Title: ESSAYS IN COMPARATIVE INSTITUTIONAL ECONOMICS Peter Grajzl, Doctor of Philosophy, 2005 Directed By: Professor Peter Murrell Department of Economics This dissertation examines how decentralized institutional structures and organizational forms evolve and affect economic development under different politicoeconomic and legal arrangements. Organized legal professions are typically viewed by...

The subject of the article is scientific ideas that determine essence and content system public administration entities ensure administrative legal regime special economic zones. author analyzes constitutional norms provisions legislative subordinate acts form basis for their organization functioning, practice application. purpose to scientifically substantiate improvement subjects ensuring zon...

The legal regulatory regimes for communication technologies evolve with technological, economic, and social change. In the United States, the evolution of the legal regulatory regime for the telecommunications sector is following a trajectory breathtakingly similar to that already traversed by the transportation sector. As both sectors provide infrastructures essential to the nation and share s...

Lack of substantial occupational therapy research is a recognized and persistent problem; which is often discussed throughout the literature but not truly addressed. Action must be taken to involve clinicians in the effort to substantiate the efficacy of treatments through outcome studies. We offered several proactive recommendations that could be implemented on a national level to encourage he...

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is the largest known remaining anthropogenic threat to the stratospheric ozone layer. However, it is currently only regulated under the 1997 Kyoto Protocol because of its simultaneous ability to warm the climate. The threat N2O poses to the stratospheric ozone layer, coupled with the uncertain future of the international climate regime, motivates our exploration of issues th...