RSA National Treasury: A Growth Diagnostic for South Africa (tags: southafrica development economicpolicy publicpolicy) , Matt Stoller: Obama's Consolidation of the Party - Politics on The Huffington Post The primary has been exceptionally good for party building. Obama has created a number of significant infrastructure pieces through his campaign, displacing traditional groups the way he promised he would by signaling the end of the old politics of divisi (tags: usa Elections BarackObama parties) , OpenOffice.org 3.0 Beta Announcement OpenOffice.org 3.0 will be the first version to run on Mac OS X without X11, with the look and feel of any other Aqua application. It introduces partial VBA support to this platform. In addition, OpenOffice.org 3.0 integrates well with the Mac OS X access (tags: OpenOffice software osx) , Policy Exchange: Government missing its own targets on the environment The report criticises the UK culture of target setting. Targets are set without the policy drivers, notably finance and interim benchmarking, required to meet them. Targets are chopped and changed, confusing industry when certainty is needed, for example (tags: uk publicpolicy environment) , Guardian: Emine Saner on women arrested for late-night drunken behaviour The number of women being arrested for late-night drunken behaviour, particularly in the West Midlands, is soaring. But are they really becoming more violent - or are the police just treating them more harshly? (tags: uk sociology society police) , Ny kunskapsöversikt om partier, makt och legitimit | Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting På uppdrag av Sveriges Kommuner och Landsting har en ny kunskapsöversikt tagits fram om hur partierna fungerar och hur samspelet med olika institutioner i samhället sker. (tags: sweden politics politicalscience parties research)