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Aspects of the Italian transition (2003)
Journal Article
Allum, F., & Newell, J. (2003). Aspects of the Italian transition. Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 8(2), 182-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/1354571032000078275

The second Berlusconi government came to power at the end of a period of unprecedented change in Italian politics to which the term 'Italian transition' is frequently applied. While the new government's arrival has not brought the transition to an en... Read More about Aspects of the Italian transition.

Political parties, party communication and new information and communication technologies (2003)
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Römmele, A. (2003). Political parties, party communication and new information and communication technologies. Party Politics, 9(1), 7-20. https://doi.org/10.1177/135406880391002

The article provides a theoretical overview of how parties in modern democracies are using the Internet to perform a range of key functions, such as opinion formation, interest mediation and party organization. Drawing on the party goals’ literature... Read More about Political parties, party communication and new information and communication technologies.

CRM packaged software: a study of organisational experiences (2003)
Journal Article
Light, B. (2003). CRM packaged software: a study of organisational experiences. Business Process Management Journal, 9(5), 603-616. https://doi.org/10.1108/14637150310496712

Customer Relationship Management (CRM) packaged software has become a key contributor to attempts at aligning business and IT strategies in recent years. Throughout the 1990s there was, in many organisations strategies, a shift from the need to mana... Read More about CRM packaged software: a study of organisational experiences.

On non-overt specifiers (2002)
Journal Article
Rowlett, P. (2002). On non-overt specifiers

I consider non-overt specifiers, in particular two contexts in which they have been posited. First, SpecIP: in finite clauses in nullsubject languages, SpecIP is standardly assumed to be occupied by a null pronominal (little pro) (Rizzi 1982a). Secon... Read More about On non-overt specifiers.

You are here: reading and representation in Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru (2002)
Journal Article
White, G. (2002). You are here: reading and representation in Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru. https://doi.org/10.1215/03335372-23-4-611

Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru is a strikingly provocative postmodernist text. Instead of examining how Thru deconstructs fiction through the literary and linguistic theory that it includes, this essay looks at how theory—specifically Roman Jakobson's... Read More about You are here: reading and representation in Christine Brooke-Rose's Thru.

Focus on grammatical form: explicit or implicit? (2002)
Journal Article
Etherington, S., & Burgess, J. (2002). Focus on grammatical form: explicit or implicit?. System, 30(4), 433-458. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0346-251X%2802%2900048-9

Grammar teaching has been and continues to be an area of some controversy and debate have led to the emergence of a new classroom option for language teachers: that of Focus on Form (as opposed to Focus on Meaning or Focus on FormS). Against this bac... Read More about Focus on grammatical form: explicit or implicit?.

Chinese Joint Ventures & Implications for Design Management (2002)
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Williams, A., & Zhang, X. (2002). Chinese Joint Ventures & Implications for Design Management. International journal of new product development & innovation management, 4(3), 213-230

Many Western and East Asian countries have found a 'haven' in China for those manufacturing industries losing their competitive edge. However, many western firms have lost millions trying to make in-roads into the sector. An increasingly confident br... Read More about Chinese Joint Ventures & Implications for Design Management.

Relative degrees of fluency: a comparative case study of advanced learners of French (2002)
Journal Article
Towell, R. (2002). Relative degrees of fluency: a comparative case study of advanced learners of French. International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching, 40(2), 117-150. https://doi.org/10.1515/iral.2002.005

This article examines whether, how and why oral fluency develops at different rates amongst undergraduate learners of French. Twelve subjects were asked to undertake two tasks during their course. The results show that some learners attain higher abs... Read More about Relative degrees of fluency: a comparative case study of advanced learners of French.

'Vopo'-General Vincenz Mueller and Western Intelligence, 1948-54: CIC, the Gehlen Organization and Two Cold War Covert Operations (2002)
Journal Article
Searle, D. (2002). 'Vopo'-General Vincenz Mueller and Western Intelligence, 1948-54: CIC, the Gehlen Organization and Two Cold War Covert Operations. Intelligence and National Security, 17(2), 27-50. https://doi.org/10.1080/02684520412331306480

This article describes an attempt by the US Army Counter Intelligence Corps (CIC) to bring about the defection of former Wehrmacht General Vincenz Müller from Eastern Germany (1948-50). While this covert operation failed, it provided a prelude to Ope... Read More about 'Vopo'-General Vincenz Mueller and Western Intelligence, 1948-54: CIC, the Gehlen Organization and Two Cold War Covert Operations.

Le Pen & Mégret's Christmas divorce: the far right and the media in France (2002)
Journal Article
Quinn, A. (2002). Le Pen & Mégret's Christmas divorce: the far right and the media in France. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 5(2), 179-199

Since 1995, the Front National in France has successfully cast itself as a party of ideas. This, according to some observers, is where the power and danger of the French extreme right resides. A media conspiracy theory is seminal to the Front's ideol... Read More about Le Pen & Mégret's Christmas divorce: the far right and the media in France.