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A Suite Deal, Scott J. Wallsten
Community Determinants Of Volunteer Participation: The Case Of Japan, Mary Alice Haddad
Community Determinants Of Volunteer Participation: The Case Of Japan, Mary Alice Haddad
Mary Alice Haddad
Why are some communities more civically engaged than others? Why do some communities provide services with volunteer labor whereas others rely primarily on government provision? When communities provide both volunteer and paid labor for the same service, how do they motivate and organize those volunteers? This article addresses these questions through quantitative tests of prevailing explanations for levels of civic engagement (e.g., education, TV viewing, urbanization) and qualitative analyses of case studies of three medium-sized cities in Japan, focusing particularly on the service areas of firefighting and elder care. The statistical analyses demonstrate that current explanations that rely on individual …
Exportkreditagenturen Und Erneuerbare Energien: Chancen Und Herausforderungen, Marcus Schaper
Exportkreditagenturen Und Erneuerbare Energien: Chancen Und Herausforderungen, Marcus Schaper
Marcus Schaper
Erneuerbare Energien spielen im Kampf gegen die globale Erderwärmung eine Schlüsselrolle. Nur der verstärkte Einsatz von erneuerbaren Energien und die Steigerung von Energieeffizienz werden es ermöglichen, dass die durch klimaschädigende Gase bedingte Erderwärmung kein „gefährliches“ Ausmaß annehmen wird. Während das Erneuerbare Energien Gesetz (EEG), die Deutsche Energieagentur (dena) und andere Initiativen zu einem Boom im nationalen und europäischen Markt für erneuerbare Energien geführt haben und dadurch auch die Wirtschaftlichkeit dieser neuen Energieträger erhöht haben, sieht das Bild außerhalb der europäischen Grenzen weniger gut aus. Jedoch kann keine Klimastrategie ohne große Anstrengungen in Entwicklungs- und Schwellenländern erfolgreich sein. Noch vor wenigen …
An Exploration Of Public-Private Partnerships In The City Of Houston, Texas. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh
An Exploration Of Public-Private Partnerships In The City Of Houston, Texas. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh
Andrew I.E. Ewoh
No abstract provided.
High Tech Cluster Bombs: Why Successful Biotech Hubs Are The Exception, Not The Rule, Scott J. Wallsten
High Tech Cluster Bombs: Why Successful Biotech Hubs Are The Exception, Not The Rule, Scott J. Wallsten
Scott J. Wallsten
No abstract provided.
Public-Private Partnerships In A Texas Municipality: The Case Of The City Of Houston. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh
Public-Private Partnerships In A Texas Municipality: The Case Of The City Of Houston. Paper/Presentation, Andrew Ewoh
Andrew I.E. Ewoh
No abstract provided.
Decentralization Reforms And Commune Level Services Delivery In Cambodia, Leonardo G. Romeo, Luc Spyckerelle
Decentralization Reforms And Commune Level Services Delivery In Cambodia, Leonardo G. Romeo, Luc Spyckerelle
Leonardo G. Romeo
The focus of Communes’ action has been on the development of small-scale infrastructure, whose financing absorbed all CSF resources in 2002 and 2003. In both years, over 60% went to rural transport projects (roads, small bridges and culverts). In 2003 the second most important category of projects (absorbing 16.3% of the CSF resources) included the construction and rehabilitation of canals and other irrigation structures. These two categories of investments, on which three quarters of the CSF resources were spent, reveal the strong local preference for economic infrastructures. As for the remaining quarter of CSF resources for social infrastructures, most went …
Internationale Harmonisierung Von Umweltstandards Im Oecd-Rahmen: Standards Für Exportkreditagenturen, Marcus Schaper
Internationale Harmonisierung Von Umweltstandards Im Oecd-Rahmen: Standards Für Exportkreditagenturen, Marcus Schaper
Marcus Schaper
No abstract provided.
