Amazonia: Landscape and Species Evolution: A Look into the Past. Edited by Carina Hoorn and Frank Wesselingh. Chichester (United Kingdom) and Hoboken (New Jersey): Wiley‐Blackwell. $180.00. xiii + 447 p. + 18 pl.; ill.; index. ISBN: 978‐1‐4051‐8113‐6. 2011.

Judging from Gallup Polls in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, opinion often changes during an election campaign. Come election day itself, however, opinion often reverts back nearer to where it was before the campaign began. That that happens even in Australia, where voting is compulsory and turnout is near-universal, suggests that differential turnout among those who have and have not been influenced by the campaign is not the whole story. Inspection of individual-level panel data from 1987 and 2005 British General Elections confirms that between 3 and 5 percent of voters switch voting intentions during the campaign, only to switch back toward their original intentions on election day. One explanation, we suggest, is that people become more responsible when stepping into the poll booth: when voting they reflect back on the government's whole time in office, rather than just responding (as when talking to pollsters) to the noise of the past few days' campaigning. Inspection of Gallup Polls for UK snap elections suggests that this effect is even stronger in elections that were in that sense unanticipated.

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Pestalozziella subsessilis. [Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria].

IMI Descriptions of Fungi and Bacteria ◽

10.1079/dfb/20123409303 ◽

2012 ◽

Author(s):

T. V. Andrianova

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Czech Republic ◽

New Jersey ◽

New Zealand ◽

Geographical Distribution ◽

Leaf Spot ◽

Economic Impacts ◽

Conservation Status ◽

Infraspecific Variation ◽

Chaetomella Raphigera

Abstract A description is provided for Pestalozziella subsessilis, a colonizer of living leaves, causing leaf spot symptoms leading to leaves fading and dying. Some information on its dispersal and transmission, economic impacts, infraspecific variation and conservation status is given, along with details of its geographical distribution (USA (Florida, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, Wisconsin), Kazakhstan, Russia, New Zealand, Austria, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Ukraine, and United Kingdom), hosts (Geranium carolinianum (leaf), G. collinum (leaf), G. columbianum (leaf), G. columbinum (leaf), G. macrorrhizum (leaf), G. maculatum (leaf), G. palustre (leaf), G. pratense (leaf), G. pusillum (leaf), G. pyrenaicum (leaf), G. robertianum (leaf), G. sanguineum (leaf), G. sylvaticum (leaf), G. wlassovianum (leaf), Geranium sp., and Oxypolis rigidor [Tiedemannia rigida]) and associated fungi Chaetomella raphigera.

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Le parlement européen : Comparaison des résultats de juin 1979 et portrait de l'Assemblée élue

Res Publica ◽

10.21825/rp.v22i3.19376 ◽

1980 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 471-501

Author(s):

Dusan Sidjanski

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

European Community ◽

European Parliament ◽

General Distribution ◽

The Political ◽

European Elections ◽

Minor Parties ◽

The Past ◽

Democratic Control ◽

Comparison Of The Results

The results of the first European elections reflect the general distribution of the European electorate slightly center-right oriented, even if the abstentionism of almost 40 % caused some distorsions as in the case of United Kingdom. After the comparison of the results, state by state, it appears globally that the socialists ( 113) and liberals (40) regressed, the gaullists and their allies (22) suffered a serious defeat, white the christian democrats ( 107) and the communists (44) progressed and some minor parties (leftists and regionalists) entered the European Parliament.The second part contains a portrait of the new European Parliament which is younger than its predecessor, has more women including its president and has many high personnalities. As in the past, the political groupsplay a central and dynamic role. The question is to know if they will be capable of maintaining their cohesion. The examined cases give no evidence of the existence of the center-right majority in front of the left opposition. In fact, there were changing coalitions and voting constellations according to different problems, ideological options or concrete choices. The recent vote rejecting the proposed budget expresses a will of the European Parliament to impose its style and its democratic control on the European Community.

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Faith in Rights: the Struggle Over Same- Sex Adoption in the United Kingdom

Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel ◽

10.21991/c9xt10 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 17 (1, 2 & 3) ◽

pp. 2008

Author(s):

Carl F. Stychin

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Sexual Orientation ◽

Same Sex ◽

Labour Government ◽

The Past ◽

The United Kingdom

Over the past decade of Labour government in the United Kingdom (U.K.), the regulation of sexual orientation through law has frequently been explained by its supporters through a nar- rative of progress and even emancipation. The most recent junction in this journey came in 2007, with the coming into force of the Equality Act (Sexual Orientation) Regulations on 30 April 2007.1 These Regulations contain measures pro- hibiting discrimination on grounds of sexual orientation in the provision of goods, facilities and services, education, the use and disposal of premises, and the exercise of public functions.

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