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Effect of the International Monetary Fund's conditions for its loans on developing countries. Contents: Political factors affecting the impact of conditionality on stability; The effects of the IMF package; Nationalism, ideology, and the question of IMF neutrality; Alternatives to the IMF.

About the Author; Introduction; 1 Economics between History and Anthropology; The trap of autonomous disciplines; Changing the optic; From reductionism to complexity; 2 A Failed Scientific Ambition; The triumph of mechanics; Thermodynamics and the irreversibility of time; The impotence of economic 'reason'; 3 Homo Oeconomicus: A Dangerous Phantom; The unlocatable individual; How to construct society?; The tautologies of methodological individualism; 4 Exchange; The right words for it; Prescription or proscription; Giving, receiving and giving back; Market exchange or inverted logic.

We study the dynamic support for fiscal decentralization in a political agency model from the perspective of a region. We show that corruption opportunities are lower under centralization at each period of time. However, centralization makes more difficult for citizens to detect corrupt incumbents. Thus, corruption is easier under centralization for low levels of political competition. We show that the relative advantage of centralization depends negatively on the quality of the local political class, but it is greater if the center and the region are subject to similar government productivity shocks. When we endogenize the quality of local politicians, we establish a positive link between the development of the private sector and the support for decentralization. Since political support to centralization evolves over time, driven either by economic/political development or by exogenous changes in preferences over public good consumption, it is possible that voters are (rationally) discontent about it. Also, preferences of voters and the politicians about centralization can diverge when political competition is weak.

Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History by Michel-Rolph Trouillot. Silencing the Past: Power and the Production of History, a book by Michel-Rolph Trouillot, is reviewed.

Thoughts on photography and the practice of history / Elizabeth Edwards -- Seeing the 'savage' and the suspension of time : photography, war and concentration camps in southwest Africa, 1904-1908 / Claudia Siebrecht -- The "face of war" in Weimar visual culture / Annelie Ramsbrock -- Documenting Heimkehr : photography, displacement and "homecoming" in the Nazi resettlement of ethnic Germans, 1939-1940 / Elizabeth Harvey -- Visible trophies of war : German occupiers' photographic perceptions of France, 1940-44 / Julia Torrie -- Gazing at ruins : German defeat as visual experience / Stefan-Ludwig Hoffmann -- Edmund Kesting's polyphonic portraits & the abstract face of the socialist self in East Germany / Sarah E. James -- Seeing subjectivity : erotic photograph and the optics of desire / Jennifer Evans -- Photographing reurbanization in West Berlin, 1977-84 / Anna Ross -- The diversification of East Germany's visual culture / Candice M. Hamelin -- The intimacy of revolution : 1989 in pictures / Paul Betts

A long‐awaited General Election was held in Mauritius on 20 December 1976. The two major parties which contested the election were the governing Labour Party (in office since 1953) and the Mouvement Militant Mauricien (MMM). Since they first became constitutionally overdue in 1972, the Labour Party has had to postpone elections repeatedly. Village and municipal elections were cancelled to prevent embarrassing landslides to the MMM, a party founded in 1969, two years after the last General Election. Since 1970 when the MMM challenged the Labour Party in a 'safe' seat and won with a 68% majority, by‐elections also have been cancelled.
Despite allying with an opposition right‐wing party, the Parti Mauricien Social Democrate (PMSD), and enforcing a 'State of Emergency' since 1971, the Labour Party had, by the end of 1976, exhausted its constitutional manoeuvres. It neither had a sufficient internal consensus nor the authority to govern extra‐constitutionally — so the election was held. One month before the election it was anticipated that the right‐wing parties would use violence to provoke an extra‐constitutional intervention. Much credit must be given to workers who mobilised against violence in order to allow the legal challenge to take place.
In the event MMM won 34 seats in the 70‐seat House, just two short of an absolute majority. The Labour Party and its allies (28 seats) and the PMSD (8 seats), after a week of post‐electoral crisis in the power bloc, combined in a coalition to force out the MMM. The knife‐edge election and the insecure coalition government have raised once again the possibilities and limitations of 'the parliamentary road'.
The final emergence of Mauritius as an African country was formally heralded by Prime Minister Ramgoolam heading the OAU. But more substantively Mauritius is linked intimately to the political economy of Southern Africa, particularly through South Africa's heavy involvement in the Mauritian tourist industry. In this Briefing two local correspondents examine the relationship between political power and class forces in Mauritius.

A History of LGBTIQ+ Victoria in 100 Places and Objects was commissioned by Heritage Victoria to highlight the rich, diverse and unique history of queer communities in Victoria and to demonstrate how these communities are reflected in the places, objects and landscapes that surround us. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex, queer, asexual, sistergirl and brotherboy (LGBTIQ+) people are, and always have been, an integral part of Victorian social, political and cultural life. However, the experiences and voices of queer communities have not commonly been included in the historical record and, consequently, queer heritage has remained largely invisible.

Einstellung Kölner Schüler zu Staat, Gesellschaft, Schule und
Familie.

Themen: Erziehungspraxis und Autoritätsstruktur in Schule sowie
Familie; Lehrplan und Lehrmethoden der Schule; politische Erziehung in
der Schule; politisches Interesse sowie politisches Verhalten in Familie
und Schule; empfundene Gerechtigkeit in der Schule;
Lehrer-Schüler-Verhältnis; Vorstellungen von einer idealen Gesellschaft;
Eigenschaften eines guten Staatsbürgers; Einstellung zur Wehrpflicht;
Nationalstolz; Parteipräferenz; vermutete Parteipräferenz beider
Elternteile; Wahlbeteiligung der Eltern.

Skalen: Dogmatismus-Skala von Rokeach, Anomieskala von McClosky und
Schaar, politische Apathien, politischer Zynismus und politische
Wirksamkeit.

Demographie: Alter (klassiert); Geschlecht; Konfession; Religiosität;
Schulbildung; Haushaltseinkommen; Selbsteinschätzung der
Schichtzugehörigkeit.

Interviewerrating: Interviewdatum; Interviewdauer; Anwesenheit des
Lehrers während der Befragung.

Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: Intervieweridentifikation.

As an undergraduate, associate professor Megan Stewart took a class on Middle East politics and became interested in how a political movement, like the Muslim Brotherhood, was providing social services. She pursued that inquiry by going to Egypt herself to do interviews. That was the first field work of what has become her academic expertise—the intersection of […]
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A justification is offered for approaching classic works of political theory as relevant to problems that concern us. Perennial problems are shown to exist in three increasingly controversial senses. First, past authors addressed a problem which we can ponder. Second, past authors addressed a problem which authors who wrote on these authors also addressed and which we can ponder. Third, numerous authors expressed beliefs relevant to a problem which we can ponder. The errors identified by opponents of perennial problems arise from empirical misjudgements concerning the ways that different authors addressed such problems, not from the assumption that such problems exist.

Each pamphlet has individual title page with imprint. ; Half-title: Hone's political pamphlets. ; (from t.p.) 1. The house that Jack built. -- 2. Queen's matrimonial ladder. -- 3. The miraculous Host. -- 4. Form of prayer. -- 5. Non mi ricordo. -- 6. Political showman. -- 7. Man in the moon. -- 8. Rights divine for kings, &c. -- 9. Slap at Slop. ; Mode of access: Internet. ; OSU's copy 1 from the collections of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, Bill Blackbeard, Director.