The issue of transplantation for patients affected by mental retardation (MR) has been and continues to be a matter of discussion. The recent policy of the Veneto region, a highly populated area in northern Italy, indicates that patients with MR are not eligible for any transplant of solid organs, indicating intelligence quotient (IQ) <50 as absolute and IQ <70 as a relative exclusion criteria....

This paper criticizes the use of multiple regression (MR) in the fields of comparative social policy and political economy and proposes alternative methods of numerical analysis. The limitations of MR in its characteristic guise as a means of hypothesis-testing are well known. The emphasis here is on the specific difficulties of applying MR to the problem of explaining diverse outcomes across a...

• Smith Richardson Foundation Domestic Public Policy Fellowship, 2005-2006. • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Grant (with Dan Silverman), 2003-2004. • Yale University Junior Faculty Fellowship, 2003. • Yale University Social Science Research Fund, 2001. • W.P. Carey Prize for Best Doctoral Dissertation in Economics, University of Pennsylvania, 2001. • Review of Economic Studies European Tour, Ma...

The regressive nature of consumption taxes poses a challenge to partisan theory. Using data for up to 20 OECD countries in the period 1970-2003 this article aims to explore the question of whether the idea that social democratic governments typically have to compromise on policy goals and core constituency interests to make themselves more appealing to the median voter necessitates the use of r...

7. The meeting was opened by Mr. S.K. Jam, Deputy Director-General, on behalf of the Director-General of the ILO. Having welcomed the participants, Mr. Jam emphasised the importance attached by the ILO to the question of ensuring in member States a sound development of social security systems, especially those designed to provide medical care guarantees to the population. For this purpose, stud...