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Drawing on value frames frequently used in the current political discourse on North Korean nuclear aspirations, this study investigates how value framing affects people's policy preference. News stories were manipulated by highlighting either the ethical or material dangers of the North's nuclear armament. Findings indicate that value framing did not directly shape opinion about government policy on North Korea. However, news framing produced a more subtle set of effects on the way people make decisions. Participants' opinions about how to respond to the nuclear crisis were closely aligned with their general political attitudes. As hypothesized, this pattern was more pronounced when participants were exposed to the ethical frame. Implications for understanding of value framing and public opinion are discussed.

Richard Saltman and Antonio Duran take up the challenging issue of governance in their article "Governance, Government and the Search for New Provider Models," and use two case studies of health policy changes in Sweden and Spain to shed light on the subject. In this commentary, I seek to link their conceptualization of governance, especially its interrelated roles at the macro, meso, and micro levels of health systems, with the case studies on which they report. While the case studies focus on the shifts in governance between the macro and meso levels and their impacts on achievement of desired policy outcomes, they also highlight the need to better integrate the dynamics of day to day operations within micro organizations into the overall governance picture.

Одним из главных приоритетов государственной политики является развитие предпринимательства. Политика государства направлена на создание эффективной конкурентной экономики, модернизацию и технологическое обновление производственной сферы, обеспечивающей повышение благосостояния населения на основе динамичного и устойчивого экономического роста. В статье рассматриваются актуальные проблемы малого и среднего бизнеса, проводится их анализ и предлагаются пути решения. ; One of the main priorities of state policy is the development of entrepreneurship. Government policy is aimed at creating an effective competitive economy, modernization and technological renovation of production areas, supporting the improvement of the welfare of the population on the basis of dynamic and sustainable economic growth. The article considers topical issues of small and medium business, conducts analysis and proposes solutions.

We present a modeling approach for generating robust predictions about how changes in institutional, economic, and political considerations will influence the outcome of political negotiations over complex water-ecosystem policy debates. Evaluating the political viability of proposed policies is challenging for researchers in these complex natural and political environments; there is limited information with which to map policies to outcomes to utilities or to represent the political process adequately. Our analysis evaluates the viability of policy options using a probabilistic political viability criterion that explicitly recognizes the existence of modeling uncertainty. The approach is used to conduct a detailed case study of the future of California's Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Several other possible applications of the approach are briefly discussed.

Gross Domestic Product of any country often influence economic decisions by policy makers, market participants and econometricians on policy recommendations, evaluation and forecasting. However these decisions are often based on preliminary data announcements by statistical agencies. It is therefore important to ensure that the preliminary GDP announcements are efficient and can be relied on. This paper focuses on South Africa's preliminary announcements of quarterly GDP estimates by examining the relationship between the preliminary data and revised data using Ordinary Least Squares estimation technique. The results of this research suggest that the preliminary estimates of GDP, GDE, final consumption Expenditure by Households and by General Government for the period 1999Q1 to 2013Q4 are not efficient.

Gross Domestic Product of any country often influence economic decisions by policy makers, market participants and econometricians on policy recommendations, evaluation and forecasting. However these decisions are often based on preliminary data announcements by statistical agencies. It is therefore important to ensure that the preliminary GDP announcements are efficient and can be relied on. This paper focuses on South Africa's preliminary announcements of quarterly GDP estimates by examining the relationship between the preliminary data and revised data using Ordinary Least Squares estimation technique. The results of this research suggest that the preliminary estimates of GDP, GDE, final consumption Expenditure by Households and by General Government for the period 1999Q1 to 2013Q4 are not efficient.

Many developing countries struggle with providing basic infrastructure to their citizens; however, the current electricity crisis in Ghana is particularly unique in terms of both duration and intensity. The economic impacts of these load shedding practices are currently estimated to be more than $2 million USD daily, with incalculable costs incurred to social development. There is a lack of political will among Ghanaian politicians to critically address the issue outside of short-term measures prior to elections to placate the voting public. The goal of this policy brief is to suggest a number of practical, actionable policy options that the Ghanaian government could implement to mitigate their energy crisis in both the short and long-term.

Emissions Trading Systems (ETSs) with fixed caps lack provisions to address systematic imbalances in the supply and demand of permits due to changes in the state of the regulated economy. We propose a mechanism which adjusts the allocation of permits based on the current bank of permits. The mechanism spans the spectrum between a pure quantity instrument and a pure price instrument. We solve the firms' emissions control problem and obtain an explicit dependency between the key policy stringency parameter – the adjustment rate – and the firms' abatement and trading strategies. We present an analytical tool for selecting the optimal adjustment rate under both risk-neutrality and risk-aversion, which provides an analytical basis for the regulator's choice of a responsive ETS policy.

