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"Freedom in the Worldis an institutional effort by Freedom House to monitor the progress and decline of political rights and civil liberties in 192 nations and 17 related and disputed territories."--Provided by publisher.

"Freedom in the World is an institutional effort by FreedomHouse to monitor the progress and decline of political rightsand civil liberties in 192 nations and 17 related and disputedterritories. These year-end reviews of freedom began in1955, when they were called the Balance Sheet of Freedomand, still later, the Annual Survey of the Progress of Freedom. Thisprogram was expanded in the early 1970s, and has been issuedin a more developed context as a yearbook since 1978. Since 1989, this distinguished Survey project has been a yearlongeffort produced by regional experts, consultants, and humanrights specialists. It derives its information from a widerange of authoritative sources. Most valued of these are the manyhuman rights activists, journalists, editors, and political figureswho keep the world informed of the human rights situation intheir own countries. Throughout the year, Freedom House personnel regularly conductfact-finding missions to gain in-depth knowledge of the vastpolitical transformations affecting our world, . These investigationsmake every effort to include meetings with a cross-sectionof political parties and associations, human rights monitors, religiousfigures, representatives of both the private sector and tradeunion movement, academics, and journalists. Freedom in theWorld is now the standard reference work for measuring progress, or the lack thereof, in the process of regime democratization andpolitical maturity. Adrian Karatnycky is the president of Freedom House. AiliPiano is a senior researcher at Freedom House. This year's surveyteam includes: Martin Edwin Andersen, Gordon Bardos, Michael Goldfarb, Charles Graybow, Kristen Guida, Karin DeutschKarlekar, Edward R. McMahon, Aili Piano, Arch Puddington, Amanda Schnetzer, Cindy Shiner, Leonard R. Sussman, and KendraZaharescu."--Provided by publisher.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- The Survey Team -- Freedom in the World 2001-2002 -- The Limits of Political Liberalization in the Middle East -- War, Terrorism, and Civil Liberties -- Introduction -- Country Reports -- Related and Disputed Territories Reports -- Survey Methodology -- Tables and Ratings -- Table of Independent Countries -- Table of Related Territories -- Table of Disputed Territories -- Table of Social and Economic Indicators -- Combined Average Ratings, Independent Countries -- Combined Average Ratings, Related and Disputed Territories -- Table of Electoral Democracies -- Sources -- The Map of Freedom—2002

The far reaching roots of the Orange Revolution are examined in light of the lack of a systematic, reformist, democratic political opposition until the year 2000. The author argues that the course taken by Ukraine's opposition was the optimal course for a durable democracy. An analysis of post-independence reform shows that there was no important political grouping that was not linked with high level government service in the Kuchma years, In addition, the impact of the group of newly developing political actors was not felt until Lazarenko. The faltering of opposition in 2001-2002 is characterized as an inability to secure high-level support from a broad spectrum of reform politicians. Opposition revival for the 2002 Parliamentary race is attributed to Yuschenko's increasing opposition, & the negative political fallout from the appointment of Medvedchuk. The 2002 election results indicated a broad base of support for the upcoming presidential election, while Yuschenko's grass roots campaign benefited from a misstep by Putin. The strategic building of this base into a mass movement comprised of a broad-based umbrella coalition lead to the victories of the Orange Revolution. Tables. J. Harwell

This essay presents the findings of the 2004 Freedom House survey of Freedom in the World. The essay examines broad trends in political rights and civil liberties and finds 88 Free countries, 55 states are rated as Partly Free and 49 are rated as Not Free, with the widespread absence of liberties. In the last year, 25 countries registered improvements and 13 declined in their fundamental freedoms. This essay correlates levels of freedom with economic development and examines the tenure of freedom in every state as reflected by the 31-year times-series record of the survey. Freedom in the World is an annual comparative global survey of political rights and civil liberties as reflected in assessments conducted by 22 analysts and reviewed by 17 senior academic scholars.