abstract in the past twenty-five years, the russian government has been faced with widespread corruption and despite many efforts it hasn’t been able to control that. according to transparency international report in 2013, this country was the 127th among 177 countries. this essay tries to analyze the role of administrative oligarchy and continuity of corruption in russia. the main question of ...

E-government is becoming more picture-oriented. What meaning do stakeholders attach to visual events and visualization? Comparative case study research show the functional meaning primarily refers to registration, integration, transparency and communication. The political meaning refers to new ways of framing in order to secure specific interests and claims. To what the institutional meaning re...

The Triple Helix model of university-industry-government relations can be generalized from a neo-institutional model of networks of relations to a neo-evolutionary model of how three selection environments operate upon one another. Two selection mechanisms operating upon each other can mutually shape a trajectory, while three selection environments can be expected to generate a regime. The neo-...

INTRODUCTION A common misconception pervades in the West that women are all mistreated in Arab societies due to the application of Islamic law (shari‛a). Scanning media articles, we see references to stoning as punishment for adultery in Iran and requiring of the burka for women under the Taliban. In Morocco, however, women are not obligated to wear the veil and stoning is not an acceptable pun...

The Triple Helix of university-industry-government relations provides a neo-evolutionary model of the process of innovation that is amenable to measurement. Economic exchange, intellectual organization, and geographical constraints can be considered as different dynamics that interact in a knowledge-based economy as a complex system. Differentiation spans the systems of innovation, while perfor...

74323 Document complet disponible sur OLIS dans son format d'origine Complete document available on OLIS in its original format ECO/WKP(99)1 2 ABSTRACT/RÉSUMÉ In Germany fiscal relations between the various levels of government have come to the fore of the policy debate. In practice the federal fiscal setup has evolved towards consensus and cooperation , where equalisation of living standards t...

The European Monetary Union (EMU) has generated a variety of changes, including the loss of national monetary policy autonomy and the creation of deeper integrated intraEuropean markets for goods, services, and financial instruments. This article explores the extent to which EMU has changed the ways in which and the extent to which international financial markets influence national policy choic...

Government-Opposition relations is an important area of study to understand the political development in any country but in Pakistan it has not yet caught the attention of historians and writers. Most of the scholars are focusing on the behavior of government or political parties, which gives only a partial picture of the real situation. Both government and opposition as contenders of power pla...

E-government is not the machine version of existing administration-governance practice. Deep philosophical and legal issues must be reconsidered in the relations of citizen and governance, the meaning of servicing state, privacy and openness relations, empowering. Data unification is a key legal and technical issue. Systems should survive technological changes and be adaptive for changes in reg...