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Reviews and discusses `Does politics matter? An analysis of the public welfare commitment in advanced democratic states', which appeared in vol.7 (1979), pp.169-186 of this journal. Includes a comment by the original authors.

Before discussing international politics in Lindgren's works, it is necessary to take a quick look at some tendencies in their translatory reception with an update for this year, as many non-Scandinavian readers might not be aware how their interpretation of Lindgren may have been coloured by target text adaptations which are not to be found in Lindgren's Swedish source text.

"Der Beitrag analysiert das Phänomen celebrity politics anhand prominenter Seiteneinsteiger, die zu Berufspolitikern werden. Er entwickelt eine Typologie politischer Akteure in der Mediendemokratie (genuine, mediatisierte und Pseudo-Politiker) und erklärt, warum Prominenz zu einer wesentlichen Ressource im politischen Wettbewerb geworden ist bzw. welche Funktionen sie für politische Akteure und Elektorat erfüllt. Am konkreten Beispiel der Karrieren von 16 prominenten Seiteneinsteigern im Europäischen Parlament und im österreichischen Nationalrat wird empirisch untersucht, welche Erfolgsaussichten der Beruf Politik unerfahrenen aber prominenten Amateuren bietet und welche Chancen und Risiken in der celebrisation politischer Rekrutierung liegen." (Autorenreferat)

Challenges post-Soviet attacks on Marxist theory, focusing on Karl Marx's notion of civil society, particularly in terms of his expansion of G. W. F. Hegel. Marx grounded Hegel's notion of the individual's moral needs existing in the context of market forces in industrial production. Further, Marx claims that the state is shaped by civil society as opposed to transcending it as Hegel suggested. However, Marx also maintained that the proletariat would abolish civil society to achieve human emancipation; civil society would be democratized & used against the market forces that constitute its base. The dissolution of the base would dissolve the existing power structure, resulting in the well-recognized contradiction of Marxist theory. Nevertheless, it is suggested that Marxist ideas are salient in the modern world where capital accumulates & public life deteriorates. The Left needs to concern itself once again with the extension of democracy into civil society. T. Noland

THERE ARE THREE BROAD TYPES OF POLITICS--MONISM, DUALISM, AND PLURALISM. MILLENARIAN MOVEMENTS ARE MONISTIC IN THEIR VIEW OF THE FUTURE BUT DUALISTIC IN THEIR VIEW OF THE PRESENT. IF, AS MOST POLITICAL SCIENTISTS HOLD, COMPLEX SOCIETIES ARE INHERENTLY PLURALISTIC, MILLENARIAN PR\OJECTS ARE BOUND TO BE INFEASIBLE OR TO RESULT IN HIGH LEVELS OF FORCE IN AN EFFORT TO TRANSFORM REALITY.

AbstractEvaluation must take into account both executive and legislative politics and their interactions. This implies an evaluation process that can be represented as a five‐part continuum, and requires numerous departures from past thinking about evaluation. The evaluator must assume a major share of the responsibility for translating policy questions into knowledge that is credible, timely, responsive, and usable.

THE DIVERSIFICATION OF POLITICAL ESTRANGEMENT, FOR PURPOSES OF SURVIVAL AS WELL SELF-CORRECTION, IS EXAMINED WITH REFERENCE TO THE POSITIONS OF AN INDIVIDUAL ALONG THREE AXES: "(1) THE DEGREE OF THE INDIVIDUAL'S SENSE OF POLITICAL POATENCY, (2) THE EXTENT OF SANCTITY NE ATTACNES TO THE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS AND NORMS OF HIS SOCIETY, AND (3) THE EXTENT OF HIS INVOLVEMENT IN POLITICS.