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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: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:Levi-Faur, David
作者单位:Australian National University; University of Haifa
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作者:Jordana, Jacint; Levi-Faur, David; Puig, Imma
作者单位:Pompeu Fabra University; Australian National University; University of Haifa
摘要:The creation of a European Union-level regulatory regime for telecommunications and electricity was a highly successful political initiative of the European Commission. However, this article argues that the causal link between European initiatives and national policy change is weak. Building on an emerging tradition of cross-sector research of these two sectors, and considering two most similar European countries, the article applies a series of comparisons, including a stepwise comparative an...