Unnecessary Barriers Research Articles

Europe 1992: A single market for producers and/or consumers?

The completion of the internal market by 1992 will have a profound effect on Europe's industrial activity, in particular by improving efficiency and productivity throughout. Community policies contribute to this process by removing numerous unnecessary barriers. Business contributes by grasping the resulting new market opportunities, by adapting to the changed environment and by constantly improving quality and service. (Braun, 1990, V)

Job Evaluation: A Barrier to Excellence?

Peters and Waterman made very clear, in In Search of Excellence, that "excellence" must be the goal for companies that intend to compete effectively. Are we setting up unnecessary barriers to excellence with our point-factor job evaluation systems?

Women and Poverty:

National surveys, over the years, have provided evidence of relationship between poverty and health. In the United States, access to health care is generally dependent on the ability to pay for it. As a consequence, poor women are dependent upon government-funded social-welfare programs to attain access to health care. This paper examines the relationship between poverty and several indicators of reproductive status, and concludes that there is a relationship between poverty and poor reproductive status. The health gap between poor and nonpoor women is related to the absence of financial and other resources that dictate lifestyle.

The Impact of IRBs on Political Science Research

In 1981 the federal government extended the principle of peer review through formal Institutional Review Boards for research proposals involving human subjects to most social science research in colleges and universities. A number of political scientists expressed concern at that time that unnecessary barriers to research would inevitably be raised by people involved in the review process who were not social scientists and who therefore would not understand the nature or tenets of social science research. This study of peer review and liolitical science in a sample of colleges and universities was carried out in an effort to determine whether these concerns have proven well founded.