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Integrated Approach of the Citizen’s Role in Relation to the Public Services
Matei, Lucica; Matei, Ani - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
. The contemporary public service development awards multiple roles to the citizen, interacting with the activities of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008516582
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Evaluating EU policies on public services: a citizens´ perspective
Clifton, Judith; Díaz-Fuentes, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This article evaluates EU policies on public services – particularly public network services - from the citizens´ point … and positive externalities. Changing EU policy on public services is synthesised and classified into two main phases in … section two. Citizen satisfaction with public services as revealed through surveys from 1997 to 2007 is explored in the third …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621874
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The public administration answer to the citizen expectation under the crisis contest
Grigorescu, Adriana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The public sector copes with the economic crises taking such decisions meant to stop the regression of the economy, to reduce the public expences, to minimize the unemployment and other consequences that could show up. As we know, an important element/variable to be considered when taking these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680988
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Foreign Direct Investment and Civil Rights: Testing Decreasing Returns to Civil Rights
Ponce, Aldo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
In this paper, I examine the effectiveness of improvements in political and civil rights for attracting foreign direct investment flows (FDI) into democracies. I contend that advances in the quality of democracy – specifically those concerning civil rights – present positive but decreasing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008552809
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Political Trust, Corruption and Ratings of the IMF and the World Bank
Breen, Michael; Gillanders, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
There are only a handful of studies that examine public support for the IMF and World Bank. At the individual level, evaluations of the economy feature prominently in these studies. Utilizing data from the Afrobarometer study, we find that evaluations of the economy, ideology and a range of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260355
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Towards a More Holistic Understanding of American Support for Genetically Modified Crops: An Examination of Influential Factors Using a Binomial Dependent Variable
Josephine, Faass; Michael, Lahr - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper is an investigation into the relative importance of a wide variety of factors in influencing whether members of the American public support or oppose the use of biotechnology in agriculture and food production. To accomplish this end, as well as to facilitate the examination of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005837213
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Model for revelation of unfriendly information impacts in mass-media which are directed on change of public opinion
Bocharnikov, Victor; Sveshnikov, Sergey; Voznyak, Stepan; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this article we proposes the mathematical model for revelation of deliberate unfriendly information impacts which are fulfilled by means of specially prepared information messages (news, reviews and others) in mass-media. The model calculates the quantitative measure for fact determination of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042710
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ЗАГАДКИ ОБЩЕСТВЕННОГО МНЕНИЯ: ПОЧЕМУ СОВЕТСКОЕ НАСЕЛЕНИЕ ПОДДЕРЖИВАЕТ ПЕРЕХОД К КАПИТАЛИЗМУ С КОНЦА 80-Х ГОДОВ...
Popov, Vladimir - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Why even after the dramatic increase in inequality in the 1990s and after the emergence and enrichment of “oligarchs”, the alternative (leftist, social democratic) economic policies that could have improved material and social wellbeing of the majority of the population is not supported by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071613
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Il buon governo nel pensiero di Einaudi e Mosca: tra governo della legge e governo degli uomini
Silvestri, Paolo - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Italian Abstract: Con questo saggio intendo fare luce sulla presenza e la rilevanza teoretica dell’idea del buongoverno nel pensiero di Einaudi, attraverso un confronto con il pensiero di Mosca basato su identità e differenze tra le loro concezioni del governo della legge, l'opinione...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107352
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Beware of feedback effects among trust, risk and public opinion: Quantitative estimates of rational versus emotional influences on attitudes toward genetic modification
Kelley, Jonathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Support for genetic modification in agriculture mainly stems from approval of food and agricultural goals. It is facilitated by trust in the judgment of scientific authorities and undermined by anxiety about the risks involved. But there are symptoms of danger: Any public opinion data that show...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108400