Author: Alberto Asquer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137588272
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change. It examines the interactions between regulators, public officers, infrastructure and utilities firms, public service providers, citizens, and civil society organisations. It contains contributions from academics and practitioners from various disciplinary perspectives and from many regions of the world, illustrated with case studies from several sectors including water, natural gas and electricity distribution, local public transport, district heating, urban waste, and environmental services.
The Political Economy of Local Regulation
Author: Alberto Asquer
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137588272
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change. It examines the interactions between regulators, public officers, infrastructure and utilities firms, public service providers, citizens, and civil society organisations. It contains contributions from academics and practitioners from various disciplinary perspectives and from many regions of the world, illustrated with case studies from several sectors including water, natural gas and electricity distribution, local public transport, district heating, urban waste, and environmental services.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137588272
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change. It examines the interactions between regulators, public officers, infrastructure and utilities firms, public service providers, citizens, and civil society organisations. It contains contributions from academics and practitioners from various disciplinary perspectives and from many regions of the world, illustrated with case studies from several sectors including water, natural gas and electricity distribution, local public transport, district heating, urban waste, and environmental services.
The Political Economy of Local Regulation
Author: Alberto Asquer
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137588284
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change. It examines the interactions between regulators, public officers, infrastructure and utilities firms, public service providers, citizens, and civil society organisations. It contains contributions from academics and practitioners from various disciplinary perspectives and from many regions of the world, illustrated with case studies from several sectors including water, natural gas and electricity distribution, local public transport, district heating, urban waste, and environmental services.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137588284
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 389
Book Description
This book offers theoretical and methodological guidelines for researching the complex regulation of local infrastructure, utilities and public services in the context of rapid urbanisation, technological change, and climate change. It examines the interactions between regulators, public officers, infrastructure and utilities firms, public service providers, citizens, and civil society organisations. It contains contributions from academics and practitioners from various disciplinary perspectives and from many regions of the world, illustrated with case studies from several sectors including water, natural gas and electricity distribution, local public transport, district heating, urban waste, and environmental services.
The Regulated Economy
Author: Claudia Goldin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226301346
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the political influence of special interest groups in the development of economic regulation. The Regulated Economy examines how constituent groups emerged and demanded government action to solve perceived economic problems, such as exorbitant railroad and utility rates, bank failure, falling agricultural prices, the immigration of low-skilled workers, workplace injury, and the financing of government. The contributors look at how preexisting policies, institutions, and market structures shaped regulatory activity; the origins of regulatory movements at the state and local levels; the effects of consensus-building on the timing and content of legislation; and how well government policies reflect constituency interests. A wide-ranging historical view of the way interest group demands and political bargaining have influenced the growth of economic regulation in the United States, this book is important reading for economists, political scientists, and public policy experts.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226301346
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the political influence of special interest groups in the development of economic regulation. The Regulated Economy examines how constituent groups emerged and demanded government action to solve perceived economic problems, such as exorbitant railroad and utility rates, bank failure, falling agricultural prices, the immigration of low-skilled workers, workplace injury, and the financing of government. The contributors look at how preexisting policies, institutions, and market structures shaped regulatory activity; the origins of regulatory movements at the state and local levels; the effects of consensus-building on the timing and content of legislation; and how well government policies reflect constituency interests. A wide-ranging historical view of the way interest group demands and political bargaining have influenced the growth of economic regulation in the United States, this book is important reading for economists, political scientists, and public policy experts.
The Political Regulation Wave
Author: Shiran Victoria Shen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009100149
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives impact bureaucratic regulation, using the case of air pollution control.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1009100149
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives impact bureaucratic regulation, using the case of air pollution control.
Regulatory Cycles: Revisiting the Political Economy of Financial Crises
Author: Jihad Dagher
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1484337743
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Financial crises are traditionally analyzed as purely economic phenomena. The political economy of financial booms and busts remains both under-emphasized and limited to isolated episodes. This paper examines the political economy of financial policy during ten of the most infamous financial booms and busts since the 18th century, and presents consistent evidence of pro-cyclical regulatory policies by governments. Financial booms, and risk-taking during these episodes, were often amplified by political regulatory stimuli, credit subsidies, and an increasing light-touch approach to financial supervision. The regulatory backlash that ensues from financial crises can only be understood in the context of the deep political ramifications of these crises. Post-crisis regulations do not always survive the following boom. The interplay between politics and financial policy over these cycles deserves further attention. History suggests that politics can be the undoing of macro-prudential regulations.
