Contemporary Politics

VOLUME 5  Number 4  December 1999

Abstracts 309

‘Patriarchy’: a concept too useful to lose
Valerie Bryson 311

Berlin‘s defence of value-pluralism: clarifications and criticisms
Iain MacKenzie 325

From NIMBY to NOPE: building eco-bridges
Andy Robinson 339

Recent Research
Transnational mobilizations in contexts of violent conflict: the case of solidarity with women in Algeria
Catherine Lloyd 365

Review Article
Fascism in France?
David Renton 379

Book Reviews 385

Notes on Contributors 401

Title Page and Contents, VOLUME 5

Contemporary Politics

VOLUME 5  Number 3  September 1999

Abstracts 205

Corruption, development theory and the boundaries of social change
Graham Harrison 207

Marxism, ‘manufactured uncertainty’ and the ecological crisis
Paul Wetherly 221

Environmental taxation in contemporary European politics
David Luckin and Simon Lightfoot 243

Comment
Government by spin: an analysis of the process
Ivor Gaber 263

Review Article
The sources of European Union legitimacy: political theories old
and new
Janet Mather 277

Book Reviews 285

Notes on Contributors 299

Contemporary Politics

VOLUME 5  Number 2  June 1999

Abstracts 101

Is there an Arendtian case for the nation-state?
Margaret Canovan 103

The stakeholder society and the welfare state: forward to the past!
Clement Macintyre 121

When gender is on the agenda: reflections on technoscientific and research politics
Lena Trojer 137

German federalism: a model for English regional government
Hugh Atkinson and Stuart Wilks-Heeg 153

Recent Research
Post-unification: the impact of social transformation on women in
eastern Germany
Ulla Kite 171

Book Reviews 189

Notes on Contributors 199

Contemporary Politics

VOLUME 5  Number 1  March 1999

Abstracts 5

John Gray and the death of conservatism
TONY BURNS 7

The politics of exclusion: the withdrawal of social welfare benefits
from asylum seekers in the UK
RONALD KAYE 25

Economic internationalization, business and national adaptation:
the politics of protectionism?
DERMOT MCCANN 47

The politics of compensation: Tom Paine’s Agrarian Justice and liberal
egalitarianism
ADRIAN LITTLE 63

Review Article
Cultures of the ‘new Europe’
PHIL MARFLEET 75

Book Reviews 81

Notes on Contributors 95

Contemporary Politics

VOLUME 4  Number 4  December 1998

Abstracts 341

Green state/democratic state
MICHAEL SAWARD 345

From ‘informal sectors’ to ‘real economies’: changing conceptions of
Africa’s hidden livelihoods
TIM ALLEN 357

The economic implications of the Nicaraguan state’s ideology about
women, 1990–5
KATHERINE ISBESTER 375

From structuralism to voluntarism: the Latin American left and the
discourse on civil society and democracy
GIDEON BAKER 391

Globalization and local consumption: the Labour Party’s attempts to
sell British media
DES FREEDMAN 413

Comment
Chile: how the right prepared the intellectual grounds for a military
dictatorship
LUIS CORVALAN MARQUEZ 433

Review Article
The Battle for Algeria
JEREMY LANDOR 443

Book Reviews 451

Notes on Contributors 463

Title Page and Contents, VOLUME 4

Contemporary Politics

VOLUME 4  Number 3  September 1998

Abstracts 229

Globalization and the ‘AIDS industry’
DENNIS ALTMAN 233

Croatian politics: authoritarianism or democracy?
IAN KEARNS 247

In a different voice? Scottish women politicians and the vocabulary
of care
FIONA MACKAY 259

Multilateral women’s conferences: the domestic political organization
of Zambian women
EVE SANDBERG 271

The making of a constitution for Europe
RICHARD KUPER 285

Party competition, social movements and postmaterialist values:
exploring the rise of green parties in France and Germany
MATTHIAS KAELBERER 299

Review ArticleStates and the constitutionalization of international relations: a view
from the mid-Atlantic
CLIVE H. CHURCH 317

