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Democracy, as the editor points out, seems to be spreading everywhere. Political and economic reform is a global phenomenon. But what about the institutions created by the old, authoritarian systems to do their work? This study looks at reform in this context.

In einer idyllischen Kleinstadt, deren ganzer Stolz das etwas außerhalb gelegene Schloss ist, lebt in einem Villenvorort am Rande der Stadt der Witwer Scherzer mit seinen fünf Töchtern. Das Schloss, das nach dem Kriege in amerikanischen Besitz übergegangen ist, wird von Herrn Scherzer verwaltet: er sorgt für die Erhaltung des Schlosses, pflegt die Kunstschätze und schaltet und waltet in der großen Schlossbibliothek. Da er seinen Beruf sehr ern...

The Gilman classic is available for the first time in book format.

Observing the storm of recent debates around school vouchers, James G. Dwyer concludes that the welfare of children has been routinely subordinated to the interests and supposed rights of various groups of adults-parents, teachers, taxpayers, and...

This volume provides a collection of cross-country analysis of innovation, showing that the effects of innovation upon firms vary from one country to another. Incumbents perish in one country, while they thrive in the same industry in another country. Startups thrive in response to new technological breakthroughs in one country and struggle in another country. Drawing upon studies of semiconductors, disk drives and biotechnology, and examining...

A l'heure de la mondialisation, de la decentralisation et des economies fondees sur le savoir, les gouvernements doivent aujourd'hui repenser le rôle des dirigeants dans le secteur public pour faire face aux nouveaux defis. En effet, cet environnement

The representation theory of affine Lie algebras has been developed in close connection with various areas of mathematics and mathematical physics in the last two decades. There are three excellent books on it, written by Victor G Kac. This book begins with a survey and review of the material treated in Kac's books. In particular, modular invariance and conformal invariance and are explained in more detail. The book then goes further, dealing ...

Challenging much current thinking in the field that considers sexually aggressive youth a homogenous group, this volume applies a heterogeneous approach. Individualized treatment plans addressing a wide range of needs are presented. Practical and specific guidance about assessment, treatment and discharge planning is well-grounded in research, providing a solid theoretical and conceptual framework. Staff training, development and treatment out...

Applying current theory and research, this book links the development of sex differences in cognition to biological foundations and multiple social processes and contextual factors. Areas covered include evolutionary biology, neuroscience, social roles, and cultural contextualism to the issues of the onset, causes and developmental trajectories, and patterns in children's and adolescents' thinking, problem-solving, academic performance, and so...

Links the development of sex differences in cognition to biological foundations and multiple social processes and contextual factors.

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Am 1.1.1999 ist die neue Insolvenzordnung in Kraft getreten. Das neue Gesetz löst die Konkursordnung und die Vergleichsordnung in den alten und die Gesamtvollstreckungsordnung in den neuen Bundesländern ab. Die Ziele der Insolvenzordnung sind dabei weitreichender als die der Konkursordnung. Nach § 3 Abs. 1 KO war vorrangiges Ziel der KO die Gläubiger gemeinschaftlich zu befriedigen, mit dem Ergebnis das noch vorhand...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Tracking Stocks stellen ein innovatives Restrukturierungsinstrument im Eigenkapitalbereich dar, das die separate Abbildung von Vermögensrechten bestimmter Geschäftsbereiche eines Unternehmens am Kapitalmarkt ermöglicht. Dabei wird für jede Geschäftseinheit, deren wirtschaftliche Entwicklung am Kapitalmarkt abgebildet werden soll, eine separate Aktiengattung (Tracking Stock-Gattung) an der Börse eingeführt und gehande...

Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Virtuelle Communities können als neue und erfolgversprechende Geschäftsidee bezeichnet werden. Sie schöpfen Vorteile bisheriger Web-Technologien aus und bieten neue, interaktive Kommunikationsmöglichkeiten für Unternehmen und Privatpersonen. Eine virtuelle Community zu einem bestimmten Thema ist der Marktplatz für alle interessierten Menschen. Eine eigene Homepage, ein kurzes Chatgespräch mit einem Teilnehmer von de...

This reference includes alphabetically arranged entries for more than 100 world writers from antiquity to 1945, who were significantly influenced by cultures other than their own. Each entry is written by an expert contributor and provides a brief biography, a discussion of multicultural themes and contexts, a summary of the author's critical reception, and primary and secondary bibliographies. The entries focus on the socio-historical circums...

Debates issues such as trust-busting, woman suffrage, and U.S. entry into the Great War.

This work describes the original sample of students from two Minneapolis schools in 1958 and the longitudinal study envisioned by Dr. E. Paul Torrance, then director of the Bureau of Educational Research at the University of Minnesota, to assess their adult creative achievements.

Provides researchers with access to the broad and varied body of information surrounding the life and work of contemporary composer Steve Reich.

This study reveals how the social pact, formalized during the armed stage of the Mexican Revolution (1910-20) and implemented during the second stage (1920-40), was upset during the third or arrested stage (1940-70) when the bureaucrat-professionals at the helm opted for intensive economic development by taking the capitalist road. Although momentarily revived during yet a fourth stage of revolution (1970-82), this social pact was subsequently...

In this history of the Mexican Revolution, the authors reveal that, along with the end of its social pact, Mexico passed out of its former nationalist and capitalist orbit to enter the new professional societies and global order fathered by the transnationals.

The greatest obstacle to good public schools is the indifference of the American public to teacher education. The authors discuss the past, present, and future of American teacher education. They argue that the key to quality public schools is the recruitment and retention of quality teachers and that educational reforms should be evaluated primarily on whether they encourage or discourage quality teachers from making teaching a career.