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Do Think Tanks Matter? evaluates the influence and relevance of public policy institutes in today's political arena. Many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in the latter part of the twentieth century indicates their growing importance in the policy-making process. This perception has been reinforced by directors of think tanks, who often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation. Yet the basic question of how and in what way they influence public policy has, Donald Abelson contends, frequently been ignored. Abelson studies the experiences of think tanks in the United States, where they have become an integral feature of the political landscape, and in Canada, where their numbers have grown considerably in recent years but where, compared to their U.S. counterparts, they enjoy less prominence in policy-making. By focusing on the policy cycle, issue articulation (that is, getting issues on the political agenda) and policy formation and implementation (actually affecting the outcome of policies already on the political agenda), he argues that think tanks have sometimes played an important role in shaping the political dialogue and the policy preferences and choices of decision-makers, but often in different ways and at different stages of the policy cycle.
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• Surveying the think tank landscape in the United States and Canada
• Thinking about think tanks : a conceptual framework
• In the arena : opportunities, constraints, and incentives for think tanks in the United States and Canada
• Competing in the marketplace of ideas : the strategies of think tanks
• Public visibility and policy relevance : assessing the influence of think tanks
• On the road to the White House : presidential candidates and the think tanks that advised them
• Policy experts or policy instruments? Think tanks and the debate over constitutional reform in Canada
• Conclusion : the more things change ... policy influence, policy relevance, and the future of think tanks in Canada, the United States, and beyond.

Do Think Tanks Matter? evaluates the influence and relevance of public policy institutes in today's political arena. Many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in the latter part of the twentieth century indicates their growing importance in the policy-making process. This perception has been reinforced by directors of think tanks, who often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation. Yet the basic question of how and in what way they influence public policy has, Donald Abelson contends, frequently been ignored. Abelson studies the experiences of think tanks in the United States, where they have become an integral feature of the political landscape, and in Canada, where their numbers have grown considerably in recent years but where, compared to their U.S. counterparts, they enjoy less prominence in policy-making. By focusing on the policy cycle, issue articulation (that is, getting issues on the political agenda) and policy formation and implementation (actually affecting the outcome of policies already on the political agenda), he argues that think tanks have sometimes played an important role in shaping the political dialogue and the policy preferences and choices of decision-makers, but often in different ways and at different stages of the policy cycle.
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• Surveying the think tank landscape in the United States and Canada
• Thinking about think tanks: a conceptual framework
• In the arena: opportunities, constraints, and incentives for think tanks in the United States and Canada
• Competing in the marketplace of ideas: the strategies of think tanks
• Public visibility and policy relevance: assessing the influence of think tanks
• On the road to the White House: presidential candidates and the think tanks that advised them
• Policy experts or policy instruments? Think tanks and the debate over constitutional reform in Canada
• Conclusion: policy influence, policy relevance, and the future of think tanks in Canada, the United States, and beyond
• Appendix one: a profile of selected American think tanks
• Appendix two: a profile of selected Canadian think tanks.

Do Think Tanks Matter? evaluates the influence and relevance of public policy institutes in today's political arena. Many journalists and scholars believe the explosion of think tanks in the latter part of the twentieth century indicates their growing importance in the policy-making process. This perception has been reinforced by directors of think tanks, who often credit their institutes with influencing major policy debates and government legislation. Yet the basic question of how and in what way they influence public policy has, Donald Abelson contends, frequently been ignored. Abelson studies the experiences of think tanks in the United States, where they have become an integral feature of the political landscape, and in Canada, where their numbers have grown considerably in recent years but where, compared to their U.S. counterparts, they enjoy less prominence in policy-making. By focusing on the policy cycle, issue articulation (that is, getting issues on the political agenda) and policy formation and implementation (actually affecting the outcome of policies already on the political agenda), he argues that think tanks have sometimes played an important role in shaping the political dialogue and the policy preferences and choices of decision-makers, but often in different ways and at different stages of the policy cycle.
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• Lights, camera, action : policy experts and presidential campaigns
• From generation to generation : the origin and evolution of American think tanks
• Theorizing about think tanks : competing visions and conceptual approaches
• Open for business : think tanks and the marketplace of ideas
• Something is missing : think tanks and the study of foreign policy-making
• Finding their way : in search of policy influence
• Is anybody listening? : assessing the influence of think tanks
• Think tanks at work : the debate over national missile defense
• A hard-fought battle : 9/11, the Bush doctrine, and the war of ideas
• Conclusion : think tanks, foreign policy, and the public interest.

