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Low Intensity Democracy

01 January 1991

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Low Intensity Democracy
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Low Intensity Democracy:Political power in the New World Order

Author(s): Gills, Barry, Rocamora, Joel and Wilson, Richard (Eds)
Publisher: Pluto 1993, 264pp, Index
Keywords: Third World counter-insurgency Argentina Guatemala
Korea

Contents:
A large majority of nation states in the Third World would now
claim to be run on Democratic lines. But how far are these claims
justified? To what extent does the introduction of periodic
popular elections constitute true democracy, in the absence of
any fundamental social and economic change? And what are the real
prospects for democracy in the Third World? Authors include Noam
Chomsky, Samir Amin and Andre Gunder Frank, Chapters include case
studies of Argentina, Guatemala, The Philippines and Korea.
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