State Of The Province Address, By The Western Cape Premier, Western Cape Legislature 19thn= Fevruary 2010

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THE LEGACY OF MWALIMU NYERERE. PAMBAZUKA NEWS 452

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HOW WE WISH YOU WERE HERE: THE LEGACY OF MWALIMU NYERERE
PAMBAZUKA NEWS 452: SPECIAL ISSUE


PAMBAZUKA NEWS The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social  
justice in Africa

CONTENTS: 1. Features
INTRODUCTION

How we wish you were here: a tribute to Mwalimu Nyerere
(http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59527) - Firoze Manji

PART ONE: MWALIMU NYERERE SPEAKS
Guest edited by Annar Cassam

- Nyerere on Nyerere (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/ 59516) - Annar Cassam
- El Mussawar interviews President Nyerere (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59513) - Nawal El Saadawy
- El Pa's interviews President Nyerere (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59515 ) - Ana Camacho
- President Nyerere on liberation (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59517) - Annar Cassam
- Nyerere and the Commonwealth (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59508) - Chief Emeka Anyaoku with Annar Cassam
- Nyerere, the Organization of African Unity and liberation (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59501) - Mohamed Sahnoun

PART TWO: NYERERE: CHALLENGES PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
Guest edited by Chambi Chachage

- But dear Mwalimu (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59504 ) - Neema Ndunguru
- Racial and religious tolerance in Nyerere?s political thought and  practice (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59503) - Salma Maoulidi
- Mwalimu Nyerere's ideas on land (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59506) - Ng'wanza Kamata
- Mwalimu Nyerere: The artist (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59500) - Vicensia Shule
- Reading history backwards with Mwalimu (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59502) - Seithy Chachage
- Reflecting with Nyerere on people-centered leadership (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59507) - Marjorie Mbilinyi
- Mwalimu Julius Nyerere: An intellectual in power (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59505) - Haroub Othman
- The village in Mwalimu Nyerere's thought (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59512) - Issa G. Shivji
- Nyerere's vision of economic development (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59509) - Faustin Kamuzora
- Mwalimu in our popular imagination: The relevance of Nyerere today (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59510) - Chambi Chachage
- Mwalimu Nyerere and the challenge of human rights (http://pambazuka.org/en/category/features/59511) - Helen Kijo-Bisimba and Chris Maina Peter

Learning From Obama...Analysis Of 2008 Online Campaign Of Barack Obama

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Learning from Obama: lessons for online communicators in 2009 and beyond

Free access to a 49 page book by Colin Delany which was originally published as a set of articles on the website e.politics during spring/ summer 2009. It offers an assessment of the online campaign of Barack Obama during the 2008 American presidential elections. Topics covered include the use of online fund raising, volunteers and website design. Messages are drawn for future online campaigners. http://www.epolitics.com/learning-from-obama/

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Angela Merkel: Augus Reid Global Monitor

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Angus Reid Global Scan is a component of Angus Reid Consultants an international partnership dedicated to exploring and understanding public opinion at the regional, national and global level. Since 2003 it has provided free access to public opinion polls and election tracking from nations worldwide. This section of the website contains polls relating to German Chancellor Angela Merkel. These cover assessments and perceptions of her performance since approximately 2004, voting intention trends and coverage of political parties and elections in Germany. Many of the entries are summaries of research reports; however each entry offers full bibliographic references and some detail on poll data methodology. They include examples of polls taken by German national newspapers and research companies. http://www.angus-reid.com/issue  From Intute.ac.uk

Political Finance And Political Corruption. Research Committee, IPSA

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International Political Science Association Research Committee on Political Finance and Political Corruption
This is the website of the Research Committee on Political Finance and Political Corruption, a specialist sub-group of the International Political Science Association. It provides information on the aims, membership and current research interests of the group. It includes lists of relevant papers and conferences. Topics covered include the role of money in politics; comparative and historical studies of political corruption, political donations and the funding of political parties. From Intute.ac.uk
http://rc20.ipsa.org/

Harold Wilson And Tony Blair, A Comparison

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Comparative study of the leaderships of Harold Wilson and Tony Blair
This site provides free access to the full text of a conference paper by Victoria Honeyman which was delivered at the Political Studies Association (PSA - UK) 2008 annual conference. It compares and contrasts the work of British prime ministers Tony Blair and Harold Wilson, focusing in particular on four specific issues: ideology, personality, war, constitutional reform and clause 4. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.psa.ac.uk/journals/pdf/5/2008/Honeyman.pdf

President Obama's Inauguration: A Video Replay, The Speech, The Inaugural Poem And Benediction

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If you are interested in a transcript of Obama’s inaugural speech, as it was actually given, you can get a copy approximately an hour after the speech is concluded on Project Gutenberg.

