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While a large literature exists on the siting of controversial facilities, few theories about spatial location have been tested on large samples. Using a new dataset from Japan, this paper demonstrates that state agencies choose localities judged weakest in local civil society as host communities for controversial projects. In some cases, powerful politicians deliberately seek to have facilitie...

The ongoing review of decentralisation in South Africa will defi nitely affect political parties’ legitimisation mechanisms at the local level. For this reason, one may expect the same actors, together with civil society organisations (CSOs), to be actively involved in the policy process of review. Their apparent low involvement in this process is taken as this policy brief’s starting point, wh...

During the U. S. Civil War (1861-65) surgeons performed a vast number of surgical procedures. The efficacy of surgery has been continually debated since the war began, in part because of lack of evidence for the (in)effectiveness of surgery. I analyze data gathered by Dr. Edmund Andrews, a surgeon with the 1st Illinois Light Artillery. The data can be arranged as observational data on surgery a...

I wasn’t able to follow all of the Popescu article in detail due to undefined symbols. I sent a message to the Internet newsgroup sci.physics.research quoting the part for which I couldn’t think of a sensible interpretation and asking if anyone could. As of this writing, no one has responded, but in the meantime, I thought of a way to define the symbols which would at least make sense. But unde...

The essays in this issue are based on a research colloquium that took place on 5±7 May 2003 in the cities of Padova and Venice, Italy. Sponsored by the University of Padova, the colloquium theme was `Information Society Visions and Governance: the World Summit on the Information Society and Beyond'. The event was intended to serve as an opportunity for communication policy researchers to gather...