The empirical investigation of citizens' preferences with respect to four energy scenarios

The use of planning cells as a participatory element in the political decisionmaking context turned out to be a highly complex but rewarding effort. From the experience with more than 20 planning cells, we have gained a better understanding of the chances and the limits of this model. Also, we encountered some difficulties which were not visible when we started our program. Our experiences justify the turther development of the planning cell concept. but at the same time revealed some of the serious problems and drawbacks related to the idea of picking random samples for policy evaluation. These problems have to be solved before this instrument is used in wider scope to facilitate decisionmaking under conflict

Public sector corruption: lessons to be learned from the Ukrainian experience

This paper introduces certain problems of the Ukrainian health-care system, and provides an overview of the local health-care system and pharmaceutical market, and identifies regulatory and legal issues. The authors present the preliminary results of an interview programme with medical practitioners in Ukraine that address the issues of development of relationships between Western pharmaceutical companies and medical practitioners in Ukraine. It also identifies some unique features of these relationships, and discusses the implications for the culture of bribery in this important developing market

SoTech-Literatur - Bibliographie zu den Projekten und dem Programm 'Mensch und Technik' - Sozialvertraegliche Technikgestaltung' der Landesregierung Nordrhein-Westfalen

TIB Hannover: RO 8020(85) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekSIGLEDEGerman