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Under the conditions of market economy, the government is an independent economic entity, whose function is not only to provide services and handle public affairs, but also to coordinate, advance a...

In Finland ECEC is seen as an investment in the future. The Finnish ECEC system is one of the most equal in the world. The high-quality education is available to both private and public sectors. Na...

This book challenges current views that public life is in decline and that contemporary urban design trends reliant on privatisation, control, events, and thematic designs are to be blamed. Drawing...

Forest decline became a matter of public and scientific concern in France in 1983 when conifers in the Vosges mountains were found to exhibit unusual crown deterioration. An impassioned controversy...

·  Evolution and adaptation of fire and rescue services during periods of expansion and austerity. ·  Civil protection as a local and national priority. ·  The concepts and consequences of heroes a...

The concept of fractals is often considered to describe surface roughness. Fractals retain all the structural information and are characterized by a single descriptor, the fractal dimension, D. Fra...

Analytical Methods in Policy Formulation.- The Field of Policy Analysis.- What Can Cost Benefit Analysis Learn from Decision Analysis?.- Methodologies for Facility Siting Decisions.- The Implementa...

Modern institutional economics witnesses a merging of formal and informal strands of theorizing. This development has offered new and vigorous perspectives which avoid both arbitrariness and theore...

At the request of our publishers, I accepted the task of preparing this second edition. I felt this was necessary for several reasons: new imaging technologies such as CT scanning and 3-D reconstru...

Hochschulen müssen sich verstärkt gegenüber Politik und Öffentlichkeit legitimieren. Dabei stehen sie sowohl im Wettbewerb miteinander als auch mit außeruniversitären Forschungs- und Bildungseinric...

This book examines the impacts of fiscal decentralization reforms on the efficiency of local governments in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. By offering a comparative perspective and b...

On October 24th, 1994, the pro-government German newspaper 'Die Welt' reported that the Minister of Family Affairs, Mrs. Hannelore Ransch, member of the ruling Christian Democratic Union (CD U), wi...

Annals of Theoretical Psychology Vol. 18

This book explores the role of national fiscal policies in a selected group of Euro-area countries under the European Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). In particular, the authors characterize the ...

This book explores the debate and politicisation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations in the Spanish, French and British public spheres. It addresses the questi...