作者：Capano, Giliberto; Pritoni, Andrea
作者单位：University of Bologna; University of Turin
摘要：As a result of domestic pressure or international prescription, many national higher education systems (HESs) in Europe have undergone structural changes over the last 30 years. These changes have been made primarily to enhance the overall performance - defined as students' access, quality of teaching, and excellence in research - of universities. As such, almost all of these countries have decided to adopt similar policy strategies to foster institutional autonomy and differentiation, and gre...
作者：Hurka, Steffen; Knill, Christoph
作者单位：University of Munich
摘要：In this contribution, we evaluate the effectiveness of firearm regulations in curbing the number of homicides and suicides committed both with and without firearms. We develop a gun control index that enables us to compare the restrictiveness of firearm regulations across time and space. We model the effects of gun control on figures of (gun) homicide and (gun) suicide gained from public health records in 16 West European countries between 1980 and 2010. We thus shift the analytical focus away...
