Ralph S Clem

Since coming to power in 1999, President Hugo Chavez has used the windfall of high oil prices to remake Venezuela internally along the model of twenty-first-century socialism and, even more audaciously, to rewrite global relations by directly challenging U. S. hegemony. The dramatic ascendency of the country in hemispheric and global international relations over the past decade is the subject of Venezuela’s Petro-Diplomacy.

This book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of the elections held on 17 December 1995 to the State Duma, the lower house of the Russian parliament. It analyzes the entire electoral process, from the adoption of the electoral law to the announcement of the final results.