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ANDREW K. MILTON TOURO COLLEGE LIBRARY Main Campus Women’s Building W I T H D R A W N (Un)Civil Societies (Un)Civil Societies Human Rights and Democratic Transitions in Eastern Europe and Latin America Rachel A. May and Andrew K. Milton TOURO COLLEGE LIBRARY Main Campus Women’s Building By > LEXINGTON BOOKS Lanham « Boulder * New York * Toronto * Oxford >= LEXINGTON BOOKS Published in the United States of America by Lexington Books An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706 PO Box 317 Oxford OX2 9RU, UK Copyright © 2005 by Lexington Books All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Information Available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data (Un)civil societies : human rights and democratic transitions in Eastern Europe and Latin America / [edited by] Rachel May and Andrew Milton. p. cm. iki y Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7391-0580-9 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Europe, Eastern—Politics and government—1989- 2. Democratization—Europe, Eastern. 3. Human rights—Europe, Eastern. 4. Latin America—Politics and government—1980- 5. Democratization—Latin America. 6. Human rights—Latin America. I. Title: Uncivil societies. II. May, Rachel A. III. Milton, Andrew K. JN96.A58U5 2005 320.947—dc22 2004023418 Printed in the United States of America © The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. msVi f ay Contents Preface Vii Acknowledgments XV 1 Human Rights NGOs and the Role of Civil Society in Democratization Rachel May 1 2 Civil Society and Democratization Andrew Milton 11 3 Civil Society, Human Rights, and the Shaping of Postcommunist Europe’s Identity Politics Ray Taras 31 4 Democratization, Civil Society, and Latin American Social Movements Marc Belanger 51 5 Violence and Democracy in Eastern Europe Andrzej Korbonski 87 6 Democracy, “Mano Dura,” and the Criminalization of Politics Angelina Snodgrass Godoy 109 7 Eastern Europe’s Postcommunist Media : Jane L. Curry 139 8 Latin America’s Postauthoritarian Media Chappell Lawson and Sallie Hughes 163 9 Transitional Justice and Democratization in Eastern Europe Elke Fein 197 10 The Social and Political Aftermath of Terror: A Consideration of Human Rights, the Judiciary, and Dealing with the Past Rachel May 225 Contents 11 Partisan Development and Differentiation in Post-Soviet Russia and Ukraine Arthur H. Miller & Thomas Klobucar 239 12 Advocacy, Ideology and Partisanship: Human Rights in the Electoral Arena : Christopher Sabatini 269 Index 289 About the Contributors 297
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