BACKGROUND Overseeing the quality of community-based, home-care services is a subject of concern in most jurisdictions confronted with population aging and the rise of chronic conditions. Although various quality management strategies have been used in different health care settings, continuous quality improvement (CQI) is still in the early stages of development among home-care service provide...

2 A Survey of Online Visualization of Legislation 3 2.1 Before the Information Age . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2.2 Public good publication online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 2.3 Official sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 2.3.1 Selected Australian Jurisdictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 ∗Acknowled...

Since the late 1980s, the number of jurisdictions with competition laws has grown from roughly 20 to nearly 130. At least two basic questions arise from the remarkable modern expansion of a regulatory discipline established in North America in the late 19 Century. First, how successfully have the new adopters implemented their competition laws? Second, what factors account for the relative succ...

We survey and asses the literature on the positive and negative effects of ethnic diversity on economic policies and outcomes. Our focus is on countries, on cities in developed countries (the US) and on villages in developing countries. We also consider the endogenous formation of political jurisdictions and we highlight several open issues in need of further research.

Approximately 150 million Americans lived in large metropolitan jurisdictions in 2013. About 1 in 7 Americans is served by a member of the Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), a group of 20 of the largest local health departments (LHDs) in the United States. In this brief, we describe the organizational characteristics of the country's largest health departments, including those that form the BC...

Do preferences toward globalization strategies vary across publicfinance regimes? In this paper, we use data on individual preferences toward immigration and trade policy to examine how pre-tax and posttax cleavages differ across globalization strategies and state fiscal jurisdictions. High exposure to immigrant fiscal pressures reduces support for freer immigration among U.S. natives, especial...