... signi®cance in swing ing the argumentagainst the idea. When it was suggested to Keynes that Stamp's estimatereduced the gain to £50 million at best, or a saving of 1 shilling in thepound in income ... and Political Purpose in Twentieth-Century Britain CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESSRichard WhitingThe Labour Party and TaxationParty Identity and Political Purpose in Twentieth-Century Britain Richard ... page intentionally left blank AcknowledgementsA remark by Dr (later Professor) John Vincent at a gathering in Oxford in May 1973 aroused my interest in taxation and politics, but I haveincurred...
... signi®cance in swinging the argumentagainst the idea. When it was suggested to Keynes that Stamp's estimatereduced the gain to £50 million at best, or a saving of 1 shilling in thepound in income ... per cent in 1920/1 and neverfell bel ow 20 per cent in the later 1920s. In 1913/14 income tax andsuper-tax combined produced £47.2 million, but £398 million in 1939.Changes in the main rates ... theintellectual sophistication of Dalton's utilitarianism, emotionallyhe wasless interested in helping the poor than in hur ting the rich.'66Thisdistinction was not only of interest...
... differently in small, insular groups in comparison to the public at large.15 Peer effects may reinforce what would otherwise be only marginally dominant political leanings (Prindle, 1993). ... mechanisms. 4 Next, each individual in the data was linked to personal demographic information. Since the individuals in the dataset are the objects of intense public interest, it was usually ... (jointly) significant in determining contributions, but has the opposite shape as it did for actors: contributions are decreasing in age for the relatively young, then begin to increase in...
... then gainsindependence from the king and his court, and plays a role as a balance againstthe king’s power. Furthermore, instead of betraying the interest of their countryto the court in the ... difference, which is, in turn, divided intotheir income and their employers’ income. Both incomes are used for purchasingdomestic goods that have already been produced. The remaining goods areexported ... option of maintaining Scotland’s political independence, believed thatthe preservation of feudal and hereditary serfdom would prove indispensable forcompeting with England’s privileged trading companies....
... that Tina Fey’s stunning performance of Sarah Palin in 2008 crossedfrom traditional irony over into American stiob both in terms of Fey’s meticulousreproduction of Palin’s overgroomed political ... well as in termsof her performance’s media afterlife (thanks to YouTube, mainstream, and cablenews) in which other pundits and media commentators seized on Fey’s Palin forinsight into Palin’s ... the following retraction:The world’s worst industrial accident is being remembered in India today.This morning at 9:00 GMT and 10:00 GMT, BBC World ran an interviewwith someone purporting to...
... successfully blocking beneficial programme elements from progressing should caution both against placing hopes in these elites and attempting to bypass them. Infrastructure projects in India (as elsewhere) ... Protection Training and Research Institute. <http://envis-soe.ap.nic .in/ pubs.html>Fung, Archon/Erik Olin Wright (eds.), 2003: Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Em-powered ... as having an intrinsic value, or yield public benefits, as Kaul and Mendoza (2003) point out. Instead of economic characteristics automatically determining the distinction, the true distinc-tion...
... different kinds of work, with permanents tending to do more skilled work such as heavy-duty/cartage driving, tractor driving, forklift driving, crane driving, cargo controlling, or being lashing hands, ... one which focuses less on building a non-racial capitalism and more on a collectivised economy in which working-class concerns predominate. In considering the findings of the 2004 survey, the ... are leading to a growing differentiation of work, creating new lines of social inclusion and exclusion in post-apartheid South Africa.2On the one hand, South Africa is at the beginning of a...
... Working Men during the Mortality Decline(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997).6P. Johnson, Saving and Spending, 55–7.7A. Hardy, Health and Medicine inBritain since 1860 (Basingstoke: ... LancashireWorking Classes (2001), Vincent’s essay remains the most comprehensiveanalysis of love and death. Engaging with the difficulties inherent in locating ‘feeling’ among the labouring population, Vincent ... assumption in Vincent’s account. Having noted thedifficulties inherent in reading silence in autobiography, Vincent thenequates literary emotional containment with ‘coping’ and recovery in anexperiential...
... rate inBritain during the first half of the 1990s whereas in Germany it increased slightly following the extension of the system to East Germany. In 1995, however, the default rate inBritain ... lending to SMEs inBritain still has a more short-term structure. Concerning density of branch networks, statistical data support a lower density inBritain than in Germany. In 1995, in the ... recent data indicate a drop of LGS loans in terms of numbers and volume inBritain compared to a continued rise in Germany, as well as continuing differences between the countries regarding the...
... of parties as political institutions.But institutions exist—and policy is developed—within abroader political system. Changes in that system lead inevitablyto changes in the functioning of institutions ... organizations with material incentives linkingthe populace to precinct captains and district leaders and evengreater material incentives linking those leaders to thehierarchy in city halls and county ... that the party was losing strength at the state and locallevels, and that Dean had demonstrated real strengths in technological innovation, in fund-raising, and in organizing. In theend, many swallowed...
... Fluorination – Cesium FluorosulfateElectrophilic fluorination is regarded as a useful means of introducing a fluorineatom to an organic compound, but also suffers from the problem of finding ... electrophilic fluorination and is reasonablystable for handling in the laboratory.Alkenes can be converted into fluorinated products electrophilically withCsOSO2OF, by incorporating solvents or ... shown in Scheme 1.53 [100].C–C(sp3) Coupling ReactionsOrganolithium compounds undergo C–C(sp3) coupling with aldimines and keti-mines, providing lithium amides of sec- and tert-amines,...