The address will be: http://www.gutenberg.org/2/8/0/0/28000/

+ A transcript of the speech is also available at CNN.com and WhiteHouse.gov.

+ A video replay of the address is available from MSNBC.com

+ Transcript of Elizabeth Alexander’s inaugural poem (via LA Times)

+ See Also: Transcript: Rev. Joseph Lowery’s benediction (via LA Times)

 

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World's Worst Dicators, 2008, As Listed By US Popular Magazine

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World's worst dictators 2008: Parade Magazine
Free access to the annual listing of the world's worst dicators from US popular magazine Parade. It includes a top 10 listing with basic biographical information, photographs and online slideshows.Copyright information is displayed on the website. From Intute.ac.uk
http://www.parade.com/dictators/2008/

Comment from CW:

Already out of date as Musharraf of Pakistan is gone.

Selection And Deselection Of Political Elites (SEDEPE Network)

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The SEDEPE network (Selection and Deselection of Political Elites) is an international network of scholars who study and research political elites. A key area of concern are issues relating to undertstanding and coding ministerial selection, deselection and movement (ministerial reshuffles). The website provides information on the aims and membership of the group. It includes calendars of events. Users may also download some papers and datasets from the website. These include data set on ministerial careers in a large number of European and non-European democracies. Intute.ac.uk
http://www.mzes.uni-mannheim.de/projekte/sedepe/homepage.php

Speaking Truth To Power: Politics And Jurisprudence In A Young Democracy, A Development Dialogue, 6th November 2008

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Isandla Institute and the Open Society Foundation for South Africa invite you to a Development Dialogue on 

 Speaking truth to power: Politics and jurisprudence in a young democracy 

 Thursday 6 November 2008, 16h30 - 18h00 

Centre for the Book, Cape Town

(tea and coffee served beforehand, please be seated at 16h30)    

In recent months, the role and independence of the judiciary in South Africa has come under scrutiny. The debate seems to have become polarised around two extreme perspectives. On the one hand, some hold the view that the judiciary has involved itself in, and has allowed itself to be influenced by, the politics of the day. Others, however, are of the opinion that the state and the ANC have sought to interfere with or compromise/discredit the judiciary, in particular the Constitutional Court. What is at stake is the autonomy of the judiciary and its credibility in speaking truth to power. In our new democracy, what is the relationship between politics and jurisprudence? Are the checks and balances in place to avoid undue political interference with the judiciary? And to what extent can the judiciary tread on the terrain of politics, without fear or favour, but at the same time without exceeding its mandate?

 

Justice Dennis Davis (Cape High Court), Rhoda Kadalie (Impumelelo Innovations Awards Trust) and Prof Pierre De Vos (University of the Western Cape, t.b.c.) have been invited to share their perspectives on these questions.  

 

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If you are interested in attending this event, please r.s.v.p. on admin@isandla.org.za by Friday 31 October. You will receive confirmation of your attendance.

 

Thanks to Fareeda Jadwat for this.

Motivating Politicians: The Impacts Of Monetary Incentives On Quality And Performance

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Motivating politicians: the impacts of monetary incentives on quality and performance
This site provides free access to the full text of a paper by Claudio Ferraz and Frederico Finan which was published as IZA Discussion paper No. 3411by the Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor in March 2008. It considers whether high wages attract better quality politicians using data from local government in Brazil. The main findings show that increases in salaries attract more better and highly educated candidates. Intute.ac.uk
http://ftp.iza.org/dp3411.pdf

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Motivating Politicians: The Impacts of Monetary Incentives on Quality and Performance
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Recent studies have emphasized the importance of the quality of politicians for good government and consequently economic performance. But if the quality of leadership matters, then understanding what motivates individuals to become politicians and perform competently in office becomes a central question. In this paper, we examine whether higher wages attract better quality politicians and improve political performance using exogenous variation in the salaries’ of local legislators across Brazil’s municipal governments. The analysis exploits discontinuities in wages across municipalities induced by a constitutional amendment defining caps on the salary of local legislatures according to municipal population. Our main findings show that increases in salaries not only attracts more candidates, but more educated ones. Elected officials are in turn more educated and stay in office longer. Higher salaries also increase legislative productivity as measured by the number of bills submitted and approved, and the provision of public goods.

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