Western experts have extensively counseled East European constitution drafters regarding the dangers of including various social and economic rights within their constitutions. These advisors often criticize provisions that guarantee a right to a clean environment or make the protection of the...

Introduction -- Organisation, power and politics in the communist regime -- Romanian industrialisation : legal frame, characteristics and social consequences -- Methodology -- Plan and enterprise in communist Romania -- The human side of the communist enterprise -- Conclusions -- Appendix 1....

This paper studies differences in tax morale attitudes between East and West Germany using multiple recent data sets. Contrary to previous 1990s evidence, but in line with recent studies on an east-west mentality gap, we find a persistent higher tax morale in East Germany and no indication of...

The virtually bloodless revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe have understandably given rise to a rich complex spectrum of controversy and debate among reformers and specialists in both East and West on the problems and prospects surrounding the ability of these economies to make a successful...

The media and the popular culture literature in America and Europe are not the only biased groups in portraying women in Islam as "oppressed" and that their liberation can take place only outside Islam. Contrary to my trust in the impartiality of Western scholarly and activists groups, I am...