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Justification in public discourse is an inevitable part of the process when states attempt to regulate accelerating markets. In this process, policymakers define problems to be solved and attribute values to good policy. Those qualities are constantly negotiated, and to analyse them is essential for understanding the processes and ways different actors take control of political debates. This article examines a public discussion on health reform in the Czech Republic between 2006 and 2008. At that time, the government tried to promote a comprehensive reform for cost containment. The reform corresponded with a shift from a social democratic state paradigm to a neoliberal paradigm in health-care provision which can be observed also in other post-communist countries. In this case, controlling health-care costs gained a top priority in a discourse driven by the combination of factors including scarcity, the ageing of the population and patient responsibility. The authors of the reform used a “funnel strategy” where an original broader set of issues was narrowed to predominantly the economic aspects of reform. The wasting of money in health care was associated primarily with personal patient responsibility. While the distribution of care provided by hospital professionals was considered reasonable, the way in which patients consumed health care was questioned. This categorization replicated dominant media representations of professional medicine as a way to treat sickness competently and successfully by doctors in hospitals using the latest technology and fast-acting drugs
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134873
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Over the reform period, industry has been the source of 40% of GDP, and has contributed 90% of China's exports. Annual firm-level surveys that begin in 1992, complemented with industry-wide census in 1995, 2004 and 2008, are rich sources of data on firm behavior. It is well-known that working with Chinese data requires overcoming difficult measurement issues. Macroeconomic series, for example, are often suspected of suffering from reporting bias and political interference. Working with the firm-level data has its own challenges. In this paper, we provide an introduction to these data sets. We discuss and illustrate several of the issues that make comparability over time difficult and suggest solutions. The importance of a particular measurement issue often depends on the exact application. We illustrate this point by tracing the evolution of the relative productivity level of entrants and incumbents over time, distinguishing between changes in actual performance and changes driven by measurement problems. We conclude by identifying a few promising areas of future research and margins on which collaboration among users to improve these data might be beneficial
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136922
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The paper covers topical issues of military education reform. The author examines the factors that affect the process and instrumental trends therein.
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