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Show Me a Hero: Political disillusionment elevates a strongman before Brazil’s election

Joel Pinheiro Da Fonseca
World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 77–82.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-7085688
Published: 01 June 2018
... national election. His arrest makes disqualification a near certainty. At the moment, there is no candidate on the left who comes close to his popularity or poll numbers. It is unclear how much of the goodwill toward his Workers’ Party (PT) will be transferred to a new candidate, and how much...
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Mexico’s Uneasy Choice: The 2006 Presidential Election

Daniel P. Erikson
World Policy Journal (2006) 22 (4): 15–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2006-1012
Published: 01 December 2006
.... Mexico’s Uneasy Choice: The 2006 Presidential Election Daniel P. Erikson Mexico’s democracy has freed itself from its This has been a season of especially deep authoritarian past, yet it is faltering in its anxiety for Mexicans, with their country quest to become a modern nation. The hovering...
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The Trump Effect: Elections at Home and Abroad Dampen Liberia’s Gay-Rights Revival

Robbie Corey-Boulet
World Policy Journal (2017) 34 (3): 83–89.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-4280064
Published: 01 September 2017
...Robbie Corey-Boulet After a backlash against gay rights in 2012, LGBT Liberians have begun to organize and be more public in their demands for equality. But two presidential races—last November’s election of Donald Trump and the selection of a successor to Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...
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Tumbling Onto a Wider Stage: Europe and the Outcome of the Italian Elections

Mark Gilbert
World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 17–24.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2001-1002
Published: 01 December 2001
... visiting associate professor a t the University o f Trento an d the Dickinson College Center fo r European Studies in Bologna. Tumbling Onto a Wider Stage Europe and the O utcom e o f the Italian Elections M ark Gilbert Italian politics can seem like a never...
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Violence and Elections: Will Kenya Collapse?

Jacqueline Klopp, Prisca Kamungi
World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (4): 11–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/wopj.2008.24.4.11
Published: 01 December 2007
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Deciphering Turkey's Elections: The Making of a Revolution

Henri J. Barkey, Yasemin Çongar
World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (3): 63–73.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/wopj.2007.24.3.63
Published: 01 September 2007
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On Righting Trade: Human Rights, Trade, and the 2008 Elections

Susan Ariel Aaronson
World Policy Journal (2007) 24 (4): 19–28.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/wopj.2008.24.4.19
Published: 01 December 2007
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Democracy’s Biggest Gamble: India’s First Free Elections in 1952

Ramachandra Guha
World Policy Journal (2002) 19 (1): 95–103.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2002-2005
Published: 01 March 2002
... India. Democracy’s Biggest Gamble India’s First Free Elections in 1952 Ramachandra Guha It is now exactly 50 years since India’s first Representation of the People Act, which set general elections, a massive act of faith with the voting age at 21 and gave...
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Afghanistan: Mobilizing for Democracy

James L. Creighton
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 25–36.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0740277512461310
Published: 01 September 2012
... of Staff, Eighth United States Army; and Commanding officer of the 10th Mountain Division Artillery. © World Policy Institute 2012 2012 World Policy Institute US Army Uruzgan, Afghanistan—Two days before Afghanistan’s election in September 2010, some 1,200 Afghans stormed a NATO coalition...
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Haiti: So Many Missteps

Michele Wucker
World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (1): 41–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2004-2007
Published: 01 March 2004
... this cruelly coin­ priest had steadily alienated most of the cides with America’s election year preoccu­ people who once believed in him. Even pations, and with the Bush administration’s those who protested the removal of a (more skittishness about a flood of Caribbean or less) democratically elected...
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Serving Democracy, or America, Abroad?