Are American think tanks major players in US foreign policy?
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• 1 Wilder Penfield: His Journey to Montreal / William Feindel and Elizabeth Maloney
• 2 Towards a New Venture / William Feindel and Elizabeth Maloney
• Part One The Sub-Department of Neurosurgery at the Royal Victoria Hospital, 1928-1933
• 3 Otfrid Foerster and the Surgical Treatment of Epilepsy
• 4 The Royal Victoria Hospital
• 5 The First Research Program at the Royal Victoria Hospital: A Vasomotor Mechanism of Focal Epilepsy.

• Part Two The First Director, 1934-1959. 6 The Founding of the Montreal Neurological Institute
• 7 The First Year and the Second
• 8 Elvidge, McNaughton, and Jasper
• 9 Rumours of War
• 10 "Cry 'Havoc' and let slip the dogs of war"
• 11 Home Front
• 12 Life at the Institute
• 13 Valour
• 14 The Postwar Period
• 15 The Cerebral Cortex of Man
• 16 Incisural Sclerosis
• 17 Bridging Two Solitudes
• 18 The New Half-Century
• 19 The MNI and the National Institutes of Health
• 20 The McConnell Wing
• 21 William Feindel's Departure
• 22 Neuropsychology at the MNI
• 23 A Tribute to William Cone
• 24 Melancholia: 4 May 1959.

• Part Three The Second Director, 1960-1972. 25 Twenty-Five Years on University Street
• 26 Theodore Rasmussen
• 27 Penfield in Russia
• 28 Penfield in China
• 29 Red Cerebral Veins
• 30 Herbert Jasper's Departure
• 31 A Rainbow of African Violets.

• Part Four The Third Director, 1972-1984. 32 A Fair Trial Followed by a Hanging
• 33 Ars Longa
• 34 Vita Brevis, 5 April 1976
• 35 The Third Foundation
• 36 The Last Half-Decade
• Epilogue: The Boy from Bridgewater.

• Themes. 1 Building the Institute / Annmarie Adams and William Feindel
• 2 Neurochemistry at the MNI / Hanna M. Pappius
• 3 Multiple Sclerosis: Care and Research at the MNI / Jack Antel and William Sheremata
• 4 William Howard Feindel and the Origins of Neurosurgery in Saskatchewan / Martha Riesberry
• Appendices.
• Appendix 1 Japanese Chapter of the MNI, 1955-1984
• Appendix 2 Fellows Day Lecturers, 1957-1984
• Appendix 3 Hughlings Jackson Lecturers, 1935-1984.

