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	Social Democracy: Social Democracy Party (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		It is easy to forget, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the extent of the divisions which Cold War politics caused in social democracy as recently as the 1980s.
		From the standpoint of the formal tasks of Social Democracy as a fighting party, centralism in its organisation appears a priori as an indispensable condition, the fulfilment of which is directly related to the fighting qualities of the party.
		Having sprung from the economic soil of capitalism, which is centralistic in its tendencies, and confined in its struggle to the political framework of a centralised great power under the dominance of the bourgeoisie, Social Democracy is fundamentally opposed to any particularism or national federalism.
	www.lycos.com /info/social-democracy--social-democracy-party.html?page=2 (582 words)

	SOCIAL DEMOCRACY
		Social democracy differs from socialism because it is committed to preservation of a largely capitalist and free market economy, but shares with it an emphasis on the importance of redistribution of wealth and income so that citizens may have social and economic conditions that effectively provide for reasonable equality of opportunity.
		Social democracy is an assertion of citizens' rights: the entitlement of all citizens, by reason of citizenship, to share equally in the standards of living which a particular society is technically capable of generating.
		Social democratic parties entered hard times after 1973 when the long postwar boom was succeeded by decades of lower rates of economic growth and higher rates of inflation and unemployment.
	sociologyindex.com /social_democracy.htm (1343 words)

	Luke Martell
		Amongst social democrats there may be differences of emphasis, between those who envisage compensatory policies, which attempt to mitigate or sweep up the social costs of liberal capitalism, and countervailing social democracy, which tries to establish principles which go in a different direction to liberal capitalism.
		Social democracy needs to take globalisation not just as an economic given to be accommodated to, but also as a political possibility, where global regimes can regulate globalised capitalism, explore new modes of redistribution and protect those excluded from the labour market internationally.
		A global social democracy is in part an attempt to democratise the world order which is currently dominated by global capital, with, at present, democratic actors having little in the way of public or political powers to provide a counterweight or corrective through their own global organisation (or lack of it).
	www.theglobalsite.ac.uk /press/104martell.htm (9098 words)

	Nepalnews.com Mercantile Connumications Pvt. Ltd.
		The establishment of multi-party democracy in Nepal helped the Nepalese citizens to speak up, to organise and agitate against the centralisation of power in ways that were not easily done before.
		Democracy implies both to the internal life of political parties and the democratization of society.
		The survival of democracy in Nepal depends on popular will and commitment to it which, in turn, is the consequence of the affirmation of the integrity of each culture and the preservation of each language to enrich the shared Nepalese identity.
	www.nepalnews.com.np /contents/2006/englishweekly/telegraph/apr/apr26/national.php (1951 words)

	prole.info
		Social democracy begins from the recognition that it is the whole working class, not just individual owners of the commodity labour-power, that exists in relation to capital.
		What is specific to social democracy as a political-ideological expression of the commodity form, however, is that it proposes to extend the bourgeois principle of fair exchange between individual commodity-owners to the relationship between the classes.
		Social democracy served to tie the interests of national capitals and working classes; but, with the upsurge in working class struggles against the social democratic compromise, capital in the form of finance capital began to free itself from national boundaries and their particular regulations and restrictions.
	www.prole.info /articles/socialdemocracy.html (3865 words)

	TAKIS FOTOPOULOS - Social Ecology, Eco-Communitarianism and Inclusive Democracy
		Although such affinities are utterly repugnant to social ecologists, they are, nevertheless, implicit in the fact that both deep ecologists and social ecologists adopt a process of evolutionary unfolding and self-realisation and ground their ethics in scientific observations about the natural world, in natural 'tendencies' or directionalities.
		Thus, political, economic and democracy in the social realm may be defined, briefly, as the institutional framework that aims at the equal distribution of political, economic and social power respectively, in other words, as the system which aims at the effective elimination of the domination of human being over human being.
		Social citizenship involves self-management structures at the workplace, democracy in the household and new welfare structures where all basic needs (to be democratically determined) are covered by community resources, whether they are satisfied in the household or at the community level.
	www.democracynature.org /dn/vol5/fotopoulos_inclusive.htm (7179 words)

