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Kramer has shown how singularly restrictive are all 'similarity' conditions which guarantee transitivity of majority rule by limiting the family of admissible preference orderings (so-called exclusion restrictions). For suppose, plausibly, that social alternatives are points in an open convex policy space S ⊂ Rn, n ≥ 2, and that voters' preferences, {Rl)1=1…‥ l, are representable by continuously differentiable semi-strictly quasi-concave utility functions ul,. Suppose further that at a single point x ε S, any three voters' utility functions have gradients ∇ul(x), ∇uf(X), ∇uk(x), no one of which can be expressed as a positive linear combination of the other two, and no two of which are linearly dependent. Then all exclusion conditions must fail on S.

Intro -- Cultures of Exile -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Part I. Space -- Chapter 1. Exile and Displacement in the Cinema of Tony Gatlif -- Chapter 2. Leaving Home -- Chapter 3. The Exile of Remembering -- Part II. Time -- Chapter 4. 'Island of Tears' -- Chapter 5. Forced Migration and Involuntary Memory -- Chapter 6. Chantal Akerman -- Chapter 7. Memory and Exile in the Bill Douglas Trilogy -- Part III. Body -- Chapter 8. Exile and the Body -- Chapter 9. The Transgendered Individual as Exilic Travelling Subject -- Chapter 10. Andy Warhol and the Strategic Exile of the Self -- Chapter 11. Exiles of Normality -- Select Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors.

The twin concepts of "Culture" and "Identity" are inescapable in any discussion of European Integration and yet over the last ten years their meaning has become increasingly contested. By combining an anthropological and political perspective, the authors challenge the traditional boundaries within the issue of the construction of Europe. In the first part, historians and anthropologists from various national traditions discuss the process of the construction of Europe and its implications for cultural identities. The second section examines a number of topics at the core of the process of Europeanization and presents up-to-date information on each of these issues: political parties, regions, football, cities, the Euro, ethnicity, heritage and European cinema. Emphasis is be placed on the political structuring of cultural identities by contrasting top-down and bottom-up processes that define the tensions between the unity and diversity of the European Community