Beyond contested elections: the processes of bill creation and the fulfillment of democracy's promises

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Seidman, Robert B.
Seidman, Ann
Holt, Bradley
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Long before 1996, earlier promises of 'development' had splintered into a million shards. Development -- defined as the use of state power to bring about social, political, and economic change in favor of the mass of the population almost everywhere had seemingly imploded. 5 Babies in the poorer countries could expect to live from ten to thirty years fewer than those born in industrialized countries. [TRUNCATED]
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