_________________________________________________________________________ * The authors are Ph.D. Candidate, Professor, and Assistant Professor, respectively. Contact author is Yuliya Bolotova. Research for this paper was supported in part by the Edmund S. Muskie Ph.D. Fellowship Program, a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), U.S. Department of State, administered b...

Changes to the Environmental Protection Act in 2012 mean that Local Authorities (LAs) have to set natural background contamination (NBC) levels for their areas. This project collected all Phase II site investigation data held by the councils and used the geochemical data to calculate the NBCs. These values were checked against samples collected in the regions to assess their accuracy. These res...

Many commentators today lament the politicization of bioethics, but some suggest distinguishing among different kinds of politicization. This essay pursues that idea with reference to three traditions of political thought: liberalism, communitarianism, and republicanism. After briefly discussing the concept of politicization itself, the essay examines how each of these political traditions mani...

Abstract This chapter summarises the experiences of Hungarian Federation Children’s and Youth Municipal Councils with its Erasmus funded project (un)Attractive? II . The overarching question is how EU can reach out to youth in rural areas Hungary. reports on context conditions, process, outcomes, challenges success factors. Its key finding that a basic approach towards work essential for this t...

Presents a study which investigated how school councils operate in the Australian state of Victoria and how parent councillors participate in the affairs of the school council. Data were collected through a questionnaire survey on 172 schools, as well as visits to schools and attendance at school council meetings. Proposes a theoretical model linking personal, institutional and communityrelated...

German Works Councils and Productivity: First Evidence from a Nonparametric Test This paper presents the first nonparametric test whether German works councils go hand in hand with higher labor productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by collective bargaining or not. Results from a Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for first order stochastic dominance tend to indicate...