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  |   Jay Belsky

Quality, Quantity and Type of Child Care: Effects on Child Development in the USA

This paper summarises major findings emerging from the largest and most systematic investigation of the developmental effects of nonmaternal child care on children's development ever conducted in USA, the NICHD Study of Early Child Care (SECC).

Quality, Quantity and Type of Child Care: Effects on Child Development in the USA
  |   Prof. Dr.Tom G. Palmer

Freedom Properly Understood

Freedom is rightly considered to be the highest end of mankind. Many people agree, many people don't agree what freedom actually is. Quite often it is confused with the material goods that flow from it, such as wealth. health or knowledge. This

Freedom Properly Understood
  |   Dr.Jiri Schwarz, Martin Froněk

KYOTO - several years after

Global climate change is in headlines every day. The most important documents for the debate are the Reports Climate Change 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and the Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, written by the

KYOTO - several years after
  |   Doug Bandow

Human Rights in Danger? Myths and Realities in the UN

On the whole, the Declaration of Human Rights of the United Nations 60 years ago offers a positive vision for humanity. Bandow gives a disillusioned description of today's human rights engagement of the UN, which he regards a lost opportunity and

Human Rights in Danger? Myths and Realities in the UN
  |   Parth J. Shah

CSR: Capitalism at its best or an anti-capitalist mentality?

Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is widely accepted as a high moral achievement in modern market society. Self-interest and morality are still seen as opposites. Shah disapproves special ethics for business men. What we need is not corporate

CSR: Capitalism at its best or an anti-capitalist mentality?
  |   Frank Vibert

Soft Power and international rule-making

In international rule-making there is a mix of hard and soft techniques. In his paper Frank Vibert focuses particularly on soft power in the sense of making international rules of behaviour as a way of avoiding the use of coercive means also as

Soft Power and international rule-making
  |   Julie Simmons

Treaty Federalism: The Canadian Experience

According to J. Simmons, the effects of decentralisation usually vary, are diverse and contradictory. Federalism in Canada has not only been a process but also always a structure. The era of contract federalism found a way out of the impasse of the

Treaty Federalism: The Canadian Experience
  |   George Herbert

The Treaty of Lisbon - a Threat to Federalism?

George Herbert from St. Peter's College, Oxford University, describes the implications of the Treaty of Lisbon for federalism in Europe. He is of the opinion that it will not come to an EU that is federal in its organisation, as the people in the

The Treaty of Lisbon - a Threat to Federalism?
  |   Lincoln Allison

Sport as Virtue . . . as Love . . . as Commerce

What is sport: simply a pastime? Just a business? Is it a cultural activity? Lincoln Allison describes, how things among sportsmen and spectators have changed over the years and he shows that the concept of amateurism is neither financial nor social.

Sport as Virtue . . . as Love . . . as Commerce
  |   Dr.Jutta Braun

Football and political freedom: the historical experience of divided Germany

During the Cold War football was highly politicised. The rivalry between the different systems of the East and the West was always a major player in international soccer events and a driving force for government aid for sports. This paper sketches

Football and political freedom: the historical experience of divided Germany