the political economy of social policy

... into the question of the losing democratic coalitions on the dimension of health Here we but scratch the surface of the theoretical problem of differencesamong democracies in the priorities of their ... once the electorate’s view on the economic effect of the treaty wascontrolled for They attribute the success of the Yes campaign in 2009 to the fearthe electorate had of not being able to weather ... mentions the other competingcandidates They develop a series of graphical illustrations of the evolution of eachcandidate’s negative advertising strategies over the course of the campaign Thenthey

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... 9 The Political Economy of Trade Policy Trang 2Preview • The cases for free trade • The cases against free trade • Political models of trade policy • International negotiations of trade policy ... by offsetting the consequences of market failures elsewhere  The best policy would be to fix the market failures themselves, but if this is not feasible, then government intervention in another ... aspects of collective action and the median voter theorem Trang 24Median Voter Theorem • The median voter theorem predicts that democratic political parties may change their policies to court the

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... 9 The Political Economy of Trade Policy Trang 2Preview • The cases for free trade • The cases against free trade • Political models of trade policy • International negotiations of trade policy ... by offsetting the consequences of market failures elsewhere  The best policy would be to fix the market failures themselves, but if this is not feasible, then government intervention in another ... aspects of collective action and the median voter theorem Trang 24Median Voter Theorem • The median voter theorem predicts that democratic political parties may change their policies to court the

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... fromthe lenses of political economy—the combined use of “state-of-the-art economicsand political science” (Elsenhans1996, 15)—and not the discipline of Marxist dog-matism (Moore1989, 584–586) The ... Perverse Social Capital as a Cause of High Violence in the Barrios of Caracas 155 6.1 Explaining the Puzzle of Violence in the Barrios of Caracas 156 6.2 Contributions to the Literature and Policy ... 19barrios? The behavior of violence rates in the barrios of Caracas creates a theoreticalpuzzle that the literature, to the knowledge of the author, has not yet explored.Comparing Caracas with other

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... in the economy, the role of political institutions and ideology, the impact of crises, and the political economy of information and the role of the mass media.Chapters in Parts II and III of the ... literature on the political economy of agricultural trade and distortions in the 1980s and the first part of the 1990s.2 The past 15 years saw a revival of interest in the political economy of agricultural ... and the first half of the 1990s were a very active period in the field of political economy of agricultural policy This research was not only triggered by the emerging general theories of “new political

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... been the subject of intense debate, with proponents of a sudden shift of views of (foreign) investors as the main cause on one side andproponents of weak fundamentals as the major cause on the other ... will, among others, be of a public choice nature and include the importance ofthe particular financial institution to the local economy and its potential systemic impacton the rest of the financial ... on the political economy of dealing with financial intermediarydistress This also provides some insights on the causes of the East Asian financial crisis as well as on the appropriateness of policy

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... (Asheim and Gertler 2004) Another Trang 5core theme in the understanding of the role of the state in the knowledge-based economy (innovation driven economy, learning economy, etc.) has been to ... beyond the nation-state The aim is to integrate research on innovation systems (the dynamics of firms and economic sectors) with political economy (research on the social and political regulation of ... but also by the Swedish political economy of recent years Unlike Finland, where the economic crisis of the early 1990s resulted in a radical reformulation of the post-war growth model, there was

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... gift to the poor, while simultaneously pursuing the export of capital from the North and the reconstruction of Northern power and privilege The nightmare of the past in the everyday lives of the ... disciplines of neoclassical economics found in the policy advice of the IFIs; by the pretended benevolence of the development paradigm; and by the romanticised agency and avowed class positionality of their ... to fill their own tables The majority population still toil under the yoke of a neo-imperialism, some of the coordinates of which have been described in this book The political leaders of Africa

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... Strategy’, Review of African Political Economy, 35(115), pp 116–28. National Audit Office (NAO) (1989) Report by the Comptroller and Auditor General, on the efficiency and effectiveness of the Commonwealth ... (2005) African Economic Outlook 2004/05 Paris: OECD and AfDB. Offe, C (1975) ‘The Theory of the Capitalist State and the Problem of Policy Formation’ In L Lindberg et al (eds), Stress and Contradiction ... Onimode, B (1989) The IMF, the World Bank and the African Debt, Volume 1: The Economic Impact London: Zed Books. Oppong, J R (1998) ‘A vulnerability interpretation of the geography of HIV/AIDS in