In 1934 Wilder Penfield's vision of an establishment dedicated to the relief of sickness and pain and the study of neurology led to the creation of the Montreal Neurological Institute. Setting the standard for neurological research and care for patients disabled by neurological illnesses, Penfield's institute became a beacon of light in a largely unexplored field of medicine. The Wounded Brain Healed describes the pioneering research that took place during the MNI's first fifty years. During the institute's golden age, Penfield and his colleagues designed the EEG test for the study of epileptic patients, discovered some of the causes of epilepsy, and developed new treatments that have since been adopted worldwide. Additionally, they delineated the sensory and motor representation in the cerebral cortex and localized the major areas of the brain related to speech. The institute also boasts the discoveries of two types of memory - one serving immediate recall, the other long term - as well as the discovery of the localization of short-term memory to the inner structures of the temporal lobe. Physicians and scientists who trained at the MNI went on to establish renowned neurology and neurosurgery departments throughout Canada, the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. Recounting the story of one of Canada's greatest contributions to international medical science through archival research, personal interviews, photographs, illustrations, and paintings, The Wounded Brain Healed provides fascinating insight into the institution that had a global and lasting impact.
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• List of Illustrations ix List of Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Rumors of an Enemy 3 PART ONE: DEFINING THE PARADIGM 1.Inventing the Behavioral Sciences 19 2.The Culture of Think Tanks 38 3.Psychopolitics and Primary Groups: Theories of Culture and Society in Cold War Academia 57 PART TWO: NORMAL SCIENCE 4.The Obstinate Audience: The Art of Information Management in the Cold War 75 5.The War of Ideas:Ideologyand Science in Psychological Warfare 94 6.Deus ex Clinica : Psychopolitics and Elite Studies of Communism 124 7.Collective Behavior in Totalitarian Societies: The Analysis of Enemy POWs in Korea 144 8.Prison Camps and Culture Wars: The Korean Brainwashing Controversy 162 PART THREE: CRISIS 9.Vietnam: From "Hearts and Minds" to "Rational Choice" 185 10.Paradigm Lost: The Project Camelot Affair 206 11.Epilogue:Report from Iron Mountain and Beyond 226 Notes 239 Index 271.
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At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they influenced decision-making in the map rooms, prison camps, and battlefields of the Korean War and in Vietnam. With verve and insight, Ron Robin tells the intriguing story of the rise of behavioral scientists in government and how their potentially dangerous, "American" assumptions about human behavior would shape U.S. views of domestic disturbances and insurgencies in Third World countries for decades to come. Based at government-funded think tanks, the experts devised provocative solutions for key Cold War dilemmas, including psychological warfare projects, negotiation strategies during the Korean armistice, and morale studies in the Vietnam era. Robin examines factors that shaped the scientists' thinking and explores their psycho-cultural and rational choice explanations for enemy behavior. He reveals how the academics' intolerance for complexity ultimately reduced the nation's adversaries to borderline psychotics, ignored revolutionary social shifts in post-World War II Asia, and promoted the notion of a maniacal threat facing the United States. Putting the issue of scientific validity aside, Robin presents the first extensive analysis of the intellectual underpinnings of Cold War behavioral sciences in a book that will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the era and its legacy.
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• List of Illustrations ix List of Abbreviations xi Acknowledgments xv Introduction: Rumors of an Enemy 3 PART ONE: DEFINING THE PARADIGM 1.Inventing the Behavioral Sciences 19 2.The Culture of Think Tanks 38 3.Psychopolitics and Primary Groups: Theories of Culture and Society in Cold War Academia 57 PART TWO: NORMAL SCIENCE 4.The Obstinate Audience: The Art of Information Management in the Cold War 75 5.The War of Ideas:Ideologyand Science in Psychological Warfare 94 6.Deus ex Clinica : Psychopolitics and Elite Studies of Communism 124 7.Collective Behavior in Totalitarian Societies: The Analysis of Enemy POWs in Korea 144 8.Prison Camps and Culture Wars: The Korean Brainwashing Controversy 162 PART THREE: CRISIS 9.Vietnam: From "Hearts and Minds" to "Rational Choice" 185 10.Paradigm Lost: The Project Camelot Affair 206 11.Epilogue:Report from Iron Mountain and Beyond 226 Notes 239 Index 271.
