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In this groundbreaking book, Arnold August explores Cuba's unique form of democracy, presenting a detailed and balanced analysis of Cuba's electoral process and the state's functioning between elections. By comparing them with practices in the U.S., Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador, August shows that people's participation in politics and society is not limited to a singular, U.S.- centric understanding of democracy.
Through this deft analysis, August illustrates how the process of democratization in Cuba is continually in motion and argues that a greater understanding of different political systems teaches us to not be satisfied with either blanket condemnations or idealistic political illusions.
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- Sales Rank: #811048 in Books
- Brand: Brand: Zed Books
- Published on: 2013-04-11
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .60" w x 5.44" l, 1.15 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 288 pages
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Review
"A must-read for anybody seriously interested in Cuba and in the overall question of democracy and its practices." - Claudia Kaiser-Lenoir, Tufts University
"Arnold August cuts through the common propaganda about democracy in the U.S. and the supposed lack of democracy in Cuba. Where August's earlier work on the Cuban political system opened a window to this forbidden island, Cuba and Its Neighbours deepens our understanding of Cuba's participatory processes and shows how they have been shaped by Cuba's revolutionary history." - Cliff DuRand, Research Associate, Center for Global Justice, Professor emeritus of Social Philosophy, Morgan State University, Baltimore
"A trailblazing perspective. August contrasts the experiences in Cuba and some Latin American countries, where participatory democracy is taking shape, to the pretences of the U.S. model. Compulsory reading." - Claude Morin, Université de Montréal
"This book, a tour de force from an expert who clearly knows his field well, is one that goes out of its way to make us think about what we understand by 'democracy' and how we should view new manifestations in the 'Third World'. Not only is its conceptual and geographical scope admirably broad, but its familiar attention to the details of political participation are excellent, and, by taking a firm stance, the author forces us to address issues which are all too often taken for granted and left unquestioned." - Antoni Kapcia, The University of Nottingham
From the Author
My first book, published in 1999, dealt only with elections and democracy in Cuba. This book, "Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion", is entirely different as the following Table of Contents indicates:
Part I Clearing the Cobwebs Around Democracy
Chapter 1� Democracy and U.S.-Centrism
Democracy or Democratization?
Democratization from the Bottom Up: Occupying Public Spaces (2011-12)
Chapter 2� Democracy in the U.S.
Birth of the U.S. and the American Dream
Foreign Policy Toward Its Neighbours and Democracy Promotion
Founding Fathers' Heritage and Voter Turnout
Competitive Multi-Party Democratic Elections: Obama Case Study
Co-Optation and Individual Opportunism
The Credibility Gap
Obama's First Experiences and Reactions
Obama's Foreign Policy: The "New Face" and Cuba
Honduras: The "Reluctant Sheriff"
The Occupy Movement: Breaking Out of U.S.-Centrism?
The November 2012 Elections and Obama
Chapter 3� Exploring Democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador
Venezuela: New Experiments in Participatory Democracy
Bolivia's Democracy in Motion: On the Edge
Ecuador's New Constitution: Sumak Kawsay and Participatory Democracy
ALBA, CELAC and U.S. Democracy Promotion
Part II Cuba: Constitutions, Elections and New States
Chapter 4� Participation in Constitutions, Elections and a New State (1868-1952)Cuba's First Homegrown Constitutions,
Embryonic States and Elections (1868-98)
Cuba, U.S. Freedom of the Press and Military Intervention (1898)
U.S. Domination, Interference and Co-Optation vs. Democracy (1898-1952)
Chapter 5� Democracy, Elections and the New State
A Rebellion Against Dogmatism of the Left and the Batista Dictatorship (1953)
Participatory Nineteenth-Century Republic in Arms Reborn (1957-58)
Lessons for Today from 1958: Grass-Roots Democracy vs. Elections,
Co-Optation, Dissidence
The Provisional Revolutionary Government and Constitution (1959)
Elections: Who Rejected Them?
