Democracy in Translation : : Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture / / Frederic Charles Schaffer.
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 grassroots understand...
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