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7555: Re: 7516: Re: 7510: Re: 7466: Justice: Wilentz replies (fwd)
From: Sabine Albert <sabinea@yahoo.com>
Maybe the question should have been:
What would constitute culturally specific democracy
for Haiti.
I know I'm dying to hear the responses.
Any takers.
Peace.
--- Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu> wrote:
>
> [Corbett comments: Folks Patrick's question below
> goes far beyond
> Haiti. If any wish to discuss this issue with him
> please respond
> directly to him at his address below.]
>
> From: P D Bellegarde-Smith <pbs@csd.uwm.edu>
>
> We all seem to know what "democracy" is, but we are
> hard-pressed, when
> ask, to provide a meaningful definition that applies
> to societies other
> than the United States or Western Europe. I contend,
> in my scholarship,
> that "democracy" needs to be culture-specific. Any
> takers?
>
>
=====
Sabine Albert
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