Argues that foreign direct investment is not driven simply by investor considerations of economic risk and return but by social construction of demand for foreign capital by receiving states. Findings based on quantitative analysis of foreign investment in Central and Eastern Europe (1989-2000) support the hypothesis that the state plays a critical role in FDI flows.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29335645
The book deals with the transformed relationahip between state and economy. The classical division between state and market are unsuitable due to transformation of the state as increasing numbers of private organizations are included in the provision of public goods. The third way really means to deal with new problems of governance arising from hybrid arrangements.
COBISS.SI-ID: 245529344
The key challenge faced by judges trying to implement the EU Procedures Directive is the need for interpretation of the transposition act and the minimum standards from the Procedures Directive in a way that would be consistent with the international and constitutional human rights law standards. The argument focuses on the methods of interpretation of Community law, the concept of judicial co-operation for the protection of human rights, conditions for annulment of Community provisions, and the effects of international law standards on the protection of fundamental rights under Community law.
COBISS.SI-ID: 27411805
The article discusses the impact of social networks, which are formed in the context of voluntary associations, on democratic values such as tolerance. Although social theory predicts that voluntary associations promote tolerance, the analysis for post-socialist countries shows statistically un-significant or even negative relationship. The author suggests that the reason for very different effects of associational membership on tolerance in consolidated and new democracies should be sought in the structure of social networks.
COBISS.SI-ID: 29061469
There are three epirically distinguished types of trust: interpersonal, onterorganizational and institutional or systemic trust. Each type has an independent effect on economic peroformance. It is empirically confirmed that instituional trust has the strongest effect on ec. performance in the contex of uncertainty of transition economies.
COBISS.SI-ID: 27180381