Does Moderation Pay in a Consociational Democracy? The Marginalisation of the SDLP in the North of Ireland

A central question in the debate between “centripetalists” and “consociationalists” concerns whether power‐sharing arrangements provide incentives for moderation. This article helps to formulate an empirical answer through an examination of the electoral decline of the Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) following the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) in the North of Ireland. Drawing on primary qualitative interviews with key players, this article argues that the SDLP were electoral losers under a system of ethnic out‐flanking. Sinn Féin has successfully presented itself as the “greener” and more robust representative of nationalist interests, whilst simultaneously moderating its message and operating the institutions of Northern Ireland. Sinn Féin has taken ownership of the GFA and has positioned itself as the party best able to ensure its delivery. Sinn Féin’s rights‐based agenda, and vibrant electoral machine, has resonated with the nationalist electorate who are less sure of what the contemporary SDLP stands for.     

Applying Stone in a Western Landscape: Ranchers,Conservationists, and Causal Stories in the “American Serengeti”

As the emergence of nongovernmental conservation efforts generates conflict among various stakeholders, the causal story that each party articulates regarding conservation and the causes of land degradation reflects their unique interests. This study uses existing literature to evaluate causal stories surrounding a contemporary conservation effort: Montana's American Prairie Reserve. Through qualitative review of web‐based documents and newspaper articles, it generates a preliminary account of key stakeholders' causal stories. The case study suggests that parties who might be disadvantaged by ascribing responsibility for environmental harms in an adversarial fashion may instead elect to articulate causal stories that are more neutral than existing approaches might forecast. The study concludes by suggesting that further development of causal story literature may enable it to better address contemporary conservation efforts.     

法治的实现目标及其途径

法治社会的价值目标是追求民主、平等;法治的核心问题是约束、限制权力;法治国家的本质特征是体现民治;实现 法治化的基本途径是建立安全、方便、经济的参政方式。     

September 11th and U.S. Hegemony—Or Will the 21st Century Be American Too?

The tragedy of September 11 highlights the stark contrast between the real and measurable capabilities possessed by one state, and the almost inevitable resentments which the possession of those capabilities engendered in others. The purpose of this article is not to interrogate the strengths and weaknesses of arguments of American decline. Nor is it to speculate at length about September 11th. It is instead to set the scene and try and identify the underlying causes of America's transition from presumed crisis in the 1970s and 1980s to new self-confidence in the 1990s—a self-confidence that some now feel has been shattered by the events of September. While there were important structural reasons why the United States was unlikely to go the way of other powers, it was a peculiar conjuncture of mainly unforeseen developments that combined together after 1989 to improve the U.S. position within the world. We will then move on to discuss the most effective way of characterizing this position. Here, we will mount a defense of the somewhat contentious notion of "hegemony" While recognizing the problems associated with the idea, it will be argued that as a concept it has serious intellectual advantages over its various theoretical competitors. If nothing else, because it focuses on the American role within the world system, rather than just its statically defined position, it is theoretically more suggestive than the less dynamic idea of unipolarity.     

Indigenismo and the Avant‐garde: Jorge Sanjinés' Early Films and the National Project

Jorge Sanjinés' 1960s films Revolución and Ukamau challenge the class and ethnic hierarchies of Bolivian society by casting the proletarian and indigenous masses as revolutionary liberators. The new national imaginary they evoke is tightly bound to the experimental cinematic techniques they employ, since their rejection of rationalist, realist aesthetics signals a partial undermining of the linear time of the modern nation. Ukamau both recalls and resists previous Bolivian indigenismo, which sought to co‐opt the Indian into a national mestizo consciousness. Its exoticist portrayal of the Indian ultimately limits its political effectiveness, but textual and contextual analyses show subversive Indian agency leaking through.     

Wer hat einen vom Rechtsvorgänger des Wohnungseigentümers eigenmächtig errichteten,nicht parifizierten Keller zu erhalten?

Nutzt ein Wohnungseigentümer einen eigenm?chtig errichteten Teil seines WE-Objekts (hier: einen von seinem Rechtsvorg?nger ohne Baubewilligung gebauten Keller) ausschlie?lich, ohne dass diese R?umlichkeit in die Nutzwertfestsetzung einbezogen worden ist, handelt es sich zwar um einen allgemeinen Teil der WE-Liegenschaft. Die Erhaltungspflicht (hier: Behebung ernster [Feuchtigkeits-]Sch?den im Keller) trifft aber nicht die Eigentümergemeinschaft, sondern nach § 839 ABGB den ausschlie?lich nutzenden Wohnungseigentümer allein. Auch eine langj?hrige Duldung der ausschlie?lichen Kellerbenützung durch den Wohnungseigentümer vermag die Erhaltungspflicht dieses Raums nicht auf die Eigentümergemeinschaft zu verlagern. Diese Duldung vernichtet lediglich den Beseitigungsanspruch wegen eigenm?chtiger Inanspruchnahme allgemeiner Liegenschaftsteile.     

“十一五”时期山西道路交通安全发展研究

“十一五”时期,山西省正处于经济持续高速发展时期,重视道路交通安全问题,才能使道路交通更好地服务于经济建设。山西道路交通安全的发展分析研究,必须在全面系统分析历年来山西省道路交通事故发生、发展规律与特点的基础上,提出有针对性的预防与减少交通事故的具体对策,而且要结合山西省经济发展的特点,制定较为科学、综合性的安全管理规划。