At this critical point in its development as a burgeoning market economy ensconced within a socialist political system, China faces a dilemma in becoming a fully-fledged player in the copyright arena. Over the past two decades, China has made great strides in creating a legal and governmental framework for the administration and enforcement of copyright. But its implementation has left much to ...

The May 2010 adoption of the World Health Organization Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel created a global architecture, including ethical norms and institutional and legal arrangements, to guide international cooperation and serve as a platform for continuing dialogue on the critical problem of health worker migration. Highlighting the contribution of ...

Research indicates that evidence-based policymaking is most successful when public administrators refer to diversified information portfolios. With the rising prominence of social media in the last decade, this paper argues that governments can benefit from integrating this publically available, user-generated data through the technique of social media analytics (SMA). There are already several...

In western Europe, the view seems to be widely held that the protection of the health of workers, by definition and by practical necessity, must be a legal responsibility of ministries or departments of labour. There are good historical reasons for this viewpoint, and considerable practical experience to back it up. In today's world, however, where newly industrializing countries are looking to...

This chapter surveys the theory of the public enforcement of law—the use of governmental agents (regulators, inspectors, tax auditors, police, prosecutors) to detect and to sanction violators of legal rules. The theoretical core of the analysis addresses the following basic questions: Should the form of the sanction imposed on a liable party be a fine, an imprisonment term, or a combination of ...

This article investigates the justifications for Kenya’s pioneering 2016 legislation to protect interests of communities in their traditional knowledge. Drawing on parliamentary, governmental and media sources, it argues that law reform was underpinned by political concerns about exploitation valuable resources foreign concerns. problematization knowledge terms national sovereignty development ...

Behavioral economics is widely recognized as a rising field in economics, one whose discoveries and implications are not yet completed or understood. At the same time, economic theory plays an enormous role in our governmental and legal system. In particular, the Coase Theorem and its implications have affected nearly every area in the field of law and economics. This paper proposes a experimen...

1.1. Types of decentralisation In this paper, we shall be concerned mainly with forms of decentralisation other than federalism. Decentralisation is a very general term, conventionally used to describe the extent to which the political, administrative or fiscal powers of a central government have been shared or distributed, amongst territorially defined sub-national agencies or authorities. Thi...

Reporting scandals and the financial crisis led to a massive increase of regulations. In particular financial institutions and governmental organizations are faced with a daunting number of regulatory requirements. So far, the influence of regulation on the organization and success of Management Information Systems (MIS) remains an open question. With this paper we provide a first insight into ...

Today, quality is part of our practice. Anaesthetists are involved in a medical science and want to be excellent at it. Anaesthetists are also involved in departmental organisation and are providers of care, a service to the patients. Quality is a method to obtain efficiency (efficacy and economical advantages). We consider our patients no longer as such, but as health-customers. Anaesthetists ...