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On Government, Governance and Judicial Review. The Shadow of European Courts and the Development of EC Competition Policy, New Modes of Governance and the Shadow of Hierarchy in Europe

REA Auditado

Tema: general: 

• Leyes, Política y Gobierno›Ciencias Políticas

The government’s National Security Strategy correctly identified global risks but bureaucratic infighting and a weak economic position threaten the UK’s ability to ‘punch above its weight’ on the international stage

REA Auditado

Upon assuming power in May, the United Kingdom’s historic coalition government set in motion three exercises that together aimed to reshape British foreign policy. The new National Security Strategy, the Strategic Defence and Security Review and the Comprehensive Spending Review all seek to lay down the bounds of Britain’s future role in the world. A new report by Nicholas Kitchen and former diplomats examine asses the goals of Britain’s foreign policy and how they can be realised in an age of austerity.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía›Economía

Reforma energética: una visión ciudadana básica

RE Sugerido

Explica en detalle la situación de PEMEX y de la industria petrolera en México, analizando detalles como su competitividad internacional y su rentabilidad hasta antes de la reforma energética.

Tema: general: 

• Leyes, Política y Gobierno›Gobierno (No EUA)›Gobierno (México)

Data Governance Strategy at Notre Dame

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Data stewardship and governance are complex topics in higher education. Notre Dame has built a five-pillar program: Quality and Consistency; Policies and Standards; Security and Privacy; Compliance and Retention; and Archiving. In this podcast, Beth Warner talks with Senior Director for IT Service Delivery at the University of Notre Dame, Mike Chapple. He talks about the strategies and best practices for effective data governance. 

Tema: general: 

• General›Colecciones y Series (General)

Internet Governance

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This podcast features session audio from the EDUCAUSE 2013 Annual Conference. The speaker is James X. Dempsey, Policy Director at the Center for Democracy and Technology.

Tema: general: 

• General›Colecciones y Series (General)

Decentralized Taxation and the Size of Government: Evidence from Swiss State and Local Governments

REA Auditado

According to the Leviathan-Model, fiscal federalism is seen as a binding constraint on a revenue-maximizing government. The competitive pressure of fiscal federalism is supposed to reduce public sector size as compared to unitary states. However, empirical results concerning the Leviathan hypothesis are mixed. This study uses a state and local-level panel data set of Swiss cantons from 1980 to 1998 to empirically analyze the effect of different federalist institutions on the size and structure of government revenue.

Tema: general: 

• Ciencias Sociales

Government Strategies to Attract R&D-Intensive FDI

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Competition among countries and regions to attract the R&D activities of multinational enterprises
has increased substantially during the last years, but the strategies used by governments in
this competition remain largely unexplored. This paper proposes a taxonomy of the main policy
instruments available to stimulate inward R&D-intensive FDI and presents the results of a comparative
case-study of two European countries: Spain and Ireland.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía›Economía›Teoría Económica›Obras Generales e Historia

Characterizing the optimal composition of government expenditures

REA Auditado

This paper extends the neoclassical growth model with productive public capital by
including an infrastructure efficiency index, which is assumed to depend on a public
choice variable, in particular, the share of public spending allocated to productive public
consumption. A golden rule for the allocation of public expenditure between productive
consumption and investment is specified.

Tema: general: 

• Negocios y Economía›Economía›Teoría Económica›Obras Generales e Historia

The Law Governing International Intellectual Property Licensing Agreements (A Conflict of Laws Analysis)

REA Auditado

1. Introduction. 2. Characterization and scope of the law applicable to intellectual property rights. 2.1 Industrial property rights. 2.2 Copyright and related rights. 3. Party autonomy. 4. Applicable law in the absence of choice. 4.1. Typology of contracts and connecting factors. 4.2. License agreements under the Rome I Regulation. 4.3. Characteristic performance. 4.4. Closest connection. 4.5. Model provisions and future perspectives. 5. Overriding mandatory provisions. Bibliography

Tema: general: 

• Leyes, Política y Gobierno›Leyes›Leyes Generales y Comparativas

Model for interoperability evaluation in e-government services

REA Auditado

The recent publication of the European and Spanish interoperability frameworks implies that public organizations should start a change management process in order to adapt their technologies and procedures to the new standard as a way to guarantee information interoperability across e-government services.The main justification for this research is to disseminate the interoperability standards among Spanish public organizations and to provide methodological and technical guidelines to facilitate the adaptation process, and to foster the usage of new techniques and procedures for information int

Tema: general: 

• Ciencias Sociales›Biblioteca y Ciencia de la Información