In cultural consumption it is quite reasonable to expect that the formation and the evolution of preferences, and the related individual choice behaviour, is affected by various interactions within families, peer and other social groups. Our investigation focuses on a specific form of "indirect"...

This paper is a comparative analysis of the recent evolution of the French and the Anglo-Saxon profession regulations of auctioneers in terms of entry barriers and exercise of the profession. Firstly, following Stephen and Love's (1999) framework of the regulation of legal profession, we...

The aim of this study is to provide the CULT Committee of the European Parliament with an understanding on the implementation of the CREATIVE EUROPE - CULTURE sub-programme based on Creative Europe national Desks' first impressions. It covers a large selection of 32 Desks (82.1% of Desks)....

The aim of this study is to provide the CULT Committee of the European Parliament with an understanding on the implementation of the CREATIVE EUROPE - CULTURE sub-programme based on Creative Europe national Desks' first impressions. It covers a large selection of 32 Desks (82.1% of Desks)....

The Office of Cultural Affairs of the City of Dallas manages the acquisition and conservation of a broad collection of commissioned and donated works of public art, contributing to make Dallas a vibrant place to live and work and a great place to visit. Facing reduced availability of public...

Politics must address multiple problems simultaneously. In an ideal world, political competition would force parties to adopt priorities that reflect the voters' true concerns. In reality, parties can run their campaigns in such a way as to manipulate voters' priorities. This phenomenon, known...

Monetary valuation techniques are often used for evaluating the effect of a change in ecosystem services on components of human wellbeing, even though they face several drawbacks. This paper seeks to reconcile monetary valuation techniques with methods that address ecosystem-economy interactions...

Why do some countries adopt exogenous rules into their domestic law when those laws do not align with the country’s specific interests? This article draws on the policy diffusion literature to identify four causal mechanisms that are hypothesized to give rise to those transplants in the case...