Governmental Administration

From factory inspection to adult health service; a review of governmental administration of occupational health.

In western Europe, the view seems to be widely held that the protection of the health of workers, by definition and by practical necessity, must be a legal responsibility of ministries or departments of labour. There are good historical reasons for this viewpoint, and considerable practical experience to back it up. In today's world, however, where newly industrializing countries are looking to...

Regulation of Hybrid Networks at the Intersection between Governmental Administration and Economic Self-Organisation

Today‘s increasingly co-operative relations between the state and private persons have brought numerous new problems to the law. It may even be held that the new types of ̳co-operationism‘ between the state and private persons has plunged the law into deep crisis. This is because by freeing the administration from the constraints which are binding by statute, on the one hand, and transferring to...

Designing a Governmental Backbone

The presentation is about the design of the backbone of the Estonian governmental information systems X-Road. The system is already ten years old and has proven to be useful and reliable. The presentation describes the vision of the system, the requirements analysis process and the technical design decisions. The vision was to create a web-services based unified access to all governmental regis...

Governmental Quality and Welfare

In the last decade, caseloads in AFDC/TANF have shifted dramatically up, then down. Existing studies fail to explain the changes well. Also, they do not reveal the policies behind the changes, nor the important role of governmental quality in shaping welfare reform. In this study, I use cross-sectional models based on states, measure welfare reform policies directly using program data, and rela...

Governmental Order in Early