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This book offers an original anthropological approach to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa, demonstrating why AIDS interventions in the former homeland of Venda have failed - and possibly even been counterproductive. It does so through a series of ethnographic encounters, from kings to condoms, which expose the ways in which biomedical understanding of the virus have been rejected by - and incorporated into - local understandings of health, illness, sex and death. Through the songs of female initiation, AIDS education and wandering minstrels, the book argues that music is central to understanding how AIDS interventions operate. This book elucidates a hidden world of meaning in which people sing about what they cannot talk about, where educators are blamed for spreading the virus, and in which condoms are often thought to cause AIDS. The policy implications are clear: African worldviews must be taken seriously if AIDS interventions in Africa are to become successful

Abstract
Recent scholarship has shown that the Eumenides of Aeschylus, far from presenting a complete and coherent picture of the well-ordered polis, in fact offers something quite different, namely, a complex set of questions, concerns and conundrums regarding the very nature of political society. But I suggest that the literature has not yet provided a fully satisfying account of the ways in which those questions are underwritten by the specifically literary practice of Aeschylus as it develops the play's larger theoretical – especially moral – implications. I argue that the Eumenides can fruitfully be read as a sustained exercise in the subversion of expectations that unsettles its audience and thereby opens up a discursive and aesthetic space for the development of a distinctive political problematic; and further, that this problematic involves a challenging series of meditations on what today would be called political ethics, broadly conceived.

The production, consumption, and regulation of tobacco is presently the subject of much discussion and debate. While the issues surrounding tobacco have been debated for decades, much of the current attention on tobacco is due to the many proposals to regulate tobacco, the state and class action lawsuits pending against the tobacco industry, and the damaging tobacco company documents that have recently been made public. Most tobacco control proposals are intent on expanding the presence of government in the tobacco industry through increased regulation and taxation. A majority of the controversy over tobacco regulation focuses on the role of government in a capitalistic market. How much regulation is allowed by law, or required by morality; How much regulation is too much? Or when it comes to a product proven to cause death, such as tobacco, is it ethical to allow it on the market virtually unregulated, as it has been for decades? Where do we draw the line between fostering capitalism and promoting public health when the interests conflict with one another? After tracing the history of governmental regulation of tobacco and the concurrent antitobacco movement, this thesis will emphasize the most significant aspects of the current proposals to increase the governmental regulation of tobacco products. As history and the facts present themselves, it becomes clear that the opposing sides in this controversy do not possess equally compelling arguments. However, the debate is not simply two-sided; there are many issues at hand, each of which intertwine with one's own subjective reality.

The production, consumption, and regulation of tobacco is presently the subject of much discussion and debate. While the issues surrounding tobacco have been debated for decades, much of the current attention on tobacco is due to the many proposals to regulate tobacco, the state and class action lawsuits pending against the tobacco industry, and the damaging tobacco company documents that have recently been made public. Most tobacco control proposals are intent on expanding the presence of government in the tobacco industry through increased regulation and taxation. A majority of the controversy over tobacco regulation focuses on the role of government in a capitalistic market. How much regulation is allowed by law, or required by morality; How much regulation is too much? Or when it comes to a product proven to cause death, such as tobacco, is it ethical to allow it on the market virtually unregulated, as it has been for decades? Where do we draw the line between fostering capitalism and promoting public health when the interests conflict with one another? After tracing the history of governmental regulation of tobacco and the concurrent antitobacco movement, this thesis will emphasize the most significant aspects of the current proposals to increase the governmental regulation of tobacco products. As history and the facts present themselves, it becomes clear that the opposing sides in this controversy do not possess equally compelling arguments. However, the debate is not simply two-sided; there are many issues at hand, each of which intertwine with one's own subjective reality.

The production, consumption, and regulation of tobacco is presently the subject of much discussion and debate. While the issues surrounding tobacco have been debated for decades, much of the current attention on tobacco is due to the many proposals to regulate tobacco, the state and class action lawsuits pending against the tobacco industry, and the damaging tobacco company documents that have recently been made public. Most tobacco control proposals are intent on expanding the presence of government in the tobacco industry through increased regulation and taxation. A majority of the controversy over tobacco regulation focuses on the role of government in a capitalistic market. How much regulation is allowed by law, or required by morality; How much regulation is too much? Or when it comes to a product proven to cause death, such as tobacco, is it ethical to allow it on the market virtually unregulated, as it has been for decades? Where do we draw the line between fostering capitalism and promoting public health when the interests conflict with one another? After tracing the history of governmental regulation of tobacco and the concurrent antitobacco movement, this thesis will emphasize the most significant aspects of the current proposals to increase the governmental regulation of tobacco products. As history and the facts present themselves, it becomes clear that the opposing sides in this controversy do not possess equally compelling arguments. However, the debate is not simply two-sided; there are many issues at hand, each of which intertwine with one's own subjective reality.

