Empowering local government has been a recurrent element of political programmes of British and Italian governments since the 1990s. The political decisions concerning local government made in the past decade were undoubtedly influenced by the effects of the 2008 economic crisis and the global metropolisation processes with the growing importance of urban development affecting international...
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The Mirrlees Fair tagging model described by Akerlof demonstrates that this concept leads to revenue redistribution efficiency, but implies difficulty in applying due to high administrative costs. Quantitative analysis of some redistribution process mechanisms which involves only indirect state intervention through corporate social responsibility (CSR) can be an effective optimal taxation leverage. In order to...
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This paper investigates the determinants of Hungarian ministers’ participation at Council meetings over a decade long period. It aims to identify factors explaining why ministers decide to absent themselves from some Council meetings while participating in others. The analysis uses an original data set that includes information about individual meetings as well as national level...
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Although highly researched in recent years, the topic of Hegel and colonialism still contains many important philosophical resources. The present article aims to bring forwards some of those resources, like the rather unexplored Hegelian speculative contradictions as morality-ethics or intellect-reason. The stake of the paper is to offer new insights into Hegel’s approach of colonialism,...
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The article looks into the relationship between national and common European interests in the case of the small countries’ presidencies of the Council of the European Union. Based on a self-evaluation of the Council of the European Union presidencies of Slovenia, Sweden, Belgium, Hungary and Denmark, the article presents three conclusions. Firstly, national interests are,...
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