Democratization

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• Bosnia typifies limits to standard democracy toolbox in Balkans?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 431
  The political crisis in Bosnia-Herzegovina is back on the international agenda, and the focus of intense European and U.S. diplomatic efforts. The U.S. administration will “sustain and re-energize its commitment to Europe,” Vice President Joseph Biden recently told the Bosnian parliament. “We are back, we will ...
  19 hours ago

• The redemocratization of America will not be televised

  
  Nashville Is Talking — Authority: 528
  It will be digital , says Al Gore (via the Kleinheider Post ) As broadband becomes broader and more ubiquitous, it will cause television — in the words of William Gibson, the digital novelist — to sink into the digital universe. We’re not there yet, but I think that’s coming, and I think you’re already ...
  4 days ago

• Notes on the Old-School Media Beatdown

  
  the traveler's notebook — Authority: 539
  With news of National Geographic Adventure folding, Matador Editor David Miller looks at people vs. institutions and the need to keep your eyes downstream. I HAVE NO interest in media deathwatches . I published a few pieces on newspaper circulations taking massive hits a couple months ago, and am over it. We ...
  4 days ago

• Party competition is not the same as democracy

  
  Teaching Comparative — Authority: 131
  If it looks like progress and sounds like progress toward democracy, is it progress? Maybe. Mexican political system assailed Two decades after making history as the first opposition governor in modern Mexico, Ernesto Ruffo Appel [left] yesterday lambasted the country’s political parties, saying they are ...
  6 days ago

• U.S. too timid in supporting Arab democracy?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 431
  Are Arab democrats and reformists losing confidence in the Obama administration? A recent spate of articles would suggest so.The U.S. is committed to using “principled engagement” to promote democracy in the Arab and wider Muslim world, Michael Posner, assistant US secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, ...
  1 week ago

• Sudanese liberalism

  
  The Democratic Piece — Authority: 404
  Omar al-Bashir’s government has whipped a 16-year old Christian girl 50 times for wearing a skirt that stopped at her knees. Make of it what you will, but I am reminded of the effort to hold elections in Sudan. This juxtaposition recalls that liberal democratic institutions are entirely compatible with ...
  1 week ago

• China and participatory democracy

  
  The Democratic Society Blog — Authority: 125
  Will the next fifty years be peaceful or war-torn? The climate change negotiations in Copenhagen have a big part to play in that, but another determining factor is the political direction of China. As China becomes more wealthy, and its people become more protective of their property and their rights, will the ...
  1 week ago

• Former Ba’athists and al Qaeda Continue to Collaborate

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  In wake of 4 recent bomb attacks, al Qaeda in Iraq appears to be gaining newfound resurgence, as well as a shift in strategy. Any goal of undermining January elections may be moot, as they may have already been derailed, regardless of what al Qaeda does. Foreign powers appear to still be exercising influence and ...
  1 week ago

• Pessimism from Nigeria

  
  Teaching Comparative — Authority: 131
  Imnakoya, who blogs at Grandiose Parlor about things Nigerian, offers this excerpt from a speech by Ondo State governor, Dr. Segun Mimiko [left] . Democracy may not survive in Nigeria Governor Olusegun Mimiko of Ondo State at a lecture entitled: “Critical Issues in the 2011 elections” delivered to ...
  2 weeks ago

• Democracy deferred? A developmental approach to democracy assistance

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 431
  Tara McKelvey suggests that the Obama administration is following a more “culturally sensitive” way of promoting democracy, in marked contrast to the Bush administration’s “cowboy” approach.It is a strategy that many democracy advocates may endorse, given the apparent absence of likely candidates for ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top Internet Trends of 2000-2009: E-commerce

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  2 weeks ago

• Weekly Wrapup: Google Chrome OS, Obama’s Twitter, Blogging Statistics, And More…

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  2 weeks ago

• Kenya’s New Constitution: Kenya’s New Day?

  
  Africa — Authority: 425
  Largely in response to the violence that engulfed much of the country in the wake of its hotly contested and vigorously disputed December, 2007 elections Kenya has drafted a new constitution and presented the draft to the public . (You can download a copy here . Hat tip .) Kenya’s Ambassador to the United ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mideast democracy: can’t be exported or imported, but – despite dilemmas – must be supported

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 431
  The dilemmas of reconciling security and human rights, stability and reform, and external and internal drivers for change were the dominant themes running through a conference on Middle East democracy this week.The event was organized by the National Endowment for Democracy in cooperation with the National ...
  2 weeks ago

• Re-Rethinking Democratization

  
  Africa — Authority: 425
  In a recent Boston Globe op-ed piece HDS Greenway makes the argument that democracy might not be for everybody. Africa only gets peripheral mention in this particular version of a fairly common argument that is probably true as far as it goes. But the problem I always have with these sorts of contrarian exercises ...
  2 weeks ago

• Top Internet Trends of 2000-2009: Democratization of News Media

  
  Family Learning Center — Authority: 164
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  2 weeks ago

• The Second Cup: You(r)Tube

  
  TechRepublican.com - — Authority: 510
  YouTube Unveils Tool to Connect News Organizations with Citizen Journalists MediaPost reports: Google is unveiling a tool Tuesday that enables traditional television and online news agencies to create a platform to manage a bureau of citizen journalists. These mavericks capture life-changing events on camera and ...
  3 weeks ago

• PaaS and the Democratization of Innovation

  
  E-Commerce Blog — Authority: 154
  I was re-reading Eric von Hippel’s excellent book Democratizing Innovation and found something in it that might help explain the popularity of cloud computing and Platform as a Service. I am on the way to Dreamforce and have little visibility into what Salesforce.com might announce in the next day or two, but no ...
  3 weeks ago

• Community of democracies revitalized

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 431
  With its “unique interface between governments and civil society activists”, the Community of Democracies (CoD) can be “an effective tool of strengthening the synergies and democratic outreach on a global scale,” a Brussels meeting heard today.The first informal round table of the CoD with the European Union ...
  3 weeks ago

• 407. Gomorrah (Camorra optional)

  
  Judging Crimes — Authority: 114
  Roberto Saviano s Gomorrah has been celebrated as a brave book , and an eye-opening one, and as a beautifully-written one, and even (though this will never stop seeming improbable to me) as the basis for a movie .  But its also a great book because of its universality.  Its a book about the Neapolitan ...
  3 weeks ago

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