Reshaping employment regimes in Europe: policy shifts alongside boundary change

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A study was conducted to evaluate the direction of shifts in employment regimes in the EU, where fiscal consolidation constitutes the macroeconomic foundations of labor markets in practically every EU member state. Results indicate that a doubled-edged process of change is underway and suggest that there are destructive properties to the existing direction of employment relations in Europe. The policy shifts that are occurring in Europe reflect, overall, the co-mingling of constrained discretion and social learning influences inside European employment regimes.

Europe, Economic policy, European Union, Manpower policy

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Policy paradigms, policy networks and water policy in Israel

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The role policy networks play in the emergence, persistence and change of policy paradigms is analyzed in the context of water policy in Israel from 1948-97. The analysis employs two analytical methods: use of the policy networks and policy communities technique and draws on existing studies on problem definition. The results show that policy networks provide an environment wherein the state interests are defined and a policy paradigm can take hold as well as bring a buffer against policy change.

Case studies, Israel, Laws, regulations and rules, Water-supply, Water supply, Policy sciences

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Global-net for global movements? A network of networks for a movement of movements

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The use of Computer-Mediated Communication by the movement for global justice, with special attention to the organizations involved in the movement and its activists is focused. The data collected during two supranational protest events, the anti-G8 protest in Genoa in July 2001 and the European Social Forum (EFS) in Florence in November 2002 are examined.

United States, Usage, International aspects, Justice, Administration of, Administration of justice, Technology application, Justice, Demonstrations, Telematics, Globalization, Communication in politics, Political communication

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