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• Democracy without democrats

  
  Teaching Comparative — Authority: 127
  The tension between democratic centralism and democratic practice in China and the Communist Party has been around for a long time. Centralism seems to be winning again. Control freaks [T]he ruling Communist Party is acutely conscious of its own frailties. Although students are still desperate to join the party, ...
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• Digital Carpentry & Router Aesthetics

  
  Ponoko - Blog — Authority: 135
  Discussing Bruce Sterling on Authenticity with CNC Enabled Design In a recent article in Make Magazine Volume 11 entitled Router Aesthetics , Bruce Sterling discusses the current wave of designs that are emerging that come straight from the CNC router, without any pretense to represent traditional carpentry ...
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• Abdurrahman Wahid, democratic reformer and advocate of civil Islam, dies

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  Former Indonesian President Abdurrahman Wahid, who presided over the country’s early tumultuous years of democracy, has died at the age of 69.Wahid, known by his nickname Gus Dur, was a democratic reformer and advocate of moderate Islam. As leader of the 40-million-member Nahdlatul Ulama, Indonesia’s largest ...
  6 days ago

• Democracy jobs

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  VACANCIESNational Endowment for DemocracyCurrently available positions include: Database/Web Developer, Information Technology Services Manager, Senior Electronic Resources Librarian, Senior Director of Finance.Center for International Private EnterpriseCurrently available DC-based positions include: Program ...
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• 1984: The Year Capitalism Saved Christmas

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 751
  If you’re a first generation watcher of MTV, you must remember the year 1984 and  Band Aid. Bob Geldof and other musicians from Duran Duran, Genesis, Culture Club, The Police and U2 teamed up to make a record which would raise money to buy food for starving people in Africa. How? Through record sales. In other ...
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• Power to the People

  
  Ponoko - Blog — Authority: 135
  Trend Bible give a nod to Ponoko Ponoko users already know that the democratization of design, empowering consumers to make and/or modify objects is an emerging movement for people who want a more personalized product experience. The value of the product imbued with much more than material when it also ...
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• Moldova: democratic prospect or black hole in Europe’s landscape?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  Moldova is struggling with the legacy of Communist rule. “Grinding poverty, porous borders, corruption, and inadequate rule of law have contributed to widespread human trafficking, human rights abuses, and poor governance,” write Samuel Charap and Yekaterina Chertova.  The country’s problems are compounded by ...
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• Nominations sought for human rights prize

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  The May 18 Foundation is calling for nominations for the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Award 2010, given each year to one individual or organization who has contributed to the promotion and advancement of human rights, democracy and peace in their work. The application deadline is 1 March 2010. Further details ...
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• Selangor report on Local Government Elections

  
  People are the boss — Authority: 92
  Both the Selangor and Penang PR state governments have commissioned studies on the revival of local governments, resulting in very different reports.The Penang report holds that the power is in the hand of the federal government and the state can do nothing.The Selangor report, commissioned to the Coalition of Good ...
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• Plot Targeting Turkey’s Religious Minorities Allegedly Discovered

  
  Particular Baptist Kev's Random Thoughts — Authority: 136
  CD indicates naval officers planned violence against non-Muslim communities.ISTANBUL, December 16 (CDN) — ISTANBUL, December 16 (Compass Direct News) – Chilling allegations emerged last month of a detailed plot by Turkish naval officers to perpetrate threats and violence against the nation’s non-Muslims in an ...
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• Beyond good and evil?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech paid tribute to the world’s dissident democrats, and eloquently articulated the rationale for democratic peace theory.But he also raised eyebrows, not least in Europe, by insisting on the existence of evil in the world.Indignant at The New Yorker’s ...
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• Women’s quota bill likely in budget session: Natarajan (Second Lead)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 734
  New Delhi, Dec 17 (IANS) A landmark bill on reserving 33 percent of seats for women in parliament and the state legislatures is likely to come up for discussion in the budget session of parliament beginning late February, chairperson of a parliamentary panel on the measure said Thursday.“A bill on reserving 33 ...
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• Obama administration asserts moral and strategic imperative of supporting democracy

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  Analysts and advocates have given a generally warm welcome to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s speech this week, which made the case for “principled pragmatism” in promoting democracy and human rights.David J. Kramer, assistant secretary of state for human rights and democracy during the Bush administration, ...
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• ‘Principled pragmatism’ will govern US approach to promoting democracy, human rights and development

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  The Obama administration would marry principle to pragmatism in promoting democracy and human rights, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today, invoking President Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize address to forcefully articulate a holistic approach that linked hujan rights and democracy to developmental ...
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• Why China Won’t Rule the World – and other must-reads

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  Minxin Pei’s Newsweek article on Why China Won’t Rule the World is one of Global Europe’s must-reads of the week, alongside President Obama’s remarks at the acceptance speech at the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony; The real stakes in Afghanistan by Robin Wright; and Carnegie’s Karim Sadjadpour on Engagement with ...
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• Democracy jobs

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  Various Vacancies, National Endowment for DemocracyCurrently openings include: Publications Coordinator; Chief Operating Officer; Information Technology Services Manager; Senior Electronic Resources Librarian; Program Assistant for Middle East and North Africa; Senior Director of Finance; Senior Director of Human ...
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• Democracy events

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  Friday, December 11, 2009- 2 p.m. The United States Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF); and the Royal Netherlands Embassy holds a discussion on “international religious freedom,” to commemorate International Human Rights Day.Featuring Netherlands Ambassador to the United States Renee Jones-Bos; ...
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• Erdogan’s Turkey: ‘refreshing’ pluralism or ‘authoritarian democracy’?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  Turkey’s foreign policy is emphatically not undergoing a reorientation from the democratic West to Eurasian and Middle East states, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a Washington meeting yesterday. Nor is the country becoming more authoritarian, as some observers suggest.Reports of attacks on press freedom ...
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• Bosnia typifies limits to standard democracy toolbox in Balkans?

  
  Democracy Digest — Authority: 441
  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 ...
  4 weeks ago

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