special interest groups
Short and long term growth effects of special interest groups in the U S states: A dynamic panel error correction approach
... of special interest groups as a serious threat to economic growth has strengthened over the years; however, the vast empirical literature surrounding this claim has produced mixed and inconclusive ...
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Perception of water resource information sources and educational needs by local officials and special interest groups
... LOCAL OFFICIALS AND SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS. James M.[r] ...
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Special Interest Groups, Public Policy and Social Welfare
... between special interest groups and public policy ...and special interest groups are viewed as the ...the special interest groups and the groups make ...
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Lobbying, Inside and Out: How Special Interest Groups Influence Policy Choices
... of special interest group (SIG) expenditures: inside lobbying, which is intended to influence the content of a bill; and outside lobbying, which is intended to influence the likelihood a bill is enacted ...
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E-health tools in oncology nursing: Perceptions of nurses and contributions to patient care and advanced practice
... The nurses discussed using e-health tools beyond their regular networks to consult and “use the experience of oth- ers” through special interest groups, such as Communities of Practice[r] ...
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Effects of groups and government size on information disclosure
... It is widely accepted that imperfect information, such as information asymmetry between seller and buyers, is a key element of market failure. Information asymmetry is considered to have a detrimental effect not only on ...
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Goals in Life Worth Pursuing
... In recent years, it has been common for special interest groups to promote bills in Congress to limit the authority of federal courts in cases involving highly con[r] ...
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HCC Newsletter V2 N02 pdf
... It has six local Chapters; two ACM Chapters, and four Special Interest Groups SIG's: The Peninsula SIGMICRO Chap&r is particularly concerned with microprocessors and microprogramming, an[r] ...
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Varying viewpoints of Belgian stakeholders on models of interhospital collaboration
... stakeholder groups affect the choice of collab- oration ...and special interest groups) on different collab- oration models for Belgian ...
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Developing recommendations to improve the quality of diabetes care in Ireland: a policy analysis
... of special interest groups led by health care professionals, which have driven improvements in care at a local level [13-15], at the time of this study there was no national strategy for the de- ...
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197407 pdf
... To date, thirteen Special Interest Groups have been formed: - Computer-Assisted Instruction - Teaching Computer Science - Management of Computer Services - Teleprocessing and Time Sharin[r] ...
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Activity of Economic Interest Groups in the EU Institutions
... economic interest groups can have the greatest in- fluence on presenting the information related to European economic problems and the needs and interests in the EU ...
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Current management strategies for patellofemoral pain: an online survey of 99 practising UK physiotherapists
... Approximately 55% of physiotherapists within this sample (who would prescribe an exercise) would not prescribe an exercise if it was painful. Though not statistically significant, this proportion is higher in phys- ...
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Interest Groups, Lobbying And Polarization In The United States
... that interest groups were setting the agenda in state legislatures; a former Wisconsin state legislator told the Washington Post ALEC is like “ a dating service, only between legislators and special ...
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Interest Groups and the Governance of Growth in Organic Farming
... Organic agriculture having been practised for over 40 years in Australia (see Clay 1999; Wynen 1992). Historically, certification companies have functioned as de facto industry groups, but they have had ...
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Critical Resource Dependencies and the Europeanization of Domestic Interest Groups
... the interest group is ...national interest group system need to be ...perspective. Interest associations that depend on government subsidies know ...
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Proceedings of the 4th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis
... in interest in these tasks was motivated by the birth and rapid expansion of the Social Web that made it possible for people all over the world to share, comment or consult content on any given ...
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"Interest Groups in the Regions: Economic, Organizational, and Institutional Approaches"
... The changes in the EU have necessitated a reexamination of the vertical links between supranational, national, and sub-national levels of government, and the newly emerging horizontal networks of sub-national governments ...
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"Nourishing European Interest Groups: The Delors Commission and Labour"
... negotiations by the so-called "special negotiating bodies" to who were to put the mechanism into place. The number of multinationals falling under the directive’s criteria has been estimated as at least ...
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Interest groups : moving beyond state centric models
... Wilson (1983, 2008) presents a series of arguments against the dominance of a corporatist standpoint on state-group relations in France. In contrast to other Western European countries, there has, firstly, been a ...
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