Democracy without representation? : a study in political rhetoric, institutional design, and democratic failure in the USSR

This study examines the failure of the Soviet transition to democracy by focusing on the political rhetoric and the institutional design of Gorbachev's demokratizatsiya. An antithesis exists between the liberal, representative design, which attempts to moderate the "excesses of democracy,&...

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Main Author: Cappelli, Ottorino
Published: University of Birmingham 1998
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633073