Setting the Goalposts Right

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What do we want from policy analysis?
This question recently came up in a discussion on new EU member state policy on poverty and social exclusion.
It’s not a simple question. And it depends an awful lot on what we accept as given.
In many discussions on EU enlargement and related social and tax policy reform, as in the broader context of liberalization, I think we too readily accept as inevitable a (mis)configuration of the international political economy which really is of our own choosing.
Let’s think this over. Read on for more.

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Submitted first draft on “Journalisms in Europe”-Project

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Today, Prof. Hartmut Wessler has submitted a paper on “Journalisms in Europe” to the International Communication Association for review concerning its 2007 annual conference. The paper has been co-authored by me and three other student colleagues. The project is based on a quantitative content analysis of news items from online versions of 30 European newspapers, originally conducted in the undergraduate research seminar “Media Communication in the European Union”, held by Prof. Hartmut Wessler at International University Bremen in Fall 2005. The paper reviews and integrates initial research findings from the research seminar.

 

Retrieved from commons.wikipedia.org on November 12, 2006

Retrieved from commons.wikipedia.org on November 12, 2006

 

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