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The Political Economy of Local Regulation

Author : Alberto Asquer

Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 13,15 MB

Release : 2016-11-04

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 9781137588272

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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

Page : 324 pages

File Size : 21,22 MB

Release : 2008-04-15

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0226301346

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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

Page : 163 pages

File Size : 28,71 MB

Release : 2022-03-31

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1009100149

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Offers an innovative theorization of how local political incentives impact bureaucratic regulation, using the case of air pollution control.



The Political Economy of Local Regulation

Author : Alberto Asquer

Publisher : Springer

Page : 389 pages

File Size : 15,83 MB

Release : 2016-10-26

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1137588284

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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.



Toward a Political Economy of the Commons

Author : Cai, Meina

Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing

Page : 192 pages

File Size : 29,12 MB

Release : 2022-01-14

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 1800374321

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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.



A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa

Author : Joel Beinin

Publisher : Stanford University Press

Page : 371 pages

File Size : 10,64 MB

Release : 2020-12-22

Category : History

ISBN : 1503614484

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This book offers the first critical engagement with the political economy of the Middle East and North Africa. Challenging conventional wisdom on the origins and contemporary dynamics of capitalism in the region, these cutting-edge essays demonstrate how critical political economy can illuminate both historical and contemporary dynamics of the region and contribute to wider political economy debates from the vantage point of the Middle East. Leading scholars, representing several disciplines, contribute both thematic and country-specific analyses. Their writings critically examine major issues in political economy—notably, the mutual constitution of states, markets, and classes; the co-constitution of class, race, gender, and other forms of identity; varying modes of capital accumulation and the legal, political, and cultural forms of their regulation; relations among local, national, and global forms of capital, class, and culture; technopolitics; the role of war in the constitution of states and classes; and practices and cultures of domination and resistance. Visit politicaleconomyproject.org for additional media and learning resources.



The Political Economy of Regulation in Turkey

Author : Tamer Çetin

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 251 pages

File Size : 44,53 MB

Release : 2011-01-12

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 1441977503

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The Political Economy of Regulation in Turkey brings together leading international scholars and experts on Turkey and regulatory reform to provide essential information on the recent Turkish experience and its relation to competition policy. After the 1980 liberalization reform, Turkey tried to introduce competition in many industries, but network industries have remained as monopolies. At the end of the 1990s, regulatory reform was initiated and independent regulatory agencies have been established by the government. Comprehensive discussions of these network industries, in particular airlines, electricity, natural gas, telecommunications and environment regulations, are offered. The contributors inquire how economic theory and historical analyses can enlighten the character of market processes and the role for government action in these industries, and the contributions shed light on the very recent changes in the regulatory structure and important legal cases that shape the future of regulated industries. This book discusses these issues in an international perspective and relates the Turkish experience to other similar countries, such as in Eastern Europe and Central America. This book serves as a useful guide to those who want to understand major changes in Turkey and regulatory reforms in other emerging markets, making it of interest to researchers and PhD students concerned with regulatory economics, the Turkish economy, and economic policy in emerging markets.



The American Political Economy

Author : Jacob S. Hacker

Publisher : Cambridge University Press

Page : 487 pages

File Size : 41,48 MB

Release : 2021-11-11

Category : History

ISBN : 1316516369

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Book Description

Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.





The Political Economy of Pipelines

Author : Jeff D. Makholm

Publisher : University of Chicago Press

Page : 284 pages

File Size : 34,88 MB

Release : 2012-04-15

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 0226502104

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With global demand for energy poised to increase by more than half in the next three decades, the supply of safe, reliable, and reasonably priced gas and oil will continue to be of fundamental importance to modern economies. Central to this supply are the pipelines that transport this energy. And while the fundamental economics of the major pipeline networks are the same, the differences in their ownership, commercial development, and operation can provide insight into the workings of market institutions in various nations. Drawing on a century of the world’s experience with gas and oil pipelines, this book illustrates the importance of economics in explaining the evolution of pipeline politics in various countries. It demonstrates that institutional differences influence ownership and regulation, while rents and consumer pricing depend on the size and diversity of existing markets, the depth of regulatory institutions, and the historical structure of the pipeline businesses themselves. The history of pipelines is also rife with social conflict, and Makholm explains how and when institutions in a variety of countries have controlled pipeline behavior—either through economic regulation or government ownership—in the public interest.