1. Brazil will use biometrics in the eletronic voting system
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...rdance with the secretary.  “One of them is the economy”, according to it, since the government agency will not have more than to buy licenses of the old systems proprietors. ...

2. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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... This is the election that few Italians wanted. One of the failures of Romano Prodi's disputatious government, elected by a narrow majority in the election of 9-10 April 2006, was the stre...

3. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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...he fundamental rules of the game: in other words the constitution and electoral laws. However, the Georgian government amended the constitution five times between 2004 and 2007, mostly without con...

4. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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...est that recently chaired the G-8 (or G-7 by my count)? The international instability encouraged by the Putin government is increasingly matched inside the Kremlin’s walls. A mafia structure can...

5. Political Power in Africa
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...Machiavelli or Hobbes than the ‘constitutions,’ official plans, or party programs of most African governments if he wishes to understand their central characteristics and dynamics.” ...

6. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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...of accumulated human, social, and physical capital. A related view is that institutions which promote limited government (particularly via constraints placed on executive power) support growth.4 Educa...

7. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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... against poor.   Condemnations of creeping dictatorship, meanwhile, rain down both from abroad (foreign governments, international bodies) and at home (the new student movement). Even two months...