Understanding coherence between policy spheres

Policy-Oriented City Networks in Cyberspace: A Methodological Approach to the Understanding of Social and Political Articulations between Cities Based on the Concept of Policy Web Spheres

Whereas the academic debate on global networks was dominated by a focus on economic and financial flows, partially on strategies of technological or infrastructural integration, less attention was dedicated to local and global articulations emerging around sociopolitical issues like the fight against poverty, the strengthening of human rights and protection of the environment. In this paper, th...

book review: understanding social policy

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Understanding Monetary Policy Implementation

O ver the last two decades, central banks around the world have adopted a common approach to monetary policy that involves targeting the value of a short-term interest rate. In the United States, for example, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) announces a rate that it wishes to prevail in the federal funds market, where commercial banks lend balances held at the Federal Reserve to each ot...

Harmonic Hopf Constructions between Spheres

Harmonic maps between three-spheres

It is shown that smooth maps f : S → S contain two countable families of harmonic representatives in the homotopy classes of degree zero and one.