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PUBLIC OFFICIALS OFTEN HAVE LITTLE INCENTIVE TO SPEND TIME AND EFFORT PROPOSING POLICIES THAT BENEFIT OTHERS. HOWEVER, WHEN SOME PUBLIC POLICIES GENERATE RENTS TO THESE OFFICIALS, RENT SEEKING IN POLITICS CAN MOTIVATE THEM TO PROVIDE PUBLIC GOODS. IN THIS ESSAY, THE AUTHORS CONSIDER THE MOTIVATIONAL EFFECTS OF RENT SEEKING ON (I) POLICY, (II) THE ROLE OF AGENDA SETTING IN SOCIAL CHOICE THEORY, (III) THE EFFECTS OF GRAFT AND CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT, AND (IV) THE VALIDITY OF COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS.

Inhalte, Bedingungen und Folgen der sowjetisch-iranischen Erdgas-Abkommen und ihre Rolle innerhalb der sowjetischen Erdgas-Strategie, Mittel-Ost-Politik und ihren Wirtschaftsbeziehungen zu Westeuropa. Datenreiche deskriptiv-analytische Zusammenfassung der Entwicklung zwischen 1960 und 1981. BIOst/Hat

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Purpose and Organization of This Volume -- What Is Classroom Assessment? -- What Is the Role of the Measurement Community in Classroom Practice? -- Conclusion -- References -- PART I: CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT INFORMATION -- Chapter 1: Perspectives on the Validity of Classroom Assessments -- Argument-Based Approach to Validation -- Perspectives on Assessment -- Classroom Assessment -- Concluding Remarks -- References -- Chapter 2: Cognitive Diagnosis Is Not Enough: The Challenge of Measuring Learning with Classroom Assessments -- Basic Goal of Classroom Assessments: Supporting Student Learning -- The Challenge of Integrating Students' Personality Traits with Classroom Assessment Results -- The Challenge of Measuring Students' States of Emotion and Relatedness -- A Model for Contextualizing Classroom Assessment -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: Language in Practice: A Mediator of Valid Interpretations of Information Generated by Classroom Assessments among Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Students -- Limitations of Large-Scale Testing of Situated Language Practices during Instruction -- Classroom Assessment: Capturing Situated EL Student Performance in Interaction -- Language Practices as Assessment Mediator -- Effects of Students' Language Variation on the Design of Valid Classroom Assessments -- Leveraging the Effects of Students' Language Variation for Improved Assessment -- Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 4: Feedback and Measurement -- Definitions and Key Concepts -- Types of Feedback, Types of Measurement, and Their Relationship -- Feedback and Validation -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 5: Discussion of Part I: Assessment Information in Context -- Introduction.

Partners in East-West Economic Relations: The Determinants of Choice covers the proceedings of an international conference of the same name held at Montebello, Quebec on April 26-29, 1978. This conference brings together various professionals to address contemporary international economic relations issues. One of the three major issues tackled in this compilation is the reintegration of the economics of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe into the international division of labor. This compendium also studies the determinants of the choice of partners in East-West relations at the national and

Partners in East-West Economic Relations: The Determinants of Choice covers the proceedings of an international conference of the same name held at Montebello, Quebec on April 26-29, 1978. This conference brings together various professionals to address contemporary international economic relations issues. One of the three major issues tackled in this compilation is the reintegration of the economics of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe into the international division of labor. This compendium also studies the determinants of the choice of partners in East-West relations at the national and.