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1484337743
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
Financial crises are traditionally analyzed as purely economic phenomena. The political economy of financial booms and busts remains both under-emphasized and limited to isolated episodes. This paper examines the political economy of financial policy during ten of the most infamous financial booms and busts since the 18th century, and presents consistent evidence of pro-cyclical regulatory policies by governments. Financial booms, and risk-taking during these episodes, were often amplified by political regulatory stimuli, credit subsidies, and an increasing light-touch approach to financial supervision. The regulatory backlash that ensues from financial crises can only be understood in the context of the deep political ramifications of these crises. Post-crisis regulations do not always survive the following boom. The interplay between politics and financial policy over these cycles deserves further attention. History suggests that politics can be the undoing of macro-prudential regulations.
State Capitalism, Institutional Adaptation, and the Chinese Miracle
Author: Barry Naughton
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107081068
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This volume explores how Chinese institutions have adapted to the new challenges of 'state capitalism'.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107081068
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
This volume explores how Chinese institutions have adapted to the new challenges of 'state capitalism'.
The Political Economy of Financial Regulation
Author: Emilios Avgouleas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847036X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Examines the law and policy of financial regulation using a combination of conceptual analysis and strong empirical research.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110847036X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 531
Book Description
Examines the law and policy of financial regulation using a combination of conceptual analysis and strong empirical research.
Toward a Political Economy of the Commons
Author: Cai, Meina
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1800374321
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in 1968, critics have argued that population growth and capitalism contribute to overuse of natural resources and degradation of the global environment. They propose coercive, state-centric solutions. This book offers an alternative view. Employing insights from new institutional economics, the authors argue that property rights, competitive markets, polycentric political institutions, and social institutions such as trust, patience and individualism enable society to conserve natural resources and mitigate harms to the global environment.
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1800374321
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Since Garrett Hardin published The Tragedy of the Commons in 1968, critics have argued that population growth and capitalism contribute to overuse of natural resources and degradation of the global environment. They propose coercive, state-centric solutions. This book offers an alternative view. Employing insights from new institutional economics, the authors argue that property rights, competitive markets, polycentric political institutions, and social institutions such as trust, patience and individualism enable society to conserve natural resources and mitigate harms to the global environment.
The Oxford Handbook of Political Economy
Author: Barry R. Weingast
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199548471
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199548471
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 1112
Book Description
Over its lifetime, 'political economy' has had different meanings. This handbook views political economy as a synthesis of the various strands of social science, treating it as the methodology of economics applied to the analysis of political behaviour and institutions.
Root-cause Regulation
Author: Michael J. Piore
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674986244
Category : LAW
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Why does the United States assign responsibility for different aspects of labor and employment law (e.g., wages and hours, safety and health, collective bargaining, discrimination, etc.) to different agencies, when France, Spain, and their former colonies assign all aspects of labor and employment law to a single agency? Does the US approach, which essentially reduces to "one inspector per law," perform better or worse than the "Latin" model, which implies "one inspector per firm?" And what are the implications for the division of labor in the public sector more generally? Root-Cause Regulation addresses these questions by comparing the evolution of labor market regulation in developed and developing countries over the course of the past century. The results speak not only to the protection of work and workers in the twenty-first century but to the organization of the public sector more generally.--
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780674986244
Category : LAW
Languages : en
Pages : 207
Book Description
Why does the United States assign responsibility for different aspects of labor and employment law (e.g., wages and hours, safety and health, collective bargaining, discrimination, etc.) to different agencies, when France, Spain, and their former colonies assign all aspects of labor and employment law to a single agency? Does the US approach, which essentially reduces to "one inspector per law," perform better or worse than the "Latin" model, which implies "one inspector per firm?" And what are the implications for the division of labor in the public sector more generally? Root-Cause Regulation addresses these questions by comparing the evolution of labor market regulation in developed and developing countries over the course of the past century. The results speak not only to the protection of work and workers in the twenty-first century but to the organization of the public sector more generally.--