Amnesty claims that China employs some 30,000 "internet police" to monitor its citizens' behaviour online.
In particular, on the one hand contemporary cities are affected by processes of control and normalization of citizens' behaviour; on the other hand they are witnessing the development of social practices aimed at countering the control and to propose alternative ways of use of public space.
This implies that public campaigns and interventions could be preceded by more intensive research on consumers' or citizens' behaviour and new societal trends.
The last Italian survey on citizens' behaviour and consumptions, carried out on 2005 by the Italian National Institute of Statistics, demonstrated that more than 80% of diagnostic services are covered by public expenditure and copayment.
Joel Bellman is director in public sector consulting at Deloitte, whose report, Influencing citizen behaviours to achieve policy outcomes, was published this month To respond to this, or any other article on the Public Leaders Network, email public.leaders.
High taxes, it seems, make for high civic engagement.*"Taxation, loss aversion, and accountability: theory and experimental evidence for taxation's effect on citizen behaviour", by Lucy Martin.
Where large info-corporations try to cement their organisational control over crucial resources such as patents, copyrights, and citizen-behaviour databases, socialists and libertarians will converge in parties demanding the liberation of the accumulated currency of social capital.
That demands ever-tighter state control of business and private citizens' behaviour.
This applies to the elitist making of the EU and the so called permissive consensus that characterized citizens' behaviour towards the integration process.
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