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The Navajo‐Hopi Land Settlement Act slated 10,000 Navajo for relocation off land partitioned to the Hopi. In the Navajo philosophical system, such forced relocation constitutes a breach of personhood; it ruptures relocatees' inalienable connections to their matrilineal homes, actuated through burial of their umbilical cords and other acts. Owing to the reciprocal nature of relations between the Navajo and the earth, the long‐term debilitating effects are far‐reaching. The well‐being of Mother Earth is just as dependent on the care of those given stewardship over particular locales as Navajo are on the continuing nurturance of their mother, the earth.

In the aftermath of the 1996 election campaigns, scholars, journalists, policymakers, and campaign finance professionals alike declared the House election financing system "broken" and "out of control." That cycle saw party officials raising unprecedented amounts of "soft money" and directing it into specific federal campaigns. Coalitions of interest groups spent tens of millions of dollars attacking or defending candidates in "issue advocacy" campaigns, and disclosed neither their spending nor the sources of their funds to the Federal Election Commission. Groups like the Christian Coalition distributed tens of millions of "non-partisan" voter guides with thinly-disguised endorsements of candidates, again without disclosing their activity.

Argues that the House election financing system limits the diversity of House representatives, is advantageous to organized interests in political debates, and diminishes public trust in procedural justice; US.

The impact of diffusion effects on the growth and spread of democracy in the global system is investigated. Using hazard analyses as well as previously employed transition matrices for the analysis of diffusion, a modified Freedom House data set is analyzed to delineate systemic, regional, and neighbor effects from 1974 to 1996. The dynamics of democratization are broken down by contrasting the differences and similarities of governmental transitions between the countries that were free (and moved to partially free and nonfree), the countries that were nonfree (and moved to partially free and free), and those countries that were partially free (and moved away from that status).

В статье рассматриваются причины возникновения восточно-тиморской проблемы и выделяются факторы, определяющие позицию правительства Австралии по этому вопросу. Показано отношение правительства Индонезии к решению этого конфликта. ; In the article the author considers the reasons of East Timor problem, the factors which conditioned the Australian government attitude to the issue as well as the attitude of Indonesian government to this conflict resolution.