We discuss regional disparities in economic performance and living standards. first set out some key facts, provide a conceptual framework to help analyze whether such are efficient, or instead reflect market and/or policy failures. examine attempts reduce necessarily involve trade-off between equity efficiency. then investigate policymakers should focus on boosting the of lagging regions—or, c...

In The Architecture of Inclusion, Susan Sturm outlines a framework for developing inclusive institutions and for building the structural supports necessary to sustain inclusiveness.1 She develops three ideas key to the task of creating and facilitating institutional inclusiveness: 1) the development of a norm of institutional citizenship as a justification and goal for diversity initiatives, 2)...

The use of technology (information and communication technology, ICT) in secondary education is an important aspect of the current curriculum and of teachers’ pedagogy. Learning supported by computers is supposed to be motivating for students and is, therefore, assumed to have positive effects on learning experiences and results. However, the question remains whether these motivating effects ar...

How inclusive are European national identities of Muslim minorities and how can we explain cross-cultural variation in inclusiveness? To address these questions, we draw on large-scale school-based surveys of Muslim minority and non-Muslim majority and other minority youth in five European countries (Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey [CILS]; Belgium, England, Germany, the Netherlands, ...

Digital divide is, despite all efforts in research and practice, a matter of fact in most societies. In search for specific strategies to promote digital inclusion, one has to ask for what are the specific reasons and factors behind the problem. Here, the field of eGovernment (Electronic Government) features several particular characteristics, including high privacy and security demands or high...