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Is there a causal link for the acceptance of the informality between political class and social behavior? This paper intends to tackle this question exploring the retardment of the integration process and social actors' behavior in Albania. In this regard, it is very important to understand the high level of informality in Albanian economy, social behavior and the nature of acceptance by political class. Despite the high level of informality, the will of Albanians to join EU remain high. According to the latest opinion polls, 86. 5% of the Albanians would vote in favor of the EU integration, the largest percentage in the EU integration aspiring countries. Political class, majority and opposition both, accuses each other for the retardment of the integration process, to get the highest support of voters, without bringing concrete solution for the informality and changing the situation. Informality in Albania continues to be a big concern for International Institutions which have been supporting and assisting the state institutions towards the formalization of economy. According to CIA World Factbook, the informality in Albania may be as large as 50% of official GDP during last five years. Regardless of the high level of the informality, government representatives and economy analysts argue that Albania is a country that is not affected directly by the crisis. One of the main factors which help the development of the informality in Albania is the widespread corruption, low level of enforcement, bureaucracies in the administration, politicized administration, habitual change of legislation and electoral promises to change the tax system, citizen's interest for evasion and their adaptability. Another good example to argue our claim regarding the social behavior and links with politics is connected with the non-payment of the electricity not only by citizens, but also by state institutions. In contrast of formal social interaction of different social actors, informality should be read as social disorganization and one of the main obstacles that causes the retardment of the integration process. Keywords: informality, integration, politics, interaction, social behavior. 1.

Despite the rapid growth of a blogosphere literature interested in blogging practices across democratic countries and authoritarian regimes, little is known about Cuban blogs. This study aims to bridge this gap by specifically looking at 66 blogs from four ideologically diverging Cuban blog platforms. By applying a combination of social network analysis and content analysis techniques, the study investigates structure and content of the Cuban blogosphere. Findings show that blog interactions have developed differently depending on the blogs' ideological orientation although cross-ideologictsal interactions have sometimes emerged. The Cuban blogosphere has extended beyond national borders primarily via diaspora blogs, centering its discourse network on domestic political issues divergent from those available on state- or US-controlled mainstream media.

Introduction to radical politics and governance in India's North East -- Marxism and the national/ethnic question : theory and practice in India -- Ethnic diversity and ethnic radicalism in India's North East -- Institutionalization of ethnic radicalism in India's North East : power-sharing, participation and governance -- Roots of radical politics in Tripura, princely state : demographic, social and economic transformations -- The ethnic radicalism in Tripura : Reang rebellion 1943-45 and the birth of an ethnic identity -- Origins of the communist movement in Tripura : Jana Mongal Samity, Jana Shiksha Samity and Paraja Mondal -- Dialectics of radical ethnic nationalism and left radicalism in Tripura, 1948-51 : communist influence over the tribal mass mobilization -- Radical ethno-nationalism in Tripura, 1948-50 -- Left radicalism turned parliamentary and institutionalized in Tripura : appropriation of tribal ethno-nationalism -- The rise and decline of the TUJS in Tripura : radical ethnic challenge to the left -- Marxists in power in Tripura : sub-state level institutionalization of tribal identity -- Marxists in power in Tripura : dilemmas of governance in Tripura since the 1990s -- Conclusion.

Not It, or the Abject Objection / Maggie Hennefeld and Nic Sammond. -- The Politics of Abjection / Sylvère Lotringer. -- Part I: Abject Performances: Subjectivity, Identity, Individuality -- Popular Abjection and Gendered Embodiment in South Korean Girl Comedy / Michelle Cho -- Precarious-Girl Comedy: Issa Rae, Lena Dunham, and Abject Aesthetics / Rebecca Wanzo. -- Abject Feminism, Grotesque Comedy, and Apocalyptic Laughter / Maggie Hennefeld. -- Part II: Abject Bodies: Humans, Animals, Objects. -- The Animal and the Animalistic in China?s Late China?s Late 1950s Socialist Satirical Comedy / Yiman Wang -- Anticolonial Folly and the Reversals of Repatriation / Rijuta Mehta -- Between Technology and Toy: The Talking Doll as Abject Artifact / Meredith Bak -- Absolute Dismemberment: The Burlesque Natural History of Georges Bataille / James Leo Cahill -- Why, An Abject Art / Marc Mulroney -- Abject Aesthetics: Structure, Form, System -- A Matter of Fluids: EC Comics and Vernacular Abjection / Nic Sammond -- Spit * Light * Spunk: Larry Clark, an Aesthetic of Frankness / Eubgenie Brinkema -- Abjection Serialized: Fabulation and Abjection in Shojo Manga / Thomas Lamarre -- Between the Abject and the Absurd: The Comic Sources of Louie / Rob King.

The 2006 Democratic primary in New York's 11th Congressional District saw opposition from the blogosphere to David Yassky, a White legislator running for election in a district created under the Voting Rights Act of 1965. Drawing on Mikhail Bakhtin's account of carnival, this study uses a qualitative approach to examine how the racial discourse was constructed on two political blogs within a carnivalesque framework. At the same time, this study notes the uniqueness of the discourse between the White bloggers as well as between the Trinidad-born bloggers and their White counterparts. While the bloggers injected themselves into the spectacle of the campaign hoping to impact the election, there were inherent limitations in this new medium.

This major new text brings together new chapters by leading authorities on European politics - East and West - to provide a systematic assessment of developments in political institutions and processes, politics and society, and policy set in the context of globalization, EU enlargement and Europe's changing role on the world stage.