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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University of Birmingham
1998
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Online Access: | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.633073 |