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By trying to stop and reverse the effects of the economic crisis, governments resort to new methods of clarifying and communicating public services. eGovernment has the necessary capacity to attain such a desideratum. Although it does not represent a cure in itself, eGovernment may be successfully implemented using marketing. In this respect, this paper...
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This article aims to identify the potential of the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) to promote the participation of civil society in the policy-making process in the fields of employment and education in Slovenia. Our analysis reveals that both EU factors as well as national factors determine the role of the civil society in the...
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Constitutionalization occurred in the past primarily by way of referential and jurisdictionally confined forms of approximation of constitutional transplants. The erosion of classical, government-related constitutionalism and the countervailing appearance of quasi-constitutional structures of governance beyond the nation-state have dramatically changed the original paradigm and, by implication, the conditions for the possibility of constitutionalism and constitutional...
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Although it has been an important part of the academic discussion for more than 10 years, Euroscepticism (especially in connection with party politics) has not been so far adequately defined. The widely accepted definition given by Taggart and Szczerbiak, who has divided Euroscepticism between its “hard” and “soft” version, suffers from several weaknesses as the...
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The article presents recent findings on the functioning of the Trio in managing the EU Council presidency with a special focus on Slovenia who chaired the EU Council in the first half of 2008. The analysis centres around three research questions: (i) does the Trio represent a substantial assistance mechanism for the new member states;...
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Book review
Professor Douglas A. Irwin’s Third Edition “Free Trade Under Fire” is a striking proof that mercantilism still rules the minds of people. The book is a sound and clear exposition of all important problems of modern international trade (environmental and labour standards, multilateral and bilateral trade agreements, antidumping issues etc.), in an obvious...
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