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Referendums have experienced some sort of a comeback. Citizen involvement in political decisions is seen increasingly as a healthy add-on in democratic polities. While earlier writers on democratic theory often saw a danger in increased participation of citizens, more recently several authors suggest that this participation should be fostered. I argue in this paper that both sides in...

Background The Psychiatric arm of the population-based CoLaus study (PsyCoLaus) is designed to: 1) establish the prevalence of threshold and subthreshold psychiatric syndromes in the 35 to 66 year-old population of the city of Lausanne (Switzerland); 2) test the validity of postulated definitions for subthreshold mood and anxiety syndromes; 3) determine the associations between...

In this paper I ask the following question: of all the historical or the existing types of political regimes, which one would have had Kant's preference, which one would have counted for him as a model ? I guess he would have answered that it was the American polity which inspired him more than any other in history past and present. In the present contribution I'll try to...

Bei der Finanzierung der Spitäler soll die Einführung von Fallpauschalen Anreize für möglichst effizientes Arbeiten setzen. Die Autoren des folgenden Beitrags legen dar, dass die in der Praxis im Kanton Zürich gewählten Ansätze nicht unbedingt die Effizienten belohnen, weil die Spezialisierung bzw. der «Produktemix» der Spitäler vernachlässigt wird.

Der schon jetzt absehbare demographische Wandel wird in den nächsten Jahrzehnten eine der großen Herausforderungen in fast allen entwickelten Industriegesellschaften sein. Betriebe werden in diesem Zusammenhang mit zunehmend alternden und zunehmend altersheterogeneren Belegschaften konfrontiert sein. Vor diesem Hintergrund stellt sich die Frage, wie sich sowohl eine durchschnittliche...

The analysis of the competitive environment – monopoly, oligopoly or many competitors –in which international organizations act, has been neglected in scholarly
research. Both this external and the internal type of competition in international organizations are rather weak and performance is far from ideal. To strengthen both
types of competition, several tentative...

The superior temporal sulcus (STS) is the chameleon of the human brain. Several research areas claim the STS as the host brain region for their particular behavior of interest. Some see it as one of the core structures for theory of mind. For others, it is the main region for audiovisual integration. It plays an important role in biological motion perception, but is also claimed to...

Our legal system requires assigning responsibility for crimes and deciding on appropriate punishments. A new fMRI study by Buckholtz et al. in this issue of Neuron reveals that the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (rDLPFC) plays a key role in these cognitive processes. This finding sheds light on the neural mechanisms underlying moral judgment from a third-party perspective.