Buku yang akan Anda baca ini menceritakan kisah penting tentang sebuah negara demokratis baru di Asia, yaitu In donesia. Kita semua mengetahui bagaimana Indonesia meninggalkan era Orde Baru dan siap untuk menjalani demokrasi. Akan tetapi, ternyata, Indonesia belum sampai kesana: tidak adanya kekuasaan bukanlah berarti demokarsi penuh. Apa yang ingin saya katakan pada prakata ini adalah menempat…
Bagi kita, demokrasi bukan lagi "benda asing". Dalam wacana perjalanan kehidupan bangsa, tatkala para pendiri bangsa menyepakati terben- tuknya sebuah negara modern, maka wacana demokrasi pun dicoba diimplementasikan walau- pun dalam prakteknya demokrasi sendiri tidak bermakna tunggal.
Vince Boudreau compares strategies of repression and protest in post-war Burma, Indonesia and the Philippines because these alternative strategies shaped the social bases and opposition cultures available to dissidents and, in turn, influenced their effectiveness. He includes first-hand research as well as the the social movements' literature to consider the interactions between the regimes in …
This book is based mainly on the many interesting stories carried in the Catholic Standard, a diocesan paper that has received international acclaim; the stories cover the period from the 1950s to the early 1990s. Its Editor, Fr Andrew Morrison, has over the years received one national and five international awards for journalism and in recognition of the Catholic Standard's relentless struggle…
The seminar papers compiled in this book present a good overview of the development of democracy and its practical application in Yemen. They also shed light on the unique features of this particular democratic experience and will help in deciding on how to create political awareness among our people.
outcome of the Fourth South Asia Dialogue that took place an November 1994 among the various scholars who gathered in Kathmandu, this book presents the papers and findings of the deliberations that took place then. The issues covered were confidence building, secu- larism, democratization, elec- toral reform, decentralization of power, human rights, and endogenization of the economic policymaki…
The ever-growing political and economic power of the world's most populous country makes the Dictionary of the Politics of the People's Republic of China an essential source of reference for students, teachers, journalists, diplomats, business people and anyone else interested in the affairs of the PRC.
After Jihad gives the context for understanding how the many Muslims who reject religious violence see the world after the globalization of democracy. It is also an argument about how American self-interest can be understood to include a foreign policy consistent with the deeply held democratic values that make America what it is. At a time when the encounter with Islam has become the dominant …
In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic transitions, evaluates the prospects for stability of the new democracies, and explores the possibility of more countries becoming democratic. Factors responsible for the democratic trend include the legitimacy dilemmas of authoritarian regimes; economic and social development; the changed role of the C…
Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America and explores its implications for European society in the emerging modern era. His book provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture domina…