Wilson, Andrew: Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet...

Perspectives on Political Science;  September 22, 2006 ;   Bowles, Donald;   551 words ...Wilson, Andrew Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet World New Haven: Yale University Press...intended to supply such analysis. Virtual Politics: Faking Democracy in the Post-Soviet...however, Wilson does suggest that virtual politics is a type of ...

Virtual politics 'is the future ifdeadline passes'

Belfast Telegraph;  September 15, 2006 ;   Senan Hogan;   310 words ......by the November 24 deadline, it will confine parties to "virtual politics", Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern warned last...parties to the margins of policy making - to a kind of virtual politics. The power to avoid such a scenario lies with the parties...

Yuschenko: 'We are living in historical times'

The Spectator;  May 19, 2007 ;   Leonard, Mark;   787 words ......and then as what Yuschenko calls 'virtual politics'. You need go no further than Independence...revolution in reverse shows one side of virtual politics: faking democracy and pluralism as...authoritarian tool. The other feature of virtual politics is that political decisions and ...

Warning on power deal

Birmingham Mail;  September 15, 2006 ;     174 words ......by the November 24 deadline, it will confine parties to "virtual politics", Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern has warned...parties to the margins of policy making - to a kind of virtual politics. "The power to avoid such a scenario lies with the parties...

VIRTUAL REALITY; That's how we'll be ruled without power-sharing, warns...

The Mirror (London, England);  September 15, 2006 ;     226 words ...Byline: By SENAN HOGAN NORTHERN Ireland will be ruled by virtual politics if power-sharing is not agreed, an Irish Minister warned...parties to the margins of policy making - to a kind of virtual politics. DUP leader the Rev Ian Paisley said after yesterday's...

Warning on power deal.(News)

Birmingham Mail (England);  September 15, 2006 ;     179 words ......by the November 24 deadline, it will confine parties to virtual politics , Irish Foreign Affairs Minister Dermot Ahern has warned...parties to the margins of policy making - to a kind of virtual politics. The power to avoid such a scenario lies with the parties...

Internet is Becoming Dominant Media Force in National Political Campaigns,...

U.S. Newswire;  July 31, 2007 ;     787 words ......information and involvement have created vast potential for virtual politics that is reshaping the nature of election campaigning...Republican Party was created in the 1850s." The growth of virtual politics is also beginning to shift the nature of campaign financing...

Across those far blue hills a bell is tolling

The Independent - London;  April 8, 1995 ;   ANDREW MARR;   787 words ......something about an actual election, isn't there? Bad opinion polls have long depressed the Conservatives. But they are like virtual politics. They sting less. MPs don't regard local elections as being quite real, either - Westminster has been too contemptuous...

Virtual politics: Congress takes plunge into world of avatars

Sunday Gazette-Mail;  February 4, 2007 ;   Lisa Vorderbrueggen;   749 words ...WALNUT CREEK, Calif. - When Rep. George Miller is "in-world," he teleports between continents and flies into the room. "And I have a waistline!" Miller joked. That would be his "avatar," a virtual rendition of the California congressman in Second Life, a three-dimensional online world in which

Virtual politics: how the Internet is transforming democracy.(Youth And...

The American Prospect;  October 1, 2003 ;   Franke-Ruta, Garance;   787 words ...Retired four-star Gen. Wesley Clark seemed a very appealing fellow to retiree Eric Carbone. I came out of retirement to work for this guy, he says, looking up from his computer in an office just around the corner from the White House. Carbone, a member of DraftWesleyClark.com, spent the past two

Goodbye conference hall we're now in the realm of virtual politics

The Sunday Herald;  October 1, 2000 ;   Peter Warren;   674 words ...THE summer is over and the ritual courtship of the voters by the politicians is under way at the UK's various watering holes, but behind the scenes so beloved by the political commentators a revolution is occurring that could mark the end of the political conference as we know it. Known as

California congressman engaging in virtual politics.

Contra Costa Times (Walnut Creek, CA);  January 30, 2007 ;     787 words ...Byline: Lisa Vorderbrueggen WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ When Rep. George Miller is in-world, he teleports between continents and flies into the room. And I have a waistline! Miller joked. That would be his avatar, a virtual rendition of the California congressman in Second Life, a three-dimensional

Virtual politics, real corruption

The World Today;  June 1, 2001 ;   Wilson, Andrew;   787 words ...In Washington secretly recorded tapes ended the Presidency of Richard Nixon. In Kiev the same sort of material has galvanised the President"s team for a fight. It has also suggested that many of those eager to replace him have similarly murkey pasts. Politics Ukrainian style is a competition for

Virtual politics

The Hindustan Times;  April 9, 2008 ;     234 words ...Parul Abrol Hindustan Times NEW DELHI, India, April 9 -- Political parties are finally getting tech-savvy, strike the right chord with the youth. Congress sources say that Rahul Gandhi offers regular feedback on the recently launched website of the Congress' student wing, the National Students

Virtual Politics: Campaigning in Cyberspace

The Washington Post;  November 8, 1994 ;   William F. Powers;   787 words ...Decades from now, when everyone has forgotten whether 1994 was the time the Republicans beat the Democrats, or vice versa, historians may remember this campaign for another reason: It was the year the politicians invaded cyberspace. The candidates for U.S. senator from Minnesota conducted an