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CONTROLLING BUREAUCRACY IS A LONG-STANDING CONCERN IN THE PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION FIELD. ONE THEORY IS THAT APPROPRIATE INFLUENCE OF BUREAUCRACY CAN OCCUR VIA PARTICIPATIVE ADMINISTRATION-THAT IS, THROUGH CITIZEN PARTICIPATION IN BUREAUCRATIC DECISION MAKING. ANOTHER IDEA IS THAT EXPERTS FROM ONE AGENCY SHOULD PARTICIPATE IN ANOTHER'S PROCEEDINGS IN ORDER TO PROVIDE A BALANCE OF EXPERTISE. STATE PUBLIC UTILITY REGULATORY COMMISSIONS RELY ON BOTH THESE TYPES OF PARTICIPATION DURING RATE CASES, THEIR KEY DECISION-MAKING PROCESS. THE EMPIRICAL LITERATURE SUGGESTS THAT PARTICIPATION IS NOT INFLUENCING PUBLIC UTILITY COMMISSIONS AS EXPECTED. HOWEVER, SINCE GORMLEY (1983), ANALYSTS HAVE USED VERSIONS OF GORMLEY'S PROXY AND GRASSROOTS ADVOCACY ACTIVITY LEVELS INDEXES. HERE, DATA ON ACTUAL PARTICIPATION IN FIFTY-FOUR TELEPHONE RATE CASES ARE USED TO ASSESS THE CONTINUED USEFULNESS OF THIS INDEX. THE RESULTS SUGGEST THAT THE INDEX IS NOT AS INFORMATIVE AS HOPED AND THAT CASE-SPECIFIC MEASURES SHOULD BE USED TO EXAMINE FURTHER THE EFFECT OF CITIZEN AND OUTSIDE-EXPERT PARTICIPATION IN THE PUBLIC UTILITY SETTING.

The author uses a case study of the COCEI of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, a left coalition that has achieved power at the municipal level despite repressive intervention by the national government, to critique theoretical approaches to new social movements. He offers as an alternative a combination of Marxist and postmodernist propositions. While some aspects of the COCEI reflect the radicalization of Mexican grass-roots movements after 1968, Zapotec intellectuals have combined revolutionary socialist thought and avant-garde artistic styles with ethnic mobilization to create a movement that is linked to regional and indigenous traditions

An exploration of how militarism has exacerbated the crisis of reconstruction in Angola following the war with South Africa. The defeat of the South African Defense Forces at Cuito Cuanacale is described as the turning point in the militarization process that opened the way for a genuine decolonization of Namibia. Implications of this defeat for the political, social, & economic transformation of South Africa are discussed. 1 Map. K. Hyatt

THIS PAPER GIVES THE BACKGROUND OF THE POLITICAL STRUGGLES THAT AWAIT NAMIBIA AND THE PEOPLE OF SOUTHERN AFRICA AS THE ANTI-APARTHEID STRUGGLE ENTERS A NEW PHASE. THE 1988 AGREEMENT, THE UN RESOLUTION 435, NEGOTIATIONS AND CONCESSIONS AND THE CONTINUING STRUGGLE ARE EACH ADDRESSED. THE CHOICES POSED BY INDEPENDENCE ARE DEFINED.

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