The Political Economy Of Local Regulation

Author : Alberto Asquer,Franco Becchis,Daniele Russolillo
Publisher : Springer
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-10-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137588289

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The Political Economy of Local Regulation by Alberto Asquer,Franco Becchis,Daniele Russolillo Pdf

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.

Author : Barry M. Mitnick
Publisher : New York : Columbia University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Industrial policy
ISBN : UCAL:B4385161

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The Political Economy of Regulation by Barry M. Mitnick Pdf

Author : Thomas P. Lyon
Publisher : Edward Elgar Pub
Page : 663 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1843766205

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The Political Economy of Regulation by Thomas P. Lyon Pdf

This volume collects a set of important articles that provides a wealth of broad insights into the causes and consequences of regulation. They show beyond doubt that this field of study is remarkably lively and filled with controversy. The first two parts of the book introduce the essential economic content of the issues that regulation deals with, covering the main 'market failures' that are addressed, and then turning specifically to the causes and consequences of regulation in these areas. The next section presents a series of papers dealing with various phases of the policy life cycle, and the concluding part investigates the role of corporate self-regulation.

Author : Shiran Victoria Shen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781009100144

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The Political Regulation Wave by Shiran Victoria Shen Pdf

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

Author : Jason Shogren
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1461308720

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The Political Economy of Government Regulation by Jason Shogren Pdf

Author : Alan A. Altshuler,Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815791275

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Regulation for Revenue by Alan A. Altshuler,Jose A. Gomez-Ibanez Pdf

Over the past two decades Americans have become increasingly skeptical about the benefits of community growth and hostile to new taxes--while continuing to demand improvements in local services. One response to this tension has been a burgeoning movement to raise public revenue by regulating growth. In this timely book, the authors explain that most growing localities now require private developers to finance public improvements as a condition for receiving permits to build. These permit conditions, known as "exactions," are most commonly used to ensure that infrastructure capacity will be adequate to serve the occupants of new real estate developments and to lessen the harmful effects of these developments on other local citizens. Exactions are often used to finance new roads, water and waste disposal facilities, and public open space, but some communities have begun to require developer financing for such services as day care, job training, low-cost housing, and ride sharing. The authors see the dramatic growth of exaction financing as an epochal shift in the character of American land use regulation. A function once isolated from the local government mainstream is now close to heart of fiscal and public works decisionmaking. Politicians find exactions an extremely valuable tactic for resolving land use conflict. Lawyers and developers worry about how to establish appropriate limits on the use of exaction, economists debate their equity and efficiency, and planners consider their effect on urban reform. Regulation for Revenue offers an integrated appraisal of exaction financing, showing that exactions come in many forms and that they can be meaningfully evaluated only by comparison with realistic alternatives. These include growth restrictions, tolerance of infrastructure overload, and increased tax and user charges.

Author : Claudia Goldin,Gary D. Libecap
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226301341

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The Regulated Economy by Claudia Goldin,Gary D. Libecap Pdf

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.

Author : Cai, Meina,Murtazashvili, Ilia,Brick Murtazashvili, Jennifer,Salahodjaev, Raufhon
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781800374324

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Toward a Political Economy of the Commons by Cai, Meina,Murtazashvili, Ilia,Brick Murtazashvili, Jennifer,Salahodjaev, Raufhon Pdf

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.

Author : Julia Buxton
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2006-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842774476

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The Political Economy of Narcotics by Julia Buxton Pdf

This scholarly examination of the worldwide web of narcotics today provides students, social workers, health providers, law enforcement officers and policy makers with an up-to-date, overall exploration of the world of drugs. Vast resources are pumped into the 'war on drugs'. But in practice, prohibition has failed. Narcotics use continues to rise, while technology and globalisation have made a whole new range of drugs available to a vast consumer market. Where wealth and demand exist, supply continues to follow. Prohibition has failed to stem consumption and production, criminalised social groups, impeded research into alternative medicine and disease, promoted violence and gang warfare, and impacted negatively on the environment. The alternative is a humane policy framework that recognizes the incentives to produce, traffic and consume narcotics.

Author : G. Bruce Doern,Robert Johnson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780802038586

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Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules by G. Bruce Doern,Robert Johnson Pdf

Rules, Rules, Rules, Rules considers various sectors where rule-making spans all or most of the four levels of jurisdiction - international, federal, provincial, and city or local - in areas such as food safety, investment and trade, forestry, drinking water, oil and gas, and emergency management.

Author : Andreas Goldthau,Michael F. Keating
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781783475636

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Handbook of the International Political Economy of Energy and Natural Resources by Andreas Goldthau,Michael F. Keating Pdf

This Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the latest research from leading scholars on the international political economy of energy and resources. Highlighting the important conceptual and empirical themes, the chapters study all levels of governance, from global to local, and explore the wide range of issues emerging in a changing political and economic environment.

Author : Roger G Noll,Roger G. Noll,Bruce M. Owen
Publisher : Aei Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Commerce - Réglementation - États-Unis - Cas, Études de
ISBN : 0844735191

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The Political Economy of Deregulation by Roger G Noll,Roger G. Noll,Bruce M. Owen Pdf

Author : Tamer Çetin,Fuat Oğuz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441977502

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The Political Economy of Regulation in Turkey by Tamer Çetin,Fuat Oğuz Pdf

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.

Author : Brian Dollery,Joe L. Wallis
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110182362

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The Political Economy of Local Government by Brian Dollery,Joe L. Wallis Pdf

Dollery (economics, U. of New England, Australia) and Wallis (economics, Otago U., New Zealand) attempt to explain local policy formation and outcomes from a variety of economic models, including the theory of fiscal federalism, the market failure paradigm, and the "new institutional economics." Particularly referring to local government reforms in the U.K. and New Zealand, the authors look at the extent to which minimalist and activist approaches to matching local functions to local capacity can be related to the different styles of policy leadership that may be required to advance reform. In contrast to many of their colleagues, they stress the uses of social capital to be used by localities to exploit comparative institutional advantage. c. Book News Inc.

Author : David Ricardo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1821
Category : Economics
ISBN : OXFORD:300151240

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On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation by David Ricardo Pdf