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When the Community Party came to power in 1949 there were two main groups in the Chinese agricultural system. The landlords and rich peasants, who formed about 10 per cent of the population owned or controlled about 70 per cent of the land. The great masses of Chinese peasants cultivated the remainder or served as tenants under circumstances which promoted a high level of poverty and often a hopeless level of indebtedness.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Notes on Translation and Transcription -- Introduction -- Introduction to the 1931 Edition by its Editors -- Chapter I: Berber Society in the Maghreb and the Formation of the Sherifian Empire -- Chapter II: The Social Structure of States and their Alliances in War and Peace -- Chapter III: Political and Economic Organisation -- Chapter IV: The Origins and Development of Power Among Temporal Leaders -- Chapter V: The Transformation of Berber Society -- Conclusion -- Glossary of Arabic and Berber terms -- Bibliography.

The low turnout at the 2001 general election heightened concerns about the state of representative democracy and political participation in the UK. Increasingly, the Internet and other Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been seen as offering a possible means of reinvigorating political organisations and institutions in the UK. Enthusiasts have suggested that such technologies can help re-engaging citizens into the political process and allow organisations, such as parties, to mobilise the public more easily. Using website content analysis and interviews, this paper investigates some these claims by examining the online participatory activities of a range of political organisations including: parties, trade unions, pressure groups and protest networks. On the basis of our evidence, we argue that the web is more an informational than participatory tool and that so far many political organisations have been slow to exploit its interactive possibilities. However, whilst it easy to be critical of their activities, there remains significant technological and political barriers which hinder the use of ICTs for political mobilisation.