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At the height of the Cold War, the U.S. government enlisted the aid of a select group of psychologists, sociologists, and political scientists to blueprint enemy behavior. Not only did these academics bring sophisticated concepts to what became a project of demonizing communist societies, but they influenced decision-making in the map rooms, prison camps, and battlefields of the Korean War and in Vietnam. With verve and insight, Ron Robin tells the intriguing story of the rise of behavioral scientists in government and how their potentially dangerous, "American" assumptions about human behavior would shape U.S. views of domestic disturbances and insurgencies in Third World countries for decades to come. Based at government-funded think tanks, the experts devised provocative solutions for key Cold War dilemmas, including psychological warfare projects, negotiation strategies during the Korean armistice, and morale studies in the Vietnam era. Robin examines factors that shaped the scientists' thinking and explores their psycho-cultural and rational choice explanations for enemy behavior. He reveals how the academics' intolerance for complexity ultimately reduced the nation's adversaries to borderline psychotics, ignored revolutionary social shifts in post-World War II Asia, and promoted the notion of a maniacal threat facing the United States. Putting the issue of scientific validity aside, Robin presents the first extensive analysis of the intellectual underpinnings of Cold War behavioral sciences in a book that will be indispensable reading for anyone interested in the era and its legacy.
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• Introduction to A Century of Maritime Science (Jennifer Hubbard)
• Chapter 1: Science in Canada: The Context of the Biological Board of Canada's St. Andrews Biological Station (Eric L. Mills)
• Chapter 2: Some Contributions of Women to the Early Study of Marine Biology of Canadian Waters (Mary Needler Arai)
• Chapter 3: The Gospel of Efficiency and the Origins of Maximum Sustainable Yield (MSY): Scientific and Social Influences on Johan Hjort's and A.G. Huntsman's Contributions to Fisheries Science (Jennifer Hubbard)
• Chapter 4: Public Science and Government Policy in the History of St. Andrews Biological Station (Robert L. Stephenson)
• Chapter 5: Technology in Marine Science at the St. Andrews Biological Station, 1908-2008 (Timothy James Foulkes)
• Chapter 6: An Overview of Physical Oceanographic Research at the St. Andrews Biological Station During its First Century (Blythe D. Chang and Fred H. Page)
• Chapter 7: Experimental Flow Studies at St. Andrews Biological Station (David J. Wildish and Shawn M.C. Robinson)
• Chapter 8: A Personal Perspective on the Historical Role of the St Andrews Biological Station in Investigations of Canadian Scallop Fisheries (John F. Caddy)
• Chapter 9: Fifty years of Atlantic Salmon Field Studies at St. Andrews Biological Station (Richard H. Peterson)
• Chapter 10: Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) Research - Seventy Years in Retrospect (Jennifer L. Martin)
• Chapter 11: A History of Research in Environmental Science and Ecotoxicology at the St. Andrew's Biological Station (Peter G. Wells)
• Chapter 12: Aquaculture Research and Development at the St. Andrews Biological Station: 1908-2008 (Robert H. Cook).
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Located on the Bay of Fundy, the St. Andrews Biological Station is Canada's oldest permanent marine research institution. A Century of Maritime Science reviews the fisheries, environmental, oceanographic, and aquaculture research conducted over the last hundred years at St. Andrews from the perspective of the participating scientists. Introductory essays by two leading historians of science situate the work at St. Andrews within their historical context. With topics including the contributions of women to the early study of marine biology in Canada; the study of scallops, Atlantic salmon, and paralytic shellfish poisoning; and the development of underwater camera technology, A Century of Maritime Science offers a captivating mixture of first-hand reminiscences, scientific expertise, and historical analysis.
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• Universities as knowledge-based institutions
• University costs
• Undergraduates
• Academic research
• Universities, industry, and economic development
• Universities and markets.

