Democracy in translation : understanding politics in an unfamiliar culture /

"Frederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved in foreign countries when criteria such as free elections are met. Elections, he argues, often have cultural underpinnings that are invisible to outsiders. To examine grass-roots und...

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Author / Creator: Schaffer, Frederic Charles.
Format: eBook Electronic
Language:English
Imprint: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Series:Wilder House series in politics, history, and culture.
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