New institutionalism has emerged as one of the most prominent research agendas in the field of comparative politics, political economy, and public policy. This article examines the role of institutional variation in political/economic regimes in shaping tax burdens in industrialized democracies. An institutionalist model for tax policy variation is tested across the Organization for Economic Co...

6th February. Mr. Bernard Braine, replying to a question from Mr. Jeremy Thorpe, stated that the equivalent of 198 full-time psychologists were employed in the National Health Service in England and Wales on 30th September, 1962, the latest date for which national figures were available. 13 th February. Replying to a question from Lord Balniel, the Minister of Health, Mr. Anthony Barber, gave i...

Bernard Braine said that he had no evidence that general hospitals were refusing to admit mentally confused aged people, or that mental hospitals refused admittance to such people unless they were violent. He added that he would investigate any cases of difficulty which Mr. Pavitt had in mind. Impact of Television on the Young. (10th July). Mr. Henry Brooke announced the composition of the Fras...

Autistic Children (22nd March). The education and training of these children was the subject of an adjournment debate. It was estimated, said Mr. Compton Carr, that there were about 3,000 to 4,000 of these children and he urged more help for the family, more community care, more co-operation between education and health authorities and more research and experimentation in all aspects of the pro...

according to the third-development program in 1379, government was obliged to design a suitable social security polity and submit it to the parliament for final approval. during recent weeks and after nearly a two-year delay, a bill was edited by government and sent to the islamic parliament. this long - term delay indicates the serious differences in the field of law - making and necessary fra...

Affiliations: Normandie Univ, UNIROUEN, Rouen, France, and Institute for Research and Innovation in Biomedicine (IRIB), Rouen, France. Pôle 3R, Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France. CRMPR les Herbiers, Bois Guillaume, France. European Society for Swallowing Disorders, Canet de Mar, Spain. Unitat d’ Exploracions Funcionals Digestives, Department of Surgery, Hospital de Mataró, Universitat Au...

2. Clause 1 of the proposed Scotland bill is widely seen to fall short of the Smith Commission’s recommendations to make the Scottish Parliament permanent in UK legislation. Instead, the commitment is to “recognise” a Scottish Parliament as a permanent part of the UK’s constitutional arrangements, without containing sufficient provisions to actually render the parliament permanent, for instance...