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Two major anti-sweatshop groups—United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS) and SweatFree Communities—pursued similar goals in different social arenas: college campuses and city governments. This article examines their shared strategy of gradual escalation, demonstrating how social movements must balance coercion and consent to effectively pressure authorities. Both groups aimed to enforce pro-labor rights codes for apparel industry partners, using distinct yet escalating strategies. USAS employed extra-institutional tactics like sit-ins and hunger strikes, while SweatFree Communities leveraged electoral politics. Both began with awareness-raising efforts, such as teach-ins and film screenings, before escalating to coercive tactics—protests and sit-ins for USAS and mobilizing key voting blocs for SweatFree Communities. Despite operating in different arenas, both groups followed a pattern of building legitimacy before applying structural power.

In his book Confucian Perfectionism, Joseph Chan derives the so-called service conception of political rights from the classical Confucian service conception of political authority, and justifies a mode of democracy decoupled from democratic principles of popular sovereignty, political equality, and popular right to political participation. He also offers the fallback idea of (human) rights as the conception of rights best suited for his version of Confucian perfectionist democracy. In this essay it is argued that not only is there a significant tension between his service conception of political rights and the fallback idea of (human) rights, but, more fundamentally, the service conception of political rights erodes, rather than buttresses, his idea of Confucian democracy.

Representative democracy, responsible democracy, direct democracy, ritualistic democracy, perfunctory democracy -- what democracy does Nelson have and what do citizens deserve?

'International IDEA Handbook on Democracy Assessment' by David Beetham, Sarah Bracking, Ian Kearton and Stuart Weir is reviewed.

They claim Beetham's promise of five-star standards have not been met. The Beetham Organisation rejects all of the allegations. David Turley, one of the investors, is considering legal action in an attempt to recover the pounds 27,700 deposit he paid for a two bedroom flat. Mr Turley had intended to rent the flat out and claims he was told by sales agents to expect a monthly income of pounds 1,200. In fact, two bedroom flats at Beetham Tower are currently available for rent at pounds 850 a month. Beetham chief executive, Stephen Beetham, defended the project. \"This development has the highest quality overall specification of any residential or hotel building in Birmingham,\" he said. \"This development has been very successful and the hotel is currently regarded as the number one in Birmingham and is fitted out to a higher specification than originally envisaged by either Beetham or Radisson SAS.\"

\"When you play a team like Chicago De La Salle you can't turn the ball over eight times, that's just what it comes down to,\" [David Beebe] said. \"These kids are resilient. They have a lot of heart and they've been through a lot. Losing (Drew) [Drew Clippert] is tough, but I give Josh ([Josh Beetham]) a lot of credit. He's a tough kid.\" \"[Ryan Burke] plays with a big heart,\" Beebe said. \"He's not alone, which is the funny thing. We've got a lot of kids like that, but for whatever reason, things just haven't gone our way. But then again, I credit the teams we're playing.\" \"What is very critical, and I hope all of these kids understand, is that we cannot brand ourselves the way these games (last two) have played out,\" Beebe said. \"It's very important that we reassess who we are. Because I don't think we've ever come close to playing the way I think we are. We have flashes of brilliance, and we have to give other teams credit, but we can't make any excuses and have to play through it. We've got to win the next four out of five. That's really what it comes down to.\"

Sir Peter Bell, Sir Peter Morris, Sir Bernard Ribeiro; Prof Cliff Shearman, President, Vascular Society of Great Britain and Ireland, with Mr Jonothan Earnshaw, Honorary Secretary; Prof John Blandy, Prof Harold Ellis, Mr Roger Baird, Prof Kevin Burnard, Mr Richard Collins, Prof Ross Naylor, Mr Chris Russell, Mr Bill Thomas and Mr John Wolfe, together with many other friends.

While that may be true, 99 per cent of the football fraternity knew that Fremantle, West Coast, Sydney and Hawthorn were at least four AFL clubs which had previously voiced their views on the dubious tactics of Bulldogs players to the league. [...]if Ansett Cup games counted, as they do for AFL life memberships, Sheedy would be somewhere close to the 500 mark. Since 1981 Sheedy's record stands at 284 wins, 160 losses and five draws.