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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：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：Capling, A; Nossal, KR
作者单位：University of Melbourne; Queens University - Canada
摘要：The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) gave unprecedented rights to private investors. These provisions quickly became entrenched in policy and practice, appearing in most multilateral and bilateral trade agreements in the 1990s as American investors began to bring Canada and Mexico to arbitration. However, the Australia-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) of 2004 contained no such provisions. The purpose of this article is to explain why enthusiasm for NAFTA-style protections waned so...
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作者：Painter, M
作者单位：City University of Hong Kong
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作者：Howlett, M; Rayner, J
作者单位：Simon Fraser University; Vancouver Island University
摘要：New policy initiatives are increasingly embedded in novel governance strategies. These new modes of governance differ from existing policy mixes in that they are specifically designed to reduce the number of instances of counterproductive policy instrument use; to function effectively and meet public policy goals in an era of decreased national state capacity and autonomy; and rely much more heavily than existing instrument mixes have done on the involvement of private actors in both policy fo...
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作者：Turner, RC
作者单位：Skidmore College
