Author: United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in EuropePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Human Rights and Democratization in Latvia
Author: United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in EuropePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 44
Book Description
Human Rights and Democratization in Latvia
Author: United States. Congress. Commission on Security and Cooperation in EuropePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Citizenship
Languages : en
Pages : 38
Book Description
Human Rights and Democratization in Latvia
Author: Latvia
Author: Rector Press, LimitedPublisher:
ISBN: 9780760500217
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
How Democratic is Latvia
Author: Origin and Formation of Latvia`s Political Parties - The Period of Transition and the Beginning of Consolidation in Latvia`s Political Landscape
Author: Alexander PilicPublisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3638757323
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Seminar paper from the year 2000 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Region: Eastern Europe, grade: 1,5 (A), Free University of Berlin (Otto Suhr Institute), 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: After a short period of being a liberal democracy in the 1920 ́s, Latvia was ruled by totalitarian regimes, beginning with the dictatorship of Ulmanis and the following German occupation of the country to almost fifty years of Soviet rule which ended officially on September 6th, 1991 when the Soviet Union recognized all three Baltic states as independent. In the aftermath, Latvia found itself in a process of transition which lasts for one decade now.When the people of Latvia were able to participate in the first partly free elections in 1989 they chose almost exclusively candidates of their main opposition movement Popular Front (LTF) to represent Latvia ́s interests within Moscow ́s Congress of the People ́s Deputies. Just one year later, the last elections under Soviet rule took place on the national level in Latvia. The Popular Front finished first and governed Latvia on it ́s way towards independence. As soon as the LTF was freed from the big pressure under which it had fought for democracy against the powerful Kremlin it became obvious that the Popular Front consisted of very different political groups ranging from former communist party members to Latvian nationalists. Some parties were very popular during one election, but in the next one they could not collect enough votes to get into parliament. Some parties collapsed after a short period of time, others split into new movements or merged with other parties. No coalition-government lasted for the whole parliamentary term and in each of the three elections during the nineties more than one half of the participating parties took part for the first time. On the other hand, especially during the last two years some small parties merged into larger ones or at least formed joined factions
Human Rights and Democratization in Latvia
Author: Etats-Unis. Congress. Commission on security and cooperation in EuropePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The Latvian Elections
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780952773511
Category : Elections
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Human Rights and Democratization in Estonia
Author: Shrinking Citizenship
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9042031344
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
The book, based on research results from a three-year study of parliamentary and media debates in Latvia, analyses the discourses of Latvian politicians and the media about nation, citizenship, cultural diversity, history and the nation-state. This is the first large-scale study of political debates in a Baltic State from the perspective of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). Separate chapters, by researchers from Canada, Latvia, Lithuania and the UK, analyse the intersections between national identity construction, national mythmaking, concepts of citizenship, journalistic action, press ownership and questions of control of political and media discourses. All of these have impact on the fundamental questions of the relationship between individuals and the state. The authors conclude that even after the accession to the European Union in 2004, political pressures in Latvia, as also frequently on the political Right in other EU countries, promote ethnic membership as the guiding factor of state-building.