We empirically investigate the factors that drive the uneven regional distribution of foreign direct investment (FDI) across Chinese provinces from 1995 to 2006. We first perform a factor analysis to summarize information embodied in around 40 variables and derive four FDI determinants: ‘institutional …

Deze managementsamenvatting omschrijft kort en bondig het onderzoek naar de woonomgeving van Houwerzijl. Deze samenvatting is bedoeld om de hoofdlijnen van het onderzoek weer te geven, voor het totale onderzoek wordt u doorverwezen naar het onderzoeksrapport ‘Wonen in Houwerzijl’. De doelstelling is …

The European Values Study (EVS) is a large-scale, cross-national and longitudinal research programme on basic human values, initiated in the late 1970s. A product of this research is the Atlas of European Values (AoEV), published by the University of Tilburg in the Netherlands for the second time. The …

With the globalisation process and the accompanying loss of sovereignty of the nation states in mind, I take a closer look at Higher Education Policy in a European perspective. The theoretical framework is constructed by Hedmo, Sahlin-Andersson and Wedlin, researchers at Uppsala University. They state …