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An explanation for why the success of the Communist Party of China (CPC) relies heavily on the middle class and the rational, emotional and national reasons for why their support continues. According to the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) the strong yearly economic growth has lifted 15% (or 200 million people) to the middle class in China, which has become the group that most benefits from the status quo. While only 5.4% of Chinese belong to the CPC in entrepreneurs this percentage rises to 30-60% depending on the region. Thus even if the middle class shows often apathy towards politics, they still employ party membership as a means to success. L. Pitkaniemi

The author examines the constitution written under general Pinochet's military regime and shows why the political change taking place in Chile can at best produce a transitional regime that in turn may lead to democracy. The constitutional amendments required by the Chilean opposition are outlined

Discusses the Vietnam War in the United States, Norway and Sweden from the perspective of the public and the political leadership. In the 1970s, many revisionist historians, who studied only the latter half of the War's duration, erroneously claimed that Norway held a critical view of the Vietnam War. In reality, the Norwegian Labor Party held a somewhat positive opinion of the war that only swung once the Swedish Social Democratic Party had heavily criticized it. L. Pitkaniemi