Digital Democracy: Policy and Politics in the Wired World

Democracy – The Real ‘Ghost’ in the Machine of Global Health Policy; Comment on “A Ghost in the Machine? Politics in Global Health Policy”

Politics is not the ghost in the machine of global health policy. Conceptually, it makes little sense to argue otherwise, while history is replete with examples of individuals and movements engaging politically in global health policy. Were one looking for ghosts, a more likely candidate would be democracy, which is currently under attack by a new global health technocracy. Civil society moveme...

the u.s. policy in central asia and its impact on the colored revolutions in the region (the case study of tulip revolution in kyrgyzstan)

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The Politics and Analytics of Health Policy

Let us start with an example of health policy analysis in action. Within that category of countries loosely known as ‘the West’, quite basic differences exist in attitudes to health policy and also actual health policy. Comparing the US with mainland Europe and indeed Canada, for example, one perceives a difference in attitude on the part of the majority towards collectivism and individualism i...

Biology, Politics and Democracy

Wired Wired World: Breaking the Mosaic Mold

Many of us have been watching the recent goings-on at Netscape and wondering what it all means. The layoffs in general, the cancellation of in-house Java development, and the Communicator source-code giveaway have received most of the attention, but another unsettling item has gone largely unnoticed. As of February 1998, Netscape no longer maintains a staff of usability engineers. At its zenith...