From Hayek To Keynes: G.L.S. Shackle And Our Ignorance Of The Future, Greg Hill
From Hayek To Keynes: G.L.S. Shackle And Our Ignorance Of The Future, Greg Hill
Greg Hill
G.L.S. Shackle stood at the historic crossroads where the economics of Hayek and Keynes collided. Shackle fused these opposing lines of thought in a macroeconomic theory that draws Keynesian conclusions from Austrian premises. In Shackle’s scheme of thought, the power to imagine alternative courses of action releases decision makers from the web of predictable causation. But the continuous stream of spontaneous and unpredictable choices that originate in the subjective and disparate orientations of individual agents denies us the possibility of rational expectations, and therewith the logical coherence of market equilibrium through time.
Export Credit Agencies And Climate Change: What Can They Do About It?, Marcus Schaper
Export Credit Agencies And Climate Change: What Can They Do About It?, Marcus Schaper
Marcus Schaper
Among the chief contributors to the anthropogenic causes of global climate change are carbon dioxide emissions resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels. Though the sources of these emissions are clearly identified, global carbon dioxide output from energy generation is still on the rise. Many industrialized countries have achieved a slow down in the increase of their emissions or even a reduction. However, emissions in developing countries are on the rise. A key challenge is to create incentives to turn around the trend of ever increasing emissions in the countries that are not obliged to reductions under the Kyoto protocol. …
Health As Foreign Policy: A U.S.-German Dialogue On Governance And Global Health., Marcus Schaper
Health As Foreign Policy: A U.S.-German Dialogue On Governance And Global Health., Marcus Schaper
Marcus Schaper
Health has become an issue with significant implications for economies, trade, and security in today’s globalized world. Epidemics like Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) carry an impact far beyond the epicenters of the disease. The spread of HIV-AIDS leads to fundamental changes in social cohesion and state structures with far reaching international consequences. Bioterrorism with its potential for rapid pandemic poses a threat to many countries of the world. In a globalized world, health has developed into an issue of soft power. It has become part of deliberations on foreign policy and of the development of civil society and democracy. …
Future Impact Of Digital Tv Services And Broadband Internet Connections On Residential Energy Consumption, Clemens Cremer, Michael Friedewald, Barbara Schlomann, Alois Huser
Future Impact Of Digital Tv Services And Broadband Internet Connections On Residential Energy Consumption, Clemens Cremer, Michael Friedewald, Barbara Schlomann, Alois Huser
Michael Friedewald
No abstract provided.
How To Get It. Diagrammatic Reasoning As A Tool Of Knowledge Development And Its Pragmatic Dimension, Michael H.G. Hoffmann
How To Get It. Diagrammatic Reasoning As A Tool Of Knowledge Development And Its Pragmatic Dimension, Michael H.G. Hoffmann
Michael H.G. Hoffmann
Discussions concerning belief revision, theory development, and "creativity" in philosophy and AI, reveal a growing interest in Peirce's concept of abduction. Peirce introduced abduction in an attempt to provide theoretical dignity and clarification to the difficult problem of knowledge generation. He wrote that "An Abduction is Originary in respect to being the only kind of argument which starts a new idea." These discussions, however, have led to considerable debates about the precise way in which Peirce's abduction can be used to explain knowledge generation. The crucial question is that of understanding how we can get the new elements capable of …
Learning By Developing Knowledge Networks. A Semiotic Approach Within A Dialectical Framework, Michael H.G. Hoffmann, Wolf-Michael Roth
Learning By Developing Knowledge Networks. A Semiotic Approach Within A Dialectical Framework, Michael H.G. Hoffmann, Wolf-Michael Roth
Michael H.G. Hoffmann
A central challenge for research on how we should prepare students to manage crossing boundaries between different knowledge settings in life long learning processes is to identify those forms of knowledge that are particularly relevant here. In this paper, we develop by philosophical means the concept of a dialectical system as a general framework to describe the development of knowledge networks that mark the starting point for learning processes, and we use semiotics to discuss (a) the epistemological thesis that any cognitive access to our world of objects is mediated by signs and (b) diagrammatic reasoning and abduction as those …
Town Of Viola Comprehensive Plan, Troy D. Mix
The Genius Of The Nation Versus The Gene-Tech Of The Nation: Science, Identity, And Gmo Debates In Hungary, Krista Harper
The Genius Of The Nation Versus The Gene-Tech Of The Nation: Science, Identity, And Gmo Debates In Hungary, Krista Harper
Krista M. Harper
Introduction In the late 1990s, Hungarian politicians, environmentalists, and agricultural lobbyists weighed the pros and cons of allowing genetically modified (GM) food and seeds to enter the Hungarian market. Starting around 1994, a small group of Hungarian environmentalists began researching GM issues. Initially, they feared that as a post-socialist country seeking foreign investment, Hungary would become prey to multinational corporations seeking an ‘emerging market’ with a lax regulatory environment. The terms of the debate were reframed over time, notably following 1998, when a number of European Union member states banned the imports of GM foods and when Hungarian expatriate geneticist …
The Floating Island: Change Of Paradigm On The Taiwan Question, Zheng Wang
The Floating Island: Change Of Paradigm On The Taiwan Question, Zheng Wang
Zheng Wang
No abstract provided.