Incorporating 20 years of research and new data covering 99 research universities, this text assesses how market forces have affected universities in four key spheres of activity: finance, undergraduate education, primary research and participation in regional and national economic development.

• Contributors include Bert Backman-Beharry (Calgary-based consultant), N. Bruce Baskerville (National Research Council of Canada - NRCC), Francois Bregha (Stratos Inc), Don Di Salle (NRCC), G. Bruce Doern (Carleton and Exeter), Carey Hill (PhD candidate, British Columbia), Jeffrey S. Kinder (PhD candidate, Carleton), Russell LaPointe (doctoral student, Carleton), Debora C. Lopreite (PhD candidate, Carleton), David Robinson (Laurentian), Mike Rosenblatt (Carleton), Stephan Schott (Carleton), Robert Slater (Carleton), Jac van Beek (Ottawa), and Coady Wing (graduate student, Carleton).
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Inter-disciplinary essays on ISE and related sustainable development policy priorities of the federal government.
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The fourth Glion Colloquium, held in June 2003, brought together university leaders of major higher education institutions or organizations, along with guests from industry, to compare perspectives on the future of the research university in America and Europe. The papers contained in this book reflect both the consensus and differences in the perspectives of the participants on these issues. In Part I, papers by Frank Rhodes, Robert Zemsky and James Duderstadt, Luc Weber and Pavel Zgaga, as well as Howard Newby, set the stage. In Part II, Roger Downer, James Duderstadt, and Frans van Vught discuss the changing nature of education and scholarship. Part III continues with papers by Robert Zemsky, Andre Oosterlink, Nils Hasselmo, Marcel Crochet, and Wayne Johnson on the changing interaction between the research university and broader society. In Part IV, Luc Weber, Marye Anne Fox, Frank Rhodes, and Marcel Crochet discuss the challenges of financing and governing the contemporary research university. In the concluding chapter the editors endeavour to develop more specific suggestions concerning the issues and strategies that universities should consider as they approach a period of rapid change.
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• The reshaping of an agenda for innovation, science, and environment (ISE) / G. Bruce Doern
• The struggle over Canada's role in the post-Kyoto world / Peter Calamai
• Canadian innovation in a changing world: towards better S & T priority-setting / Jac van Beek
• Innovation and natural resources: myths and realities about the "old" economy versus the "new" economy / A. Jai Persaud, Uma Kumar, Vinod Kumar
• The path to local sustainable development: two approaches / Robert Hilton
• Canadian internet pharmacies and the USA technological and regulatory market change / Scott Bennett
• Promoting partnerships in biotechnology for development / Basma Abdelgafar, Halla Thorsteinsdóttir
• Biotechnology regulatory regime shift in the growing bio-health products era / G. Bruce Doern
• Renewable energy policies and the provinces / Judith Lipp
• The human nature connection: sustainable development policy implications / Elizabeth Nisbet, John Zelenski, Steven Murphy
• Putting the squeeze on procurement: procurement policy as a lever for innovation, science, and environment / Barbara Allen
• Transforming health sciences research: from the Medical Research Council to the Canadian Institutes of Health research / Joan Murphy
• Intellectual property rights and competition policy in the knowledge-based economy: compatible or colliding policy regimes? / Derek Ireland
• Harmful distraction: the commercialization of knowledge at Canada's public universities / Malcolm G. Bird.

• Contributors include Bert Backman-Beharry (Calgary-based consultant), N. Bruce Baskerville (National Research Council of Canada - NRCC), Francois Bregha (Stratos Inc), Don Di Salle (NRCC), G. Bruce Doern (Carleton and Exeter), Carey Hill (PhD candidate, British Columbia), Jeffrey S. Kinder (PhD candidate, Carleton), Russell LaPointe (doctoral student, Carleton), Debora C. Lopreite (PhD candidate, Carleton), David Robinson (Laurentian), Mike Rosenblatt (Carleton), Stephan Schott (Carleton), Robert Slater (Carleton), Jac van Beek (Ottawa), and Coady Wing (graduate student, Carleton).
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Inter-disciplinary essays on ISE and related sustainable development policy priorities of the federal government.
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• A background note and acknowledgments
• Introduction
• pt. 1. The setting and the system
• 1. Money for science : never enough
• 2. Elusive industrial angels
• 3. Commercialize! It's the law
• 4. Changing attitudes
• 5. The price of profits
• 6. Conflicts and interests
• 7. A new regime
• pt. 2. As seen from the inside -- six conversations
• 8. Success and remorse
• 9. A congenial partnership
• 10. When the rules change in midstream
• 11. Profits and principles
• 12. Generations apart
• 13. The journals revolt
• pt. 3. Fixing the system
• 14. What's right and wrong, and how to make it better
• Epilogue : A parable for our time
• List of abbreviations
• Notes
• Index.

