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Vanderbilt University Law School

Journal

1967

Democracy

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Book Reviews, Josef Rysan, L. G., G. C., R. P. B., W. E. W. Jan 1967

Book Reviews, Josef Rysan, L. G., G. C., R. P. B., W. E. W.

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

THE FUTURE OF GERMANY

It is significant that the most brilliant and penetrating analysis of the West German democracy comes from the pen of the leading German philosopher, Karl Jaspers. This fact demonstrates that German philosophy which used to be exclusively an "ivory tower" affair has finally come to grips with contemporary social problems. The English edition contains not only the translation of Jaspers' German bestseller, but also of the philosopher's just published "Answer to My Critics."

reviewer: Josef Rysan

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THE ENGLISH

by David Frost and Antony Jay

255 pages Stein and Day, New York, 1968.

reviewer: L.G.

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Expression Of Democracy: Local Elections In Petorca, Chile, Peter S. Cleaves, Eugene V. Matta Jan 1967

Expression Of Democracy: Local Elections In Petorca, Chile, Peter S. Cleaves, Eugene V. Matta

Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The municipal elections of Chile were held on April 2,1967. On April 3, in Santiago, spokesmen from the national committees of the five major parties --the Christian Democrats, the Radicals, the Communists, the Nationalists, and the Socialists--all proclaimed that the results showed that their political aggregation had been victorious on the previous day. The debate concerning who had won the election raged for several weeks in the press, in Congress and in spirited social conversation. The Christian Democrats argued that although their percentage of the national vote dropped from forty-two per cent to thirty-five per cent, they had increased their …