On Studying Public Budgets

Editors' Note: The articles included in this section of the journal are revised versions of the papers presented at the conference on "Major Budgetary Problems in the Eighties" held in Siena, Italy, November 4–5, 1981, under the auspices of the Centro Studi Fondazione Adriano Olivetti, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and the Gruppo Monte dei Paschi di Siena.     

The Ru-net as a Mirror of Russia's Political and Ethnic Problems

A group of scholars presents the preliminary results of their research on ethnopolitical agendas found on the Russian Internet. The authors analyze the discourses of four Internet communities, including nationalists, leftists, liberals, and supporters of the party of power.     

Breaking the Net: Family Structure and Street-Connected Children in Zambia

Drawing on original fieldwork in the slums of Ndola in Northern Zambia we isolate those features of a child's nuclear and extended family that put him most at risk of ending up on the streets. We find that older, male children and particularly orphaned children are more likely to wind up on the street. Families with a male household head who is in poor health are more likely to originate street-connected children. In contrast, households with surviving maternal grandparents or with a male head who has many sisters are significantly less likely to originate street-connected children.