Freedom in the World: Political Rights and Civil Liberties 1986-1987

This yearbook marks the fourteenth year of the Comparative Survey of Freedom and is the ninth edition in the Freedom House series of annual publications. In addition to the ratings and tables produced by the Survey, the discussion of criteria and definitions at the beginning of the 1986-87 yearbook again includes the checklist of political rights and civil liberties. Discussion of communication policies of the United States and the Soviet Union forms a special theme in this year's summary of the international struggle for free and informative news media.Raymond D. Gastil is the author of 'Freedom in the World: Political Rights and Civil Liberties 1986-1987', published 1987 under ISBN 9780313259067 and ISBN 0313259062.