National decline is typically blamed on special interests from the demand side of politics corrupting a country's institutions. The usual demand-side suspects include crony capitalists, consumer activists, economic elites, and labor unions. Less attention is given to government insiders on the...

During the last three decades there has been an almost continuous undermining of the public interest by private interests operating either outside or inside Greek public administration. The result of this infiltration has been a gradual loss of bureaucratic autonomy to pursue the public...

In today’s fast-paced world, we count on knowledgeable, ethical professionals to help redress the balance of informationoverload and complex, faceless corporations.Few symbols have lasted as long, and proven as integral to the way people make difficult decisions about who to trust,than the...

Der Durchdringungsgrad von IT nimmt in Krankenhäusern stetig zu. Hierbei lässt sich grundsätzlichzwischen administrativen und medizinischen IT-Systemen unterscheiden. Die vorliegende Studieuntersucht den wahrgenommenen Wertbeitrag von IT in Krankenhäusern aus Perspektive vondrei wichtigen...

Transparent decision-making processes are widely regarded as a prerequisite for the working of a representative democracy. It facilitates accountability, and citizens may suspect that decisions, if taken behind closed doors, do not promote their interests. Why else the secrecy? We provide a...

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

This paper examines whether schooling has a positive impact on individual's political interest, voting turnout, democratic values, political involvement and political group membership, using the German General Social Survey (ALLBUS). Between 1949 and 1969 the number of compulsory years of...

Traditionell leisten Sparkassen einen wichtigen Beitrag für die Raumentwicklung in Städten und Regionen. Sie kennen die Probleme und Potentiale lokaler Ökonomien und sie haben Vertrauen zu den lokalen Akteuren. Das macht sie zu wichtigen Promotoren der Orte und Regionen, an denen sie wirken....

Exploring the current commercialisation and innovation policies in higher education, this book examines the the way in which higher education is being transformed to accommodate business methods - Provided by publisher

In many kinds of bilateral negotiations the resolution of the issues at stake has an impact which extends beyond the remits of the parties directly involved (e.g. labour negotiations in sectors of public interest, where a strike would impact on the public at large). Once this is recognised,...

Doesn't work. Has failed. Apolitical. Naive. Pre-modern. Non-scientific. Such hardly ornamental epithets get pinned on anybody who still sets out to define the common good today. Ideas and interests cannot be translated into one another without fracture. There is no abstract basic norm from...

The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the necessity and the methodologies of assessing outcomes as part of the evaluation of health services and health programmes.