Upon request of the PETI Committee, the Policy Department on Citizens' Rights and Constitutional Affairs commissioned the present analysis, which examines the situation in relation to openness, transparency, access to documents and information in the EU. Case law and developments in the jurisprudence of the CJEU are examined, notably for legislative documents, documents relating to administrative proceedings, to Court proceedings, infringement proceedings and EU Pilot cases, protection of privacy and international relations. Current and future challenges, as well as conclusions and policy recommendations are set out, in order to ensure compliance with the Treaties' and Charter of Fundamental Rights' requirements aimed at enhancing citizens' participation in the EU decision-making process, and consequently stronger accountability and democracy in the EU.

Most research in research areas like e-government, e-participation and open government assumes a democratic norm. The open government (OG) concept is commonly based on a general liberal and deliberative ideology emphasising transparency, access, participation and collaboration, but were also innovation and accountability are promoted. In this paper, we outline a terminology and suggest a method for how to investigate the concept more systematically in different policy documents, with a special emphasis on post-soviet countries. The result shows that the main focus in this regions OG policy documents is on freedom of information and accountability, and to a lesser extent on collaboration, while other aspects, such as diversity and innovation, are more rarely mentioned, if at all.

Analyzing the current geopolitical situation in the Russian Federation can freely come to the conclusion that despite all the turmoil and loss that followed during the XX century she continues to takes a pretty strong position in the geopolitical map of the world. The Russian Federation has all the necessary prerequisites and realistic positioning as a developed democratic state, which actively influence the nature and direction of the global: political, economic, social and cultural processes. Confronting unipolar globalization, advocating a multipolar form is the imperative of its foreign policy. The creation of a multipolar world is only possible through a system of strategic alliances, which success largely depends on the activity and the adequacy of its foreign policy.

В статье рассматриваются актуальные вопросы внешней политики современной Турции до известных трагических событий с российским военным самолетом Су-24 на границе Турции и Сирии 24 ноября 2015 г. Определены главные ориентиры международной деятельности Турции. Произведены анализ и оценка политики Анкары на Большом Ближнем Востоке, в Северной Африке и Евразии. ; The article deals with the current issues of the foreign policy of modern Turkey until the well-known tragic events with the Russian military aircraft Su-24 on the border of Turkey and Syria on November 24, 2015. The main goals of the international activities of Turkey are discussed. The authors analyse and assess Ankara's policy in the Greater Middle East, North Africa and Eurasia.

Рассматриваются региональные и международные конфликты на территории Ближнего Востока, и в частности в Сирии. Анализируется участие российской стороны в решении сирийского вопроса. Приводятся данные социологического исследования, выявившего меру одобрения населением России действий руководства по решению сирийского кризиса. Делаются выводы об успешности внешней политики и высоком уровне военно-технической политики России. ; Regional and international conflicts in the Middle East and Syria in particular are considered. Russia's participation in the solution of the Syrian issue is analyzed. The data of the sociological research revealing the Russian population's approval of the government actions in resolving the Syrian crisis is sited. Conclusions about the success of the foreign policy and the high level of the military and technical policy of Russia are drawn.

Японским правительством в ходе реализации внешнеполитической доктрины премьерминистра Абэ Синдзо, известной как «проактивный пацифизм», была проделана значительная работа по пересмотру ряда самоограничений японской оборонной политики, одно из которых касалось запрета на экспорт продукции военного назначения. Данная статья посвящена анализу первых шагов Японии на внешних рынках вооружений в контексте их влияния на региональную среду безопасности. ; During the implementation of the foreign policy doctrines of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, known as "proactive pacifism", the Japanese government has done considerable work on the revision of some self-restraint in Japanese defense policy, including the ban on the arms export. The article is devoted to the analysis of Japan's first steps on the international arms market in context with their influence on regional security environment.

Mediation Series is a set of three guides that will help policy-makers, organizations and practitioners build mediation practice and culture. The Series include Mediation Essentials, Integrated Conflict Management Design Workbook, and Making Mediation Law. Mediation Essentials serves as a complete orientation guide to ADR in general and to mediation. Making Mediation Law offers a robust perspective on how to design mediation policy and legislation. Guidance in this area is in high demand and scarce (besides the UNCITRAL Model Law on International Commercial Conciliation and its Guide, there aren't many other comprehensive resources). We hope that Making Mediation Law will effectively fill that gap. Integrated Conflict Management Design Workbook offers a hands-on focus for designing effective dispute management systems for organizations.