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Haber, Stephen; Menaldo, Victor: Do natural resources fuel authoritarianism?. - IN: American political science review. - 105 (February 2011) 1. - S. 1-26‡‡

Chapter 1: Introduction. By David J. Smith, Ivan Dodovski -- Chapter 2: The Role of Law and Non-Territorial Autonomy Arrangements in the Implementation of Linguistic Rights: A Comparative Perspective. By Vladimir Đurić, Vasilije Marković -- Chapter 3: 'Living the Same Full Life'? A Critical Assessment of Non-Territorial Autonomy Practice in the Vojvodina and Sápmi Contexts. By David J. Smith -- Chapter 4: The Dilemma of Responsibility: The Role of Kin-States and Nation-States in Implementing Non-Territorial Autonomy Models to Realise Minorities' Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights. By Martin Klatt -- Chapter 5: The Evanescence of Autonomy for Minority Groups: The Hungarian Minority in Romania and the Complex Nexus of Dependence. By Andreea Udrea -- Chapter 6: Illiberal Forms of Non-Territorial Autonomy: The Sudeten German Party Case. By Oskar Mulej -- Chapter 7: The Implications of Administrative Decentralisation on the Development of Non-Territorial Autonomy Practices: The Case of Romania. By Valentina Cornea, Mirela Paula Costache, Andreea Elena Matic -- Chapter 8: Linguistic Rights in Greece: Crossing Through Territorial and Non-Territorial Arrangements. By Konstantinos Tsitselikis -- Chapter 9: Critical Analysis of the Linguistic Rights Strategies of the Hungarian National Minority Council in Serbia. By Katinka Beretka -- Chapter 10: Non-Territorial Autonomy and Minority Rights: Impact of the Self-Governing National Communities on Minority Protection in Slovenia. By Ljubica Djordjević- Chapter 11: Cultural Autonomy, Safe Haven or Window-Dressing? Institutions Maintained by Minority Self-Governments in Hungary. By Balázs Dobos -- Chapter 12: Can Non-Territorial Autonomy Help to Enforce the Linguistic, Cultural and Educational Rights of the Roma?. By Natalija Shikova, Immaculada Colomina Limonero.

List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter One: Introduction; Chapter Two: Villagers' Petitions; Chapter Three: Petitions and Stability; Chapter Four: Petitioning Beijing; Chapter Five: The Policy Effects of Petitions; Chapter Six: Who Petitions?; Chapter Seven: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; About the Author

Chapter 7: More Dirty Tricks-Voter Suppression and IntimidationChapter 8: The "Voter Fraud" Myth and the Barrage of New Restrictive Voting Laws; Chapter 9: Shocking Testimony on Vote Switching in the 2004 Presidential Election; PART II: THE BIG PICTURE; Chapter 10: Legalized Bribery of Government Officials; Chapter 11: Corporate Control of Communications Media; Chapter 12: Some Actions We Can Take Now; Final Note from the Publisher: Use This Book!; References; Acknowledgements; About the Author.

This study was aimed at assessing the indigenous knowledge of rural women in forest resources conservation in Agoi-ekpo and Agoi-ibami in Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State, Nigeria. The objective of the study is: To examine the extent to which indigenous knowledge of rural women have influenced forest resources utilization and conservation. The sampling techniques used for the study are purposive and systematic in the selection of settlements. Purposive sampling was adopted because it was the researcher's deliberate intention to choose the rural communities in Yakurr L.G.A. that have direct interface with the Forest Reserves and are involved in the use and management of forest resources. While the systematic sampling was used to select rural women households at fixed intervals. The research findings revealed that a significant percent (71.2%) of the rural women were involved in the harvesting of forest resources. The study also showed that different quantities of edible leaves, fruits, snails, and medicinal herbs were collected by rural women for varying purposes. It further showed that these forest resources were harvested at varying frequencies and that they generate income to the rural women. The main forest resources conserved as revealed by the study included afang, atama, editan, bush mango, and hot leaf because of the high exploitation. Restrictions on the felling and uprooting of plants as well as ban on exploitation were the two prominent ways of forest resources conservation. Pearson's correlation result indicated a positive and significant association between indigenous practices of rural women and forest resources utilization and conservation. It also showed that problems encountered in the collection of forest resources did not vary by the ages of rural women. In order to control unwanted exploitation of forest resources as well ensure the availability for the future, local communities should set-up forest guards or vigilante to control the quantity of edible forest resources that will be harvested from the forest.

Introduction : structure and design -- Pakistan's predicament -- Rule of law and Superior Judiciary : an overview -- Criminal justice administration system -- Political parties, Army and politics -- Local government -- Civil society -- Terrorism and state response -- Socio-economic scenario in Pakistan : a story of missed opportunities -- Conclusion : a way forward.

