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4.6 The Role of Professional Neutrals The person or group selected by the convener is often (but not always) tapped by the full ...

Table 13.1 Tasks of the mediator Phases Tasks Prenegotiation Getting started Meeting with potential stakeholders to assess their ...

because they are accountable to the public and must stand for election (or, if they are an appointed oYcial, work for someone wh ...

process and outcome, consensus-building eVorts must be conducted in the ‘‘sun- shine.’’ Finally, the product of every ad hoc con ...

collaborative decision making is an importantWrst step. Senior staVneed to set internal policies so that agencies are willing to ...

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Cohen,H. 1982 .You Can Negotiate Anything. New York: Bantam. Cohen,J. 1983 .On Democracy. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Doyle, M., and ...

Susskind,L. 1986. NIDR’s state oYce of mediation experiment.Negotiation Journal, 2 ( 3 ): 323 7. Amundsen, O., and Matsuura,M. 1 ...

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whether their actions are largely determined by social and economic forces beyond their control (and perhaps even beyond their c ...

Heckman, Lalonde, and Smith ( 1999 ). First, they are much better suited for evalu- ating new measures that are not yet implemen ...

program can be endogenous: measures may be enacted precisely because the situ- ation calls for them. The complement to the befor ...

reforms. TheWrst kind is often rather academic in nature, while the latter tends to be more policy oriented. ‘‘Holistic’’ studie ...

larger households need more income than smaller ones to achieve the same level of economic well-being, although they proWt from ...

tested, while tax systems in all OECD countries are to some extent progre- ssive, meaning that as income rises taxes paid as a p ...

pensions (Mahler and Jesuit 2004 ). One way to address this point is to look only at the non-elderly (although social insurance ...

ambiguous. Economic theory also cannot predict the direction of the private savings response to transfer programs (Danziger, Hav ...

unsustainable. This implies that the question, ‘‘what is the impact of public transfers on income inequality,’’ is fundamentally ...

(Titmuss 1974 ; Esping-Andersen 1990 ; and many others) have produced social security and welfare state typologies, which depart ...

welfare state eVort. They argue that a euro spent on an earnings-related civil servant pension does not represent the same degre ...