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In reflecting on changes in policy analysis, the author notes the climate of suspicion for policy advising and some of the major errors or "sins" in the way policy analysis choose, define, and analyze problems. All too often policy analysts and their sponsors, the users of analysis, react to typical issues, have an investment in change, and ignore the imperatives of the policy process.

In reflecting on changes in policy analysis, the author notes the climate of suspicion for policy advising and some of the major errors or "sins " in the way policy analysts choose, define, and analyze problems. All too often policy analysts and their sponsors, the users of analysis, react to typical issues, have an investment in change, and ignore the imperatives of the policy process.

Utilizing Jean Baker Miller's ideas that the need to serve and the need to affiliate are the two most significant aspects of the psychic structure of women, the author argues that Miller's formulation can help the practitioner to reframe women's psychiatric symptoms and thus to understand the difficulty women have in moving from other-directed to self-enhancing activities.

A comprehensive reading program for planned activities fosters positive attitudes and motivation toward leisure reading among schoolchildren, including those who are blind or visually impaired. This article presents the author's experiences with two library-based readathons implemented at the Tennessee School for the Blind: an MS readathon and an in-house readathon especially developed by the author for her visually impaired students.

The thesis is advanced by the author that traditional Chinese values are not impediments to modernization. The unexpected vitality of some of those values, such as familism, displayed in the industrial growth of Hongkong. Popular attitudes towards technological change. An abundant supply of entrepreneurs in Hongkong. The role of paternalistic management. Preferential recruitment of kinsmen in Hongkong factories. (DÜI-Sen)

The grain procurement situation in the post-1979 period is examined. The impact of grain surplus on a system that has been obsessed by grain shortage. The author scrutinizes the economic question of how the state can ensure a stable and sufficient supply of grain while moving the economy towards greater diversification and commodity production. (DÜI-Sen)

The study is concerned with the present extent of tropical forests and deforestation, causes of degradation and deforestation (logging, fuelwood, grazing, fire, agricultural expansion and the environmental, eonomic and social impacts of forest degradation and deforestation. According to the author, little has been achieved to reduce or even stop the rate of deforestation up to now. (DÜI-Sen)

On 14 January 1986, Vinicio Cerezo of the Partido Democrata Cristiano Guatemalteco took office as Guatemala's first civilian president for 16 years. The paper focuses on the major internal dimensions which have dictated the rationale for Guatemala's political process: the return to civilian rule as an integral part of the army's security plan, and the celebration of elections as an urgent palliative to the country's worst economic crisis for fifty years

THIS PAPER EXPLORES REAGAN'S EARLY EFFECTIVENESS AND OFFERS SOME GENERALIZATION FOR SUBSEQUENT ADMINISTRATIONS. THE AUTHOR ARGUES THAT THE REAGAN TRANSITION WAS THE MOST CAREFULLY PLANNED IN US HISTORY, THE TRANSITION PROCESS WAS A CRUCIAL PRECURSOR OF REAGAN LEGISLATIVE SUCCESS, REAGAN EXTENDED THE TRADITIONAL HONEYMOON PERIOD FURTHER THAN ANY PRESIDENT SINCE ROOSEVELT, AND REAGAN USED HIS CABINET IN A VERY IMAGINATIVE WAY.

The article suggests that the main reason for the political demise of Jean-Claude Duvalier was a shift in the basis of his support from one class to another. The author gives a critical assessment of the regime of Francois Duvalier (1957-71), and he considers the crucial role played by the Roman catholic church in the fall of Jean-Claudisme 1985