1. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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...ging. It is arguable that the most likely outcome of this or any other election taking place under such rules is that Italy will become (or remain, some would argue) virtually ungovernable (see "It...

2. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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... consolidated democracy requires the agreement of most if not all political players on the fundamental rules of the game: in other words the constitution and electoral laws. However, the Georgian g...

3. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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...mon language with this Kremlin regime. You cannot treat Putin’s police state according to the same rules as Germany or Canada. Otherwise, the Russian people could expect to enjoy the same rights...

4. Political Power in Africa
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... and the process through which it was reached signal a growing trend in sub-Saharan Africa: The formal rules of the game are beginning to matter in ways that they previously have not. Scholarly and...

5. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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... they are more willing to countenance democratization.”8 The second possibility is realized if the rules of electoral democracy turn out to be better on average for development than are those of...