	Is social democracy the end of history? at Larvatus Prodeo
		For social democrats, these additional values are seen as mutually reinforcing because the allocation of resources in pursuit of equity (particularly through education), solidarity and sustainability assist in creating the human, social and environmental capital necessary to make a market economy function effectively.
		Social democracy will last as long as groups who are the net payers in cross subsidisation schemes imposed by the State believe they are getting something of value for the economic cost of their compliance.
		Social democracy is not an ideology, it is simply the absence of an ‘ism borne of desparation.
	larvatusprodeo.net /2006/11/06/is-social-democracy-the-end-of-history (6056 words)

	Democracy and Human Rights
		Two opposition parties: the convergence for Social Democracy (CPDS) and the Popular Union (UP) were represented in the Assembly.
		But it is basically a theory which views democracy and development as based on a natural evaluation; an evolution facilitated by a plan for the society, drawn up initially by the Government to enable the population to actively and responsibly participate in their own development process.
		Majority of people did not want democracy because they still had memories of blunders and disorder that characterized the early days of multiparty politics after independence a period which saw assassinations, kidnapping and disappearance of many people.
	www.ceiba-guinea-ecuatorial.org /guineeangl/multipartisme.htm (697 words)

	Human Rights and Democracy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Democracy and human rights are distinct yet interrelated concepts, with democracy referring to government by the people, and human rights referring to universal rights that apply to all individuals in all societies.
		Democracy also includes the presence of political and civil rights for citizens, especially freedom of expression, association, and assembly, which require the guarantee of due legal process and liberty and security of person to be effective.
		Secondly, the idea that democracy is not exclusive to the West can serve to caution superpowers to avoid imposing their models of democracy on other societies, and encourage them to instead assume a supportive role in developing democracy in local contexts.
	www.phrmg.org /human_rights_and_democracy.htm (9626 words)

	Equatorial Guinea
		One of the detainees, Gabriel Nve Manana, was beaten and tortured until he was unable to walk; he reportedly was suffering from injuries to his kidneys and to his hand when he was released.
		In 2000 District Judge Jose Luis Abaga Nguema reportedly raped Milagrosa Obono Ndong, a Convergence for Social Democracy Party (CPDM) voting station representative, during her detention in Evinayong.
		Florentino Ecomo Nsogo, a leader in the Party of Reconstruction and Social Wellbeing, was the first to return after spending 10 years in exile in Spain.
	www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2001/af/8367.htm (9923 words)

	World Social Forum V / World Social Forum 2005
		The record of governments implementing social and environmental agreements is poor and, rather, the last decade has witnessed an unprecedented growth in corporate control of economies, perhaps unsurpassed since the excesses of the colonial merchant era.
		These provide for every possible social, cultural and economic need and are suited to a kaleidoscope of different ecosystems, climates, and pest and disease threats.
		A technology democracy would increase democratic regulation of corporations and other entities developing and using technologies and increase local democratic control over natural resources, the technologies to use these sustainably and the protection of local and global commons essential for securing local livelihoods and ecosystem integrity.
	www.ukabc.org /wsf2005.htm (2120 words)

	Róbinson Rojas.- UNRISD: Structural Adjustment, Global Integration and Social Democracy.- RRojas Databank: Analysis ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		A corollary of this is the trend towards convergence of social and economic policy in a number of key areas of public concern.
		Sweden, the pioneer of a model of social democracy widely acclaimed world-wide for economic efficiency, social justice and political participation, was forced to abandon these policies by the pressures exerted by the flight of capital and increased international competition.
		The importance of social cohesion and solidarity as a determinant of the rate and sustainability of economic growth is largely neglected in the development literature (Banuri, 1991).
	www.rrojasdatabank.org /dp37-07.htm (2065 words)

	Political Karaoke Cds (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Social Science Political Science - Social Science Political Science Origins of American Social Science by Dorothy Ross, X Focusing on the disciplines of economics, sociology, political science, social science political science and history, this book examines how American social science came to model itself on natural science social science political science and liberal politics.
		Professor Ross argues that American social science receives its distinctive stamp from the ideology of American exceptionalism, the idea that America occupies an exceptional place in history, based on her republican government...
		Convergence for Social Democracy (Burkina Faso) - Convergence for Social Democracy (in French: Convergence pour la DÃ©mocratie Sociale, CDS) is a sankarist political party in Burkina Faso.
	www.lightspan-1.com /81/21.html (667 words)

