MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND MEDICAL REFORM.

Use of ICT by Members of Parliament

The Politicians’ Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament

The Politicians’ Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians’ wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG which is statistically and economic...

Members' of Parliament knowledge of and attitudes toward health research and funding.

BACKGROUND Establishment of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) in 2000 resulted in increased funding for health research in Canada. Since 2001, the number of proposals submitted to CIHR that, following peer review, are judged to be of scientific merit to warrant funding, has grown by 77%. But many of these proposals do not receive funding because of budget constraints. Given the ...

Medical Education and Curriculum Reform:

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate criteria by which the principles of curriculum reform can be judged. To this end, the paper presents an overview of standard critiques of medical education and examines the ways medical curriculum reforms have responded to these critiques. The paper then sets out our assessment of these curriculum reforms along three parameters: pedagogy, educational co...

Decline of the “little Parliament”: Juries and Jury Reform in England and Wales

INTRODUCTION The English jury evokes passionate and often extreme views. On the one hand, trial by jury is vigorously defended as an ancient right, a bastion of liberty, and a means whereby the ordinary person’s common sense views can inform decisions and contain the powers of government. On the other hand, the jury is regarded much more cynically as a costly, sometimes incompetent anachronism ...