1. Xbox 360 to be usead as electronic voting system
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...ox Live will also be used to gather opinions from gamers that will be shared with candidates. Party politics "To realise our goal of registering two million young Americans by thi...

2. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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... This election has probably come too early for Walter Veltroni, leader of the new Democratic Party, which was founded in October 2007 through a merger of the two main centre-left parties...

3. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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...iet legacy. First, the presidency appears to have taken over many of the functions of the old Communist Party. Both during Shevardnadze's administration and during Saakashvili's, it has been proxim...

4. Political Power in Africa
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...dermined by a groundswell of public opposition from civil society groups and a deep split within his own party. Fifteen senior members of the National Executive Committee of the ruling Movement for Mu...

5. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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...e first is that a modern economy is simply not compatible with the Leninist requirement of comprehensive party and state control over society. The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has faced a hard choice...

6. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...vote to hand eighteen-month "special powers" to the president; the creation of a united ruling party (the Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela / PSUV) that entails the effective dissolution...