This volume assesses comparative political communication research and considers potential ways in which it could and should develop. Twenty experts from Europe and the United States offer a unique and comprehensive discussion of the theories, cases, and challenges of comparative research in political communication. The first part discusses the fundamental themes, concepts and methods essential to analyze the effects of modernization and globalization of political communication. The second part offers a broad range of case studies that illustrate the enormous potential of cross-national approaches in many relevant fields of political communication. The third part paves the way for future research by describing the most promising concepts and pressing challenges of comparative political communication. This book is intended to introduce new students to a crucial, dynamic field as well as deepening advanced students' knowledge of its principles and perspectives

Is it possible to compare French presidential politics with village leadership in rural India? Most social scientists are united in thinking such unlikely juxtapositions are not feasible. Boswell, Corbett and Rhodes argue that they are possible. This book explains why and how. It is a call to arms for interpretivists to embrace creatively comparative work. As well as explaining, defending and illustrating the comparative interpretive approach, this book is also an engaging, hands-on guide to doing comparative interpretive research, with chapters covering design, fieldwork, analysis and writing. The advice in each revolves around 'rules of thumb', grounded in experience, and illustrated through stories and examples from the authors' research in different contexts around the world. Naturalist and humanist traditions have thus far dominated the field but this book presents a real alternative to these two orthodoxies which expands the horizons of comparative analysis in social science research.

Examines women's representation in political institutions, political behavior of women, and effect of women on public policy issues in the two countries; 12 articles. Contents: Japanese women and political institutions: why are women politically underrepresented? by Tokuko Ogai; Women and political institutions in Japan, by Yumiko Mikanagi; Political appointees in the United States: does gender make a difference, by Julie Dolan; Understading the policy impact of electing women: evidence for research on Congress and the state legislatures, by Michele Swers; How women won or lost in the Japanese lower house elections: case studies of women candidates who ran as challengers, by Masako Aiuchi; The madonna boom: the progress of Japanese women into politics in the 1980s, by Misako Iwamoto; American women and politics in the media: a review essy, by Stephane Greco Larson; Women and political participation, by M. Margaret Conway; "To do justly": the integration of women in the American judiciary, by Barbara Palmer; Women's leverage on social policymaking in Japan, by Mikiko Eto; Women's policy leadership in the United States, by Marian Lief Palley.

The contribution that S&T could make to improving the quality of life of all of the people of South Africa is currently a subject for considerable debate. This is not an academic debate, for, as the ancien regime departs and South Africa restructures, the protagonists are influencing directly the reconfiguration of S& T policies and struc tures. The new government has inherited a highly fragmented system and one in which no organisation has effective overview of the entire science and technology system. Considerable challenges face the new government in devising and imple menting appropriate strategies and policies for science and technology. The government of National Unity created a new Ministry for Science and Tech nology coupled with Arts and Culture signalling the new orientation of S&T policy framework. At the same time, a major organisational grouping under the Science and Technology Initiative (STI)-involving actors and agencies from S&T, government, professional societies, business, labour unions and other representatives-has under taken work towards reorganisation of science and technology structures. The paper begins by outlining the major developments in science and technology in South Africa and its current capacities in a comparative mode. This serves as a backdrop for examining the restructuring of the governmental S&T management system towards new national social and economic objectives underlying South African science and technology system.

Susan's 'Faites vos jeux, messieurs. Rien ne va plus' — The Politics of Liberalism — Bertrand de JouvenelSusan's 'Faites Vos Jeux, Messieurs. Rien Ne Va Plus' Professor Susan Strange is widely recognised as the foremost British exponent of the meta-discipline of International Political Economy, better known under its nickname IPE. I define it as a meta-discipline because, as is well known, its purpose it to fuse into one the three previously disparate disciplines of economics, politics (notably comparative politics, political sociology and public policy) and international relations which can make sense now only when they are related to each other. The nineteenth-century founders of the social sciences had simply used the name of Political Economy. But then the unforeseeable agglomeration of empirical material led to an objective need for specialization and to a subjective professional interest which in turn led not only to a growing differentiation in the subject-matter, but also to an unnatural incompatibility of perspectives. Like many other artificial barriers which have fallen under the sweep of twentieth-century interdependence, the disciplinary barriers, and even the inadequate 'interdisciplinary collaborations' between the major social sciences, should now return to the initial common matrix. Whether the end result will indeed be a new, unique, science, or whether the social sciences will learn how to 'see' trifocally is another matter.

"This book provides an introduction to the theory and practice of diplomacy and its vital role in an era of increasing international uncertainty. The work employs a distinctive 'diplomatic perspective' on international relations and argues that the experience of conducting diplomacy gives rise to a set of priorities: first, the peaceful resolution of disputes; second, the avoidance of unwanted conflict; and, third, the minimization of the intensity of violent conflict where it has become unavoidable. It argues that changes in the international system require a shift in priorities from the diplomacy of problem-solving by building institutionalized cooperation, to the diplomacy of managing relationships between people. Divided into three sections, the first examines what is meant when we talk about diplomacy, why we need diplomats, and the operations of the modern diplomatic system of states. The second discusses the 'three bads,' about which people generally worry: bad leaders, bad media, and bad followers. The idea of 'bad' is considered in terms of the moral character, professional competence, and the consequences of what people do for us. The final section discusses diplomacy and bad diplomats, reviewing what people can do to help themselves and the professionals be good diplomats. This book is intended as a primary text for courses in international diplomacy and as a supplementary text for courses on contemporary issues in international relations"--

Introduction : the Dutch swing to the right -- Struggling with depoliticization -- The rise of the Dutch new right -- The neoliberal strand -- The neoconservative strand -- A complex backlash -- The double life of Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- The birth of an online counterculture -- Rebels without a cause -- Conclusion : both a revolt and an echo.