Thesis (Ph. D.)--Syracuse University, 2007. / "UMI microform 3266327."

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Delaware, 2005. / Principal faculty advisor: Robert Warren, School of Urban Affairs. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego, 2002. / Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 447-507).

Thesis provides short description of development of idea of EMU, from the first attempt to the successful creation. Thesis focus on the case of Slovakia, it's progress in fulfilling nominal criteria as well as progress in real convergence. Thesis also identifies risks of entry and bottlenecks of real convergence.

Excavation, the process by which archeologists gather information, is the principle behind the composition of these poems— these are acts of imagination, of identification. In linking my singular life with the lives of others, I hope to tap into the common human yearning, to paraphrase my poem "The Fat Woman, " to be swallowed up by something, anything, bigger than ourselves.

The theme of this paper is to create strategy for czech company which would like to expand to foreign market. The whole project of expansion will be based on inner analysis of comapny, analysis of target market and analysis of competition. Moreover, the part of this project will consist of concrete technical and marketing steps to promote the presence of czech company on foreign market.

This paper presents an analysis of the linkage between Hungary¡¦s and its neighbouring country, Slovakia¡¦s special kind of political-, and economic relations over the past two decades. The author searches for an answer to the question what fundamental factors, internal and international, determine the long-term growth of the two countries¡¦ bilateral trade and the often tensed bilateral interstate relation as well as how the latter influences economic development in the common cross-border areas. Applying the models of mathematical economics, the author carried out an econometric investigation to prove her hypothesis on the bilateral political relation affects bilateral trade.

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity International University, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-98).

Thesis (M.A.)--Trinity International University, 2005. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 95-98).

In what can rightly be said to be one of the most dramatic geopolitical shifts in modern times, the collapse of communist regimes in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about dramatic changes in the entire region. As a consequence, wide ranging political, economic, and social transformations have occurred in almost all of these countries since 1989. The Slovak Republic, as a newly democratic country, went through the establishment of the electoral and party systems that are the central mechanisms to the formation of almost all modern democratic governments. The primary research purpose of this dissertation was to describe and explain regional variations in party support during Slovakia’s ten years of democratic transformation. A secondary purpose was to relate these spatial variations to the evolution of political parties in the post-independence period in light of the literature on transitional electoral systems. Research questions were analyzed using both aggregate and survey data. Specifically, the study utilized electoral data from 1994, 1998, and 2002 Slovak parliamentary elections and socio-economic data of the population within Slovak regions which were eventually correlated with the voting results by party in the 79 Slovak districts. The results of this study demonstrate that there is a tendency among voters in certain regions to provide continuous support to the same political parties/movements over time. In addition, the socio-economic characteristics of the Slovak population (gender, age, education, religion, nationality, unemployment, work force distribution, wages, urban-rural variable, and population density) in different regions tend to influence voting preferences in the parliamentary elections. Finally, there is an evident correlation between party preference and the party’s position on integration into European Union, as measured by perceived attitudes regarding the benefits of EU membership.