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This article analyses coalition survival in eleven post-Communist, Central and Eastern European democracies. Survival analysis demonstrates that Communist Successor Parties (CSPs) are central to understanding government dissolution processes in post-communism. Coalitions spanning the 'regime divide' between CSPs and parties not affiliated with the ancien regime last longer than governments that do not. Regime divide governments also are more likely to fall during periods of positive economic performance, while other governments fall during periods of negative economic performance. The reason lies in parties' incentives to prolong their regime divide coalition with the CSP, especially in the face of adverse conditions. Adapted from the source document.

How a certain economic reality is made, strengthened, and spread? This article examines the problem through the situation of the French General Planning Commissariat in the late 1960's, which at that time hold a key place in the politico-administrative space. However, given the force accorded to the market and the external constraint, this institution is more and more questioned. In this context, a new macroeconomic model called "FIFI", developed by a group of economists at the INSEE (Institut national de la statistique et des etudes economiques), introduces some displacements regarding the making of economic policies and their leanings. The model has been designed to provide a picture of the French economy in 1975 if no decisions were taken, in order to identify future the problems which could arise from the trends and to determine the solutions which could be recommended. As it is an instrument that attributes causality (between various entities such as wages, unemployment or the external constraint), the FIFI model tends to displace the type of imputations on which the participants of the Plan rely on, especially trade unions. Hence, these economic metrologies not only produce a reality, made of numbers and relatively independent; they also destabilize the political forms that are explicitly based on values. Adapted from the source document.

This article questions the use of immigration as a tool to counter global poverty. It argues that poor people have a human right to stay in their home state, which entitles them to receive development assistance without the necessity of migrating abroad. The article thus rejects a popular view in the philosophical literature on immigration which holds that rich states are free to choose between assisting poor people in their home states and admitting them as immigrants when fulfilling duties to assist the global poor. Since the human right to stay is entailed by values that feature prominently in the philosophical debate on immigration, the article further contends that participants in that debate have particular reason to reject the popular 'choice view' and endorse the alternative position presented in the article.

In September 2011, the United Nations General Assembly will take on the challenges of heart disease and cancer. These non-communicable diseases (NCDs), as they are known, now account for two-thirds of all deaths and half of global disability. Interest in NCDs and their effect on societies has now reached unprecedented levels. The World Economic Forum now places NCDs high on the risks of global financial risks. Adapted from the source document.

First, I would like to offer my thanks to Lance Compa, Richard McIntyre, and Gay Seidman for their thoughtful responses to my essay. One could not find three more accomplished scholars with whom to engage in this discussion. Each in their own way has sharpened our thinking about the relationship of labor rights to human rights—Compa through a lifetime of inspiring organizing and writing, Seidman through her eloquent defense of human rights-based labor activism, Beyond the Boycott: Labor Rights, Human Rights and Transnational Activism, and McIntyre through his sharp interrogation of this activism in Are Worker Rights Human Rights? Not only do they bring well-honed critiques to bear in discussing my argument, they are generous and fair-minded. I'm grateful to them for prodding me to clarify my thinking.