Today nonprofit organizations (NPOs) are an important provider of social services in some countries in the eastern Europe-CIS region. Based on field reports from seven countries in the region, we find that the pattern is highly variable, however; and only in central Europe and Croatia are local governments contracting with NPOs to deliver services. More commonly, local governments give grants t...

Introduction: An Overview of the Medicaid Program T he Medicaid program plays a key role in ensuring access to medical and long-term care services for millions of Americans. Medicaid, a jointly funded federal–state health care program for low-income individuals, covered more than 47 million people in 2002—one of every seven Americans. 2, 3 With financial assistance from the federal government, ...

This article details the extensive security regimes deployed against Black Power in Caribbean that were operated by regional governments and (neo)colonial British state. These of securitisation targeted radical political groups actors whose ideology placed them an antagonistic relation to independent West Indian states Britain. The author argues state’s involvement suppression is inseparable fr...

One day in December 2019 I knew something was badly amiss. Russian President Vladimir Putin had called a meeting with the leaders of Commonwealth Independent States – vague post-Soviet association former Soviet republics that semi-defer to Russia order discuss history. Not just discuss: he actually brought thick stack archival documents meeting, which, said, demonstrated certain truths about hi...

Abstract The Abrahamic faiths and received colonial law have been identified as the driving force behind criminalisation of homosexual activity in most Commonwealth States Africa. This article, therefore, seeks to question role criminal proscribing sexual activities amongst consenting adults same gender African states. A recurring paper is propriety criminalising a consensual conduct private wh...