Abstract As in nearly all European Union (EU) policy areas, scholars have turned to analysing the role of national parliaments, addition that Parliament (EP), trade politics. Yet, there is limited understanding how parliamentarians at two levels interact. This article fills gap by conceptualizing these interactions as a continuum ranging between cooperation, coexistence and competition. We use ...

Public engagement has become a noticeable activity for parliaments across the world. However, we lack understanding of its role despite considerable developments in scholarly work on public sciences and deliberative participatory democracy by social scientists. This article provides framework to understand significance parliamentary evaluate effectiveness. It explains how emerged because repres...

Abstract Political rhetoric has important effects on the quality of democracy, but we know very little about what causes variation in tone political debate. We investigate how radical-right success affects way remaining politicians discuss issues. Using an original dictionary, measure different positive and negative emotions a newly collected dataset speeches German state parliaments. Taking ad...

The European Semester is an EU procedure, designed to facilitate coordination between national and actors in planning implementing economic fiscal policies contribute sustained convergence employment the EU. Scholars have highlighted this procedure as a crucial area of politics for parliaments since its introduction 2011. However, participate differently Semester. This article investigates whic...

On behalf of the entire Organization Committee, it is our pleasure to welcome you to the Twelth IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom 2014), sponsored by IEEE Computer Society, the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA), Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and the Scientific Associations for Infocommunications Hungary (HTE). The Procee...

The present study aimed at determining the relationship of anthropometric dimensions of pupils from grades 1 to 8 in primary school with the dimensions of school chairs. Two dimensions of the chairs in daily use were evaluated to ascertain whether the fit is sufficient and the effect on pupils' sitting posture. The work included a sample of 556 pupils from three primary schools in Zagreb, Croat...

Mentoring can be a key component contributing to the success of faculty. We investigated the attitudes of family medicine department Chairs toward mentoring, with emphasis on mentoring female and minority faculty. This qualitative inquiry used semi-structured interviews with 13 Chairs of US departments of family medicine. Although most Chairs felt that mentoring had value, a minority of our sam...