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AbstractThe turbulent economic climate of the arts in the 1990s raises the question of how arts managers are coping with this situation. Exploratory factor analysis of responses from 237 Australian arts managers in public, private nonprofit, and private for‐profit sectors revealed seven different strategic responses: cost reduction, political, cooperative, downsizing, refinancing, commercialization, and relocation. Private sector managers were more likely to use the refinancing strategy, and nonprofit and public managers were more likely to use the political and cooperative strategies. Implications for arts managers in using these strategies are explored.

This paper argues for an institutional approach to state analyses. It notes that in general the Marxist literature on the state has paid little attention to the different types of state administration (departments, statutory authorities), and the effect of administrative forms on the ability of state agencies to conduct activities, or engage in struggles within the state. By contrast, there is an extensive and insightful body of writings to be found in traditional administrative literature on different forms of administration. This literature remains conservative in orientation and rarely directs itself to the broader concerns of theories of the state. This paper attempts to bring these two bodies of writings together by focusing on `quasi-government' bodies such as statutory authorities. It is argued that these administrative forms raise in an acute form the Marxist concerns with struggles, conflicts and allegiances within the state.

The nature of the State and the tendencies of accumulation and legitimation are crucial to understanding the official response to the Aboriginal Land Rights demand. Land Rights has been made negotiable and the struggle for Land Rights now runs through the material relations of the State. A political struggle exists around the discourse which contains arguments for and against Land Rights. This is represented principally between the Federal Government ranged against Queensland, Western Australia and the Northern Territory and takes the form of a struggle over the content of what is to be signified as racist. This discourse breaks down and exposes the the class nature of the State when it is confronted with a threat to the reproduction of major accumulation conditions. This creates legitimacy problems. The Noonkanbah dispute in Western Australia in 1980 and the present moves to de-gazette Queensland's Aboriginal Reserves are two examples of this.

Intro -- Title -- Contents -- Introduction -- Design and Development -- Armoured Cars and Specialist Police Vehicles 1890-1945 -- Offensive Weapons -- Cold-War Era RCVs -- Military Armoured Vehicles as RCVs -- Exploring Variants - British RCVs in Northern Ireland -- International Developments -- Modern Variants - State of the Art -- Operational History -- Conclusion -- Further Reading -- Imprint