Article: Divided We Govern: Party Control, Lawmaking and Investigations, 1946-2002, second edition.(Brief Article)(Book Review)

Article: Revolutionary nepotism.(Book Review)
The National Interest;  December 22, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... the 1999 election Sonia Gandhi, widow, daughter-in-law and grand-daughter-in-law of prime ministers. She lost party control, though, after leading Congress to merely a second-place finish. Runner-up is considered a disgraceful performance ...

Article: iMac portable genius.(Brief article)(Book review)
SciTech Book News;  March 1, 2009 ;     497 words ... ... not play, transferring files through iChat, using standard software or finding alternatives, gaming, applying third-party control software, backing up and troubleshooting. The result is comprehensive without being intimidating. ([c]2009 Book News ...

Article: Public Opinion and Political Change in China.(Book ...
Journal of East Asian Studies;  January 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... have become wider and more responsive over time (ch. 6). While labor unions continue to serve as an instrument of the party control in the workplace, they also protect employee welfare and interest and facilitate bottom-up participation (ch. 7 ...

Gorbachev's Reforms: De-Stalinization through Demilitarization. ...
Perspectives on Political Science;  January 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... corrupt life-style, and the rest of the officers lived below the poverty line--an old story that glasnost revealed. Party control of the military became increasingly irrelevant and political organs increasingly unpopular. The number of military members ...

Article: Administrative Renewal: Reorganization Commissions in the 20th ...
Presidential Studies Quarterly;  September 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... and control? Are commissions with broad, unstructured mandates more likely to succeed under unified rather than divided party control? How do stakeholders affect consensus among commission members? It also would have been helpful to have a table listing ...

Article: Making Waves: Female Activists in Twentieth-Century ...
Journal of Southern History;  August 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... alas, always gets the honors. If slavery, cotton, Jim Crow, and homegrown "cracker" culture--as well as one-party control until the Democratic Party came to represent civil rights--make a state "southern," then Florida is most assuredly ...

Article: The Politics of Human Rights in East Asia.(Book ...
Commonwealth & Comparative Politics;  March 1, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... civil liberties and political rights of any kind' (p.81). Vietnam is slightly better but still under repressive one party control while the regime attempts an economic liberalisation programme. Indonesia's human rights record merits a large (and depressing ...