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... interrogation of the World Bank procurement database13gives a snapshot of how procurement has developed since the era of the effec-tively closed business communities of the 1980s and 1990s, and since the ... cent of cases overall, and in the rest of the cases it wasn’t When a company bids for a contract funded under EU authority it is expected that the procurement office of the country borrowing the ... of which the regional development banks (RDBs) are the chief beneficiaries The AfDB receives more than double the amount from the Department for International Development (DfID) than any of the

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... “dangerous” products • furthering the goals of foreign policy • protecting the human rights of individuals in exporting countries Trang 14Chapter 6: The Political Economy of International Trade ... Administrative trade policy Trang 12Chapter 6: The Political Economy of International Trade THE CASE FOR GOVERNMENT INTERVENTION There are two types of arguments for government intervention: political and ... concerned with boosting the overall wealth of a nation (to the benefit of all, both producers and consumers) Trang 136 - 13Chapter 6: The Political Economy of International Trade Political Arguments

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... clusters: the appointment, dismissal, and legal term of office of the governor of the central bank; the institutional location of the final authority for monetary policy and the procedures for the ... on the location of final responsibility for monetary policy, the absence or presence of a government official on the board of the central bank, and the percentage of board appointees made by the ... from the governments of the Länder (states) The Zentralbankrat is then again consulted In the Netherlands, the president and the director-secretary of the Nederlandsche Bank are appointed by the...

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... tenet of the formal voting theory emphasizes the importance of the form of the voting game’ On the contrary, there are positive theories of public policy such as The political economy of democracies ... variables, such as the level of GDP per worker, the openness of the economy, the level of debt and the share of agriculture, and with other socio-economic factors, such as the age of the population, ... 16 The political economy of taxation The volatility of the income will also affect the magnitude of the welfare state If the fluctuation of income increases (for example as a consequence of industrial...

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... when the social insurance system was already beginning to crumble under the burden of German unification The main period of expansion of the German social insurance system was during the heyday of ... reductions in one of the social insurance schemes affect not only the other social insurance schemes but often the federal budget also Lowering contributions in one branch of the social insurance ... changes in the gross pay of active workers The main aim of the government’s pension policy was to adjust the revenues of the pension insurance funds to the expenditure required to serve the entitlements...

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... perish the thought!5 In a similar vein, and in recognition of the national aspirations of the Australian code, the editor of the Footballer suggested in 1881 that the sooner the name of the game ... scholars offer a detailed comparative analysis of the history of each code across various states.2 Geoffrey Blainey, on the other hand, in the penultimate chapter of his book on the origins of Australian ... overview serves as the foundation for more detailed analyses of the political economy of the football world in the period after World War II, a task taken up in the remaining chapters of the book Murky...

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... the societal debates about environment and political economy rather than just the academic debates over the theories of the political economy of the environment Naturally, given the breadth of ... is the first to concentrate exclusively on the political economy of the global environment, striving to integrate the debates within the “real world” of global policy and the “academic world” of ... environments The issues that shape the relationship between the global political economy and the environment are, of course, often technical and scientific But they are frequently also socioeconomic and political...

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... other western countries The Philippines, on the other hand, served as the extension of the US market in the Pacific Since their full integration into the global economy in mid-19th century, the ... and the Philippines, civilian rulers prevailed even during periods of authoritarian rule The differences in the organization of the political leadership owe much to the construction of the political ... been socialized by their respective organizations, and are thus subject to the norms and practices of these organizations These governing elites’ policy orientation or the consistency of their policy...

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... is the product of more than four years of work by a team of researchers who were, until June of 2001, all members of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis at Indiana University The ... individual has of the likely behavior of others Strategies are designed based on the individual’s perceptions of the likely benefits or costs that they will receive in light of their own and others’ actions ... regardless of the level of the target group Finally, since the development agency is the source of the aid, it usually retains a great deal of control over the distribution of these resources...

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... xiii The political economy of development Institutions of the global economy Frontier institutions Why is money so important? Institutions matter Chapter plan 12 Money in the political economy of ... readers to put the development industry into the context of the global political economy of development, or at least that is the book’s aim In other words, despite all the recent talk of poverty ... economic and political orthodoxy of the advocates of globalisation Also available The End of Development: Modernity, Post-Modernity and Development Trevor Parfitt The Political Economy of Turkey...

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... the Northern states, borrowing money from them rarely helps the poor, it just deepens the debt cycle and turns the private sector of the developing country into a playground for the rich of the ... moved into the position of primary lenders In this sense, a process of socialisation of cost in development finance took place, in lieu of a return to the privatisation of profit The weight of credit ... the reader to the contours of the political economy of development and the institutional regime within which ‘creditor states’13 compete and co-operate in the extension of markets The term ‘creditor...

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