In recent years, the news media have been awash in stories about increasingly close ties between college campuses and multimillion-dollar corporations. Our nation's universities, the story goes, reap enormous windfalls patenting products of scientific research that have been primarily funded by taxpayers. Meanwhile, hoping for new streams of revenue from their innovations, the same universities are allowing their research - and their very principles - to become compromised by quests for profit. But is that really the case? Is money really hopelessly corrupting science? With "Science for Sale", acclaimed journalist Daniel S. Greenberg reveals that campus capitalism is more complicated - and less profitable - than media reports would suggest. While universities seek out corporate funding, news stories rarely note that those industry dollars are dwarfed by government support and other funds. And, while many universities have set up technology transfer offices to pursue profits through patents, many of those offices have been financial busts. Meanwhile, science is showing signs of providing its own solutions, as highly publicized misdeeds in pursuit of profits have provoked promising countermeasures within the field. But just because the threat is overhyped, Greenberg argues, doesn't mean that there's no danger. From research that has shifted overseas so corporations can avoid regulations to conflicts of interest in scientific publishing, the temptations of money will always be a threat, and they can only be countered through the vigilance of scientists, the press, and the public. Based on extensive, candid interviews with scientists and administrators, "Science for Sale" will be indispensable to anyone who cares about the future of scientific research.
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• Section A: Governance - A Political Science Perspective Governance in Connected Arenas - Political Science Analysis of Coordination and Control in Complex Rule Systems Arthur Benz.- Governance of Research - Nine Comments on Arthur Benz, Stefan Kuhlmann.- Comment - An Organizational Economics View, Dieter Sadowski.- II. Governance - A Legal Perspective.- Governance Reflected in Political Science and Jurisprudence.- Gunnar Folke Schuppert.- Governance: Interrelationships and Open Questions - Comments on the Article by Gunnar Folke Schuppert.- Hans-Heinrich Trute.- The Role of the State and Private Actors in Governance - Comments on Gunnar Folke Schuppert from a Sociological Perspective, Dorothea Jansen.- Governance - A Sociological Perspective.- Governance from a Sociological Perspective, Rafael Wittek.- Governance and Compliance - A Comment on Rafael Wittek, Uwe Schimank.- Comment on Rafael Wittek, Thomas Gross.- Governance - An Integrated Theory, Governance of Research - Working towards Interdisciplinary Concepts, Dorothea Jansen.- Section B: On the Way Towards New Public Management? The Governance of University Systems in England, the Netherlands, Austria, and Germany, Harry de Boer, Jurgen Enders, Uwe Schimank.- Governance Modes in University Reform in Germany - From the Perspective of Law, Hans-Heinrich Trute, Wolfgang Denkhaus, Barbel Bastian, Kendra Hoffmann.- The Application of the Concept of Governance to the Structures of German Extra-university Research Organizations from a Legal Perspective, Natalie Arnold.- Analysis of Heterogeneous Collaboration in the German Research System with a Focus on Nanotechnology.- Thomas Heinze, Stefan Kuhlmann.- Governance Reforms and Scientific Production - Evidence from German Astrophysics.- Andreas Wald, Karola Franke, Dorothea Jansen.
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This book undertakes to develop a sector specific theory of governance of the public research sector and applies it to the German research system. The book is the outcome of a large interdisciplinary project. It analyzes the reforms in the German research system from an integrated perspective of law, economics and social sciences. The case of Germany is compared to reforms in other European countries such as Austria, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
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