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作者：Schwartz, H
作者单位：University of Virginia
摘要：Australia and some European countries experienced economic miracles in the 1990s that reversed prior poor export, employment, and fiscal performance. The miracles might provide transferable lessons about economic governance if it were true that economic governance institutions are malleable, and that actors deliberately changed those institutions in ways that contributed to the miracles. This paper analyzes Australian policy responses to see whether remediation should be attributed to pluck (i...
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作者：Bartle, Ian
作者单位：University of Bath
摘要：Norway and Switzerland are two western Europe states that are not members of the European Union (EU), and they are among a number of small and economically open states in which reform of economic sectors is seen to be incremental and reactive. This article poses two questions about the reform of telecommunications and electricity in the two countries. First, what impact has nonmembership of the EU had on the reforms? Second, have their small and open economies and policymaking systems-conceptu...
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作者：Lodge, Martin; Stirton, Lindsay
作者单位：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of East Anglia
摘要：This article explores the regulatory state hypothesis in the context of electricity and telecommunications regulation in Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. This article questions whether institutional features associated with the regulatory state are triggered by a preference for efficiency and added complexity within the policy domain. This article progresses in three steps. After setting out the regulatory state hypothesis as derived from the work by Giandomenico Majone and its empirical conse...
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作者：Levi-Faur, David
作者单位：Australian National University; University of Haifa
摘要：The rationale behind this special issue's stepwise analysis of cross-sectoral and cross-national variations and similarities of regulatory reforms is explained. The processes of case selection and inference are clarified and justified. At the same time, the article offers a strategy for an increase in the number of cases without compromising the strength of case-oriented analysis. William Whewell's notion of consilience is employed to (a) justify the inclusion of sectoral as well as national c...
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作者：Levi-Faur, David
作者单位：Australian National University; University of Haifa
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作者：Kato, J; Rothstein, B
作者单位：University of Tokyo; University of Gothenburg
摘要：It is generally taken for granted that countries governed by leftist governments expand social policies and have an affinity for active fiscal policy that implies higher tolerance of deficit-ridden budgets. In contrast, conservative governments are taken to be less likely to favor welfare expansion, especially when it has negative fiscal consequences. We challenge this conventional wisdom by comparing the reactions of the Swedish and Japanese governments to economic crises during the 1990s. Th...
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作者：Humphreys, Peter; Padgett, Stephen
作者单位：University of Manchester; University of Strathclyde
摘要：The European utilities sectors exemplify the transformation of regulatory capitalism, with far reaching changes occurring at both European Union and domestic levels. Liberalization is the dominant trend, accompanied by the emergence of regulatory regimes designed to promote competition in the imperfect markets characteristic of the utilities sectors. These general trends, however, conceal cross-sectoral and cross-national variations in the pace and extent of liberalization and in the compositi...
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作者：Orenstein, M
作者单位：Syracuse University
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作者：Torres, L; Pina, V; Acerete, B
作者单位：University of Zaragoza
摘要：At the beginning of the twenty-first century, the challenge to governments is to improve citizens' trust in governments. The Internet aids good governance by increasing transparency and customer-oriented service delivery. During the last few years, European Union local governments have expanded their presence on the Internet. This article presents empirical evidence on the nature of e-governance initiatives in cities across Europe. The findings could be of interest to cities interested in dete...
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作者：Lee, Eliza W. Y.; Haque, M. Shamsul
作者单位：University of Hong Kong; National University of Singapore
摘要：This article compares the New Public Management (NPM) reform in Hong Kong and Singapore. First of all, it highlights how the macroeconomic environment, the political system, and state traditions, factors that are commonly identified as affecting the pattern of NPM reform in western liberal democracies, assume different contexts and significance in affecting reform in Asian states. With these general factors, we further compare the NPM reform of these two Asian newly industrialized countries in...