Why do policymakers select certain problems for attention and ignore others? Why do some policy ideas fail and other succeed? In addition to the President, Congress and Supreme Court what other institutions are influential in shaping public policies? How do policymakers design and implement policies? How do those policies ultimately influence the nation? Providing answers to these and other questions are the focus of this book. The practice of politics and policymaking is complicated, involving thousands of people in government institutions and the private sector. Although each public law and public policy has a unique history, Politics and Public Policy is designed to help students understand the larger patterns of the policy making process

WHEN MANY COUNTRIES IN WESTERN EUROPE ARE EXPERIENCING A flux or even a teeming confusion in their party systems, West Germany stands out as a case of almost aberrant cohesion. The ageold yearning for 'the German synthesis' finds its apparent modern fulfilment in the party system. The uncomfortable extremes of left and right have for long hovered around virtual electoral extinction, and the rise of new movements – such as forms of neo-Poujadism in Scandinavia or the rediscovery of the territorial dimension of politics as in Britain – has left the Federal Republic untouched. The two major contenders for power, the SPD and the CDU, dominate the electoral scene, and in so doing seem to be locked in an embrace from which neither is able to escape.

AbstractWho are the supporters of former rebel parties? Drawing on the classical party literature, we argue that the support base of former rebel parties consists predominantly of activists. These supporters are dissatisfied with intra-party politics because the benefits and costs of a rebel-to-party transformation are unequally distributed between them and the leadership. We test our arguments by examining the case of the novel FARC party (Comunes) in Colombia. Based on a unique sample of FARC supporters, we obtained unprecedented insight into the internal affairs of the FARC. Our survey design allowed us to generate an over-time comparison between FARC and other party supporters in the Colombian political system. The empirical analysis shows that in comparison, FARC supporters tend to be more politically active as well as more dissatisfied with internal politics. Furthermore, dissatisfaction with democracy and the peace agreement increased after their first electoral cycle.

This paper explains the relationship between economy and identity among the Oraons in Barind region of Northwest Bangladesh. Focusing on original in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Barind, the paper concerns Oraons' identity that how it is structured by their present economic condition as well as by the processes that have promoted internal Oraon diversity. Despite this concern, the paper depicts the processes of Oraons' identity formation as minority group or adibashis or indigenous people. The Oraons, by claiming their identity rights as adibashis, strategically unite with other adibashi group from both Bangladesh and abroad, politically respond to global indigeneity. Theoretically, the paper thus contributes to the literature on ethnic studies explaining the relationship between economy and identity in the case of the Oraons.
Social Science Review, Vol. 39(2), June 2022 [Special Issue] Page 39-57

The paper analyzes the nature of the political leader's image; interaction of the political leader with different faces, sides and aspects of political life is considered; distinctness of its manifestations is identified. Analysis of the political leader's image formation, comparison of models and comparative analysis of political leaders' characters are made with reference of Russia.

This paper is composed of a series of reflections on some aspects of the relation between politics and opera. It focuses on Verdi and Wagner. This year marks the bicentenary of both composers and Mitchell Cohen, a professor of political science at the City University of New York compares the political ideas in operas (and in other writings) by both composers. Both men are identified with nationalism, but their nationalisms were radically different. ; Cet article est composé d'une série de réflexions concernant quelques aspects de la relation entre la politique et l'opéra. Il se focalise sur les compositeurs Verdi et Wagner dont on fête le bicentenaire cette année. Mitchell Cohen en tant que professeur de science politique à la CUNY, compare les idées politiques des opéras et d'autres écrits de deux compositeurs. Malgré le fait que les deux s'identifient au nationalisme, leur pensée représente des formes de nationalisme radicalement différentes.

This paper is composed of a series of reflections on some aspects of the relation between politics and opera. It focuses on Verdi and Wagner. This year marks the bicentenary of both composers and Mitchell Cohen, a professor of political science at the City University of New York compares the political ideas in operas (and in other writings) by both composers. Both men are identified with nationalism, but their nationalisms were radically different. ; Cet article est composé d'une série de réflexions concernant quelques aspects de la relation entre la politique et l'opéra. Il se focalise sur les compositeurs Verdi et Wagner dont on fête le bicentenaire cette année. Mitchell Cohen en tant que professeur de science politique à la CUNY, compare les idées politiques des opéras et d'autres écrits de deux compositeurs. Malgré le fait que les deux s'identifient au nationalisme, leur pensée représente des formes de nationalisme radicalement différentes.