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ABSTRACT: Already at the beginning of this century there is the impression that the protection of the source indications against false or misleading use is insufficient. In addition, the need to protect and encourage local, traditional production methods was highlighted. In France, the first statute was adopted which provided for the protection of geographical indications by a special title of industrial property, namely the designations of origin. Only products that meet quality standards are protected by designation of origin. Initially, the designations of origin concerned only wines and alcohol, but later, the concept of the designation of origin was extended to include other products (such as dairy products, especially cheese and butter), agricultural and vegetable products. Due to the success of French designations of origin, the same or a similar system was introduced in other countries, mainly in the wine and alcohol sector. KEYWORDS: protection, geographical indication, Union law, copyright, legislation

The book is the first attempt to investigate how and to what extent authoritarian (personalistic) regimes fail to provide fundamental goods and services. For two decades, Russian authorities spent much effort and money to improve health administration, but most success stories are borderline fake. The failure is by design; because personalistic regimes rely on personalized exchanges and bargains instead of impersonal rules and permanent organizations, all actors put self-interest ahead of patients needs. It is a severe problem because authoritarian principals proclaim social betterment as their central goal -- and many Russians take such claims at face value -- but incentivize their agents to imitate progress and tolerate slipshod performance. The benefits of this investigation are three-fold. First, the book provides an analytical framework of bad governance rooted in the rational institutionalist tradition and connected to competence-control theory. Second, it gives a general readership interested in how Russia works a sense of the key political players mindset and the regime-induced constraints under which elites operate. Third, although the book investigates health governance exclusively, its analytical framework is portable to other issue areas and could be applied to explain how and why Russia evolved into an ineffective, coercive, and predatory state under Putins leadership. Vlad Kravtsov is Associate Professor of Political Science & Law at Spring Hill College, the US. .

Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Part I: Free Will -- 1: On Freedom -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Meaning of Free Will -- 1.3 Free Will Perspectives -- 1.4 The Definition of Free Will -- 1.5 The Ability to Do Otherwise -- 1.6 The Sourcehood of Agency -- 1.7 The Belief in Free Will -- 1.8 The Sense of Free Will -- 1.9 Freedom of Action -- 1.10 Autonomy -- 1.11 Conclusion -- References -- 2: Free Will in Psychoanalysis -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 A Hard Determinist Reading of Freud -- 2.3 A Libertarian Reading of Freud -- 2.4 A Compatibilist Reading of Freud -- 2.4.1 A Libertarian Free Will -- 2.4.2 A Compatibilist Free Will -- 2.4.3 Free Will in Different Periods -- 2.4.4 Freud's Conundrum Revisited -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3: Free Will in Rogerian Theory -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Rogers on Freedom -- 3.3 The Most Deeply Satisfying Choice -- 3.4 Conclusion -- References -- 4: Integrative Approach -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Frankfurt's Theory -- 4.3 Watson's Theory -- 4.4 The Integration -- 4.5 Further Integration -- 4.6 Conclusion -- References -- 5: Ways to Work with Free Will -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Adjusting the Belief in Free will -- 5.3 Learning to Choose -- 5.4 Learning to Be a Conscious Chooser -- 5.5 Self-Forming Choice -- 5.6 Conclusion -- References -- 6: Sanity and Choice -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 The Pull of Choice -- 6.3 The Burden of Choice -- 6.4 The Fallouts of Choice -- 6.5 Conclusion -- References -- Part II: Responsibility -- 7: On Responsibility -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Meaning of Responsibility -- 7.3 The Experience of Responsibility -- 7.4 The Belief in Responsibility -- 7.5 Conclusion -- References -- 8: Three Senses of Responsibility -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Role Responsibility -- 8.3 Capacity Responsibility.

Although adopting global norms often improves domestic systems of governance, domestic obstacles to norm diffusion are frequent. States that decide to reinvent their political authority simultaneously evaluate which current global norms are desirable and to what extent. In this study, Vlad Kravtsov argues that recent debates about the nature of authority in Putin's Russia and Mbeki's South Africa have resulted in a set of unique ideas on the cardinal goals of the state. This is the first book to explore how these consensual ideas have shaped health governance and impinged on norm diffusion pro

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