Joel Peters is Associate Professor of Government and International Affairs in the School of Public and International Affairs, Virginia Tech, USA. From 1992-96 he as an Associate Research Fellow in the Midde East Programme at the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House), London, where he directed a research project on the Multilateral Arab-Israeli Peace Talks. He is the author o...

ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN PUBLIC ORGANIZATIONS PETER G. KLEIN, JOSEPH T. MAHONEY*, ANITA M. MCGAHAN, and CHRISTOS N. PITELIS Division of Applied Social Sciences, and Truman School of Public Affairs, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, U.S.A. Department of Business Administration, College of Business, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, Illinois, U.S.A. Rotman School of Mana...

a Formerly, Office of the Senior Vice President for System Administration, University of Minnesota, United States b Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota, United States c Minnesota State Senate, United States d Division of Biomedical Informatics, University of California, San Diego, United States e Department of Applied Economics, University of Minnesota, United S...

the public health and called for the prompt institution of efficient safeguards to ensure the quality and authenticity of medicinal preparations offered for sale to the public. The discussion that followed showed an appalling state of affairs and the Council recommended to the Government of India to urge all Provincial Governments to take such steps as may be necessary to control this state of ...

This study examines the uptake of multiple interactive features on news sites. It looks at the thematic composition of the most clicked, most e-mailed, and most commented stories during periods of heightened and routine political activity. Results show that (a) during the former period, the most commented stories were more likely to be focused on political, economic, and international topics (o...

OBJECTIVES To study whether fine-cut tobacco poses a problem for public health and consumer affairs. METHODS We analyzed up to 70% of the fine-cut tobacco market in Spain. Regarding public health, the contents of nicotine, tar and carbon monoxide were analyzed and compared with levels in conventional cigarettes. Concerning consumer affairs, the labeling of samples was checked. RESULTS The c...

From the Department of Economics and Public Affairs, Center for Health and Well-being, Princeton, NJ The author declares that she has no conflict of interest. Address correspondence to Janet Currie, PhD, Department of Economics and Public Affairs, Center for Health and Well-being, Princeton University, 316 Wallace Hall, Princeton, NJ 08544 (e-mail: [email protected]). Received for publicati...