The article analyses the development of a parliamentary dimension of the WTO from the first informal meetings of parliamentarians in 1996, via the adoption of Rules of Procedure for yearly Parliamentary Conferences on the WTO in 2004, to March 2011 when for the first time the Parliamentary...

<title>Abstract</title> Public sector reforms in numerous countries have been inspired by ideas of New Public Management. Politicians are advised to keep an arm's length distance, giving administrators and managers more autonomy. This article analyses the impact of recent hospital reforms in Denmark, Norway...