Telangana: no constitutional barriers Now that the proposal for a new Telangana state has entered the legislative stage‚ in the State Assembly and subsequently Parliament‚ the constitutional question will take centre stage: does the absence of a supporting State Assembly resolution for the creation of a new Telangana state‚ an outcome which remains likely‚ render a parliamentary amendment unconstitutional? In this essay I show that this constitutional question sits at the fault lines of two conflicting
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Development of Parties and Party Systems in Central Europe 1989-2008 (I) - Poland‚ the Czech Republic‚ Slovakia and Hungary Søren Riishøj‚ Senior Lecturer‚ Institute of Political Science‚ University of Southern Denmark Email-adresses: sr@sam.sdu.dk Contents: I. Introduction 1.1. Political parties and stages of post-communism 1.2. Political parties and party systems 1.3. The formation of political parties 1.4. Stages of party and party system development
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Russia Lecture 2 – 1905 revolution Pre-1905 Revolution Before the 1905 Revolution they had been a rise in strike activity and rural unrest within the Russian Empire. Newspapers however showed the minority population that where literate cracks that where showing in the Tsar’s power‚ however these people already held positions of power within Russian society. These people included the village elders‚ members of the clergy and government minsters. At this time in the early 20th century
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The Cuban Missile Crises also can be called the October Crisis‚ had occurred on October of 1962 for 13 nerve wreaking days. Nerves were high not only for the American people who believed the Soviets could and would annihilate their very existence‚ but also the people of Cuba and the whole world. The blockade of navy ships surrounding the island of Cuba would only be a reaction to a nuclear war and cause a World War III. Everyone was on edge‚ the whole world would be affected in one way or another
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The first and to date only reliable assertion of the origin of word Gypsy for the members of “specific” group‚ dates back to 1068. At that time the Georgian monah st. George Antonski‚ from the monastery of Iviron (Greece) reports to his people that on the mountain of Athos in the time between 1001 and 1026 a group of “Athiganos” arrived. The word Athigatos or Acinkan in Greek would be “untouchable”. Different synonyms of this word were used later as name for “that” nation around Europe. In literature
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Residency Appointments - Class of 2014 Name Residency Hospital City State Akhtar‚ Rabia Salman Internal Medicine University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Dallas TX Akhtar‚ Usman Internal Medicine University of Texas Southwestern Medical School Dallas TX Anderson‚ Ryan Everett Internal Medicine- Primary Brigham & Women’s Hospital Boston MA Annor‚ Afua Helen Surgery-Preliminary Rush University Medical Center Chicago IL Ophthalmology Rush University Medical Center Chicago IL Askin
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2.1 Introduction The nature of the comparative approach At a basic level the comparative approach is simply one of making comparisons‚ something we do constantly in our everyday lives. Thinking‚ and learning‚ by making comparisons is a very natural and intuitive process for us. We use comparisons extensively in our daily thinking and interactions with people and various objects. However‚ making comparisons is not necessarily easy or without its pitfalls.
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How can high levels of corruption in Central and Eastern Europe be explained? What impact does it have on societies at large? Corruption constitutes a significant part of politics in Eastern Europe to the extent that “talking about corruption is the way post- communist public talks about politics‚ economy about past and future” (Krastov‚ p 43). Transparency International defines corruption as “a misuse of public power for the private gain at the expense of the public good”. There are different
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Perraton‚ J. (1999) Global Transformations‚ Stanford University Press. Pica‚ D. and Kakihara‚ M. (2003) The Duality of Mobility: Understanding Fluid Organisations and Stable Interaction‚ London School of Economics and Political Science. Linz‚ J and Stepan‚ A. (1996) Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe‚ SouthAmerica and Post-Communist Europe. John Hopkins University Press. Nye‚ J. (2004) Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics‚ Preston. Osinga‚ F. (2006) Science
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The concept of civil society is elusive‚ complex and contested. There are different meanings and interpretations and over time different schools of thought have influenced theoretical debates and empirical research on their role in development. It is for this reason that this essay attempts to discuss why to some‚ civil society is considered a new broader paradigm of development which has been born‚ while to others‚ it is considered a symptom of intellectual fashion that has come to afflict
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