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Discusses democratization process, political and economic change, freedom of expression and press, role of NGOs, political parties, and President Putin's performance.

Analyzes prospects for democratization by examining mass public attitudes toward some key liberal-democratic values and socioeconomic factors. Includes multivariate analysis.

Argues that victories of opposition parties in local elections are important for democratization of political institutions and for increasing political participation; Mexico.

Examines attitudes toward the democratization process in 31 African countries; based on a public opinion poll conducted by Jeune Afrique in early 1992.

Focuses on the current democratization of political institutions, provisions of the draft constitution, and economic policy orientations; 3 articles and interviews.

The uruguayan philosopher Yamandú Acosta contributes to the production of a reflection from our America from the concept of reconstruction, understood as a critical activation mode of the thinking, as reconstruction from philosophy. To do this, among other theoretical tools, uses the wholeness as interpretative category. All is understood as the abandonment of the illusion of an actually existing externality the subject, at two levels, one more abstract, identified with the whole of reality, and other more specific as totalities contingent and historical. Acosta unarmed the hegelian categorial pair of wholeness- necessity and rearticulate with the possibility. This allows you to rebuild the subject and think democracy as a universalist agenda quota as a regulatory power of inclusion and differences. From this category of all, my reflection is called into question the operation of democratic consolidation discourse and think the processes of democratization of our countries in the South of the American continent, giving priority to the action of social movements. This implies, inter alia, jeopardize the tension of the pair categorial "instituyente-instituido", in the formation of such processes and movements, since this pair can be considered, because from an irreconcilable divergence either, or from some form of convergence. The latter is the position that I try to defend, considering that these oppositions and identifications operate a reduction in the field of politics, with it being analogous inter-library only with one of the poles of the relationship and ignoring their correlation. ; El filósofo uruguayo Yamandú Acosta contribuye a la producción de una reflexión desde nuestra América a partir del concepto de reconstrucción, entendido como un modo de activación crítica del pensar, como reconstrucción desde la filosofía. Para ello, entre otras herramientas teóricas, usa la totalidad como categoría interpretativa . La totalidad es entendida como el abandono de la ilusión de una exterioridad realmente existente ...

The Gnassingbé clan has ruled the country since 1967. The demand for political alternance, initiated by institutional and electoral reforms, constituted the major contentious issue between the government and the challengers of the Gnassingbé regime throughout the survey period. An alliance of opposition parties and civil society groups organized peaceful demonstrations in opposition to the regime, which were often violently suppressed. Civil society organizations and representatives of the Christian church supported the demands of the opposition. The legislative elections of 20 December 2018, boycotted by the major opposition parties, resulted in an easy victory of the ruling party. The local elections, crucial for democratization at the grass-roots, but postponed time and again since 1987, were again postponed in December 2018 sine die. The human rights record of the government has improved but remains poor. Despite undeniable improvements to the framework and appearance of the regime's key institutions during the review period, democracy remains far from complete. However, the international community, notably Togo's African peers, the AU and ECOWAS, followed a 'laissez-faire' approach in the interests of regional stability and their national interests in dealing with Togo. Economic growth remained stable at about 5% per annum. Public investment in infrastructure (e.g. roads, harbour) and increases in agricultural productivity, notably of export crops, had been the key drivers of economic growth. However, growth remains vulnerable to external shocks and the climate and has not been inclusive. Positive growth was overshadowed by increasing inter-personal and regional inequality as well as an increase in extreme poverty. Moreover, money-laundering, illegal money transfers and trafficking grew alarmingly. The business climate improved considerably nevertheless. ; Author's extended and annotated version of ' BTI 2020 –Togo Country Report', amended with hyperlinks to several additional sources, references as well as ...

Leemos en el Plan de operaciones de Mariano Moreno una identidad política (posicional) en la figura del "pueblo movilizado" en vínculo positivo con sus representantes, la cual circula como pre-construido en las novelas contemporáneas French y Beruti. Los patoteros de la patria de Juan Carlos Martelli y La campaña de Carlos Fuentes. Dichos relatos establecen nuevas modulaciones sobre ese legado y aportan un sentido diferencial al campo polemológico de las narrativas sobre el acontecimiento Revolución de Mayo. Damos espesor histórico a los efectos de sentidos en y por la descripción de las escenografías de la revolución en un plano discursivo, a partir de textos de historiadores según una perspectiva interdisciplinaria del Análisis del Discurso.Las tensiones entre una identidad política pueblo movilizado, razón iluminista y democratización discursivizadas en las ficciones configuran el pasado de la revolución y actúan como un campo de experiencias que obra sobre la incertidumbre del futuro. ; We read in the Plan de operaciones of Mariano Moreno a political identity (position) in the figure of "the people mobilized" in a positive relationship with their representatives, which circulates as a pre-built in the contemporary novels French y Berutti, Los patoteros de la patria of Juan Carlos Martelli and La campaña of Carlos Fuentes. These stories provide a new module on that legacy and offered a differential sense on the controversial field of narratives about the event May Revolution. The effects of meaning in the description of the scenery of the revolution, in a discursive level, are considered from a historical density, based on texts of historians according to an interdisciplinary perspective of discourse Analysis. Tensions between political identity "mobilized people", enlightened reason and democratization, put into the discourse, configure the past of the revolution in the fictions and operate as a field of experiences that work on the uncertainty of the future.

Since the early 1990s, more and more people in Taiwan have come to view Taiwan itself as a country independent of China. They consider themselves Taiwanese rather than Chinese. Drawing on a social constructionist perspective to nationalism and Laclau and Mouffe's theory of discourse, this dissertation attempts to analyze the discursive mechanisms that have constructed this new collective imagination by many people in Taiwan that now regard themselves as members of an independent Taiwanese nation. The research questions of this dissertation are: how has the post-1949 national identity of Taiwan been discursively transformed since the early 1990s? What are the discursive and institutional mechanisms that have reproduced the Taiwanese national identity? What challenges is the Taiwanese national identity facing? To answer these questions, this dissertation outlines three nationalist discourses and five representations that have been derived from them regarding Taiwan's status, its relationship with mainland China, and the national identity of people in Taiwan. It examines the changes in Taiwan's discursive regime and symbolic economy since the early 1990s, showing how the rise of Taiwanese national identity has been closely related to political leaders' identification with Taiwanese nationalism. I argue that the rise of Taiwanese national identity in Taiwan has been an effect of a discursive contestation among the three major nationalist discourses and the polarization of the discursive field. This dissertation also explores the provincial origin issue---which has been closely related to ethnic tension in Taiwan---and the relations between the nationalist discourses and democratization. In addition, to explore the possibility for a deconstruction of the Taiwanese national identity, I examine the challenges that the Taiwanese national identity faces, focusing on democracy, the Democratic Progressive Party's performance as the ruling party, and the cross-Strait economic integration and political interactions. ; Ph. D.