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Showing 1 to 20 of 64 for “"Central and Eastern Europe"”.
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Democracy after accession : evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
In my thesis, I was interested in exploring how and why the quality of democracy varied in Central and Eastern European countries after they became EU members. Throughout the accession process, these countries have, for the most part, successfully moved away from post-communist legacies and became …
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Why Go Democratic? Civil Service Reform in Central and Eastern Europe
… service systems adopted in the post-communist Central and Eastern European democracies. While these new democracies underwent a process of civil service reform with the goal of increasing the level of bureaucratic professionalism and efficiency, civil service performance varies greatly in the …
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#Democracy: The Internet And Support For Democracy In Central And Eastern Europe
Since 1989, the countries in central and eastern Europe have undergone a tremendous amount of societal and political change. While previous studies have noted the importance of citizen support for democracy in providing a base for regime stability in these new democracies, there is considerable …
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Life course socioeconomic circumstances and cardiovascular disease risk in Central and Eastern Europe
… cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in Russia, Poland and the Czech Republic. Early life SEC are inversely associated with CVD risk factors and outcomes in western countries, but the same relationships have not been evaluated in Central and Eastern Europe. CVD is a major cause of morbidity and …
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Online and brick-and-mortar museums in Central and Eastern Europe (1989-present)
… a prominent – yet under-researched – place on Central and Eastern Europe’s commemorative landscape. Historians and museologists have analysed brick-and-mortar museums, but they mostly avoided venturing into the online sphere. Researchers of the Internet, in turn, tended to stay away from …
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Experimenting With Pension Reform in Central and Eastern Europe: Political Parties, Coalitions, and Policies
… concerning the role of political parties and coalitional politics using a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods. A cross-national comparative analysis of Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia provides empirical evidence of the hypothesized relationship between certain …
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Banking on the environment : multilateral development banks and environmental policymaking in Central and Eastern Europe
… development banks (MDBs)-the World Bank, European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), and European Investment Bank (EIB)-and their struggles to operationalize and implement relatively new environmental mandates. MDBs are increasingly being relied upon to address environmental …
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Trade, Investment and Politics between China and Central and Eastern Europe Economic Necessity or a Trojan Horse?
… been a target of tremendous criticism. The EU and certain Western member states have been concerned of the increased level of Chinese activity in the Eastern part of the integration and afraid that Beijing might try to divide and rule the EU through the 16+1. Furthermore, EU-China relations …
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European integration and foreign policy in Central and Eastern Europe: the cases of Hungary, Slovakia and Romania
This thesis examines the impact of Europeanization on the foreign policy of the new member states of the European Union, using as case studies Hungary, Slovakia and Romania. It asks what the extent of Europeanization of foreign policy is and whether and to what extent there has been divergence in …
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Public Sentiment on Immigrants and Immigration Policies in Central and Eastern Europe. A Cross -National Multilevel Analysis
… of negative orientations toward immigrants and immigration in the post-communist European states is puzzling, as foreigners' presence is less visible than in Western Europe and has yet to become politicized. Thus, the crucial question that arises is: How different are the ex-socialist …
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The role of student services in enhancing the student experience: cases of transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
… role of student services in universities in<br/>Central and Eastern Europe at a time of rapid transformation of the higher education<br/>sector, following from the collapse of the socialist period in 1989 and the<br/>implementation of the Bologna process after 1999. Conducted in the period …
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Hail to the War Princess: Security Crisis and Gendered Dynamics of Executive Leadership in Central and Eastern Europe
In 15 nations within the Central and Eastern European (CEE) region, at least one woman has risen to the apex of domestic political power through her election to one of these dual executive positions. The pertinence of war in Europe, however, raises immediate questions as to the context within which …
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A study of obsidian in prehistoric central and Eastern Europe, and it's trace element characterization. An analytically-based study of archaeological obsidian in Central and Eastern Europe, an investigation of obsidian sources in this area, and the characterization of these obsidians using neutron activation analysis.
Fieldwork in the Zemplen Mountain area of north-eastern Hungary showed that there are at least eight geological sources of obsidian here, five of which have obsidian of a workable quality. There are a further three sources in the Slovak Zemplen, all of which provide workable obsidian. Sources in …
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A gazdasági növekedés elmélete és a kelet-közép-európai tapasztalatok = The theory of economic growth and the experience of Central and Eastern Europe
Az értekezés a gazdasági növekedés témakörével foglalkozik. Két – más megközelítésű, de egymástól nem független – részből tevődik össze: a bevezetést követő 2–3. fejezet a növekedéselmélethez kapcsolódó általános kérdéseket tárgyal, míg a 4–5. fejezet a kelet-közép-európai országok elmúlt …
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Coming in From the Cold: Integration into the European Union and Public Opinion on Democracy and the Market Economy in Central and Eastern Europe.
… economy transformations of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe have received a great deal of attention over the past decade. The focus of much research has been to examine the internal national reorientations of the countries with regard to the changes in political and economic …
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Optimal regulatory design in banking in transition economies
… under investigation are Russia (Part I) and Central and Eastern Europe (Part II). In a first chapter we empirically evaluate the current financial supervisory authority arrangement within the central bank, investigating whether the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) uses its supervisory …
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Economics in transition in Eastern Europe and the function of the Bruxelles consensus
In today's fast evolving Central and Eastern Europe, economic perspectives, especially European Union perspectives are indispensable to the success of the transformation process initiated in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Based on our research output, this thesis offers many such perspectives that …
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An overview of Euro-Mediterranean relations
… from the Treaty of Rome establishing the European Economic Community, to the present day's European Union, as well as a look at the possible decline of the relationship due to new EU concerns regarding Central and Eastern Europe.
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