Raymond Baldwin, Brian Glenn
The Role Of Non-Governmental Organizations In Public Policy In Africa, Andrew Ewoh
The Role Of Non-Governmental Organizations In Public Policy In Africa, Andrew Ewoh
Andrew I.E. Ewoh
No abstract provided.
American Government With Readings, Walle Engedayehu, Andrew Ewoh, Anthony Coveny, Lee Mcgriggs
American Government With Readings, Walle Engedayehu, Andrew Ewoh, Anthony Coveny, Lee Mcgriggs
Andrew I.E. Ewoh
No abstract provided.
U.S. Policy Toward Canada: The Case Of Trade And Environmental Issues, Andrew Ewoh
U.S. Policy Toward Canada: The Case Of Trade And Environmental Issues, Andrew Ewoh
Andrew I.E. Ewoh
No abstract provided.
God And The Red Umbrella: Risk, Responsibility And The Politics Of Mutual Assistance In America”, Brian Glenn
God And The Red Umbrella: Risk, Responsibility And The Politics Of Mutual Assistance In America”, Brian Glenn
Brian J. Glenn
No abstract provided.
"Lynch V. Donnelly" "Legal Services Corp. V. Velazquez" "Arizona V. Evans" "Red Lion V. Fcc", Brian Glenn
"Lynch V. Donnelly" "Legal Services Corp. V. Velazquez" "Arizona V. Evans" "Red Lion V. Fcc", Brian Glenn
Brian J. Glenn
No abstract provided.
Shifts In Environmental Governance In Canada: How Are Citizen Environment Groups To Respond?, Christopher Gore, Beth Savan, Alexis Morgan
Shifts In Environmental Governance In Canada: How Are Citizen Environment Groups To Respond?, Christopher Gore, Beth Savan, Alexis Morgan
Christopher D Gore
No abstract provided.
The Two Schools Of American Political Development, Brian J. Glenn
The Two Schools Of American Political Development, Brian J. Glenn
Brian J. Glenn
No abstract provided.
Transfer Agents And Global Networks In The ‘Transnationalisation’ Of Policy, Diane L. Stone
Transfer Agents And Global Networks In The ‘Transnationalisation’ Of Policy, Diane L. Stone
Diane L Stone
This paper focuses on the role of international actors in policy/knowledge transfer processes to suggest that a dynamic for the transnationalisation of policy results. The paper seeks to redress the tendency towards methodological nationalism in much of the early policy transfer literature by bringing to the fore the role of international organisations and non-state actors in transnational transfer networks. Secondly, attention is drawn to ‘soft’ forms of transfer – such as the spread of norms – as a necessary complement to the hard transfer of policy tools, structures and practices and in which non-state actors play a more prominent role. …
Kansas Politics In The Bigger Picture: A Review Essay Of What’S The Matter With Kansas?, Brian J. Glenn
Kansas Politics In The Bigger Picture: A Review Essay Of What’S The Matter With Kansas?, Brian J. Glenn
Brian J. Glenn
No abstract provided.
Small Businesses In The Informal Economy: The Evidence Base, Colin C. Williams
Small Businesses In The Informal Economy: The Evidence Base, Colin C. Williams
Colin C Williams
No abstract provided.
Small Businesses In The Informal Economy, Colin C. Williams
Small Businesses In The Informal Economy, Colin C. Williams
Colin C Williams
No abstract provided.