1. Xbox 360 to be usead as electronic voting system
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... gather opinions from gamers that will be shared with candidates. Party politics "To realise our goal of registering two million young Americans by this fall, we need to go where y...

2. On the Brazilian eletronic voting system
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...aders, etc. The fact is, after more than a decade of developments, the eletronic voting system is a reality and it cooperated to change - a little bit - the reality of the Brazilian political stru...

3. Digital Marketing and the Public Interest
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Perhaps the most powerful - but largely invisible - force shaping our digital media reality is the role of interactive advertising and marketing. Much of our online experience, from websites to sea

4. Italy: the ungovernable nation
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...ader Luca di Montezemolo or moderates of the centre-right such as Franco Frattini - is now becoming a real one. Silvio Berlusconi is known to be reluctant to carry on in a situatio...

5. Georgia?s democratic stalemate
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...emocracies. Recent developments in Georgia and other former Soviet republics show that post-communist reality may be somewhat more complex as regimes appear to "get stuck" halfway between authorita...

6. Battling KGB Inc, by Garry Kasparov
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... the end of the communist dictatorship and the crackdown under President Putin, there was a period of real democracy. It was brief and it was flawed, but it could have served as a foundation upon w...

7. Political Power in Africa
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...bility of winning. Permitting a challenger to run, however, is not the same thing as putting oneself at real risk of losing power. In many cases, African leaders who bowed to popular or international ...

8. When will the Chinese People be Free?
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...s wealthier and 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 th...

9. Venezuela: is Hugo Chávez in control?
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...the revolution. The result, according to the former adviser, is systematic "sabotage.... Those who really want to change the country are kicked out of power." Increasingly isolated from...