Polish Abstract: W artykule zaprezentowana została obecna procedura tworzenia budżetu obywatelskiego we Wrocławiu. Celem jej przybliżenia czytelnikowi było uwidocznienie jakie instrumenty procesu konsultacyjnego są wykorzystywane ja jej poszczególnych etapach oraz jak może wyglądać...

Agents frequently have different opinions on where to locate a public facility. While some agents consider the facility a good and prefer to have it nearby, others dislike it and would like to see it built far away from their own locations. To aggregate agents' preferences in these situations,...

This paper argues that an evolutionary approach to policy-making, which emphasizes openness to change and political variety, is particularly compatible with the central tenets of classical liberalism. The chief reasons are that classical liberalism acknowledges the ubiquity of uncertainty, as...

It is a first stage address to the potential (e-)readers of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) and International Journal of Sociology Study (IJSS) in order to invite them to be co-operands within a collective effort to identify the ‘Heritage, Challenge, Perspective' through their own...

Mobile phones hold great potential to become a common way of conducting services transactions on a global scale in the near future. Smartphones represent an opportunistic agent to increase work efficiency and facilitate decision making process. This study aims to implement Mobile Business...

This chapter addresses the issue of institutional reforms for the euro area itself, elaborating on the notion and a project for a closer and more democratic union to heal economic asymmetries. This is critical for the southern euro area member-states and especially for the weakest economy among...

Since 1972, the certiorari petitions that arrive at the Supreme Court are randomly assigned for review to one of the five to eight justices who are members of the Supreme Court cert pool. Justices who are not members of the pool still review each petition. Thus, some petitions for review are...

Since its creation in 1934, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has had authority to approve or deny the consummation of transactions by wireless and wired communications firms under a public interest standard. Despite the passage of decades, neither the FCC nor the courts have put...

Are cooperative decisions typically made more quickly or slowly than non-cooperative decisions? While this question has attracted considerable attention in recent years, most research has focused on one-shot interactions. Yet it is repeated interactions that characterize most important...

Does cooperating require the inhibition of selfish urges? Or does “rational” self-interest constrain cooperative impulses? I investigated the role of intuition and deliberation in cooperation by meta-analyzing 67 studies in which cognitive-processing manipulations were applied to economic...