Integrated Services in Activation Policies in Finland and Italy: A Critical Appraisal

2008 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 379-392 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Genova
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Integrated Services ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Common ◽  
Path Dependent ◽  
Modes Of Governance

The integration of welfare services in activation policies has been one of the common answers to welfare challenges in EU member states over the last two decades. The process has been interwoven with the rescaling both downwards and upwards of welfare regulative authorities. The article discusses the role of integrated services in activation policies in relation to the centralisation and decentralisation of welfare policies in a comparative perspective of different EU welfare regimes and highlights the role of local institutional milieus in shaping path-dependent modes of governance in integrated services.

scholarly journals Effect of the Common Agricultural Policy on Agriculture and the Increasing Role of Nongovernmental Organisations

2018 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristaps Zdanovskis ◽  
Irina Pilvere
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Agricultural Policy ◽  
Common Agricultural Policy ◽  
Financial Support ◽  
Rural Environment ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Common ◽  
Farmer Organisations

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has considerably contributed to changes in the rural environment of Latvia after its accession to the European Union (EU). The accession provided new opportunities and considerable financial support for agriculture, yet the competition of farms under the conditions determined by the CAP has changed the composition of final agricultural output in Latvia. As the number of EU Member States increased and the CAP became more complicated, an increasing role in defending the interests of farmers is played by farmer organisations.

scholarly journals Performance Appraisal and Role of the Lamp Co-operative Societies in Tribal Areas in Karnataka

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 160
Author(s):  
Usharani B
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Performance Appraisal ◽  
Integrated Services ◽  
Review Of Literature ◽  
Tribal People ◽  
The Common ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Tribal Areas ◽  
The Village

<p><em>This study presents the role of co-operative Societies in general and a specific study on Karnataka. The Large Sized Agricultural Multi-purpose Co-operative Societies (LAMPS) are organised at the village level to meet the credit and other requirements of the tribal people. Tribal beneficiaries are the members LAMP Societies and they have benefited almost all the integrated services offered by the LAMPS for their economic upliftment. This study highlights the history, trends and growth of cooperatives. It also highlights the national policies, problems and suggests measures for the existence and viability of co-operative institutions, designed specifically for the welfare of the common man in general and for upliftment of tribes and weaker sections of the society in particular. The important aspect of examining the cause and effects of tribal economy has not been covered in any of the abovementioned studies. It is found from the review of literature that only a few researchers has studied the role of tribal co-operatives and their cause and effects on economic development of tribes.</em></p><p><br /><em>This study is an empirical and field based, interview techniques are used for the collection of required data on the problem from the sample tribal respondents. The present study is also an attempt to go into the problems and prospects of co-operatives for the upliftment of tribals of Karnataka.</em></p>

The Common Security and Defence Policy

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Hyde-Price
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Culture ◽  
Security Cooperation ◽  
Military Cooperation ◽  
Member States ◽  
Military Capability ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Strategic Context

Since the late 1990s, EU member states have committed themselves to deeper and more structured military cooperation, within the framework of the ESDP/CSDP. At the same time, European defence budgets have shrunk and military capabilities reduced. This chapter analyses the evolution of European military cooperation and identifies its key drivers and the changing strategic context to Europe’s east and south. The chapter argues that the emergence of a credible EU military capability will depend both on developing new defence synergies and on investment in critical military capabilities and infrastructure. Above all, however, it requires greater political cohesion and a common European strategic culture. Elements of a shared strategic culture have emerged, but substantial differences remain among EU member states. The chapter concludes by highlighting the crucial role of Europe’s major states in fostering defence and security cooperation, particularly the UK, France, and Germany.

scholarly journals From social security to social investment? Compensating and social investment welfare policies in a life-course perspective

2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 442-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kati Kuitto
Keyword(s):  
Social Security ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Investment Strategies ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Social Investment ◽  
Trade Off ◽  
Investment Policies ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Path Dependent

This article contributes to the ongoing debate on the forms and characteristics of social investment policies and their potential trade-off with social security schemes by assessing developments of welfare spending profiles in 23 European welfare states in the 2000s. I argue that if a social investment turn has indeed occurred, it is not necessarily at the cost of the ‘old’ compensatory policies. Instead, social investment policies and their relation to compensating welfare policies alter with regard to policies targeted at different life-stages and to the type of welfare regime. Therefore, the results attest to a path-dependent trend within the welfare regimes, the Nordic countries remaining clear forerunners in terms of both level and dynamics of social investment policies. European social investment strategies manifest mainly in policies targeting childhood and youth, while a trade-off between social investment and compensating policies is evident in working-age policies to some degree.

