... elections electoral democracy political brokerage civil society ...

... This chapter follows Generation 98’s journey through the 2004 national and presidential elections, as activists sought to keep the goals of Reform alive by renewing their ties to each other and to “the People.” As Indonesia’s electoral democracy began to be dominated by established political...

... This chapter begins by discussing the respective failures of Senghor and Césaire to realize their federalist visions of nonnational decolonization. It discusses the contradiction for each between having a revolutionary vision of postnational democracy yet devoting their lives to political...

... over the differences between the two Indias, which is central to the politics of nationalism, electoral politics, and globalization. Instead of dissolving the social hierarchies, the essay argues, the concept of sarvajan tends to accommodate them. nationalism Dalit social equality democracy...

... as a contentious historical process and suggests that Egypt's troubled transition to democracy involved an election without democratization. This was a second instance of squaring the revolution (reducing it to a project of elections without democratization, combined with repressive counterrevolutionary methods...

...Dictatorship and Democracy The national revolutionary cycle that commenced in 1952 came to a close with the U.S.-backed military coup of General René Barrientos Ortuño in November 1964. Barrientos combined personal charisma and patronage tactics to establish the so-called Military-Peasant...

... as political actors. The narrow electoral world that existed up until that point doubled in size and would continue to expand, opening the doors to greater political participation and to an issue that had been absent until then in postcolonial Bolivia: social equality. Born in northern Argentina, Juana...