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This book offers an in-depth examination of party finance and political corruption in a variety of political contexts. Its central focus is on the relationship between different forms of raising party finance and the consequent implications for improper influence over policy making and implementations. It presents both a general discussion of the issues and a set of case studies which illuminate the particular experiences of Britain, the United States, Russia, Italy, Germany and Southeast Asia.

This article examines the literary strategies employed by a devotional poet who wrote about recent events in the eighteenth century, in order to shed light on contemporary notions of social responsibility. Taking the poetic treatment of Ahmad Shah Abdali's invasion of North India and the sacking of Vrindavan in 1757 as its primary focus, the article will discuss how political and theological understandings of lordship converged at a popular level, such that a deity could be called to account as a neglectful landlord as well as venerated in a bhakti context. It examines the redaction of tropes inherited from both vaisnava literature and late Mughal ethical thought, and considers the parallels between the Harikala Beli, a Braj Bhasha poem, and immediately contemporary developments in Urdu literature, particularly the shahr ashob genre. As such, it uses poetic responses to traumatic events as a guide to the interaction between multiple intellectual systems concerned with human and divine expectations and obligations.

The purpose of this article is to examine how the legislators of Britain and the United States have responded to the apparent crisis of trust in public life. In particular, it will analyse the responses in the 1997 Report of the Ethics Reform Task Force of the House of Representatives and the evidence heard in 2002 by the Committee on Standards in Public Life on the workings of the Common's Committee on Standards and Privileges and of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards. The aim is to place recent and contemporary discussion in a broader context of the regulation of ethics in the two legislatures. (Parliamentary Affairs / FUB)

THE PURPOSE OF THIS ESSAY IS TO CONSIDER THE RELATIONSHIP OF SOME OF THE MORE PROMINENT STRANDS OF FEMINIST THOUGHT TO THE CONCEPT OF HUMAN RIGHTS. FEMINISTS WHO PLACE HOPE FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITION OF WOMEN ON THE PROGRESSIVE DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN RIGHTS MUST CONSIDER WHETHER THEIR FEMINIST PRINCIPLES CAN BE RECONCILED WITH HUMAN RIGHTS. SUCH AN ASSESSMENT IS IMPORTANT FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF FEMINIST THOUGHT, AND FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF HUMAN RIGHTS AS WELL.

The canonization within literary and cultural studies of one highly selective version of 'modernism' has long delayed the kind of formal differentiation and historical perspective vital to a full understanding of aesthetic modernity. Traces the source of this blockage to the specific yet dynamic relations of production of modernist cultural practice. (Abstract amended)

Analyses the decline of this country in relation to its science and technology policies since 1979. Although successful in basic policy Britain lacks innovation and entrepreneurship. The policies leading to this are considered, including the way in which the funding is made for R and D. (PFB)