Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9788814213793
Category : Law
Languages : it
Pages : 728
Book Description
La nuova disciplina dei contratti pubblici tra esigenze di semplificazione, rilancio dell'economia e contrasto alla corruzione
Author: European Democratic Institutions and Administrations
Author: Francesco MerloniPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319724932
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 319
Book Description
This book presents the results of extensive international comparative research into the effects of the economic and financial crisis on democratic institutions and social cohesion policies. The collected studies describe and analyse the measures (often referred to as "reforms") adopted to counter the crisis and the effects of these measures.It investigates three areas: the impact on the functioning of institutions, with respect to the relationship between representative institutions and governments, and the organisational structure of administrations at national and local levels; the impact that the austerity policies on public spending have on social rights; and the impact on traditional instruments of public action (administrative simplification, public services delivering, the use of common assets).The general findings highlight the effect of reducing the administrative and government capacity of the democratic institutions: the public sector, rather than being innovative and made more effective, declines, offering increasingly poor public services and making bad decisions, fuelling substantive or formal privatisation solutions, which in turn cause further weakening.
Dictionary of Statuses within EU Law
Author: Antonio BartoliniPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030005542
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
This Dictionary analyses the ways in which the statuses of European citizens are profoundly affected by EU law. The study of one’s particular status (as a worker, consumer, family member, citizen, etc.) helps to reconsider the legal notions concerning an individual’s status at the EU level. The Dictionary includes a foreword by Evgeni Tanchev, Advocate General at the Court of Justice of the European Union, which illustrates some interesting features of the Court’s case law on statuses.The Dictionary’s core is composed of 79 chapters, published in alphabetical order. Each brief chapter analyses how the individual status was conditioned or created by contemporary EU law, or how the process of European integration modified the traditional juridical definition of the respective status. The Dictionary provides answers to the following questions: Has the process of European integration modified the traditional juridical definition of individual status? Has the concept of legal status now acquired a new function? What role has EU law played in developing a new modern function for the concept of individual status? Are the selection of a specific individual status by EU law and the proliferation of such statuses, which is synonymous with the creation of new privileges, collectively undermining the goal of achieving substantive equality between EU citizens? Does this constitute a return to the past? Under EU law, is it possible to create a uniform definition of the legal status of the person, over and above the definition that is provided by a given Member State’s legal system?
Integrity and Efficiency in Sustainable Public Contracts
Author: Gabriella M. RaccaPublisher: Emile Bruylant
ISBN: 9782802742944
Category : Government purchasing
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Ensuring efficiency and integrity throughout the public procurement cycle is essential to a sound allocation of taxpayers' money. Yet public contracts are plagued by corruption, collusion, favoritism and conflicts of interest. This book addresses these problems from sophisticated, academic, institutional and practical perspectives. The book's ambition is to shape the public debate in the procurement community by highlighting how corruption implies violations of fundamental rights and undermines the fiduciary relationship between citizens and public institutions. The analysis underlines how corruption may stem from - and yet be resolved - through the exercise of discretion in the public procurement system. Focusing on the effects of public corruption and private collusion on procurement integrity, the book marks the features of misconduct and suggests needed counter-measures. The work also emphasizes that the pursuit of efficiency and integrity in public contracts must be rooted in professional skills, and in ethical regulations and training for public officers. The research reflected in these pieces cornes from sources around the world, and offers an excellent foundation for further development of these topics. Expanding on prior research, this volume builds on a more active transnational academic cooperation and exchanges of ideas on integrity in public contracts for the benefit of citizens.
The Law of Public and Utilities Procurement
Author: Sue ArrowsmithPublisher:
ISBN: 9780414024922
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
This new edition of a work regarded as "the bible" on procurement issues provides a detailed analysis of the legal and policy framework for procurement in the EU and UK. It includes detailed explanations and critique of the impact of the important new EU directives that will be adopted in 2014
Corruption and Conflicts of Interest
Author: Jean-Bernard AubyPublisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 178100935X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 351
Book Description
As in all periods of swift economic development and political upheaval, our era of globalization has brought corruption and conflicts of interest into the spotlight. This comprehensive study highlights the difficulties of devising global legislative an
Understanding Financial Accounts
Author: OECDPublisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264281282
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Understanding Financial Accounts seeks to show how a range of questions on financial developments can be answered with the framework of financial accounts and balance sheets, by providing non-technical explanations illustrated with practical examples.
Aspects of Violence
Author: W. SchinkelPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 023025134X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
This book provides a novel approach to the social scientific study of violence. It argues for an 'extended' definition of violence in order to avoid subscribing to commonsensical or state propagated definitions of violence, and pays specific attention to 'autotelic violence' (violence for the sake of itself), as well as to terrorism.
System of Environmental-economic Accounting 2012
Author: Eurotragedy
Author: Ashoka ModyPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199351384
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Languages : en
Pages : 673
Book Description
EuroTragedy is an incisive exploration of the tragedy of how the European push for integration was based on illusions and delusions pursued in the face of warnings that the pursuit of unity was based on weak foundations.