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Summary. Medusapp is a software for local governments that allows practical “open information” agreements between companies that present themselves to a public tender. In this way, not only governments assume the responsibility of opening information on public procurement processes but, in a voluntary and equitable manner, companies also commit to transparency.
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Summary. This essay for a leading progressive UK thinktank argues that the trend for media outlets to be increasingly owned and controlled in an oligopolistic, non-transparent fashion is damaging to the health of our democracy. The report draws on case studies from across Europe and recommends a series of steps to both raise the public profile of this issue and to regulate concentrations of media power where these are found.
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Summary. Dozens of members of Congress held assets in biomedical and health-care companies in 2014. Many work on bills crucial to the industry.
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Summary. A medical device called the Lariat was never approved to prevent strokes, but that hasn't stopped physicians from using it for that purpose.
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Summary. Describes the adverse secondary effects of allowing confidentiality agreements in medical malpractice cases.
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Summary. Modern corporate bankruptcy law has been shaped, and some of it written, by special interests. Even so, the law is rooted in American ideals of renewal, and of viewing failure in the marketplace as a sign of effort and gumption, not moral collapse. It’s a powerful idea - shedding the past to begin anew. But for decades, Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code has also been used strategically - to destroy union contracts, edge out competitors, and limit product liability lawsuits.
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Summary. There is evidence that corruption is a persistent problem in Armenian education and that attempts to tackle it have so far led to less satisfactory results: in the perceptions of the Armenian public, education continues to be a sector particularly affected by the problem.
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Summary. Arguing in a mixed-methods design—drawing on both qualitative data and formal analysis—that much of what lobbyists do isn't really quid pro quo corruption, notwithstanding the appearances.
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Summary. Exhorts academic medical centers not to put risk-management and reputational concerns ahead of the need to support clinicians who wish to provide care in epidemic zones.
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Summary. Describes how allowing the filming of reality TV shows may adversely affect hospital care.
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Summary. In 2014, TransCanada Corporation pushed for the construction of different pipeline projects, including Keystone XL in the United States and Energy East in Eastern Canada. In November 2014, five strategy documents detailing the communication campaign organized by the public relations firm Edelman to help TransCanada gain social support (and political approval) for Energy East were leaked (Edelman 2014). The documents call for a budget to recruit 35,000 “activists” supporting the project through “grassroots” advocacy by using social media, and especially by paying numerous bloggers and key opinion leaders to defend the interests of TransCanada Corp. The documents explain how to transform public opinion and the economic preferences of the population by creating the illusion that a mass-movement in favor of the pipeline existed. One of the five leaked documents even elucidates that it is necessary to take some lessons from the Keystone XL, where the industry mobilized a million activists and generated more than 500,000 proKeystone comments during the public comment period. As the leaked documents explain:It’s not just associations or advocacy groups building these programs in support of the industry. Companies like ExxonMobil, Chevron, Shell and Halliburton (and many more) have all made key investments inbuilding permanent advocacy assets and programs to support their lobbying, outreach and policy efforts.
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