University Governance in Europe: Managerial Convergences or Political Harmonization?

Teaching Political Science in Europe

Thisarticle first reviews the history of political science teaching in Europebefore going on to consider a range of recent developments in the teaching of politicalscience, including cross-national joint programmers; technologically enhancedlearning; placement learning and problem-based learning. The last sectionconsiders a range of issues facing political science teachers, includingfinancial p...

Harmonization Initiatives in Europe

INTRODUCTION Modern medicine is more and more based on protocols and guidelines; clinical laboratory data play very often a relevant role in these documents and for this reason the need for their harmonization is increasing. To achieve harmonized results the harmonization process must not be limited to only the analytical part, but has to include the pre- and the post-analytical phases. RESUL...

Harmonization and Side Payments in Political Cooperation∗

I study two regions that are negotiating an agreement to internalize externalities. Local preferences are local information, but reluctance is, in equilibrium, signaled by delay. Conditions are derived for when it is efficient to restrict the attention to policies that are uniform across regions with and without side payments and when it is efficient to prohibit side payments in the negotiation...

Managerial Pay and Governance in American Nonprofits

This article examines the compensation of top managers of nonprofits in the United States using panel data from tax returns of the organizations from 1992 to 1996. Studying managers in nonprofits is particularly interesting given the difficulty in measuring performance. The article examines many areas commonly studied in the executive pay (within for-profit firms) literature. It explores pay di...

Societal Discrimination against Muslims in Europe: Racism and Political Opportunism