As institutions and governance structures develop in modern markets, they tend to “feed back” onto economic activity. Through such feedback loops, market and political arenas can develop symbiotically into relatively coherent “fields” that gradually embed actors’ orientations and activities. Using these insights, this article develops and tests a theory of European integration focusing on the c...

It will ultimately be necessary for the European Union (“EU”) to stop simultaneously handling economic issues by the Community method and foreign policy measures by an undemocratic intergovernmental method. When the time comes for a single method to be chosen, it is important for the long-term stability of the Union and for the small Member States, that the Commission and the Community method i...

Abstract Objectives Data on consumption of tetracyclines, sulphonamides and trimethoprim, other antibacterials were collected from 30 EU/European Economic Area (EEA) countries over two decades. This article reviews temporal trends, seasonal variation, presence change-points changes in the composition main subgroups trimethoprim antibacterials. Methods For period 1997–2017, data tetracyclines (A...

In this statement of interest, we investigate opportunities to use a Linked Data approach in INSPIRE (Infrastructure for Spatial Information in Europe). We briefly present two typical use cases related to INSPIRE and identity the involved components, as well as their workflow. In a subsequent step, we analyze the potential of using Linked Data for each use case. We conclude with a discussion on...

Australia is one of the very few countries in the world that has relatively mature regional SDIs. This is largely due to its institutional context. This paper describes some of the main features of Australia’s institutional context and examines three data sharing partnership projects that have been developed in three Australian states. The last section discusses the relevance of the findings of...

The paper reviews trends in tobacco use among women in the European Community (EC) between 1950 and 1990. The data suggest that EC countries occupy different points on what appears to be a common prevalence curve. Southern EC countries are represented in the early phases of this curve, marked out by sharply rising prevalence. In northern EC countries, female smoking prevalence appears to have p...

Through the examination of one of the most successful cases of a European Community (EC) law litigation strategy, this article develops a general framework for understanding when and how the EC legal system will be successfully used by domestic groups to challenge national policy. The authors show how the European legal system actually shifted the domestic balance of power in favor of equality ...

This paper reports the findings of two studies on the socio-economic impacts of the regional spatial data infrastructures (SDIs) in Catalonia, and Lombardia, and then compares the developments in these two regions with those in other nine advanced regional SDIs to explore the extent to which the findings reported for the two detailed case-studies could be generalised. The significance of this p...