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Democracy

Reflections on a Revolutionary Imaginary and Round Tables

The new always appears in the guise of a miracle

April 11, 2014 • by Elzbieta Matynia

This is the prepared text answering the question "What do we really know about transitions to democracy?" for  the General Seminar of The New School for Social Research, March 19, 2014.

It was a quarter of a century ago, in 1989, that a new kind of revolutionary imaginary emerged, one that ...

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