Cuba and its neighbours : democracy in motion / Arnold August.

Part i Clearing the Cobwebs Around Democracy
1 Democracy and U.S.-Centrism
Democracy or Democratization?
Democratization from the Bottom Up: Occupying Public Spaces (2011-12)
2 Democracy in the U.S.
Birth of the U.S. and the American Dream
Foreign Policy Toward Its Neighbours and Democracy Promotion
Founding Fathers' Heritage and Voter Turnout
Competitive Multi-Party Democratic Elections: Obama Case Study
Co-Optation and Individual Opportunism
The Credibility Gap
Obama's First Experiences and Reactions
Obama's Foreign Policy: The "New Face" and Cuba
Honduras: The "Reluctant SherifT"
The Occupy Movement: Breaking Out of US -Centn«;m^
The November 2012 Elections and Obama
3 Exploring Democracies in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador
Venezuela: New Experiments in Participatory Democracy
Bolivia's Democracy in Motion: On the Edge
Ecuador's New Constitution: Sumak Kawsay and Participatory Democracy
ALBA, CELAC and U.S. Democracy Promotion
Part ii Cuba: Constitutions, Elections and New States
4 Participation in Constitutions, Elections
and a New State (1868-1952)
Cuba's First Homegrown Constitutions,
Embryonic States and Elections (1868-98)
Cuba, U.S. Freedom of the Press and Military Intervention (1898)
U.S. Domination, Interference and Co-Optation vs. Democracy (1898-1952).
5 Democracy, Elections and the New State
A Rebellion Against Dogmatism of the Ix*ft and the Batista Dictatorship (1953)
Participatory Nineteenth-Century Republic in Arms Reborn (1957 -58).
Lessons for Today from 1958: Grass-Roots Democracy vs. Elections,
Co-Optation, Dissidence
The Provisional Revolutionary Government and Constitution (1959).
Elections: Who Rejected Them?
Elections Analysis: Then and Now
Pardcipatory Democracy and U.S. Frustradons .
Democratizadon Through Mass Organizations and Pardcipation
Inidal Attempts to Establish Local Governments and Elections.
Origins of the PCC: Yesterday and Today
Elections, New State Structure and Constitudon (1970~76)
Part hi Contemporary Cuba:
The Test for Democratization.
6 The 2011-12 Communist Party Congress
and Conference: Democratization and the Press
Democratization Through People's Control and the Press
Opening the Debate,
The 2011 Party Congress Deliberations: Input and People's Control
The Dialectics of Discrepancies and Consensus: Democracy in Motion,
Congress Guidelines: Application and People's Participation
The 2012 PCC Conference and the Press: Trials and Tribuladons
Participatory Democracy, the Press and Social Scientists
Capitalism, Socialism and Cuba's Errors
7 Elections in Contemporary Cuba
The Cuban Electoral Process: An Overview
The Soviet Political Model: A Cuban Import?
The 1992 Constitutional Reforms and Their Impact on Elecdons
Elections, Constitution and Political System
General Elections — First Phase: Municipal Elecdons
Decentralization
Voter Registration
Nominadng Candidates for Elections to the Municipal Assemblies
The PCC in the Nomination Process
Debadng the Improvement of Nominadon Assemblies
Elecdons to the Municipal Assemblies
Analyzing Municipeil Elecdon Results
General Elecdons — Second Phase: The Nadonal ANPP
The Candidacies Commissions and Nominadons
Improving the Candidacies Commissions
Elections to the ANPP
The Slate vs. Selecdve Vote: A Rejecdon of the Government?
One Candidate for Election per ANPP Seat: Talking Figures
Who Are the Deputies? Talking Quality
Composition of the ANPP
"Almost All Deputies Are Communist Party Members".
Elections: ANPP OfTicials, Council of State and Its President, Raul Castro.
8 The ANPP and the Municipality: Functioning Between Elections
Are Democratization and Revolutionary Leadership Compatible?
Who Legislates?
Case Study: Participation in Drafting the Social Security Bill
Unanimity in the /VNPP
The ANPP and Cuba's Foreign Policy
Municipal-Level Participation: Limits and Perspectives
Cuban Democracy: Representative or Participatory?
People's Councils: Potential for Further Democratization
The Potential of the Local Level and Need for Enhanced Participation
The Future of Democratization: Facing the Tests