Linda Kinstler
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 37–47.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0740277512461312
Published: 01 September 2012
... election since the dissolution of Yugoslavia in 2003 and the creation of the Republic of Serbia. Cast as a “TV duel” in local media outlets, the feverishly plotted, yet surprisingly plodding, display pits the incumbent and head of the Serbian Democratic Party against the leader of the nationalist Serbian...
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A Seat at the Table: The Fight for Gender Parity in Kenya and Somalia

Nanjala Nyabola
World Policy Journal (2016) 33 (4): 10–15.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-3812933
Published: 01 December 2016
... representation of women in parliament. Rwanda’s post-genocide constitution requires that 30 percent of all decision-making bodies be made up of women, while Bolivia passed a raft of measures in the run up to its 2014 parliamentary elections to increase women’s participation in the electoral process...
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“Great Vote, Grisly Result”: Europe’s Reaction to the Reelection of George Bush

Godfrey Hodgson
World Policy Journal (2005) 21 (4): 13–18.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2005-1012
Published: 01 December 2005
... of to which the various extracts I shall cite dis­ the British commentators most consistently play understanding or otherwise of what was sympathetic to the United States wrote a at issue in the election. In some cases, mis­ piece quite fairly headlined “Great Vote, apprehensions could hardly have...
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Latin Women Take the Helm

Silvia Viñas
World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (1): 39–47.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0740277514529715
Published: 01 March 2014
... a crowd of 200,000 men and women who turned Santiago’s main avenue, the Alameda, into a party when Michelle Bachelet was elected Chile’s first female president on January 15, 2006. “The Alameda was full—full of people, full of women and little girls wearing presidential sashes,” she recalls...
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If Not Perfect, at Least Excellent

Karl E. Meyer
World Policy Journal (2001) 17 (4): 87–88.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2001-1009
Published: 01 December 2001
... an election melodrama in which the term “historic” became an overworked cliché. For 22 consecutive days, beginning November 6, the New York Times greeted its readers with a banner headline splashed across six columns— a record, according to the paper’s edi­ tors, and a novel experience surely for younger...
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Lula’s Big Win

Omar G. Encarnación
World Policy Journal (2003) 19 (4): 73–77.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2003-1006
Published: 01 December 2003
.... Lula’s Big Win Omar G. Encamación Latin American elections rarely attract at­ on global markets of Brazil’s turn to the tention in the United States, but the Brazil­ left. Last August, in an appearance on NBC’s ian presidential campaign that concluded Meet the Press, O’Neill...
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The Perpetual Migration Machine and Political Power

Michele Wucker
World Policy Journal (2004) 21 (3): 41–49.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-2004-4004
Published: 01 September 2004
... in the 1960s Today, more than a hundred countries, and accelerated through the 1980s, more including India, Israel, and South Africa, than 20 nations worldwide have extended allow dual citizenship. The Philippines and the right to vote in local elections to noncit­ the Dominican Republic this year...
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Femme Fascista : How Giorgia Meloni became the star of Italy’s far right

Barbie Latza Nadeau
World Policy Journal (2018) 35 (2): 14–21.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/07402775-7085556
Published: 01 June 2018
...Barbie Latza Nadeau Copyright © 2018 World Policy Institute 2018 HILLMAN54 HILLMAN54 About a month before Italy’s disastrously inconclusive March elections, Giorgia Meloni, the flaxen-haired leader of the far-right Brothers of Italy party, stood in the gusty winter wind to kick...
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The Melancholy of Hong Kong

Alvin Y.H. Cheung
World Policy Journal (2014) 31 (4): 97–106.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0740277514564952
Published: 01 December 2014
... for Hong Kong. Clegg’s comments fell on deaf ears. After Beijing released its decision on Chief Executive elections for 2017—imposing pre-selection of candidates by political criteria—the Foreign Office merely responded by recognizing that the decision would “disappoint” democrats. “If speaking up means...
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Viva Democracy!

Patrice de Beer
World Policy Journal (2012) 29 (3): 9–14.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0740277512461197
Published: 01 September 2012
...Patrice de Beer In the end, the responsibility is ours. We must take elections seriously. They are a duty toward our country, not merely a right among many others, and an example for those deprived of this freedom. We owe it to them. We have to go beyond “consuming” democracy as if it were...
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