Comments on: What Kenya tells us about Democracy in Africa http://cominganarchy.com/2008/01/10/what-kenya-tells-us-about-democracy-in-africa/ Speak Victorian, Think Pagan Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:20:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Dan tdaxp http://cominganarchy.com/2008/01/10/what-kenya-tells-us-about-democracy-in-africa/#comment-381563 Dan tdaxp Sat, 12 Jan 2008 13:45:50 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2008/01/10/what-kenya-tells-us-about-democracy-in-africa/#comment-381563 Manual trackback: <a href="http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2008/01/11/democracy-and-america-s-non-integrating-gap-or-i-m-glad-i-do.html" rel="nofollow">Democracy and America's Non-Integrating Gap, or, I'm glad I don't live in Cleveland!</a> Manual trackback: Democracy and America’s Non-Integrating Gap, or, I’m glad I don’t live in Cleveland!

]]> By: von Kaufman-Turkestansky http://cominganarchy.com/2008/01/10/what-kenya-tells-us-about-democracy-in-africa/#comment-381553 von Kaufman-Turkestansky Thu, 10 Jan 2008 19:39:26 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2008/01/10/what-kenya-tells-us-about-democracy-in-africa/#comment-381553 Curzon: Thank you for the timely article by Kaplan from '97. No irony intended - it is timely, since it marks a decade since it was written and it's very interesting, especially if you read it in the context of what has happened since (in some of the countries that he names in the article). His take on the situation back then seems like quite the crystal ball. Alas, in many developments in the last decade, much of his pessimism seems justified. Interestingly, his ideas on the developing "ganglia" of world government remind me of Hart and Negri's analysis in their book "Empire", which was written around the same time (I mean the analysis, not the prescriptions). Curzon: Thank you for the timely article by Kaplan from ‘97. No irony intended – it is timely, since it marks a decade since it was written and it’s very interesting, especially if you read it in the context of what has happened since (in some of the countries that he names in the article). His take on the situation back then seems like quite the crystal ball. Alas, in many developments in the last decade, much of his pessimism seems justified. Interestingly, his ideas on the developing “ganglia” of world government remind me of Hart and Negri’s analysis in their book “Empire”, which was written around the same time (I mean the analysis, not the prescriptions).

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://cominganarchy.com/2008/01/10/what-kenya-tells-us-about-democracy-in-africa/#comment-381550 Dan tdaxp Thu, 10 Jan 2008 13:04:54 +0000 http://cominganarchy.com/2008/01/10/what-kenya-tells-us-about-democracy-in-africa/#comment-381550 "Democracies do not always make societies more civil-but they do always mercilessly expose the health of the societies in which they operate" Well said. “Democracies do not always make societies more civil-but they do always mercilessly expose the health of the societies in which they operate”

Well said.

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