Book Reviews 325

Notes on Contributors 333

Contemporary Politics

VOLUME 4  Number 2  June 1998

Abstracts 109

Romania’s desire to be normal
TOM GALLAGHER 111

The implications of globalization in the construction of the Australian
‘nation’: multiculturalism and democracy
ROBERT GRANT AND EMMA CLARENCE 127

Democratization in eastern Europe: the limitations of the existing
transition literature
ADAM FAGIN 143

Is there a case for a feminist critique of the state?
JOHN HOFFMAN 161

Democratization and civil society in Chile: a blind alley for feminists?
GEORGINA BLAKELEY 177

Comment
Feudalism’s revenge: the inverse dialectics of time in Russia
JEREMY LESTER 193

Book Reviews 205

Notes on Contributors 217

Contemporary Politics

VOLUME 4  Number 1  March 1998

Notes on Contributors 4

Abstracts 5

Lost in cyberspace: democratic prospects of computer-mediated
communication
CARY J. NEDERMAN, BRADFORD S. JONES AND LISA FITZGERALD 9

Feminist democracy: the case for women’s committees
WENDY STOKES 23

The church and state in apartheid South Africa
KIRAN LALLOO 39

The Socialist Labour Party and the general election of May 1997
RICHARD CROSS AND STEPHEN HOPKINS 57

Comment
Understanding ‘Asian values’ as a form of reactionary modernization
KANISHKA JAYASURIYA 77

Book Reviews 93

Contemporary Politics

VOLUME 3  Number 4  December 1997

Abstracts 303

Complex emergencies and institutional complexes
BARRY MUNSLOW AND CHRISTOPHER BROWN 307

Hannah Arendt, identity and the politics of visibility
DEAN HAMMER 321

Threats and capacities: great powers and global insecurity
DANIEL N. NELSON 341

China in transition: nationalism, regionalism and transnationalism
REX LI 365

North African workers in France: processes of integration and exclusion
JEREMY LANDOR 381

Comment
A review of Hungarian politics 1994–97
JANOS JEMNITZ 401

Book Reviews 407

Notes on Contributors 423

Title Page and Contents, VOLUME 3

Contemporary Politics

VOLUME 3  Number 3  September 1997

Abstracts 207 

Pacts and poverty: the democratization process in Nicaragua 1990-96
HENRY PATTERSON 209 

Nation, state and independence in Belarus
GEORGE SANFORD 225 

Sexual identities, national identities: the politics of gay law reform
in the Republic of Ireland
RICHARD DUNPHY 247 

Talking peace: political communications through the television news
media and the Northern Ireland peace process
GRAHAM SPENCER 267 

Review Article
Globalization and utopian dreams: deconstructing the ‘G’ word
AL RAINNIE 277 

Book Reviews 287 

Notes on Contributors 295

Contemporary Politics

VOLUME 3  Number 2  June 1997

Abstracts 117

The Italian left and the enlargement of the European Union
VASSILIS FOUSKAS 119

Italy, European Monetary Union and the Intergovernmental Conference:
squaring the circle
MICHAEL MANNIN 137

The contradictions and crisis of stake-holder capitalism
ADRIAN BUDD 151

Nationalism and democracy in the transition from communism in
Eastern Europe
PHILIP SPENCER and HOWARD WOLLMAN 171

Book reviews 189

Notes on contributors 201

Contemporary POLITICS

VOLUME 3  Number 1  March 1997

Abstracts 5

The regime system in Russia
RICHARD SAKWA 7

Eastern and western Europe: towards a new European identity?
EDWARD MOXON-BROWNE 27

European Union policy towards east-central Europe: the prospects
for enlargement
GRAHAM TIMMINS 35

The good, the bad and the ugly: three faces of 'dialogue'-the
development of Roma politics in Hungary
MARTIN KOVATS 55

Cuba: the main elements of the economic reform
FRANCISCO DOMÍNGUEZ 73

Review Article
Raymond Williams: retrospect and prospect
STEPHEN WOODHAMS 95

Notes on contributors 105