These changing representational demands have created pressures on the system, leading indirectly to the formation of new parties. ... For example, all parties called for fiscal restraint and the elimination of the deficit. ... For example, Lyon presents the view that parties are solely to blame for their decline. ... The rise of the Conservative government meant that women's issues were being drowned out by the pursuit of reducing the deficit and free trade. ... discourses and practices can indeed be changed. ...

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One cannot understand the problematics of gender violence solely by referring to the relationship of power or authority between man and women. Rather one needs to consider the problem by relating it to the specific social formation. In this context, the role played by the state, both its coercive an...

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