liberalism and the political parties

... blocked by the CDU, reflecting the traditionally close relations between the party and the pharmaceutical industry and the associations of doctors and pharmacists.67 In November 2004, after long and ... funds Thus, the KBV collects the bills on behalf of the doctors and negotiates collective contracts with the funds Because of the KBV system, the funds have practically no control over the treatment ... of the health care system and the effective organisation of the many interests involved in it, including big pharmaceutical companies, the doctors’ lobby, the health insurance funds, and the...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 20:20

... of the biotechnology sector: Finland and Sweden, the USA and the UK, and Australia The aim is to integrate research on innovation systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors) with political ... Benner The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’ – preliminary draft only The Political Economy of the ‘New Biology’: Biotechnology and the Competition State Abstract The central hypothesis ... particular Finland and to some extent Sweden; the second by the US and the UK, and the third by Australia Biotechnology governance in Sweden and Finland The Scandinavian system of bio-industrial regulation...

Ngày tải lên: 13/03/2014, 21:59

... each other by China If one competes and the other does not, the pay-off is plus 10 for the competitor and minus 10 for the other If both compete, they each get minus If neither competes, they ... governance via the IMF, the World Bank, the OECD, the GATT that became the WTO, and the G-7 governance structure that has now evolved into the G-20 The trans-Atlantic relationship has provided the bedrock ... conflict and problems At the other end is the view, associated with the likes of the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the Brookings Institution, that globalization is good and China-centric...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 10:20

... the Republicans and the Democrats are the only competing parties that have a chance to win elections, and the outcome of the election between these two parties is in doubt But the nature of their ... Virginia plantations and the farmers on the western frontier Each camp felt that it defined the public good And therein was the debate.1 The parties that they formed were the parties of eighteenth-century ... Jefferson, political leaders of the early American republic, were among the founders of the nation’s first political parties American political parties and elections as theorists, feared factions and the...

Ngày tải lên: 25/03/2014, 06:21

... Among them are requirements that both parties possess the mental capacity necessary to ensure that they understand the significance of the agreement (the capacity to understand the nature of the ... Congress and the people the nature of this threat; the perception of the emergency, the judgment that the life of the nation is truly at stake, must be broadly shared by Congress and by the people; ... define and explain to Congress and the people the nature of the crisis—implies the continued constitutional status of both Congress and the presidency But once we suspend the Constitution, the status...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 01:20

... band in which a property fell (the more valuable the property , the higher the band, and the higher the Council Tax levied) , and the number of adults living in the property (single adult households ... demise , and the announcement of the newι/ Council Tax, the P缸tyspin doctors 聖170rked strenuously to drawthe 前旭位 out ofthe 悅耳誼也ce deb的 In tandem with the bland and low key 因而誼協前到區可正前孟加es on the 臼uncil ... contained the caveat, j 'in the c酪e of husbands and wives li悅耳 together， and couples living together 的 though they were m缸ried， each partner could be held responsible for the arr阻s owed by the other'...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 11:20

... modernize an economy inherited from the colonial period and, on the other hand, to shore up their political standing as claimants to the post-colonial state Thailand holds the distinction of never having ... the British Empire and other western countries The Philippines, on the other hand, served as the extension of the US market in the Pacific Since their full integration into the global economy ... dimensions: the embeddedness of governing elites (that is, the political leadership and the economic technocracy) in state institutions, and the way technocrats and political leaders relate to each other...

Ngày tải lên: 01/06/2014, 14:03

... establish the sincerity of claimants both in the sense of whether they present themselves as sincere to the court and in relation to their past history and practices.22 The validation condition The ... because they were more authentically collectivist than the majority, but rather because their ways of life were less secure and they were more worried about the survival of their language and culture ... sacrosanct In the case of FGC in Africa, understanding the function and importance of the practice in the ways of life of people in Senegal and elsewhere, and the processes by which the practice...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 21:25

... Systems The Importance of Parties Political Parties and Social Diversity Political Parties and Governance Building National Political Parties Restricting the Number of Parties Strengthening Parties ... democratization across the Pacific rim of Northeast Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Pacific Islands Collectively, these include some of the largest and smallest, richest and poorest, and most and least populous ... Indonesia, the Philippines, Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand embarked on sweeping overhauls of their political systems, refashioning their constitutions, legislatures, political parties, and other key...

Ngày tải lên: 10/06/2014, 22:16

... In their speech, the laws of Athens not distinguish between constitutional and other laws, and this seems to be the right approach It is standard, after all, to consider the constitution together ... respect to the political realm It is only to say that if there are genuine political obligations of another sort, we should want to know about them and understand their nature also Some theorists ... contract theory 11 The Plural Subject Theory of Political Obligation 11.1 11.2 11.3 11.4 The theory assessed Comparison with three related theories Response to objections The practical import of political...

