Discusses the relationship between squatters and the state in Brazil. Information on redemocratization in Latin America; Return of electoral democracy; Political transition from authoritarian to procedurally democratic regimes; Detailed information on the squatter settlements in Brazil; Distribution and sale of cocaine from public low-income housing projects; Information on prison authorities in Brazil.
53 p., Since 1996, Congress has appropriated 205 million dollars to the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Department of State (State) to support democracy assistance for Cuba. Because of Cuban government restrictions, conditions in Cuba pose security risks to the implementing partners -- primarily nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) -- and subpartners that provide US assistance. GAO (1) identified current assistance, implementing partners, subpartners, and beneficiaries; (2) reviewed USAID's and State's efforts to implement the program in accordance with US laws and regulations and to address program risks; and (3) examined USAID's and State's monitoring of the use of program funds. Tables, Figures, Appendixes.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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289 p, Synopsis Examining the relationship between democracy and the politics of race from a cross-national comparative perspective, this study examies specifically how black people fare in the political systems of Britain, Brazil, and the USA. Questions concerning the role of race in the development of democratic ideology, theory and systems of governance, and the levels of difference and commonality in the policitical experiences of people of African descent in the diaspora are addressed. This text uses the traditional tools of comparative political science in order to examine the role of race and race-related issues in each nation. Each of the nation-state chapters traces the historical relationship between the development of democracy and the politics of race. Also discussed are the processes and factors that are the result of the specific national or political differences and those that may be the result of systemic factors that commonly occur in democratic contexts. ; Includes bibliographical references (p.267-281) and index.
Edie,Carlene J. (Author) and Westport Conn. (Series Editor)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1994
Published:
Praeger
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Democracy and middle-class domination in the Anglophone Caribbean / Percy C. Hintzen -- Jamaica : clientelism, dependency, and democratic stability / Carlene J. Edie -- Guyana : ethnic politics and the erosion of human rights and democratic governance / Ralph R. Premdas -- Trinidad and Tobago : democracy, nationalism, and the construction of racial identity / Percy C. Hintzen -- Barbados : democracy at the crossroads / Neville Duncan -- Grenada : from parliamentary rule to people's power / Dessima Williams -- Belize : challenges to democracy / Alma H. Young -- Suriname : the politics of transition from authoritarianism to democracy, 1988-1992 / Betty Sedoc-Dahlberg -- Dominican Republic : electoralism, pacts, and clientelism in the making of a democratic regime / Rosario Espinal Puerto Rico : problems of democracy and decolonization in the late twentieth century -- Cuba : unchanging change ; the boundaries of democracy / Carolee Bengelsdorf -- Haiti : prospects for democracy / Kenneth I. Boodhoo -- Democratization and foreign intervention / Pedro A. Noguera -- Problems and prospects for the survival of liberal democracy in the Anglophone Caribbean / Selwyn Ryan -- Parties and electoral competition in the Anglophone Caribbean, 1944-1991 / Patrick Emmanuel, 296 p
Rodríguez Garavito,César A. (Author), Alfonso Sierra,Tatiana (Author), and Cavelier Adarve,Isabel (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Bogotá: Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Derecho, CIJUS : Ediciones Uniandes
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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271 p., Contents: Introducción -- El desplazamiento forzado y su incidencia en la población afrocolombiana -- Desplazamiento y discriminación racial: las obligaciones del estado colombiano -- De las normas a la realidad: la situación de los afrocolombianos desplazados -- Conclusiones bibliográficas -- Anexo: Corte Constitucional de Colombia, Auto 05 de 2009 -- 466.
Reviews several books which focused on the social and political history of Haiti. Haiti in the New World Order: The Limits of the Democratic Revolution, by Alex Dupuy; Building Peace in Haiti, by Chetan Kumar; Haiti Renewed: Political and Economic Prospects, edited by Robert Rotberg; The Haitian Dilemma: A Case Study in Demographics, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy, by Ernest Preeg.;
