Administrative Regulation in Comparative Perspective

Worksite Wellness: An Administrative Perspective

Objective: To develop a better understanding of businesses’ goals and purpose for offering worksite wellness opportunities and the level of administrative support for worksite wellness programs. Method: Human resource directors, benefit managers, or other administrators of 76 businesses that have contracted with Premier Community Health in the past 2 years were contacted by email to complete a ...

Administrative Management, Administrative Regulation and the Judicial Process

In discussing problems connected with what is called public administration and administrative law, confusion not infrequently results from a failure to understand at the outset what is meant by the term "administration". A distinguished authority 1 has described administration as essentially the process of translating the general into the particular, and, as one phase of this process, the task ...

The Role of Regulation in Banking: Liquidity Risk Perspective

The liquidity crisis in 2008 sparked interest in the role of regulation that could promote resilience and stability in the banking system. While the Public Interest theory suggests that legal policies could discipline banking activities, the Private Interest theory predicts otherwise, which impairs banking performance. The conflicting theories warrant comprehensive research, especially for Isla...

Passives in Comparative Perspective

Progress in Administrative Decentralisation in Transformation Countries – a Comparative Survey*

Decentralisation has an important meaning in the context of European integration, since a Europe composed of subsidiary spatial units is to be constructed and a ”Europe of regions” is on the agenda of many political discussions. From the early 1990s, the European Communities (EC), later the European Union (EU), promoted the idea of administrative decentralisation also in transformation countrie...