The Kuomintang's secret service in action in South China: operational and political aspects of the arrest of Liao Chengzhi (1942)

The arrest in May 1942 of Liao Chengzhi – a CCP spy chief as well as the son of a celebrated KMT elder assassinated in 1925 – is considered a Big Case in China. Using the original KMT case file on Liao Chengzhi, van de Ven describes how the KMT's secret service turned the Jiangxi Provincial Committee and then arrested leading members of the CCP in south China and thereby eliminated its organization there. The article further uses letters by prominent CCP and KMT personalities involved in the case to suggest the existence of a revolutionary aristocracy bound by personal relations and with an elite code of conduct. When the political will was present, members of this elite deployed their personal connections in the search for solutions to complex political problems.     

Conditions of success and political problems of a ‘media‐mediated personality‐party’: The case of Forza Italia

The emergence of Forza Italia should not be exclusively reduced to specific Italian conditions. This article attempts to explain the development and establishment of Forza Italia as part of a general change of politics in a modern, highly media‐oriented western society. The type of party represented by Forza Italia can be defined as a ‘media‐mediated personality‐party’. With regard to its structural organisation, it presents itself as an answer to tendencies of differentiation, individualisation and consumerisation in modern society. The leading organisational principle is not inner‐party democracy but inter‐party capability to compete. This model of organisation is seen as functional for a marketing‐based, media‐orientated political strategy. It represents a challenge for the type of democratic, mass‐membership party in western Europe. The 1996 elections in Italy, however, have also pointed out the limits of the model of the media‐mediated personality‐party.     

Umfang der Bindungs- und der Präklusionswirkung rechtskräftiger Zivilurteile

Bindungswirkung einer rechtskr?ftigen Entscheidung ist dann gegeben, wenn der als Hauptfrage rechtskr?ftig entschiedene Anspruch eine Vorfrage für den Anspruch im zweiten Prozess bildet. Ma?gebend sind die rechtserzeugenden Tatsachen, die zur Individualisierung des herangezogenen Rechtsgrundes erforderlich sind. Wird im Vorprozess nur über einen Teil des zugrunde liegenden Hauptanspruchs entschieden, so erfasst die Rechtskraft nur diesen Anspruchsteil. Als Teil der Bindungswirkung ist die Pr?klusionswirkung anerkannt. Dementsprechend wird durch die Rechtskraft der Entscheidung auch das Vorbringen aller Tatsachen ausgeschlossen, die zur Begründung oder Widerlegung des entschiedenen Anspruchs rechtlich erforderlich waren und schon bei Schluss der mündlichen Verhandlung bestanden haben. Innerhalb desselben Anspruchs wird der Kl?ger somit mit allen Tatsachen pr?kludiert, auf die er den konkreten, geltend gemachten Anspruch noch h?tte stützen k?nnen. Für den Beklagten schlie?t die Pr?klusionswirkung die Geltendmachung bereits vorhandener Gestaltungsrechte und Gegenrechte aus.     

The representation of ethnic and linguistic groups in the federal civil service of Belgium and Canada

This article investigates how the struggles of national groups have affected the politics of bureaucratic representation of ethnic minorities in Belgium and Canada, and vice‐versa. It argues that the politics of multinational representation in Belgium limited the adoption of measures seeking to guarantee a greater representation of ethnic and racial minorities. In contrast, the politics of multiculturalism in Canada associated with the political mobilization of ethnic groups, contributed to the rejection of measures of guaranteed representation of Francophones in the federal bureaucracy. Measures adopted to increase the representation of Francophones, however, did not impede later attempts to augment representation of visible minorities in the civil service.     

The Relationship Between School Engagement and Delinquency in Late Childhood and Early Adolescence

Engagement in school is crucial for academic success and school completion. Surprisingly little research has focused on the relationship between student engagement and delinquency. This study examines whether engagement predicts subsequent school and general misconduct among 4,890 inner-city Chicago elementary school students (mean age: 11 years and 4 months; 43.3% boys; 66.5% black; 28.8% Latino). To improve upon prior research in this area, we distinguish three types of engagement (emotional, behavioral, and cognitive), examine whether the relationship between engagement and misconduct is bidirectional (misconduct also impairs engagement), and control for possible common causes of low engagement and misconduct, including peer and family relationships and relatively stable indicators of risk-proneness. Emotional and behavioral engagement predict decreases in school and general delinquency. However, cognitive engagement is associated with increases in these outcomes. School and general delinquency predict decreased engagement only in the cognitive domain. Suggestions for future research and implications for policy are discussed.