Suchergebnisse

Mehrere Aufsätze zur Entwicklung Malawis seit 1964 sowie zur Vorgeschichte der Unabhängigkeit. Einzelthemen: allgemeine Situation von Njassaland/Malawi im südlichen Afrika; politische Ökonomie des Landes mit Wirtschaftsdaten, Klassenstruktur, sozialer Basis der nationalistischen Bewegung, Entwicklungsbedingungen, Frauenbewegung, politischem Patronagesystem, politischem System, Rolle von Arbeitern und Bauern sowie der wachsenden Bourgeoisie. Anschließend: Analyse der Agrarpolitik und der Probleme des chronischen Nahrungsmittelmangels unter den Kleinbauern. Schließlich: zeitgeschichtliche Erinnerungen an den Freiheitskämpfer Dunduza K. Chsiza und sein politisches Vermächtnis, der 1962 bei einem mysteriösen Autounfall verstarb. (DÜI-Wsl)

Examines the inconsistency involved in the declaration of the poll tax as the flagship policy; and 2 alternative interpretations of the reasons for the reform of local government finance. Discusses the presentation's shortcomings under 5 heads: illogical arguments; misleading arguments; unproven assertions presented as truths; untruths; inconsistent arguments. (RSM)

THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS ARTICLE ARE TWOFOLD: (1) BY MEANS OF A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL VARIATION IN RESULTS BETWEEN ELECTORAL DISTRICTS, TO ASSESS THE EXTENT TO WHICH ECONOMIC FACTORS -- PARTICULARLY PRIVATIZATION, ECONOMIC GROWTH, AND THE LEVEL OF UNEMPLOYMENT -- INFLUENCED POLAND'S 1993 PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS; (2) TO MAKE SOME EXTRAPOLATIVE PREDICTIONS REGARDING WHETHER MORE FAVORABLE TRENDS IN UNEMPLOYMENT AND ECONOMIC GROWTH OR MORE RAPID PRIVATIZATION WOULD HAVE INCREASED THE RELATIVE VOTE FOR THE MAJOR PRO-REFORM PARTIES COMPARED WITH THE POST-COMMUNIST PARTIES AND THE TWO OTHER ANTI-REFORM PARTIES.

It is argued that the view put forward by some analysts that unemployment had little or no effect on constituency results in the 1987 British general election is faulty. It rests on the failure to develop a satisfactory specification of the effects of unemployment, a problem which was also inherent in studies of previous British elections. A suggested new specification is tested and it indicates that changes in unemployment between 1983 and 1987 both at constituency and at regional level had a quite substantial effect on voting shifts in constituencies in 1987.