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“…Our results confirm that the politicians' ideology as well as individual characteristics such as educational background exert a major in uence. …”

“…"Industry has for years overestimated the cost of implementing environmental legislation in order to persuade politicians to weaken or drop proposed environmental law according to ‘Cry Wolf’. …”

“…The idea that such jobs can be revived is a central issue for many politicians and is behind the demand that products should be ‘made in’ the countries that consume them. …”

“…The book contains essays based on semi-structured interviews with leading scholars, European politicians and representatives from the world of business. …”

“…"With the government due to report on its review of automatic enrolment this month, sparking fresh debate about workplace pensions, a new report brings together politicians from across the political divide and leading thinkers to set out ideas for the next stage of workplace pension reform. …”

“…"The need to reduce carbon emissions while protecting jobs and prosperity is a key challenge for progressive politicians, both practically and ideologically. Using opposition to the third runway at Heathrow as a case-in-point, Clive Soley argues that the adoption of negative policies which impinge on individual choice and quality of life are counter-productive and electorally damaging. …”

“…Enraging employers and politicians but delighting many in the wider community, the members of the New South Wales Builders Labourers' Federation risked their jobs in order to preserve buildings, bush and parkland. …”

“…It is time for national governments and politicians to deliver “no regrets solutions” to the climate change challenge."…”

“…"Unionists and politicians frequently claim that globalization lowers employment protection of workers. …”

“…He examines how these pressures have led social democrats to embrace neo-liberal policies and become threatened by minor parties and independent politicians. Providing an original argument about the decline of social democracy, the author investigates how its decline has increased the popularity of minor parties and independents, along with the reasons for social democratic membership and electoral decline…”

“…In this volume he reveals what PR companies, lobbyists and politicians spend their time keeping hidden. Using sources inside the global institutions he establishes that the IMF and the World Bank serve the interests of the very rich in Europe and America. …”

“…"In advance of the gathering of the G20 in London in April 2009, this report explains the scale of the economic challenge facing the world, describes the origins of the economic crisis, offers proposals for the regulation of the financial sector and makes the case for activist fiscal policy. So far politicians have focused their attention on the banking sector, but the policy instruments available will only be seen as legitimate if they are directly related to the preoccupations of citizens’ daily lives – job security, pensions, prices. …”

“…Health monitoring can and should be used as tool by politicians to set specific targets and to control the implementation of these targets. …”

“…Housing? Greed? Dumb politicians? What can Main Street do about it? In The Looting of America, Leopold debunks the prevailing media myths that blame low-income home buyers who got in over their heads, people who ran up too much credit-card debt, and government interference with free markets. …”

“…This Special Report, prepared as a background paper by the CEPS Carbon Market Forum for the Carbon Leakage Project, should be seen as a primer that provides policy-makers, politicians, regulators and industry with a document that is easily readable and yet sufficiently rigorous to be illuminating, and which outlines the issues and why they are important."…”

“…Trade union organisations made statements and politicians chose sides. The conflict in Vaxholm was neither the first nor the last that was all about the union’s fight for an agreement. …”

“…"This paper attempts to understand Asian Drama in the context of the development debates of its time, and in terms of the sensibilities that Gunnar Myrdal-the brilliant economic theorist and philosopher of knowledge, and the Swedish politician-brought to the conceptualization of the problems and prospects of development. …”