In this paper we present a model where agents can choose between 1 productive and rent-seeking activities.We consider two governance institutions: 2 autocracy and parliament rule. Under autocracy rent-seeking reflects the taste 3 of the autocrat for such activities. Under parliament rule rent-seeking depends 4 on parliament voting. We show that under parliament rule the size of rent5 seeking ma...

Ten countries joined the European Union in 2004. This offered a rare opportunity for the existing party groups to substantively increase their share of the seats in the European Parliament by recruiting national party delegations from the new member states. As most of new member states have a relative short history of competitive multiparty system, there were weaker ties between parties in new ...

Learning has been defined as a condition for improving the quality of healthcare practice. The focus of this paper is on physicians’ learning and their support of others’ learning in the context of Swedish healthcare. Data were generated through individual and focus group interviews and analyzed from a sociomaterial practice theory perspective. During their workday, physicians dynamically alter...

Despite the expansive use of CSCL in language learning classrooms, there is limited research into teachers’ enactments of the collaborative activities. An online technology or a good learning activity design alone can hardly guarantee teachers’ effective classroom enactment for productive learning. This study compared two teachers’ enactments of a collaborative learning activity in a Second Lan...

Effective communication between voters and members of parliament is a key success factor democracy. Fortunately, modern information technology is giving a lot of new channels to take care of this communication. Traditionally, Members of Parliament have maintained static www-sites, but nowadays more dynamic and interactive forms of communication, such as blogs, Facebook and Twitter are almost a ...

2. Clause 1 of the proposed Scotland bill is widely seen to fall short of the Smith Commission’s recommendations to make the Scottish Parliament permanent in UK legislation. Instead, the commitment is to “recognise” a Scottish Parliament as a permanent part of the UK’s constitutional arrangements, without containing sufficient provisions to actually render the parliament permanent, for instance...