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Reforms, Organizational Change and Performance in Higher Education

This book investigates the effects of changes in leadership and managerial structures of Nordic universities resulting from ...

Regional Disparities in Small Countries

This volume revisits the common conception that countries characterized by small land area and small population sizes do ...

Regional and Local Development in Times of Polarisation

This volume contributes to the debates about polarisation and regional development by focussing on questions of spatial justice, ...

Regionalisation, Growth, and Economic Integration

The purpose of this book is to analyse the process of regionalisation and to plot its future development. Regionalisation ...

Regulatory and Economic Challenges in the Postal and Delivery Sector

Worldwide, there is considerable interest in postal and delivery economics. Governments, particularly in the European Union, ...

Research and Technological Innovation

To explain the importance of scientific research and technological innovation for industrial countries and in particular ...

Research and the Quality of Science Education

In August 2003 over 400 researchers in the field of science education from all over the world met at the 4th ESERA conference ...

Research, Quality, Competitiveness

The book is divided into three sections: an introduction to the structure of the EU, a review of EU competitiveness, and ...

Researching Design Learning

This book summarises the lessons learned from this and other projects. The book’s messages centre on the designing activity, ...

Rethinking Nordic Courts

This book examines whether a distinctly Nordic procedural or court culture exists and what the hallmarks of that culture ...

Rise and Decline of Industry in Central and Eastern Europe

In the course of the tremendous political and economic upheaval starting in 1989/1990 many industrial cities and regions ...

Road Pricing, the Economy and the Environment

Economic growth and globalisation create traffic growth, leading to congestion, which again increases travel times and costs. ...

Russia's Turn to the East

This book explores if and how Russian policies towards the Far East region of the country – and East Asia more broadly ...

Secondary Education at the Crossroads

Education is a universal priority. Currently, it is at a crossroad. In every society it is valued as a major road to produce ...

Security in an Interconnected World A Strategic Vision for Defence Policy

This book follows the idea that security policy must be based on strategic analysis. Defence policy and the role of the armed ...

Self-Employment Activities of Women and Minorities : Their Success or Failure in Relation to Social Citizenship Policies

The discussion on new forms of non-privileged self-employment of women and minorities is usually divided into separate discourses ...

Services Liberalisation in the Internal Market

Liberalisation of cross-border service provision developed into one of the most controversial European integration issues. ...

Social Cash Transfer in Turkey Toward Market Citizenship

This book asks whether cash-transfer programs for very low-income households promote social and economic citizenship and, ...

Social Democratic Parties and the Working Class New Voting Patterns

This book carefully explores the relationship between social democracy and its working-class electorate in Western Europe. ...

Solidarity in Europe

This open access volume provides evidence-based knowledge on European solidarity and citizen responses in times of crisis. ...

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