Academic Stress
Through creative strategies, secondary schools can reduce academic stress and make learning more meaningful. A high school counselor boasts about the “best and brightest” students in her school. They are motivated and diligent, they enroll in honors and advanced placement courses and achieve high grades and test scores. They play sports, participate in theater and [...]
Institutional Change Caused By EU Embeddedness In The WTO
In this section, empirical findings on institutional changes in the EU caused by its embeddedness in the WTO will be presented.^ The empirical research covers the overall European institutional changes within the different issue areas of the WTO (GATT, Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services [...]
THE CONCEPT OF AN EXPANDED EUROPEAN MULTI-LEVEL SYSTEM.
The European integration process has expanded political space, blurring national borders. This development did not leave the political system untouched. Common policy-making within the ‘Staatenverbund’ of the EU not only affected governments of member states, but furthermore an Europeanization has taken place that is ‘enlarging the scope of the relevant unit of policy-making’ (Kohler-Koch 2000: [...]
European Union’s Economic System.
The concept of the European multi-level system and especially the term multilevel governance has been extensively criticized. The main criticisms state that (a) multi-level governance is a description of the European Union (EU) rather than a theory, (b) it overstates the role of sub national actors, and (c) it ignores the international level of interaction [...]
