The ongoing European integration on a political and economic level leads to an increasing mobility of European citizens. In this paper we describe the generic problems addressed by the European Research Project FASME (Facilitating Administrative Services for Mobile Europeans). We propose a citizen-centric civil registration process based on JavaCards and discuss cultural and technical problems ...

Henry Monaghan famously argued that much of constitutional interpretation takes the form of what he termed constitutional common law, a body of doctrines and rules that are constitutionally inspired but not constitutionally required and that can be altered or reversed by Congress. This Essay argues that a fair amount of ordinary administrative law qualifies as constitutional common law: Constit...

the role being played by bureaucracy in today's organizational style of life, is and has been a matter of sudy for prominent academic works, whether at the time it was put on the politico- administrative scence of the modern states by peerless works of max weber or when was a nameless manner in periods of the ancient great empires. this constant company of the political systems, - bureaucr...

This paper uses an unusual administrative dataset covering the universe of French hospitals to consider hospital employment: this is consistently higher in public hospitals than in not-for-profit (NFP) or private hospitals, even controlling for a number of measures of hospital output. NFP hospitals serve as a benchmark, being very similar to public hospitals, but without political influence on ...

Bu çalışmanın amacı, Niccolo Machiavelli’nin İtalya’nın başında görmek istediği “Prens” tipiyle kendi merceğinden görüp değerlendirdiği “sultan” karakteri arasındaki örtüşmelere dikkat çekmektir. Çalışmada, devlet adamlığı vasfı da bulunan Floransalı yazarın Osmanlı’nın en satvetli ve kudretli zamanını idrak eden bir düşünür olarak bu güce kayıtsız kalamayacağı varsayılmıştır. Öncelikle yazarın...

The study of bureaucracy is the analysis of how administrative agencies function as organizations within a governmental system. The study includes interinstitutional relationships with democratic institutions such as chief executives, legislatures, or the judiciary as well as intrainstitu-tional activities concerned with explaining the organizational structure and behavior of administrative age...

Issues of administrative responsiveness to the disadvantaged (as distinct from formal policy responsiveness) possess important implications for American democracy. In this regard, the administrative practices that facilitate or impede enrollment, or take-up, in social programs deserve attention. This study focuses on two means-tested programs in the context of American federalism, Medicaid and ...

This paper reviews and discusses the main procedures and policies that need to be followed when designing and implementing a binational survey such as the United States of America (U.S.)-Mexico Border Diabetes Prevalence Study that took place between 2001 and 2002. The main objective of the survey was to determine the prevalence of diabetes in the population 18 years of age or older along U.S.-...