Public Policies toward Business

Towards Integrating Business Policies with Business Processes

We present a framework for augmenting business process specifications with policy expressions such as obligations, permissions and prohibitions. One use of such a combined model is to support monitoring of participants’ behaviour against agreed policies as in business contracts.

Public Business

[Epidemiology and public policies].

The present essay deals with the relation between epidemiology and public policies, highlighting the epidemiology position in the public health field, analyzing the impact of public policies over epidemiological profile and contributions from epidemiology to the lay down, implementation and evaluation of public health policies. In the first title, the essay debates the links between the epidemi...

Public Attitudes toward Welfare State Policies: A Comparative Analysis of 24 Nations

The paper investigates public attitudes toward welfare state policies as a result of both situational, i.e. unemployment, and ideological factors, i.e. egalitarian ideology, at both the individual and national level. The dependent variables are public support for the sick and the old as well as for the unemployed as target beneficiaries of welfare state policies. Data from the ISSP-study «Role ...

Ayatollah Golpayegani's Stances and Measures toward Policies of Pahlavi Regime

The current article tries to study Ayatollah Golpayegani's declarations+ and stances toward the policies of Pahlavi regime and relations with its agents. Taking ayatollah's political thought i.e. his belief in general welayat-e faqih into consideration, the main concern of this article is to find reasons behind his different behaviors to confront with Pahlavi regime in different stages. What ca...