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作者:Goldsmith, Arthur A.
作者单位:University of Massachusetts System; University of Massachusetts Boston
摘要:International development agencies contend developing countries can boost rates Of economic growth by introducing good governance measures. However, close analysis of specific governance reforms and economic turning points in the United States (when it was a developing country), Argentina, Mauritius, and Jamaica suggests that the agencies underestimate the time and political effort required to change governance, and overestimate the economic impact. Counter to optimistic claims about how much ...
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作者:Hicks, Alex
作者单位:Emory University
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作者:Hunt, Michael
作者单位:Sheffield Hallam University
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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...