Welfare Policy Expansion in Botswana and Mauritius

2012 ◽  
Vol 45 (12) ◽  
pp. 1483-1509 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne S. Ulriksen
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Welfare Policy ◽  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Welfare Regime ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Welfare Regimes ◽  
Welfare Policies ◽  
Comparative Historical Analysis ◽  
Path Dependent

How come two developing countries with similar economic, institutional, and democratic attributes have developed vastly different welfare regimes? Drawing inspiration from the welfare regime literature, the author subjects Botswana and Mauritius to a comparative historical analysis that explores the economic and political trajectories of their welfare policy development. The findings offer both support and modifications to the established and mostly Western-oriented literature. First, politics affect welfare policy development. In developing countries, the rural population can promote welfare policy expansion, but it is middle-class interests that shape the direction of policy development. Second, given the importance of politics, conceptualizations of welfare policies need to include both the spending and the financing side. Finally, the causes of different welfare regime paths need to be examined with attention to the particular economic contexts of developing countries and how welfare and economic policies are interrelated and to some extent path dependent.

The continuum between neurodegeneration, brain plasticity, and movement: a critical appraisal

2020 ◽  
Vol 31 (7) ◽  
pp. 723-742 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tommaso Schirinzi ◽  
Marco Canevelli ◽  
Antonio Suppa ◽  
Matteo Bologna ◽  
Luca Marsili
Keyword(s):  
Movement Disorders ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Brain Plasticity ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Cognitive Disturbances ◽  
The Common ◽  
Neurodegenerative Dementias ◽  
Pure Motor ◽  
The Continuum

AbstractWhile the “physiological” aging process is associated with declines in motor and cognitive features, these changes do not significantly impair functions and activities of daily living. Differently, motor and cognitive impairment constitute the most common phenotypic expressions of neurodegeneration. Both manifestations frequently coexist in the same disease, thus making difficult to detect “pure” motor or cognitive conditions. Movement disorders are often characterized by cognitive disturbances, and neurodegenerative dementias often exhibit the occurrence of movement disorders. Such a phenotypic overlap suggests approaching these conditions by highlighting the commonalities of entities traditionally considered distinct. In the present review, we critically reappraised the common clinical and pathophysiological aspects of neurodegeneration in both animal models and patients, looking at motricity as a trait d’union over the spectrum of neurodegeneration and focusing on synaptopathy and oscillopathy as the common pathogenic background. Finally, we discussed the possible role of movement as neuroprotective intervention in neurodegenerative conditions, regardless of the etiology. The identification of commonalities is critical to drive future research and develop novel possible disease-modifying interventions.

935: Critical Appraisal of the Role of Ureteroscopy in Treatment of Pediatric Renal and Ureteric Calculi

2007 ◽  
Vol 177 (4S) ◽  
pp. 310-310
Author(s):  
Sumit Dave ◽  
Luis H. Braga ◽  
Antoine E. Khoury ◽  
Walid A. Farhat
Keyword(s):  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Ureteric Calculi

On everyday academic research

2017 ◽  
pp. 98-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Tirole
Keyword(s):  
Common Good ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Research Quality ◽  
Economic Research ◽  
Relevant Research ◽  
The Common ◽  
Verification Of Models ◽  
Science And Research

In the fourth chapter of the book “The economy of the common good”, the nature of economics as a science and research practices in their theoretical and empirical aspects are discussed. The author considers the processes of modeling, empirical verification of models and evaluation of research quality. In addition, the features of economic cognition and the role of mathematics in economic research are analyzed, including the example of relevant research in game theory and information theory.

Marx and the “law of value”: Critical appraisal on the occasion of his 200th birth anniversary

2018 ◽  
pp. 27-49 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. D. Kurz
Keyword(s):  
Karl Marx ◽  
Critical Appraisal ◽  
Critical Discussion ◽  
Use Value ◽  
Transformation Problem ◽  
The Common ◽  
The Law

The paper celebrates Karl Marx’ 200th birthday in terms of a critical discussion of the “law of value” and the idea that “abstract labour”, and not any use value, is the common third of any two commodities that exchange for one another in a given proportion. It is argued that this view is difficult to sustain. It is also the source of the wretched and unnecessary “transformation problem”. Ironically, as Piero Sraffa has shown, prices of production and the general rate of profits are fully determined in terms of the same set of data from which Marx started his analysis.

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