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Este libro gira en torno a varias hipótesis. La primera es que Vicente Fox no es el iniciador del cambio, sino resultado de éste. Fox es el iniciador de la alternancia política. Sin embargo, él es el resultado de las transformaciones profundas que se dieron en el país durante los gobiernos de Carlos Salinas y Ernesto Zedillo: abandono de la filosofía revolucionaria y acogida a la privatización, la globalización, la democracia representativa y las reformas a la Constitución en materia religiosa. La segunda hipótesis es que la alternancia política fue un parto asistido por un presidente que llegó al poder con el apoyo del PRI. Otra hipótesis es que la plena transición a la democracia será incompleta hasta que ésta no se haga compatible con la gobernabilidad. Asimismo se abordan asuntos que constituyen algunos desafíos al futuro de la nueva democracia mexicana, como la seguridad pública, la protección al medio ambiente y los derechos humanos.

Internal politics --- Mexico --- Democracy --- Political parties --- Opposition (Political science) --- Politics and government --- Political opposition --- Political science --- Divided government --- History of the Americas

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Two Sides of a Barricade argues that to construct global democracy, conflict and dissent must be taken seriously. Christian Scholl explores the political significance of the confrontations within four sites of interaction: bodies, space, communication, and law. Each site of struggle provides a different entry point to understand the influence of protester and police tactics on each other. At the same time, the four sites of struggle allow a comprehensive analysis of how the contestation of global hegemonic forces during summit protests trigger a preemptive shift in social control through increased deployment of biopolitical forms of power.

Christian Scholl is Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He is the coauthor (with Amory Starr and Luis Fernandez) of Shutting Down the Streets: Political Violence and Social Control in the Global Era.

Dissenters --- Opposition (Political science) --- Protest movements --- Social movements --- Movements, Social --- Social history --- Social psychology --- Political opposition --- Political science --- Divided government --- Dissidents --- Nonconformists --- Rebels (Social psychology) --- Conformity --- History

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John Medearis argues that democracies face challenges which go beyond civic lethargy and unreasonable debate. Democracy is inherently a fragile state of affairs because citizens create the very institutions that overwhelm them. Hostile threats are the product of their own collective activities, and preserving democracy will always entail struggle.

Democracy. --- Equality. --- Opposition (Political science) --- Political opposition --- Political science --- Divided government --- Egalitarianism --- Inequality --- Social equality --- Social inequality --- Sociology --- Democracy --- Liberty --- Self-government --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics

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Opposing Suharto presents an account of democratization in the world's fourth most populous country, Indonesia. It describes how opposition groups challenged the long-time ruler, President Suharto, and his military-based regime, forcing him to resign in 1998. The book's main purpose is to explain how ordinary people can bring about political change in a repressive authoritarian regime. It does this by telling the story of an array of dissident groups, nongovernmental organizations, student activists, and political party workers as they tried to expand democratic space in the last decade of Suharto's rule. This book is an important study not only for readers interested in contemporary Indonesia and political change in Asia, but also for all those interested in democratization processes elsewhere in the world. Unlike most other books on Indonesia, and unlike many books on democratization, it provides an account from the perspective of those who were struggling to bring about change.

Opposition (Political science) --- Political opposition --- Political science --- Divided government --- History --- Soeharto, --- Suharto, --- Soeharto, Muhammad, --- Haji Muhammad Soeharto, --- Pak Harto, --- Sūhātō, --- Haji Mohammad Soeharto, --- Indonesia --- Politics and government

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Presents a study of the transformation of Bolshevik Party ideology, language, and power relations during the crucial period leading up to Stalin's seizure power. This work argues that Bolshevism - which claimed sole access to truth and morality - demonized its enemies and became in effect a theology that facilitated a monumental power shift.

Communism --- Opposition (Political science) --- Communication in politics --- Political Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Socialism, Communism & Anarchism --- Political communication --- Political science --- Political opposition --- Divided government --- History --- Kommunističeskaja Partija Sovetskogo Sojuza --- Geschichte 1918-1928. --- Sovjet-Unie. --- Soviet Union --- History.