Scholars and commentators increasingly wonder whether governments’ failure to address socio-economic inequalities is the result of unequal representation. Recent literature on policy responsiveness in United States Europe finds evidence that party parliamentary proposals actual outcomes are closer preferences rich than poor. However, extent character such representation remains thinly understoo...

Two years after signing the Bologna Declaration and three years after the Sorbonne Declaration, European Ministers in charge of higher education, representing 32 signatories, met in Prague in order to review the progress achieved and to set directions and priorities for the coming years of the process. Ministers reaffirmed their commitment to the objective of establishing the European Higher Ed...

Abstract We use data from the new and nationally representative National Survey of Religious Leaders, supplemented with 2018 General Social Survey, to examine extent which clergy are politically aligned people in their congregations. Two assessments alignment—clergy reports how political views compare held by most congregations, comparisons between lay voting preferences 2016 election—yield sam...

In June 1991, 36 of Europe's environment ministers and deputies met at Czechoslovakia's Dobris Casde, near Prague, to discuss the environmental status of their nations. During the unprecedented conference, the ministers called for the preparation of a comprehensive report on Europe's extensive environmental problems. In August 1995, the European Environment Agency Task Force (a branch of the Eu...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES African Americans are disproportionately affected by ESRD, but few receive a living donor kidney transplant. Surveys assessing attitudes toward donation have shown that African Americans are less likely to express a willingness to donate their own organs. Studies aimed at understanding factors that may facilitate the willingness of African Americans to become organ don...

the central Health Department of this country to the position it ought to occupy if he were allowed to hold office for a mere matter of three, or perhaps six, months. In face of these rapid changes not only is continuity of policy impossible, but vigour and initiative are out of the question. The fleeting incumbent of the office is fortunate if he is able to acquire a preliminary general acquai...

The aim of this paper is to analyse Twitter activity Prime Ministers Poland and the Czech Republic, Mateusz Morawiecki Andrej Babiš respectively, during 2019 European Parliament election campaign with special focus on their ways creating, imposing reproducing discourse. It examines especially person-alization campaign, namely using election-related activities promote image. Also, im-portance ha...