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In 1980, Sweden was a highly regulated economy with several state monopolies and low levels of economic freedom. Less than 20 years later, liberal reforms have turned Sweden into one of the worlds most open economies with a remarkable increase in economic freedom. While taxes and expenditure...
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As human, cultural and economic exchanges drive the globalization process, contracts inevitably are the legal vehicle …. The dialectic connection existing between globalization and contract has led to an adjustment of its role, but also to a … between legal systems indirectly makes them convergence. Indeed, globalization is ?multi-scaled? to the extent that all the …
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The theoretical 3-level model used to analyse the Open Method of Coordination belongs to a “rational” view of the international cooperation. Although considered to be a far too simplistic framework to be able to accurately describe a highly complex phenomenon, it does justice to the idea...
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This paper analyzes the effect of task characteristics, structural and cultural features on the agencies' role perceptions. I distinguish two role perceptions which are associated with different types of ministry-agency relations, namely the agency as policy-maker and the agency as expert. These...
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This article deals with the challenge of approaching decision-making processes through strategic environmental assessment (SEA). It is argued that the interaction between policy-making and planning in strategic decision-making processes is a neglected reason for problems with applying SEA, as...
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This article introduces the European Union Policy-Making (EUPOL) dataset. The dataset contains the complete records of the European Commission's PreLex database, which tracks the interactions between the European institutions on legislative proposals and non-legislative policy documents over...
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The document enlists continued implementation of initiatives and prioritises initiatives to support all round youth development around the world. While stressing on sectoral and cross-sectoral youth policies, it calls on local, regional and national governments to create an environment where...
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regional benchmarking is facilitating the heightened regional interaction necessitated by globalization. [image omitted …
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