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In "Making Democracy Work", Robert Putnam describes the evolution of northern and Southern Italy in terms of 'virtuous' and 'vicious circles'. The literature on social capital is mainly concerned with one part of these self-reinforcing processes, more particularly the relation between social capita! and the performance of specific institutions. The other part of the process -how institutions and policies in their turn advance or hamper norms and networks of civic engagement- is very rarely studied. In this article we discuss the possible consequences of the differences in Flemish and Dutch urban policies on the conditions conducive to the production of social capital.

This article evaluates proposals in the late 1920s for the creation of an Aboriginal State in either a part of the Northern Territory or South Australia. In the proposals for an Aboriginal State, Aborigines were to own their own land, live according to their own customs, govern themselves, and have Aboriginal Members of Parliament representing them in the Federal Parliament. The study analyses the intellectual foundations of the proposals in the political organisations of the Maori of New Zealand. It examines Aboriginal people's ambivalence to the idea, which arose out of their bitter experience of living through previous plans made supposedly for their benefit by white society.

Multimedia Gulch, the dynamic cluster of multimedia firms that coalesced in San Francisco's South of Market area (SOMA) in the early 1990s, emerged from a depressed, high-unemployment, high-crime area in less than a decade. This article describes how the revitalization of SOMA was the product not of economic development planning but, rather, of the convergence of several independent cultural and economic factors. These factors, which the author explores, range from the diffusion and adoption of the loft-living lifestyle among urban creative communities in the 1970s to the elimination of barriers to entry into the media industry from technological innovations in the 1980s.

Evaluates proposals in the late 1920s for the creation of an Aboriginal State in either a part of the Northern Territory or South Australia. In these white activist proposals, Aborigines were to own their own land, live according to their own customs, govern themselves, & have Aboriginal members of Parliament representing them in the Federal Parliament. The intellectual foundations of the proposals in the political organizations of the Maori of New Zealand are analyzed. Aboriginal people's ambivalence to the idea, which arose out of their bitter experience of living through previous plans made supposedly for their benefit by white society, are examined. Adapted from the source document.

This research explored the experiences of 27 women who had been hospitalized in psychiatric units in southern New Brunswick Canada. The women's accounts of their experiences of hospital admission, treatment and discharge are described. Hospitalization provided the women with a respite from burdensome family responsibilities and unsatisfactory relationships in a safe, protected environment. However, this asylum aspect of hospitalization was contrasted with the powerlessness experienced by the women because of their lack of control over decisions made about their admission, treatment and discharge. In conclusion, it is argued that strategies for the improvement of mental health care for women should be grounded in an understanding of women's experiences.

National audience ; In the countries of Southern Europe (Spain, Italy), uncompleted nation-building has allowed the development of specific relations between pollues and territory. These relations are now regulated by territorial statutes provided for in the Constitutions. They are however driven by complex socio-policital processes : current articulation of territorialized political subcultures or of nation-bound political cultures; political competition between territories or between political forces representing territories; particular operation of interest representation. The combination of these processes endows the territories with highly differentiated political capacities, variously adapted to the stakes of European competition, which can be analyzed as different modes of political exchange.

Indochina : the New Frontiers, by Christian Lechervy
The end of the third war in Indochina, and the collapse of communism in Europe, has killed the political concept of Indochina. Even though Vietnam remains fossilized in its mandarin Stalinism, it progressively reintegrates itself in the region. The « Asiatization » of its economy is becoming reality, pending the end of the American embargo. The multipolarization of the régional strategie game, however, has resulted in exacerbating économie rivalries and showing the ambitions of communist China. Thus little by little, the maritime daims in the China South Sea instrumentalize the inter-regional relationships in their dimensions of economie and military power.

ABSTRACTUrban and regional studies of service location concentrate on private business and financial services. In contrast, this paper uses the example of the central government civil service in Britain to develop understanding of the spatial dynamics of public services. The paper shows how the location of civil service employment has been influenced by changes in government policy over the last thirty years. It also indicates the way in which the over‐concentration of the private sector in London and the South East, throughout the period, has encouraged the decentralization of the civil service from the capital to a variety of provincial locations.

This article explores issues of agricultural change as they have been played out in the Lufira Valley in south‐eastern Shaba. It indicates some of the interconnections between peasants, the State and capitalist class interests, showing how measures taken in favour of capitalist enterprise contribute to deepening underdevelopment of the peasantry. It also casts doubt upon the assumption that capitalism — monopoly, state or private — can lead to development of productive forces in agriculture. A re‐examination of this issue is pertinent in view of recent Left criticism of 'underdevelopment' theory and the notion that African development is being advanced by national bourgeoisies.

Despite much research on migration in the South Pacific, there is almost no information relating either to the migration of women (either internally or internationally) or to the impact of migration on women (either those who move or those who stay) or on the societies of emigration. This article attempts to draw restricted conclusions from the limited data available, indicate some implications of these conclusions and point to the problems of lack of information in an area where migration is of major significance for social and economic change. The nature of available information results in some bias towards Melanesia and especially Papua New Guinea.

Agricultural and rural development and the eradication of hunger and malnutrition are among the chief aims of the international development strategy for the Third United Nations Development Decade. In realising these aims the major focus has to be on achievement of national and collective self-sufficiency in food in developing countries. This international concern for agricultural and rural development in developing countries and securing adequate supplies of food for the peoples of these countries to eradicate hunger and endemic malnutrition among them, is of particular interest to South Asia which is the most populated and one of the poorest geographical regions of the world.

During the early 1830s Russian officials drew up plans to reform the educational system of foreign colonists in southern Russia. The colonies of Mennonites there welcomed the proposals as evidence of official interest in plans already formulated by leading Mennonites. In certain quarters, however, educational reform met fierce resistance. Around 1833, Heinrich Balzer, a Lehrer of the Kleine Gemeinde, a small schismatic group in the Mennonite colony at Molochnaia, wrote a number of tracts warning fellow brethren and the other colony Aeltesten of the dangers of close involvement with the "world", particularly through educational reform. One pamphlet was concerned with the categories of "understanding and reason" (Verstand und Vernuft).