Ngày tải lên: 11/06/2014, 01:32

... shape the character of uneven and combined capitalist development in the South The series questions neoliberal theories of development and modernisation and, in highlighting the poverty of the ... insight into the theoretical perspectives that help explain global injustice and the political and social forces that are available across the globe, providing alternatives to economic and political ... offers a radical and innovative insight into theories of development and country case study analysis The series illustrates the importance of analysing the character of economic and political internationalisation...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... the Northern states, borrowing money from them rarely helps the poor, it just deepens the debt cycle and turns the private sector of the developing country into a playground for the rich of the ... to the context in which the money is found and its relative price The word we use in a particular context relies on how much the price is, who is doing the lending and borrowing and where in the ... power and influence, and opportunities for capital export, are critically and centrally underpinned in the modern age by the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and by the rules and regulations...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... probably the ‘central dynamic’ in widening domestic and global inequality since the 1980s, since they ‘bet on the strong, privilege the privileged, help the winners, expose the losers and prompt ... who ‘set the terms’ of operation, the ‘market makers’, and who control the allocation of international liquidity, are concentrated in the IFIs and large banks They exist at the ‘commanding heights’ ... overview of the availability of liquidity from the private sector and the public sector in the form of development finance, and has examined the intimate relationship conceptually and practically...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... from the IMF to the treasury of the core state For example, the UK quota at the IMF changes as debtor countries demand sterling, which the IMF then either takes from its reserves or draws from the ... well, as the ‘Great Predators’) can only generate and regulate markets because they themselves are underwritten and their risk is managed by their joint owners: the rich economies of the global ... that the CDC would take investment decisions: by understanding the human nature of these people, how they are moving and the politicians, rather than looking at computer figures So I think there...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... the co-financing of the Kariba Dam project in the then Central African Federation, ‘much the largest single CDC investment at the time’ (Rendell 1976: 72) The first association with the IFC and ... (CDC 1971: 7) The CDC and the other bilateral and multilateral institutions, from this highpoint, then intermeshed operationally and financially in the 40 years from 1968, but how they did that ... factors, ‘including the strength and risk appetite of other types of financial institution, the age and experience of the ECA, the support it receives from public and private sectors, and its geographic...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... development agendas The political consequences of Ferguson’s corrective is that: the most challenging political demands go beyond the claims of political independence and instead involve demands for connection, ... regulation there have always been contested spaces of power: between a bounded national sovereignty on the one hand and the imperatives of a global capitalist economy on the other In this the British ... since the: security offered for the loan was not and could not be challenged Apart from the fact that the assets of the Corporation amounted to many times the amount of any loan contemplated, the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... than to the share base Table 7.8 shows the UK’s share of goods and works and consultancy contracts from the ADB in the years 2006 and 2007 and for all the years since 1966 Two recent Memorandums ... examining aid to the private sector, and exploring the beneficiaries of the system and the pattern of risks and rewards entailed [ 111 ] Bracking_08_cha07.qxd 12/02/2009 10:54 Page 112 MONEY AND POWER ... with their own plant and factories, such as roads or electricity Simply put, the workers of the global South are buying, through their debt repayments, the means of their own exploitation Thus, the...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... from the turnover that we have, which is what they’re doing, then unless we go into the red and they have to bail us out, and that hasn’t happened, it costs us, it costs them nothing And it, then, ... think they will keep the CDC doing what they would like to keep the CDC doing, what it does To be called developmental in inverted commas On the other hand, CDC is, there is a pressure by the government ... capital exports and agglomerations of their national and regional interests abroad, in the case of the European and North American DFIs at least The sheer size, scope and profitability of these DFIs...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... to support the company’s growth plans, which include the acquisition of other horticultural businesses in Africa and the UK to strengthen its supply chain and expand its capacity and product ... MONEY AND POWER underwritten by quotas to both the United States and the European markets, the latter through the Lomé Convention.15 The CDC representative explained that while the US and EC ... term coined in 1977 by The Economist, to describe the effects of oil and gas discovery on the economy of the Netherlands through the 1970s (see also Tan 1997; Langhammer 2004) The adverse effect...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20

... (2007) the corporation and the state – the United States and companies like Halliburton – are depicted as joined and purposive, where they use shock therapy to create countries anew, and in a ... will pay most, and the poorest people within them are the last in line For these people there are no luxuries in their budgets, the purchase of which can be postponed or avoided until the crunch ... complex, and not all to with the credit crunch, since the economies of fuel and food are also part of the reason why that particular boom and bust in the money market occurred in the first place, and...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 20:20