Party in Porto ...
Mexico’s Secret War
In considering the current status of the conflict in southeastern Mexico, four fundamental realities must be kept in mind. First, ...
Democracy or Polyarchy?
To favor democracy means to oppose U.S. foreign policy in the name of democracy. The issue is not whether democracy ...