Elections Analysis: Then and Now
Participatory Democracy and U.S. Frustrations
Democratization Through Mass Organizations and Participation
Initial Attempts to Establish Local Governments and Elections
Origins of the PCC: Yesterday and Today
Elections, New State Structure and Constitution (1970-76)
Part III� Contemporary Cuba:� The Test for Democratization
Chapter 6� The 2011-12 Communist Party Congress and Conference: Democratization and the Press
Democratization Through People's Control and the Press
Opening the Debate
The 2011 Party Congress Deliberations: Input and People's Control
The Dialectics of Discrepancies and Consensus: Democracy in Motion
Congress Guidelines: Application and People's Participation
The 2012 PCC Conference and the Press: Trials and Tribulations
Participatory Democracy, the Press and Social Scientists
Capitalism, Socialism and Cuba's Errors
Chapter 7� Elections in Contemporary Cuba
The Cuban Electoral Process: An Overview
The Soviet Political Model: A Cuban Import?
The 1992 Constitutional Reforms and Their Impact on Elections
Elections, Constitution and Political System
General Elections -- First Phase: Municipal Elections
Decentralization
Voter Registration
Nominating Candidates for Elections to the Municipal Assemblies
The PCC in the Nomination Process
Debating the Improvement of Nomination Assemblies
Elections to the Municipal Assemblies
Analyzing Municipal Election Results
General Elections -- Second Phase: The National anpp
The Candidacies Commissions and Nominations
Improving the Candidacies Commissions
Elections to the ANPP
The Slate vs. Selective Vote: A Rejection of the Government?
One Candidate for Election per anpp Seat: Talking Figures
Who Are the Deputies? Talking Quality
Composition of the ANPP
"Almost All Deputies Are Communist Party Members"
Elections: ANPP Officials, Council of State and Its President, Ra�l Castro
Chapter 8� The ANPP and the Municipality: Functioning Between Elections
Are Democratization and Revolutionary Leadership Compatible?
Who Legislates?
Case Study: Participation in Drafting the Social Security Bill
Unanimity in the ANPP
The ANPP and Cuba's Foreign Policy
Municipal-Level Participation: Limits and Perspectives
Cuban Democracy: Representative or Participatory?
People's Councils: Potential for Further Democratization
The Potential of the Local Level and Need for Enhanced Participation
Conclusion: The Future of Democratization: Facing the Tests
About the Author
Arnold August holds a Master's degree in political science from McGill University, Montreal. The Montreal-based author, journalist and lecturer is the author of Democracy in Cuba and the 1997-98 Elections (Editorial Jos� Mart�, Havana, 1999). He has also contributed a chapter entitled "Socialism and Elections" to the edited collection Cuban Socialism in a New Century (University Press of Florida, 2004, Contemporary Cuba series edited by JohnKirk).
In 2013, Cuba and Its Neighbours: Democracy in Motion was co-published in English byZed Books (UK) and Fernwood Publishing (Canada), distributed in the U.S. byUniversity of Chicago Press. The countries under consideration are the U.S.,Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador and Cuba. The common thread is participatory democracy.
In 2015,the Spanish version was published in Cuba by CienciasSociales.
t was also releasedin 2015 in Korean by a progressive South Korean publisher.
Between2007 and 2015, as part of the opposition to ongoing media disinformation on current affairs, he wrote more than 60 articles on Cuba and Latin America (mainly Honduras and Venezuela) and on the U.S. published on many websites around the world, most of them bilingually in English and Spanish.�In the same period, he was interviewed on dozens of alternative radio programs in the U.S. and Canada.
Since 1999, based on his books published in English, he has given conferences and lectures in universities in the U.S.,Canada, Europe, Cuba and Puerto Rico.
He is a member of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA, based in the U.S.), the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) and the Cuba Research Forum at the University of Nottingham (UK).
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