next to mechanisms, methods and instruments and classic public bodies to administer, there are new independent administrative and public authorities equipped with various skills and attribution, composed of soft law and hard law to regulate the public fields. the multiplicity of forms of regulation show the composite nature of regulation, which is between the private and public domain: laws, co...

Governmental systems and administrative organizations in Iran have been always in change throughout history. A position which was necessary in some centuries and was counted as an important governmental position was “Amirdadi”. The person who held this post was called Amir-e dad or Mirdad. Lexicographers have mentioned several different tasks for Amir-e dad. Some believe they are th...

The Information Technology (IT) is an essential, strategic and competitive component, with key role within organizations, providing services and solutions that drive business forward, guiding the management of IT Services organizational needs, using good practices such as ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library) and COBIT (Control Objectives for Information and related Technology), ...

This research aims to solve the problem: How can casinos manage organizational change programs, and internal and external customer relationship management (CRM) programs? To find a solution, it uses two stages of qualitative methods: convergent interviewing and case research about four departments of a casino in Australia. After a thorough data analysis of documents and interview data, 12 theme...

The governance of climate adaptation involves the collective efforts of multiple societal actors to address problems, or to reap the benefits, associated with impacts of climate change. Governing involves the creation of institutions, rules and organizations, and the selection of normative principles to guide problem solution and institution building. We argue that actors involved in governing ...

Does birthright citizenship boost immigrant children’s educational participation and success? We address this question relying on a reform of the German naturalization law in 1999 that entitled children born after January 1, 2000 to birthright citizenship. We isolate the impact of birthright citizenship by comparing children born shortly before and shortly after the cutoff in years of policy ch...

This document presents key findings from a project that explored the relationship between children’s experience of pre-school provision and change in their social and cognitive development between ages 3 and 5. The project examined differences in the characteristics of pre-school provision experienced by different children and whether, in particular, the quality of the provision – as assessed t...

This paper studies the effect of a large-scale policy change in the Austrian disability insurance program, which tightened eligibility criteria for men above a certain age. Using administrative data on the universe of Austrian private-sector employees, the results of difference-in-difference regressions suggest a substantial and statistically significant decline in disability enrollment of 6 to...