	Personal Democracy Forum – Technology Is Changing Politics
		Last weekend, a petition signed and formulated over SMS and Email was presented to over 40 representatives from the African Union Commission, African governments and the African women’s movement, which convened in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the Conference On The Protocol On the Rights of Women.
		I had the pleasure of meeting with three representatives of Fahamu while at the MobileActive convergence in Toronto, one of which was the groups director Firoze Manji.
		Personal Democracy Forum is a hub for the exciting conversation underway between political professionals, technologists, and anyone else invigorated by the remarkable potential of technology to engage citizens in the democratic process.
	www.personaldemocracy.com /node/738 (1007 words)

	ULB - Cevipol - Book: Social Democracy in Europe
		For several years, a certain number of actors on the political scene have presented it as a political family in crisis, lacking in imagination and dynamism, incapable of renewal and doomed to fade into insignificance.
		For the first time, the analysis does not concern exclusively Western Europe, but also deals with the Social Democratic parties of the consolidated democracies and the organisations that claim to be part of democratic socialism in Central and Eastern Europe, and highlights the specific characteristics and points in common.
		At the dawn of the 21st century, it is therefore the challenges and the different responses to those challenges that are analysed by several of the leading European specialists in Social Democratic parties in Europe.
	www.ulb.ac.be /soco/cevipol/Books%20Presentation/Social-Democracy-in-Europe.htm (336 words)

	The Euston Manifesto - Towards The Renewal of Social Democracy
		Global trade unions and social trade agreements are the foundations of a 21st century global social democracy.
		An internationalized social democracy will seek to prevent the concentration of the new wealth generated by expanded trade in the hands of a small corporate elite.
		In order for free trade agreements to be instruments of progressive social change and regulation they must be negotiated by governments committed to a new international social-democratic agenda rather than by the representatives of corporate and financial interests.
	eustonmanifesto.org /joomla/content/view/59/48 (911 words)

	Why Democracy & Nature
		Although heteronomy and hierarchical social structures have been dominant throughout most of human history, still, it was the emergence of the system of the market economy two centuries ago and the consequent growth economy that has led to the present systemic multi-dimensional crisis (ecological, economic, political, social and cultural).
		In this sense, an inclusive democracy, as we define it in Our Aims, is also the only way out of the present multi-dimetional crisis (ecological, economic, political, social).
		And that is because only a socio-economic system that secures the equal distribution of political, social and economic power, irrespective of gender, race, ethnic or cultural identity, can eliminate the relations of exploitation and domination and also constitute the necessary condition (though not the sufficient one) for the reintegration of humans and nature.
	www.aigis.com /dn/namechng.html (495 words)

	I've Got the Web 2.0 Convergence Blues \| Social Softwares, Now and Tomorrow
		I have downloaded another version of the social browser Flock, which connects me to both Flickr and my blog automatically, making it more efficient for me to do those things.
		I’m not sure any one of these browsers could be defended to the death against the others.
		Next, I've downloaded the new Democracy Player (http://www.getdemocracy.com/downloads) so I can watch Internet video, and watched the new Scoble Show on Podcast.net and Eddie Codel's Geek TV (http://www.geekentertainment.tv/), where figures from the technology world are interviewed and MORE new technologies are demonstrated.
	socialsoftware.goingon.com /permalink/post/6571 (687 words)

	Fairfield Co. Weekly: Democracy in Handcuffs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		The temporary spiritual center of this decentralized movement -- until it is raided and shut by the cops -- is the Convergence space on Florida Avenue.
		The donated warehouse space is where protesters from around the country go to get meals, build giant puppets for street theater and attend workshops on the theory and practice of nonviolence, legal strategy, issue forums and more.
		They feel they are fashioning a new, deeply democratic, radical and non-hierarchical culture of resistance the likes of which has not been seen for 30 years.
	old.fairfieldweekly.com /articles/democracy.html (2597 words)

