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Using campaign contributions to legislators as an indicator of member influence, we explore the impact of term limits on the distribution of power within state legislatures. Specifically, we perform a cross‐state comparison of the relative influence of party caucus leaders, committee chairs, and rank‐and‐file legislators before and after term limits. The results indicate that term limits diffuse power in state legislatures, both by decreasing average contributions to incumbents and by reducing the power of party caucus leaders relative to other members. The change in contribution levels across legislators in different chambers implies a shift in power to the upper chamber in states with term limits. Thus, the impact of term limits may be attenuated in a bicameral system.

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The article is dedicated to the study of women's role in the process of promoting human rights among members of indigenous communities. The author describes the project "Voces Diferentes y Voces Discordantes" [Different and Discordant Voices]. A number of indigenous women were taught about human rights problems, then they used the knowledge and skills to promote human rights through a number of workshops for the indigenous populations.
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A number of scholars during the 1980s and early 1990s questioned the relevance of psychology in South Africa. In this paper we characterise the nature of what became known as the 'relevance debate', and then investigate whether South African psychology has become more relevant during the nation's first ten years of democracy. Themes which are identified with respect to this issue include the apparent increasing representation of marginalised groups within South African psychology, the conscious responsiveness of psychologists to post-apartheid policy imperatives and issues, their alignment with international theoretical trends, and finally, an increasing recognition of the political nature of South African psychology. The authors conclude that a more productive approach within future debates regarding relevance in psychology would be to examine the nature of knowledge production within the discipline.

This Law establishes the general guidelines for the promotion of the development of the biofuel market with the goal of diversifying the fuel market, promoting the agricultural and agroindustrial development, creating jobs and reducing the pollution of the environment.

Relationships between modernization & national identity in Mexico are explored, arguing that the social & political readjustments occurring since 1994 have reshaped identity. National identity, manipulated by the government, has been replaced by autonomous cultural processes. The prevailing national identity is opposed to the developing mechanisms of cultural resistance that are themselves tied to emerging democratic structures. 1 Figure. Adapted from the source document.