{"id":149,"date":"2014-11-22T15:07:02","date_gmt":"2014-11-22T15:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democracycuba.com\/Blog\/?p=149"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:44:11","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:44:11","slug":"cuba-electoral-trends-democratization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democracycuba.com\/Blog\/cuba-electoral-trends-democratization\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuba: Electoral Trends and Democratization"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. George Lambie writes, \u201cArnold August has been the most assiduous analyst of the Cuban electoral process for a decade and a half.\u201d\u00a0 Dr. Lambie is professor of International Political Economy (Globalisation), Literature and Politics, and Latin American Politics at De Montfort University in Leicester, U.K. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Cuban Studies and the author of books and articles on Cuba. In the introductory editorial of this journal, Dr. Lambie writes a note on the articles published in the Spring 2014 issue, including my research paper on the Cuban political process. To read his complete editorial comment and my full research paper, which I just published on my web site (November 21, 2014) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.democracycuba.com\/Elections_Cuba_PoliticalSystem_ElectoralProcess_CubanStudies.html\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. George Lambie writes, \u201cArnold August has been the most assiduous analyst of the Cuban electoral process for a decade and a half.\u201d\u00a0 Dr. Lambie is professor of International Political <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/democracycuba.com\/Blog\/cuba-electoral-trends-democratization\/\">Continue Reading &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- 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