	The New Social Democracy - Book Information
		The essays in this book by leading authorities on social democracy and the politics of new Labour ask whether new Labour is a complete break with the Labour past and with European social democracy, or whether it should be seen as a powerful restatement of social democratic ideas in a new context.
		Introduction: The New Social Democracy: Tony Wright and Andrew Gamble (University of Sheffield and Labour MP for Cannock Chase).
		European Social Democracy and New Labour: Unity in Diversity?: Donald Sassoon (QMC).
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /book.asp?ref=9780631217657 (445 words)

	Media Democracy Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Time and space also converge into subjective existence acting as impediments to Prufrock’s ardent and obsessive desire to combat the forces of disorder (Spurr, 2005) and strike a purposive discourse, and yet he keeps struggling to drive himself out of his smoldering conundrum.
		The World Social Forum (WSF) is an innovative social experiment, which offers an entry point to contest and debate these positions.
		The lifeblood of this project is a belief in the possibilities of another world which anticipates an antidote to the self-perpetuating hegemony of neo-liberal globalization.
	www.mediademocracyproject.org (2139 words)

	WHY 'DEMOCRACY & NATURE'? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Democracy is also the only way out of the systemic multi-dimentional crisis (ecological, economic, political, social) which has been intensified by the establishment of the market economy and the consequent growth economy two centuries ago.
		I would argue that while capitalism is a relatively recent phenomenon, hierarchy, domination and the implied attempt to dominate nature are much older than that which is why I suggest the we use the term "intensified" instead of "initiated".
		In this sense, we feel that the new title expresses accurately the goal of this journal to explore the relationship between the specific form of society we aim at, democracy, and nature in the course of developing a liberatory project for a direct, economic and ecological democracy.
	www.democracynature.org /dn/vol3/why_dn.htm (521 words)

	University of Denver, SOCS 1102, Democracy
		This two-quarter co-requisite course will provide a foundational and interdisciplinary investigation of democracy as a form of government, a means of institutional organization, and as a mobilizing political, social, and economic ideology.
		Understanding the various dimensions and interpretations of democracy is particularly important in the late twentieth century.
		Not only are particular components of democracy being re-evaluated in the United States, but difficult transitions to democracy are occurring in many parts of the globe.
	www.du.edu /~gkvistad/democracy.html (1144 words)

	1993 Human Rights Report: EQUATORIAL GUINEA
		The Government announced to the public over television and radio and to the diplomatic corps by formal note that the three had attempted to enter the country clandestinely at an unauthorized crossing point near Ebebiyin, when in fact they presented themselves for inspection at the Ebebiyin entry point.
		There is one woman judge in the judiciary, a small scattering of women among the senior levels of the Civil Service, and a handful of women in noncommissioned and junior-service ranks of the security services.
		Discrimination against the Bubi and Fernandino of Bioko Island, the Annobonese, and the Ndowe and associated coastal groups from the continent, is consistent, whether in the granting of political office or the approval of academic scholarships.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/democracy/1993_hrp_report/93hrp_report_africa/EquatorialGuinea.html (5063 words)

	Polity IV Country Report 2003: Equatorial Guinea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Despite the holding of multi-party elections in this country, true democracy is still a long way off.
		President Obiang uses the instruments of democracy to legitimize his dictatorial rule in the eyes of the international development assistance community but has shown only limited interest sharing power with the opposition.
		In 1997 President Obiang and 13 opposition parties signed a pact to liberalize the political system, however, little progress has been made in fulfilling this agreement.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/polity/Eqg1.htm (1128 words)

	Burkina Faso (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
		Alliance for Democracy and Federation - The Alliance for Democracy and Federation (Alliance pour la DÃ©mocratie et la FÃ©dÃ©ration) is a liberal party in Burkina Faso.
		It is part of the Alliance for Democracy and Federation-African Democratic Rally (Alliance pour la DÃ©mocratie et la FÃ©dÃ©ration-Rassemblement DÃ©...
		The area, thought to contain considerable amounts of natural gas and mineral resources, was the center of a long running border dispute between Upper Volta (renamed Burkina Faso in 1984) and Mali which erupted into armed conflict on two occasions (1974...
	bu13.globalforum2001.com (532 words)

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