As every crisis, current COVID19 pandemic caused economic setback, brings not only heavy losses for all the countries, but opportunity to succeed also. The opportunity and success not require heavy governmental spending but termination of various practices harming both business climate and...

The paper consists of reference materials on Family crisis. The problem (literature review) focused on number of the version explaining fall in fertility (birthrate) in the industrialized countries. Possibility to propose governmental policies efficiently encouraging giving birth among middle...

Historical data on US aid to Israel illustrates incentives of political leaders and special interests, first and foremost in Israel. As on the early stages of Alliance Israel military capabilities could provide valuable services to USA, undermining USSR influence in the Middle East, the current...

Russian Abstract: Исторические данные по американской помощи Израилю хорошо иллюстрируют механизмы работы групп специальных интересов и стимулы политиков в Израиле....

Decreasing share of Defence in total Government expenditures reflects fundamental choices about state functions. The main hypotheses of the research is: decreasing priority of military spending could cause lower quality of Defence.The case study shows, how “punishment for military success”...

Government interventions into the traditional functioning of the family became an important factor in the recent family crisis in developed countries (fewer marriages, more divorces, and lower birth rate). This hypothesis has been tested statistically for the period from 1800 to 2010 with data...

In the main paper we propose two new indicators of de facto constitutional constraints. The indicators are based on the presence or the absence of easily observable political events. This makes the proposed measures relatively objective and easy to verify relative to the most widely used...

Russian Abstract: Государство – "ночной сторож" в эпоху классического либерального капитализма демонстрировало способность выигрывать войны, сдерживать преступность...

The present paper provides a short review of leading Israeli parties' positions on key issues. The list of issues was compiled based on the authors' choice and understanding of the political and social conditions prevalent in the country today. The list includes items such as judicial (legal...

Polish Abstract: В работе приводится обзор позиций израильских партий перед выборами в 20-й Кнессет намеченными на 17 марта 2015 года. Обзор производится по одиннадцати...