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DCP Releases New Publication: Strategies
for Democratic Change: Assessing the Global Response
The Democracy Coalition Project (DCP) and Fundación
para las Relaciones Internacionales y el Diálogo Exterior
(FRIDE) have published a book that examines how the international
community has responded to recent threats to democracy in
seven countries. Strategies for Democratic Change: Assessing
the Global Response, provides an in-depth analysis of
how EU states, the United States and other international actors
can better fulfil their commitments to support democracy by
coordinating common strategies. The book examines what the
international community has done recently to advance democratic
transition and consolidation in Burma, Togo, Turkey, Ukraine,
Venezuela, Yemen and Zimbabwe, and how it could do better.
Strategies for Democratic Change is a timely contribution
to the ongoing debate on democracy promotion, in a context
in which recent events in Iraq and Afghanistan and the "colour
revolutions" have brought this issue to the top of the
international agenda. The joint publication, edited by DCP's
Executive Director, Ted Piccone, and by FRIDE's Co-director
and Coordinator of the Democratisation programme Richard Youngs,
was presented at a policy forum in Brussels, on June 20, 2006.
You can download the book by parts here:
• Title
Pages
• Preface
• Overview
• Chapter
1: Burma
• Chapter
2: Togo
• Chapter
3: Turkey
• Chapter
4: Ukraine
• Chapter
5: Venezuela
• Chapter
6: Yemen
• Chapter
7: Zimbabwe
• Appendix:
List of Contributors
Download a copy of the press
release on the book
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DCP Publishes Chapter in Restoring American
Leadership: 13 Cooperative Steps to Advance Global Progress
DCP's Executive Director, Theodore J.
Piccone, has written an article that is published as a chapter
in Restoring American Leadership: 13 Cooperative Steps
to Advance Global Progress (ed. Chuck Sudetic, 2005, Open
Society Institute and The Century Foundation). This paper
explores what the United States should do to improve coordination
with allies to promote democracy.
Improve
Coordination with Allies to Promote Democracy
by Theodore J. Piccone.
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DCP Publishes Chapter in Protecting Democracy:
International Responses
DCP's Executive Director, Theodore J.
Piccone, has written a paper that will be published as a chapter
in Protecting Democracy: International Responses (eds.
Morton H. Halperin and Mirna Galic, forthcoming, Lexington
Books). This paper compares the key elements of democracy
clauses that currently exist and, based on that analysis,
presents a model democracy clause that tries to reflect and
integrate best practices in the field of international relations.
International
Mechanisms for Protecting Democracy
by Theodore J. Piccone.
For a hard copy please contact DCP at info@demcoalition.org
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International Status of
the Right to Vote
In November 2003 DCP issued a paper comparing right to vote
provisions in over 100 democratic constitutions around the
world. DCP Research Assistant, Alex Kirshner, presented the
paper to US voting rights groups who gathered to discuss the
legal and political merits of a campaign to amend the U.S.
Constitution to guarantee the right to vote. To read his paper,
click
here.
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DCP publishes Regime Change by the Book
The Democracy Coalition Project (DCP) has released
a new publication, Regime
Change by the Book, examining how democracies should manage
a crisis of leadership without provoking a crisis of regime.
Building on the landmark report “Threats
to Democracy: Prevention and Response,” issued by
the Council on Foreign Relations, DCP examines four categories
of legal regime change outside of national elections—recall
and votes of no confidence, impeachment, succession, and criminalization
of unconstitutional seizures of power. The report’s
premise is that, in order to avoid sliding backwards to authoritarian
rule, democratic governments should take steps to ensure continuity
of democratic government when political leaders face pressures,
sometimes violent, to step down from power. The report offers
a set of practical recommendations to politicians, their lawyers
and advisors for constitutional reforms which would safeguard
democracy during emergencies and further consolidate the rule
of law.
Read the One
Page Summary
Download
the entire report (16MB)
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Defending Democracy:
A Global Survey of Foreign Policy Trends 1992–2002
Survey Rates 40 Countries on Pro-Democracy
Policies
The first-ever survey assessing how democratic
governments pursue a democratic foreign policy concludes that
governments are doing a better job of promoting democracy
beyond their borders, but still put other interests first
when dealing with dictatorships or responding to violations
of democratic rights.
Defending Democracy: A Global Survey
of Foreign Policy Trends 1992–2002, released
in October, 2002, grades 40 countries on implementation of
their pledges to protect and promote democracy, based on their
response to such events as General Musharaff's coup in Pakistan,
flawed elections in Zimbabwe earlier this year, and the attempted
ouster of Venezuelan President Chavez in April. Each surveyed
state is given a "defending democracy" rating ranging
from very good to poor.
For a full copy of the press release, click
here.
The survey is being released in conjunction
with the November 2002 meeting of the Community of Democracies
in Seoul. It was conducted by the Democracy Coalition Project
and funded by the Open Society Institute.
• Executive
Summary
• Individual
Country Reports
• Tables
and Charts summarizing findings
• Methodology
• Regional
Organizations’ Fact Sheets
• Case
Studies (16 case studies were used by the Survey Project
Team as seminal events which tested the democratic community's
willingness to promote and defend democracy abroad.
If you would like to read the report in its
entirety, including 40 country specific reports, you may download
it here
(PDF, 16 MB).
To receive a hard copy of this report, please
contact our office:
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DCP
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Democracy Update December 2003
The third edition of Democracy Update, the DCP
newsletter covering advances in democracy at the national
and international levels, is now available. DCP will continue
to keep you informed of activities and news related to the
Community of Democracies and other issues through this newsletter.
You can also find more information in the Democratization
of International Institutions and Resources
section of our website.
Please distribute this newsletter freely, and
should you have questions, comments or would like to submit
material for inclusion in future newsletters, you may contact
us at: info@demcoalition.org
Democracy
Update December 2003
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Update June 2003
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Update December 2002
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