  The impact of Z_2-monopoles and vortices on the bulk and the deconfinement
phase transitions of the SU(2) lattice gauge theory with a mixed Villain form
of action is investigated by varying their numbers with appropriate chemical
potentials. Suppressing the former shifts the line of deconfinement transitions
in the coupling plane but it continues to behave also like the bulk transition
line. We find separate deconfinement and bulk phase transitions on the same
lattice, suggesting the two to be indeed coincident at higher adjoint
couplings. Universality is restored when both monopoles and vortices are
suppressed.
