From the early hours of the morning until late in the evening, politicians are breaking bread and sipping cocktails with donors. The Year in Party Time. Party Time events this week. Party Time events this month.

The Economic Performance of Dictatorships. Economic Explanations of Regime Change. Student Projects from previous years. The Nazi regime under Hitler. Non-democracy in film and literature. This Wiki is intended for the students of POLS 209, Dictatorships and Revolutions. First term of 2011, at Victoria University of Wellington.

A look at some of the pressing political issues of our time. Posted by Chay Bryn Jones. Never has the colour red been quite so flagrantly associated with the UK Budget as it is at present. Yet it is not the scarlet of that mysterious briefcase paraded annually into 10 Downing Street that is grabbing headlines, but the crimson shade of the face of the Chancellor himself.

Greens smash your food bowl. Our culture had gone sour. Development was now a sin. If you wanted to build stuff, forget Australia.

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