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Cover -- Convicts in the Indian Ocean -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Abbreviations -- Glossary -- 1 Introduction: Convict Labour and Colonial Expansion -- 2 'The Most Desperate Characters in all India'? The Origins of Transportation in the South Asian Context -- 3 Punishment, Labour and Reform: the Organisation of the Convict Workforce -- 4 Violent and 'Everyday' Forms of Resistance: Convict Responses to Transportation -- 5 The Socio-economic Integration of Convicts -- 6 The End of Transportation and the Liberation of the Convicts -- Appendices -- Appendix A CONVICT SHIPS EMBARKED FOR MAURITIUS -- Appendix B SOCIO-ECONOMIC ORIGINS OF THE CONVICTS -- Appendix C CONVICTS IN MAURITIUS: DEMOGRAPHIC DATA -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

This article makes some comparisons between the Australian corporate rescue provisions and those proposed to be adopted in South Africa in the Companies Bill 2007. By so doing it may assist in the debate in South Africa over how the legislation is framed as the experience in Australia may be useful as an indicator of issues to be considered. One of the findings of the comparison is that the aims of the Australian legislation and that proposed in South Africa are almost identical. The article identifies a clear concern in the South African proposals with the position of employees which is not apparent in Australia. On the other hand there appears to be less concern in South Africa with the position of secured creditors than is evident in the Australian provisions. The article also notes that the South African proposals do not divide the procedure clearly into a decision-making stage and the period whilst the company is operating under the rescue plan. The Australian provisions provide for a clear break between a period where the creditors have yet to make a choice about the company's future and the period once a plan (or deed of company arrangement) has been adopted. The article also finds that the South African model of rescue as proposed does cover many similar areas as identified in the Australian legislation. It therefore argues that there are sufficient similarities to suggest that much will be common in the experience if they are adopted into the legislation.

This paper examines the impact that one feature of a country's institutional context - the party system - has on public support for governing parties in two West European democracies, Germany and Great Britain. Specifically, it argues that models of government popularity need to take politics and institutions into account, and need to do so in a systematic fashion. Using measures of party system fractionalization and public opinion data spanning the period from 1960 to 1990, the paper demonstrates that the effects of economic conditions on government support are mediated by the choices available to citizens to express discontent with the ruling party. The greater the effective number of parties in a system, the stronger the effects of macroeconomic performance on support for the government. (European Journal of Political Research / AuD)

THIS ESSAY ADDRESSES JOHN LOCKE'S THOUGHTS ON THE CONDUCT OF EVERYDAY POLITICAL LIFE. IT SEEKS TO IDENTIFY THE GROUP OF PERSONS LOCKE PRESUMED WOULD GOVERN IN A WELL-ORDERED NATION AND TO EXAMINE THE QUALITITES REQUIRED OF THESE GOVERNORS IN ORDER FOR THEM TO PERFORM THEIR CALLING, AND TO ILLUMINATE LOCKE'S PERSONAL EFFORTS TO PROMOTE THESE QUALITIES IN THE GOVERNOR'S OF THE NEXT GENERATION. IT EXAMINES THE CONCEPT OF TRUST AND ARGUES THAT LOCKE'S EDUCATIONAL WRITINGS OUGHT TO BE VIEWED AS ATTEMPTS TO ENCOURAGE THE FORMATION OF THE QUALITIES NECESSARY FOR GOOD GOVERNORS. THE MEANING THAT LOCKE ASCRIBES TO BOTH PRUDENCE AND VIRTUE IS PRESENTED AS WELL AS THE CONCLUSION THAT AN UNDERSTANDING OF THESE QUALITIES ARE INSTUMENTAL TO AN UNDERSTANDING OF LOCKE'S CONCEPTION OF THE CONDUCT OF EVERYDAY LIFE.

RICHARD RORTY HAS SOUGHT TO ASSOCIATE PRAGMATISM AND LIBERALISM WITH POSTMODERNIST CRITICAL ANALYSIS. THIS ARTICLE CHALLENGES RORTY, ARGUING THAT HIS EFFORT RESTS ON A DISPUTABLE CONCEPTION OF PRAGMATISM AND LEADS TO AN INADEQUATE VERSION OF LIBERAL POLITICAL THEORY. THE AUTHOR INSISTS THAT A PEIRCEAN PRAGMATIC RATIONALISM YIELDS A VERY DIFFERENT KIND OF LIBERAL POLITICAL THEORY THAN THAT PRODUCED BY RORTY'S IRRATIONALISM.

Lecture at the 1951 Summer school, University of Ky.

"Over the past 15 years, the town of Lewiston, Maine-once a booming mill town that had fallen on harder times-- has improbably become one of the most Islamic towns in America. Some 6000 Somali immigrants have settled there, drastically changing the makeup of a town of 36,000 people in total. Lewiston now has the third highest per capita Muslim population of any U.S. city Cynthia Anderson tells the story of this fractious yet resilient town and how it is thriving in a new era. With empathy and honesty, she delivers a dramatic portrait of a community grappling with change, while humanizing one of the most defining political issues in America today. Her reporting takes the reader deep into the lives of both immigrants and lifelong Mainers to tell the story of America's relationship to Islam, and deliver an honest refutation of the idea that we'd be better off without change"--