While political methodologists and other quantitative social scientists are the most obvious beneficiaries of the widespread availability of personal computers and associated software, virtually all social scientists rely on computers for a variety of research-related tasks, including but not limited to empirical analyses; word processing and typesetting; communicating and publishing via email ...

ible in the period between the Korean and Vietnam wars. Academic and popular writings drew attention to those who were not benefitting from that prosperity and evoked a strong public and political response. Within a few years, new legislative and administrative initiatives, linked under the rubric of the “War on Poverty,” dramatically transformed the federal budget and the scope of the nation’s...

eGovernment is maturing but as the latest academic research and practitioners' experience shows, challenges rather lie in the managerial and political domain. Cross boundary collaboration, therefore, crossing jurisdictional and organisational boundaries is the next step for government. I offer recommendations and insights from around the globe. This working paper is aimed at administrative and ...

Executive Summary This brief paper discusses the strengths of the patent system and its weaknesses in terms of creating incentives for innovation. It considers how Advanced Market Commitments (AMCs) may supplement the patent system, and introduces a Comprehensive Advance Market Commitment (CAMC) proposal. It shows how both AMCs and a CAMC could increase incentives for R&D into diseases of the p...

This paper presents a cross-national analysis of eParticipation research in the administrative and political domain. It covers eParticipation research in six European countries (Austria, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, and Sweden) focusing on several aspects of eParticipation research, including research questions, methods, disciplinary approaches, units of analysis, research findings. The pap...

BACKGROUND Intersectoral Action for Health (IAH) and its Health Impact Assessment (HIA) tool are built on collaboration between actors and sectors, requiring multidimensional and horizontal way of working. The study aims to analyse the enablers and barriers when such a new way of working and tool have been initiated to replace a traditional, vertical operation at the local level in Slovakia-a c...

so many interpretations and judgments possible? Is it the fact that OMAM is a play in narrative form, consisting almost entirely of dialogue? Is it because of the range of characters, including the two leads but also the ranch owner, his son Curley, Curley's young wife, a black hand, an idealized cowboy, and others? Certainly the novel allows schoolchildren to study the Great Depression and the...

This paper describes both the administrative and technical backgrounds to the establishment of the first international Internet node—from its beginnings as a single Arpanet node to the main early link between the Internet and the UK National Research Network. It gives an overview of some of the technical accomplishments of the early years and of the services offered. It reviews how certain poli...

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Ethical and conceptual issues 3. Our uncertain knowledge of the environment 4. The Impact of population growth on the environment 5. What are the implications for population policy? 6. Political and administrative difficulties in developing a global environmental policy 6.1 Sovereignty and the Administration of Environmental Protection Activities 6.2 North-South Equi...