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What have been the conditions of production for a political theatre to appear in post-1990s Romania? How and why contemporary theatre in Romania ended up ignoring or dismissing the leftwing, engaged or militant theatrical movements active before 1945? Why local theatre history and theory entirely obliterated, also, the politically-engaged theatre forms active during communism itself? What kind of tradition forms the contemporary political theatre, what is the politics that informs their working practices and collaborations, how do the artists engage with the groups they choose to give voice and with the audience? Using a broad and on-purpose multi-faceted definition of political theatre, the article focuses on theatre artists, practices and performances that question capitalism as a social and power structure, sometimes from an intersectional perspective, but always framing this criticism in a class approach. Largely a practice-based analysis, the text gives a comprehensive on-going history of a strong performative movement and its challenges, from the representational strategies and the financial and positioning issues to the scarcity of critical covering and reviewing and the extending of an (opposite) political engagement in the mainstream theatre in Romania.

Latin America has some of the strictest abortion rules in the world, where the procedure is criminal in cases of rape, incest, or even to save the life of the mother. More than 97% of women in Latin America and the Caribbean live in countries where access to abortion is either restricted or banned altogether. As a result, unsafe abortion is widespread and causes 10% of all maternal deaths in the region. With the onset of the Zika virus pandemic in 2015, and the identification of the virus as causing poor pregnancy outcomes including fetal infection, microcephaly, and other malformations, there became an increased demand for abortions in Latin American countries. The response of many Latin American governments to Zika infection during pregnancy was to recommend that women avoid or postpone their pregnancies. These recommendations were not possible for many women at risk in the affected countries, especially those who were uneducated or living in poverty. As a result of the Zika pandemic, there has been an increased demand for abortion in many of the affected countries that, because of the clandestine and illegal nature of the procedure, carries the heightened risk for additional maternal morbidity and mortality.

It is impossible to accurately test how fast the news of significant & exciting events travels because by the time the pollsters begin to measure its impact, usually too much time has elapsed for accurate responses to be obtained. An opportunity to test the speed at which news travels was provided by the 1972 shooting of Governor George Wallace. Pollsters of the Consumer Response Corp interviewed a number of R's on whether & from whom they learned of the shooting. Interviewing was conducted in NY. Though weaknesses in the surveying procedure are admitted, it is concluded that news of nationally significant events travels quite fast. Of those who had learned of the shooting before being interviewed, 43% heard it on the radio, & 44% heard the news from an acquaintance. The majority hoped to learn more from radio & TV, & 73% were going to secure further information by reading a newspaper the following day. 2 Tables. S. Karganovic.

Surveys in Ur ghetto areas which require several thousand interviews clustered in a relatively small section of a large city place great stress upon the resources of even the best qualified opinion res org. Large numbers of interviews must be conducted within a small geographic area, within a short period of time. Furthermore, the sampling area frequently contains few trained interviewers. Major problems encountered in the administration of field work for large-scale locally-oriented studies are reviewed, & methods that have been developed to cope with these problems are discussed. One important problem is generating community support, because of its effects on R cooperation. The problem is best handled by working with community leaders who have good channels of COMM with the community. The problem of supervising & controlling field work is best handled by setting up local field offices within the neighborhood being studied. The office helps to introduce & identify the res'ers to the local community & provides centralized locations from which new interviewers may be hired, trained & supervised. This supervisor should be on duty during all interviewing hours. Results of studies executed with & without a full-time area supervisor show that the presence of such a supervisor is associated with superior work quality & more rapid completion of assignments. It is best to recruit interviewers who reside directly within the area being studied. The recruitment problem is best handled by contacting students at local Coll's & local community leaders. Once interviewers are hired, they go through an extensive training session. Each interviewer must complete at least one practice interview with a 'live' R, whenever possible in the presence of a trainer. One continuing problem relates to the high level of attrition among interviewers. Some success has been reached. In early studies about 33.3% of the staff originally recruited eventually became productive interviewers; the level of success is now about as high as 66.6% of the original recruited staff. Ongoing interviewer supervision & interviewer payment are discussed. Local residents do not always accept commercial marketing res or U res supervisory personnel. Consequently, it is useful to set up a separate field org which functions independently, setting up its own policy & procedures, which are sometimes unrelated to 'standard' field practices. Modified AA.

'The Spirit of the Constitution' covers the impact and reputation of both McCulloch and Justice Marshall himself throughout American history. One of the central threads of American history is the battle over the proper reach of the federal government's power, and that story cannot be told without reference to McCulloch. Schwartz's analysis of the shifting interpretations of McCulloch and Marshall over the course of American history not only reaffirms the case's importance, it also helps us understand the circuitous process by which American constitutional law and ideology are made.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- I: Introduction -- 1. A Theory of Political Alienation -- II: On the Limitations of Traditional Approaches to the Study of Political Alienation -- Introduction -- Contexts and Methods of Research: Notes on the Data Chapters of this book -- 2. Socio-Cultural and Political Alienation -- 3. Social Background Factors and Political Alienation -- III: On the Psycho-Political Process of Alienation -- 4. The Process of Political Alienation -- 5. Psycho-Political Correlates of Political Alienation In Four Urban Communities -- 6. On the Causes and Expression of Political Alienation among American University Students -- 7. Political Alienation among Political Scientists and Sociologists -- IV: On the Consequences of Political Alienation -- 8. The Consequences of Alienation: A Theory of Alienated Political Behavior -- 9. Alienation and the Adoption of Basic Political Orientations in a University Community -- 10. Alienation and the Adoption of Basic Political Orientations in Black Communities -- 11. Alienation and Communications Behavior -- 12. From Political Alienation to Revolutionary Support -- 13. Get Involved! and Get Alienated? Political Involvement and Political Alienation in Urban Communities -- V: Conclusion -- 14. From the Lonely Crowd to the Strident Society -- Notes -- Methods Appendix -- Index

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