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Lecture held in 1937 at the Adult Education Center, in Zagreb;
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Matoš and the French; Essay on the works of Matoš about French writers, including detailed bibliography
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Poems by Nranko Malesš: j’écris un texte; Comment m’adresser à toi?; deux petits temps; j’ai dessiné mon frère;
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In the last decade, modern welfare states were confronted with major economic, technological, and demographic challenges. Extensive research has been done on the ways in which modern welfare states respond to these challenges (e.g., Starke et al. 2008, Scharpf and Schmidt 2000). However, in this research usually the contents of the policies take a central place. This article focuses on the extent to which changes in the governance mechanisms in social security and employment policy might be observed. Three types of governance mechanisms are distinguished in this article: hierarchical governance, market governance, and societal governance. This article explores the differences in changes in governance mechanisms that can be observed in six European countries. Moreover, it assesses three potential explanations for these differences. The first explanation assumes a global trend towards market-based mechanisms of governance. The second explanation focuses on the concept of policy learning in the European Union. In the third explanation, historical differences and path dependencies stand central. The article concludes that, despite some converging tendencies, historical differences, to a large extent, account for remaining differences in the use of governance mechanisms in employment policies.
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I examine the transfer of the Problem Drug Use (PDU) concept into Czech scientific discourse through European institutions’ projects, and view PDU’s utilization by Czech researchers in relation to marijuana decriminalization efforts. PDU is defined as intravenous and/or long-term and regular use of opiates, cocaine, or amphetamines. Out of a vast array of illicit drug use patterns, this concept isolates a relatively small population with the riskiest use patterns to become the focus of public policies. A series of European Union and Council of Europe projects in 1990’s helped bring PDU into European research mainstream. The new common standard, promoted by the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction, was utilized by Czech authors in a 2001 policy analysis entitled “Impact Analysis Project of the New Drug Legislation in the Czech Republic” (PAD). PDU played a crucial role in PAD’s drug problem modeling, focusing on a “hard core” of opiate and methamphetamine users, while diverting attention from a large group of cannabis users. By using the new European methodological standard, PAD’s authors constructed marijuana as a non-problem. This helped drug policy reformers in the Czech Government legitimize their focus on “harder” drugs, and subsequently propose more lenient sanctions for the possession and cultivation of marijuana. I argue that continued ignorance of marijuana problems might jeopardize the tolerant expert-driven drug policy in the Czech Republic. Measurement of problem cannabis use should be introduced.
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This paper offers a Problem Tree Heuristic as a useful thinking procedure for problem structuring, an initial step in policy analysis. The heuristic’s nature and possible purposes are outlined. A specific procedure is recommended based on relevant literature and author’s application experience. Some real-life applications and the problem tree’s possibilities and limits are discussed.
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How should the Moldavian president, strongly attached to Moscow by his communist creed, react to the several crises that haunt the political stage of the republic from the Transnistrian to the “Teleradio-Moldova”? After the recent changes adopted by Moscow as a result of the Beslan hostage crisis president Voronin’s choice will be either to give up and thus to admit his defeat as a politician or to observe the democratic standards of the West.
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The post modern novel “Impotriva lui Mango” published by Constantin Virgil Negoita at the Paralela 45 Publishing House in 2004 is analyzed here by Mircea A. Diaconu.
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A journey late in the night, by train to Suceava; the streets of Suceava early in the morning, the experience of Putna on the commemorative event, officials and common people gathered for the commemoration; the journey back to Bucharest and the dispersing of the Putna pilgrims through the big city.All these snap shots make this article inciting.
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The article is a review of Mircea Petean’s book “Cartea de la Jucu Nobil”published at the Limes Publishing House Cluj Napoca in 2003.
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The recent decision of the Tiraspol administration to close down all the Latin letter writing Romanian schools in Tiraspol is labeled by the author of this article as a Russian diversion meant to de-stabilize the Moldavian Republic’s independence
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In the article published in the weekly magazine “Timpul de dimineata” the writer Constantin Tanase reproaches the Moldavian intellectuals the lack of interest for the national holiday “Our Language”(31 of August was declared the official day of the Romanian Language).
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The series of essays gathered under the title “Cosmograme” continue with a dissertation on the creed of dada literary and philosophic movement.
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Corina Bernic includes in this article two of poems from a successful volume of verses by Peter Handlke accompanied by a brief presentation of the prolific writer, film director, playwright and poet.
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Suzanne Capiau’s survey made at the request of the Council of Europe in 2000 reveals two opposite tendencies, one pro and the other against the positive discrimination in respect of the remuneration of artists in Europe. This article signed by Patrice Leguy and Corina Suteu gives arguments in favour of a reconsideration of the artist’s status. This new approach may occur in the new European democracies where the contradictions of a vanishing communist utopia merge in the beginnings of an ultra-capitalist one
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The Ottoman conquest of Serbia in 1459 was the crucial event in the history of the Serb people, but in the area of social relations, changes in many aspects occurred slowly and gradually. Accepting into their governing system many local specificities and institutions, from Christian spahiyas, through particular social classes like the Vlachs, elements of military organization (like voynuks, šajkaši), mining legislature, local customs and measurement systems, to regulating of the status of the Serb Orthodox Church and occasionally rather loose application of the strict Shari'a Law to Christian population, the Ottoman state facilitated the adjustment of the local population into the new order, thus strengthening its authority. Therefore, this paper aims to, using the example of Braničevo, and combining local and Ottoman sources, show currents, relations and changes that occurred immediately following the Ottoman rule, as well as in the following several decades.
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