Existing theories of coups against democracy emphasize that elites mount coups when democracy is particularly threatening to their interests. But holding interests constant, some potential plotters may have more influence over whether or not a coup succeeds. We develop a model where coups generate rents for elites and show that the likelihood of elite participation is increasing in their networ...

The cooperative movement on the Canadian prairies is a major element in the region's social and economic history. The main impetus behind the creation of the movement was the successive agrarian revolts that occurred between 1895 and 1945. Those revolts significantly disrupted the national Canadian political process, both directly by producing the Progressive movement, and indirectly by contrib...

DR. MICHAEL K1TA: Our second panel this morning is on legal issues in genetic testing. Our first speaker is Professor Bartha Knoppers. Dr. Knoppers received her Doctorate from the Sorbonne in Comparative Medical Law and has pursued three main interests: bioethics, genetics, and reproductive technology. She is currently professing to the law faculty of the University de Montreal, but in her spar...

Since 1953, illustrations have been inserted as "tailpieces" at the ends of articles in The American Journal of Physiology and The Journal of Applied Physiology. The drawings were made by Homer Wheelon, a member of the American Physiological Society from 1919 until his death in 1960. Forty-five years after his death, Wheelon is unknown, but he contributed 32 publications to the medical literatu...

The British Government is implementing some major alterations to the way health services in Great Britain are organised. As well as the introduction of competition between health care providers, their financial interests are to be linked to their output, in efforts to use market forces to increase efficiency and cut costs. This paper looks at the possible impact of these changes of health care ...

The Wellcome Foundation Archive (WFA) comprises the surviving records of The Wellcome Foundation Ltd, the pharmaceutical company from which the fortunes of Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853±1936), and the Wellcome Trust, were derived. 1 The Wellcome Foundation Ltd was formed in 1924, as an amalgamation of Wellcome's business and other interests (including the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific ResearchÐ ...

Autistic people are unusually sensitive to the unusual. Furthermore, their own behavior lacks spontaneous outliers. Autistic people stick to strict routines and their speech is flat and monotonous, or alternatively their behavior and speech is too variable but still lacks outliers. This absence may be what gives rise to an impression of “oddness”. In this paper, a model of sensitivity to outlie...

My mathematical interests lie mainly in the field of combinatorics and how combinatorics can be used to prove algebraic identities. My current research is in the area of enumerative and algebraic combinatorics with an emphasis on counting the number of patterns which occur in words and permutations. This has been a very active area of research in recent years and there is a yearly conference, P...

THE catholicity of Chaucer's interests has always fascinated and confounded those who seek to trace the origins of the Canterbury Tales. Numerous studies, for example, have been devoted to explaining the miraculous grain in the Prioress's Tale, and these attest to the many sources literary historians have investigated in their quest to understand even the smallest details of Chaucer's great wor...

BACKGROUND This paper has three objectives: to review the health development landscape in the World Health Organization African Region, to discuss the role of health policy dialogue in improving harmonisation and alignment to national health policies and strategic plans, and to provide an analytical view of the critical factors in realising a good outcome from a health policy dialogue process. ...