Democracy Lab Weekly Brief, Oct. 12, 2012
Min Zin offers a moving tribute to his friend, a Burmese political activist whose death demonstrated the intensity of his commitment. Christian Caryl argues that dictators make terrible universities. James Kirchick tells how the results of the recent parliamentary election in Georgia left U.S. political consultants with egg on their faces. Amber Parcher looks at ...
Min Zin offers a moving tribute to his friend, a Burmese political activist whose death demonstrated the intensity of his commitment.
Min Zin offers a moving tribute to his friend, a Burmese political activist whose death demonstrated the intensity of his commitment.
Christian Caryl argues that dictators make terrible universities.
James Kirchick tells how the results of the recent parliamentary election in Georgia left U.S. political consultants with egg on their faces.
Amber Parcher looks at how democratic Taiwan is still struggling to come to terms with the human rights abuses of the authoritarian past. The photo above is from their National Day celebration on October 10.
Fatima El-Issawi explains how political talk shows have come to dominate public discussion in post-revolutionary Egypt.
Political scientist Michael Albertus contends that Hugo Chávez’s victory in the Venezuelan presidential election is likely to further undermine democratic institutions. Our own Juan Nagel reports that the opposition movement faces many problems ahead.
Peter Passell explains why the sanctions against Iran may have been less effective than many contend.
Neha Paliwal warns that child marriage will be impossible to eliminate without addressing the economic issues in which it is rooted.
And Jackee Batanda offers her redefinition of Ugandan patriotism.
And now for this week’s recommended reads:
In conjunction with this week’s International Day of the Girl Child, the United Nations Population Fund has published a study on child marriage and how to end it.
Commenting on Chávez’s re-election, Clive Crook at Bloomberg explains why "elected autocrat" isn’t necessarily a contradiction in terms. Catherine E. Shoichet, reporting for CNN, contends that being a good loser could pay off for opposition leader Henrique Capriles later on.
A new paper from the International Crisis Group examines the role played by radical Islamist groups in the Syrian rebellion.
Writing in Caravan, Pratap Bhanu Mehta offers a fresh look on inequality in India. A group of South Asian universities are participating this week in a moot court competition on human rights and genocide.
Democracy Digest wonders whether Rwanda’s authoritarian success story is all that it’s cracked up to be.
The Economist explores the factors behind declining inequality trends in Latin America — and makes the case for consigning the term "Eastern Europe" to the dustbin of history.
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