The estimation of the basic tendencies of the development of enterprises in the hospitality industry in national and global scales wass carried out. Professional and qualified staff is the prerogative of any business, including hotel, because it is able to demonstrate the level of high-quality...

Under most U.S. environmental regulations, the federal government shares responsibility with the states by authorizing them to implement and enforce federal policies. Authorization provides states with considerable discretion over the effects of regulation and is perhaps the most significant...

This paper examines the divergence of interest between universities and state governments concerning standards for admitting in-state versus out-of-state students. States have an interest in using universities to attract and retain high ability individuals because they pay higher taxes and...

Empirical evidence suggesting that a considerable amount of horizontal strategic interaction exists amongst governments is important in light of recent devolutionary trends of many important public programs. The empirical approach in these studies typically relies on estimating reaction...

This is the first paper to statistically examine the timing of interest group lobbying. It introduces a theoretical framework based on recurring structural policy windows' and argues that these types of windows should have a large effect on the intensity and timing of interest group activity....

"When Cities Lobby tells the story of what happens when city officials rely on professional lobbyists to represent their interests in state government. In a political environment characterized by intense urban-rural polarization and growing hostility between cities and state legislatures, the...

"Intensifying droughts and competing pressures on water resources foreground water scarcity as an urgent concern of the global climate change crisis. In India, individual, industrial, and agricultural water demands exacerbate inequities of access and expose the failures of state governance to...

Remediation has long been a costly way to address the misalignment between K-12 and higher education. In 2011, the California State University (CSU), the nation's largest public four-year university system, enacted Early Start, requiring students needing remediation to enroll in such courses in...

Remediation has long been a costly way to address the misalignment between K-12 and higher education. In 2011, the California State University (CSU), the nation's largest public four-year university system, enacted Early Start, requiring students needing remediation to enroll in such courses in...

This special issue of Internet Policy Review brings together a hand-picked selection of articles presented in the Communication Policy and Technology (CPT) section at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) in Eugene, Oregon (USA),...

This chapter analyzes the inadequacy of state policies to assist small-scale tobacco contract farming in peripheral/communal areas in Zimbabwe. The paper is based on interviews and archival research. Random sampling research method was used in three peripheral communities in Zimbabwe with large...

"How do Canadian provincial and territorial governments intervene in the cultural and artistic lives of their citizens? What changes and influences shaped the origin of these policies and their implementation? On what foundations were policies based, and on what foundations are they based today?...

This paper studies the possibilities of improving Russia's Regulatory System based on worldwide best practices. The paper analyzes the new trend in the world of legislative practice - Evidence-based policy-making and shows the main advantages and possible difficulties in the application of the...

The authors consider the problem of direct and indirect impacts of cultural events on regional development. A wide range of impacts produced when organizing and conducting an event, as well as a significant number of stakeholders, who experience the impacts, compels integrated research...

The UK has a developed tourist infrastructure and is one of the most visited countries in Europe and the world. The most important factor affecting the attendance of the country is its cultural and historical heritage. However, the economic crisis has had its negative impact on the prosperous...

This study presents two case studies, each on a current initiative of contracting for primary health services in Brazil, one for the state of Bahia, the other for the city of Rio de Janeiro. The two initiatives are not linked and their implementation has independently sprung from a search for...

Цель статьи заключается в исследовании и выявлении проблем мониторинга при формировании государственной политики развития туристической отрасли в Украине....

Цель статьи заключается в определении социально-экономической политики в обеспечении экономической безопасности Украины в современных меняющихся условиях...

В статье рассмотрены процессы приватизации предприятий, происходившие в регионах Арктики РФ в период 1991–2010 гг., и их результаты. Рассмотрен аспект...

В статье рассматривается государственная политика по формированию кадров в условиях индустриальной модернизации, сложности проведения данной политики из-за...

Problems related to the management of the public finance sector are still valid. It is associated with excessive budget deficits values and very high levels of debt. This situation causes a drop in investor confidence, as well as reducing the credibility of the state. The financial highlighted...

The article focuses on the analysis of the evolution of contemporary theoretic approaches to the choice of an optimal form of ownership, and the corresponding estimation of privatization in the context of the advantages and disadvantages of the public and private sectors of the national economy....