Strategic Planning and Public Opinion Survey

Strategic Planning is a creative, practical planning process for community change. Community Strategic Planning produces a visionary statement of what the community wants to be 10 to 20 years in the future. There is no one ideal strategic planning process that has worked for all communities and community groups. Different communities have successfully used a variety of processes. The article describes methods important for evolvement of the situation analysis, particularly the method of representative public opinion survey that provides basis for SWOT analysis and formulation of the strategic goals. The method reflecting public’s attitudes, values, and beliefs regarding community development is demonstrated on the example of two cities located in the Eastern part of the Slovak Republic - Košice and Spišská Nová Ves. Key words: Community Strategic Planning, Community Needs Analysis, City and Place Marketing, Strategic Planning Methodology, Public Opinion Survey, Questionnaires design.

The economic consequences of the spanish Reconquest: The long-term effects of medieval conquest and colonization

This paper shows that a historical process that ended more than five centuries ago, the Reconquest, is very important to explain Spanish regional economic development down to the present day. An indicator measuring the rate of Reconquest reveals a heavily negative effect on current income differences across the Spanish provinces. A main intervening factor in the impact the Reconquest has had is the concentration of economic and political power in a few hands, excluding large segments of the population from access to economic opportunities when Spain entered the industrialization phase. The timing of the effect is consistent with this argument. A general implication of our analysis is that large frontier expansions may favor a political equilibrium among the colonizing agents that is biased toward the elite, creating the conditions for an inegalitarian society, with negative consequences for long-term economic developmenTUniversidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech

How effective and efficient is the public support granted to social enterprises?

Social entrepreneurship accounts for an important share of employment in the European labour market.Social enterprises, however, are mainly funded by public budgets. Based on the data of 307 individuals who received EU-funded support and a control group of the same size, we estimated the effect that this support had on the employability. To perform this task, we used a propensity score matching approach. We found a positive effect of 7.8% increase in the likelihood in employment of supported group. Women benefited with an estimated 11.6% increase, and people older than 40 years of age with an estimated 14.7% increase in employment. The timespan needed for the payback time is more than 13 years

»White Men Can't Jump...«

»Can history be objective« and if, what is then the connection between historiography and fiction, since the former originates in the latter. What status did fiction have in this relationship. By showing some crucial traits of this relationship the author wants to stress the views of those who claim that history is devoid of interpretation, thence of that what makes a story universal, and is only a residuum of the past. It is only a dry protocol or a transcript of time, people and events on which it reports.»Can history be objective« and if, what is then the connection between historiography and fiction, since the former originates in the latter. What status did fiction have in this relationship. By showing some crucial traits of this relationship the author wants to stress the views of those who claim that history is devoid of interpretation, thence of that what makes a story universal, and is only a residuum of the past. It is only a dry protocol or a transcript of time, people and events on which it reports

An improvement of an inequality of koksma

AbstractAn expression for the Koksma integral [Indag. Math.13 (1951), 285-287;MR13, 539] is given. The result is applied to show that the constant 1/3 in Koksma's inequality [ibidem] can be replaced by 1/4 and this constant is the best possible. Also the mean value of the integral is determined