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In the context of continued disenfranchisement of black peoples in GB, the West Midlands Anti-Deportation Campaign (WMADC) was organized in 1988. Its origins, objectives, & activities are described along with two case studies. The WMADC has had to contend with a changing legal & administrative framework & the growth of European Union-wide institutions. Key features in the success of the WMADC are the strategic use of the media, trade union alliances, & individual empowerment through the use of a sustained political campaign raising public awareness. WMADC's success shows how sustained community commitment & energy can fight racist laws. M. Pflum

Hobbes has been long accused of providing a political philosophy that threatens individual liberty. While some commentators have tried to rescue him from this criticism, little attention has been paid to the specifics of his statements on such topics as freedom of speech, censorship, & property rights. In this paper, I examine what Hobbes says on these issues & conclude that his overwhelming priority is to defend liberty once peace has been secured. I conclude by suggesting that Hobbes's political project has some similarities with current liberal proceduralist theories of justice. 23 References. Adapted from the source document.

The organizational training method designed by Cladomir Santos de Morais, which has been successfully applied in Honduras, Costa Rica, Portugal, Botswana, South Africa, & other countries may be useful for undercutting the clientelism so prevalent in many Latin American countries. Clientelism interferes with the ability of certain nations to function as postindustrial states, because these states require greater citizen empowerment & participation. Morais's method however, emphasizes autonomy & therefore results in individual & group empowerment, making it an effective strategy for breaking clientelism's power. Issues of action vs rhetoric, & the process of mass organized training in autonomy are explored. 16 References. D. Weibel

In order to analyze the character of the New Labour project in GB, the article looks at conceptual ideas (the roles of communities, state, individual; the concept of the welfare state), pragmatic responses to voters' concerns & the specific economic & labor market conditions in post-Thatcherite GB. It argues that Tony Blair's New Labour is a path dependent British project as well as an attempt to address some major challenges of our times of change. While breaking with core ideas of post-war social democracy, it remains linked to the social democratic tradition. 56 References. Adapted from the source document.

The expressive theory of voting needs more specification of the motives for expression if it is not merely to be a theory of noninstrumental voting. Brennan & Hamlin provide such a specification. Unfortunately, using individual US data from the General Social Surveys we find their predictions are contradicted. Nor if other evidence in the literature purported to be evidence of expressive voting actually implied by it. We believe that this is because the reason people express themselves in voting is to signal others. 2 Tables, 16 References. Adapted from the source document.

Laura OSO CASAS — Strategies of social mobility and domestic immigrants in Spain.
This article studies the relationships between migration and social mobility of immigrant domestic workers in Spain, on the basis of interviews with women from Latin America and Philippines. The comparative analysis brings to view differentiated migratory and social mobility strategies, according to individual or family cases. The strategies for entering the job market, the residential, educational and matrimonial sequences are hereby examined. The article then evaluates the effects of such strategies on real social itineraries, on the role and the socioeconomic status of immigrant women.

Humans show a wide array of sexual preferences and behaviors. Although most humans prefer and have sex with consenting adults of the opposite sex, some individuals have unconventional preferences with regard to the sex or age of sexual partners, or with regard to the nature of sexual activities. In this paper, we describe a rare case of preferential bestiality, or zoophilia. The client meets the most stringent criteria for the diagnosis of zoophilia. In particular, his phallometrically measured arousal pattern shows a sexual preference for horses over other species, including humans.

Attempts to address the gap in literature on the experiences of HIV/AIDS care workers in Africa through studies of professional care givers in Lome, Togo. Uses a pilot study of 30 care givers and examines the roles, services and coping mechanisms of these individuals. Presents the demographics characteristics of the care givers and the type of services provided. Discusses how they cope with stress and their feeling regarding the prevention of HIV. Concludes they face enormous demands which may affect their own health and families. Suggests that a support network would be helpful.

Describes a study that exploits the potential of fuzzy systems in construction through the development of a decision support system which is capable of handling fuzziness in the collaborative decision‐making process. The proposed system is intended to provide an objective and rational framework within which collaborative decisions can be made by virtual construction project teams. Given the often linguistic nature of the weightings ascribed by individual disciplines to decision criteria, the proposed system will utilise fuzzy systems theory to rank criteria and recommend an optimal decision alternative. Presents an example to illustrate how the proposed tool works.

Develops a summary construct, relationship strength, composed of interfirm trust, relationship commitment, and relationalism and supports the role of relationship strength in achieving positive relational outcomes, like relationship satisfaction and performance. The survey sample comes from a national population of hospital material managers who make decisions regarding purchases from a small group of large medical/surgical supply firms. Structural models support improved fit provided by relationship strength over a model containing the individual constructs comprising relationship strength. Managerial and academic implications of relationship strength include improved strategic planning and actionable information on improving relational outcomes.

This article describes how the effectiveness of risk communication is determined by the interaction between emotional and informative elements. An experiment is described that examined the role of negative emotion in communication about CO2 risks. This experiment was based on the elaboration likelihood model and the related heuristic systematic model of attitude formation. The results indicated that inducing fear of CO2 risks leads to systematic processing of information about energy conservation as a risk‐reducing strategy. In turn, this results in more favorable attitudes toward energy conservation if strong arguments are provided. Individual differences in concern seem to have similar effects.

The current study evaluated differences between remarried and first‐married individuals in communication and standards for autonomy and decision‐making power using self‐report data from 111 remarried and 111 matched first‐married spouses. Remarried spouses endorsed more autonomous standards in childrearing and finances. Also, remarried women endorsed greater autonomy regarding friendships and family. These standards for greater autonomy were not related to marital distress. No differences were found in standards for marital decision‐making power. Remarried spouses did not report more avoidance in communication about marital problems, and avoidance of problem discussion was related to marital distress for both groups.

Based upon process evaluations of two HIV/AID epidemiologic studies and one program evaluation, the authors focus on the subtle and culturally latent ways that respondents differentially make themselves available as research subjects. Our primary thesis is that injection drug users respond to opportunities to be interviewed and paid as a group as well as individuals. In which case, they influence as a group who is recruited for interviews. In this retrospective review, we show the ways that some IDUs respond differentially to research methods based on ways that they are organized in the larger community.

▪ Abstract  This article reviews scholarship at the intersection of anthropology, criminal justice, and AIDS. Street ethnography is presented in a political and historical context, focusing on the distinctive ways that anthropologists have contributed to discussions of illegal drug and sex markets in poor urban neighborhoods. The review also considers subjects that may be explored by anthropologists in the future, including imprisonment as an institutional HIV risk factor that intensifies individual behavioral risk and the criminalization of intentional HIV transmission. This research area raises critical questions about how culture and law shape viral risk.