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Abstract: In this paper we report findings from a survey of state legislators in which we ask them about the time they spend being a legislator. As expected, we find substantial differences in self-reported time on the job in different states. But we also find that legislators spend more time on the job than one might anticipate, given the "part-time" nature of many state legislatures. We discuss these findings in the context of the concept of legislative professionalism. Furthermore, we model time on the job as a function of a series of institutional-level and individual-level variables. We also explore the variety of activities involved in the legislative job.

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Abstract: India's rapid technological growth has given the nation the opportunity to combine its population explosion with impressive gains in economic investment and output. Furthermore, India is now a significant player in global politics, entering the nuclear arm race and continuing to counterbalance relations with neighbor nation Pakistan. How does India fare in coverage by the London Times and New York Times versus the coverage in the national Times of India? Is India taking over the region's political reins? Can India become the next superpower? This study will attempt to answer those questions through a content analysis of the press through Framing Analysis Theory. Media scholars have also explored the question of which factors come into play in influencing frames. News is a socially constructed product, not a reflection of an objective reality. News is not created out of a vacuum, but is influenced by a host of factors. The factors I will be analyzing in the content of news stories about India are of intrinsic or event-related value such as prominence, conflict, human interest, timelessness, proximity and deviance.

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Abstract: U.S. adults are increasingly likely to report that they always feel rushed yet some research indicates that free time has increased over the past thirty years, raising questions about the relationship between leisure and time pressures. To date, few scholars have addressed the correlates of feeling rushed and little quantitative research has investigated the relationship between changing patterns of time use and feeling time pressured. In this paper, we review the evidence on changing patterns of free time and consider how the relationship between free time and feeling rushed has changed between 1975 and 1998. Since women more than men are likely to experience a time-crunch, we also consider whether free time affects women's and men's time pressure in different ways. Our findings suggest that women and men feel rushed more often in 1998 than they did in 1975. However, the increase was greater for women than men. In 1975, more free time, and more 'pure' free time were associated with lesser feelings of time pressure for both men and women, but women benefited more from their free time than did men. In 1998, Americans' sense of time pressure was still inversely related to their free time; however, men's time pressure was reduced more by increased free time than was women's. Multivariate analyses confirm these findings and suggest that marriage, employment and parenthood each increase women's but not men's time pressure. Hence, the change in how free time influences women's time pressure may be a result of the added demands placed upon women as they are increasingly responsible not only for maintaining the household and caring for children, but also for contributing to the family's financial well-being.

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Abstract: Unified Germany has distinguished itself from other European postcommunist states by undertaking a very ambitious purging process, especially by judicial means: more than 100.000 former officials of the German democratic Republic were prosecuted for state-sponsored crimes like shootings at the Berlin wall. Although interpreted (as well by the actors as by the specialists of the so called "transitional justice") as a turning point or a break in the German history since WWII, this purging process is hardly intelligible if one ignores its complex genesis (prehistory).
The usual focus on the short term of the political transition often leads to neglect the judicial and legal specific temporalities. According to the logic of legal precedents, the West-German federal court of justice (BGH) remained largely true in the 1990's to its extensive post-war jurisprudence on national-socialist crimes. Moreover, some obvious "breaks" in the post-1990 jurisprudence appear often like "delayed" answers to legal objections made in the 1960's to the West-German judicial practice, that is in a quite different context.
In this paper, I will examine such a "delayed" break in the jurisprudence of the BGH. in a key decision (1994), the higher German court confirmed the sentence against three high-ranking officials of the former GDR for their (indirect) bureaucratic responsibility for crimes committed at the inner-German Border. In doing so, the federal judges took note after more than 40 years of a criticism of its lenient jurisprudence towards bureaucratic criminals of the national-socialist regime made in the early 1960's by several law professors, especially Claus Roxin, who suggested that the BGH could inspire itself in this matter from the Israeli sentence against Adolf Eichmann.