AIMS to investigate the prevalence of and interrelationship between cognitive impairment and behavioural problems in older people in residential care. SUBJECTS all those aged 65 years and over resident on one night in any type of residential care within the Leicestershire District Health Authority. METHODS an assessment form for each resident was completed by care staff. The assessment incl...

Departing from a simple normative theory for the choice between lowest price, highest quality (beauty contest) and more complex scoring rules, we empirically investigate the behavior of local and central authorities. We survey a gross sample of 40 contracting entities about perceived key characteristics of products bought in 651 public procurements and collect data on supplier selection methods...

This paper opens the ‘black box’ of endogenous political legitimacy and asks what role, if any, did political legitimacy play in the process rendering England the first modern economy, a colonial Empire and an exemplary democracy? Legitimacy entails obedience based on the moral obligation to follow the authority, and public displays of support from legitimizing agents increase legitimacy. Altho...

We analyze the structure and processes of reputation building in a sample of Internet communities. Our approach uses a corpus of around 9,000 ‘active’ French websites and blogs which have been manually labeled as belonging to a specific topical territory, such as “cooking”, “crafts”, or “politics”. We propose a typology and map of the various structural positions that these websites may hold wi...

The perception of childhood as a period of dependence and innocence has a long history. Being strongly associated with the Romantic Movement of eighteenth-century Europe it resonates with more recent Western theories of child development, ideas about child rearing and policies relating to the care and education of children. The advent of a global society, however, demands that we examine and re...

The main problem of this research triggers by the fact that Indonesia fundamental constitutional system changed into 1945 Constitution. changes affected structure and structural mechanism state institutions. purpose study is to analyze philosophical question basic root formed in Constitution as a new constitution Indonesia. Regarding organization institution can be started questioning essence p...

In 1997 the Dutch legislature passed a new Act on university governance. The basic principles of universities' internal authority structure were substantially changed with the objective to increase the quality of teaching and research, the decisiveness of university management and institutional autonomy. This new Act is usually referred to as the 'MUB': Modernization University Governance Organ...