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This is a history of political parties in ten nations (with the sections on France and Germany limited to specific period), and a critique of the existing literature that emphasizes the importance of electoral rules as determinative of political party systems

This volume presents a selection of contributions to the XXIV Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar on "Public debt, global governance and economic dynamism". For the past 23 years, the Seminar has provided an ideal opportunity to meet and discuss the most topical issues in economic research. The quality of the scientific contributions and ensuing debates has consistently been outstanding owing to the participation of leading experts, and the most recent Seminar was no exception. The Seminar was held against the backdrop of high levels of public debt, especially in Europe, combined with very low growth in productivity. Furthermore, markets have been dominated by financial instability, raising the question of whether this is the result of the high debt levels or insufficient economic dynamism. Among the topics covered in this book are the economic challenges and growth policies in the United States; issues relating to the G20, global governance and regional integration; EU governance, growth and the Eurozone crisis; and EMU policy and public debt. Individual contributions also address the impact of labor market reforms, the need for sectoral rebalancing in the Euro area, fiscal multipliers and public debt dynamics, and the effects of fiscal shocks in Italy. The book concludes with a contribution on policy recommendations

Verlagsinfo: Dieser hochaktuelle Band stellt sich der Vielzahl kontrovers diskutierter Problemfelder und bietet kompetente Lösungsansätze namhafter Vertreter aus der Unternehmenspraxis sowie der betriebs- und rechtswissenschaftlichen Forschung. - Reform der internationalen Rechnungslegung und Abschlussprüfung: : Überarbeitung der 4. und 7. EG-Richtlinie, EU-Regulierungsvorschläge zur Abschlussprüfung, IFRS-Improvements, Konzernrechnungslegungspolitik - Integrierte Berichterstattung: Der neue DRS 20 zur Konzernlageberichterstattung, Management Commentary nach IFRS, Integrated Reporting, Chancen- und Risikoberichterstattung - Wirtschaftsethik und Corporate Governance: Shareholder Value-Maximierung vs. ethische Prinzipien, Ethik in Finanzinstituten - Ausgewählte Corporate Governance-Aspekte: u.a. Vorstandsvergütung, Financial Experts im Prüfungsausschuss, Bürokratieabbau Wertvolle Entscheidungshilfen aus Wissenschaft und Praxis für alle, die zukunftsfähige Instrumente erfolgreicher Unternehmenssteuerung aktiv mitgestalten.; Country of final manufacture: DE

1. Introduction -- 2. What is post-conflict reconstruction? -- 3. Global governance and the corporate sector -- 4. Azerbaijan -- 5. Bosnia -- 6. Rwanda -- 7. The impacts of the international corporate sector in post-conflict reconstruction -- 8. The governance of corporations in post-conflict environments -- 9. Conclusions.

"This book provides a critical and comparative approach to corporate governance. The book sets out, and makes a case for what the author terms 'progressive corporate governance', in order to promote an approach to corporations which furthers social progress. The book takes a hybrid approach in order to bridge the gap between theory and practice, and assesses the situation in Anglo-American, European and transitional economies. The book argues that in judging which governance theories and practices are progressive one must consider them in historical and social context and it also considers whether there are some governance approaches which may be said to be universally progressive. The book looks at progressive corporate governance in the light of the recent worldwide economic crises and explores how state intervention should proceed. "--

In the wake of the economic crisis, many public services are facing a challenging environment in which they receive less funding but are expected to deliver better services. Organisational Innovation in Public Services develops new theoretical models and analyses case studies to provide an important insight into how to modernise public services.

"Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the accelerating pace of technological change creates potentially enormous dangers as well as benefits. Accelerating Democracy shows how to adapt democracy to new information technologies that can enhance political decision making and enable us to navigate the social rapids ahead. John O. McGinnis demonstrates how these new technologies combine to address a problem as old as democracy itself--how to help citizens better evaluate the consequences of their political choices. As society became more complex in the nineteenth century, social planning became a top-down enterprise delegated to experts and bureaucrats. Today, technology increasingly permits information to bubble up from below and filter through more dispersed and competitive sources. McGinnis explains how to use fast-evolving information technologies to more effectively analyze past public policy, bring unprecedented intensity of scrutiny to current policy proposals, and more accurately predict the results of future policy. But he argues that we can do so only if government keeps pace with technological change. For instance, it must revive federalism to permit different jurisdictions to test different policies so that their results can be evaluated, and it must legalize information markets to permit people to bet on what the consequences of a policy will be even before that policy is implemented. Accelerating Democracy reveals how we can achieve a democracy that is informed by expertise and social-scientific knowledge while shedding the arrogance and insularity of a technocracy."--Publisher's website.