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Author : Stephan Haggard,Steven Benjamin Webb
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195209877
Evolution af the enemy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OCLC:31206352
Author : Stephan Haggard,Steven Benjamin Webb,Banco Mundial
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Democracia
ISBN : OCLC:1037115042
Author : Larry Jay Diamond,Marc F. Plattner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017584165
The emergence of new democracies in Eastern Europe has raised anew the question of the relationship between economic reform and political liberalization. This work brings together a group of authorities to examine this question as it relates to Latin America, Europe, Asia, and Africa.
Author : Rob Jenkins
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521659876
This book takes issue with existing theories of the relationship between democracy and economic liberalisation.
Author : Michael Bruno
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821336975
This paper was first presented as my address, as president, to the 1995 Congress of the International Economic Association in Tunis.
Author : Stephan Haggard,Robert R. Kaufman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691188010
In the last two decades, there has been a widespread movement from authoritarian to democratic rule among developing countries, often occurring against a backdrop of severe economic crises and the adoption of market-oriented reforms. The coincidence of these events raises long-standing questions about the relationship between economic and political change. In this book, Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman explore this relationship, addressing a variety of questions: What role have economic crises played in the current wave of political liberalization and democratization? Can new democracies manage the daunting political challenges posed by economic reform? Under what economic and institutional conditions is democracy most likely to be consolidated? Drawing on contemporary political economy and the experiences of twelve Latin American and Asian countries, they develop a new approach to understanding democratic transitions. Haggard and Kaufman first analyze the relationship between economic crisis and authoritarian withdrawal and then examine how the economic and institutional legacies of authoritarian rule affect the capacity of new democratic governments to initiate and sustain economic policy reform. Finally, the authors analyze the consolidation of political and economic reform over the long run. Throughout, they emphasize the relationship between economic conditions, the interests and power of contending social groups, and the mediating role of representative institutions, particularly political parties.
Author : Gustavo Flores-Macias
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-04-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199891672
Gusatvo Flores-Macias' After Neoliberalism? offers the first systemic explanation of why the ever-popular left-wing governments in Latin American countries have become extremely radical or moderate once in power.
Author : Eberhard Kienle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780857713032
The author argues in this text that the much-vaunted reform and liberalisation of Egypt's economy has been partial and selective, far from beneficial to all Egyptians. While the encouragement of the private sector has indeed benefited some, it has failed to improve the standard of living of others, in particular the lower middle classes and a large part of the landless rural population. Most importantly, economic reform and liberalisation have failed to produce a greater degree of political democracy: notions of political accountability, clean elections, a genuinely free press, the containment of police powers have turned out to be a great delusion which masks restrictions on political participation and civil liberties.
Author : S. Heydemann
Publisher : Springer
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781403982148
This volume explores the role of informal networks in the politics of Middle Eastern economic reform. The editor's introduction demonstrates how network-based models overcome limitations in existing approaches to the politics of economic reform. The following chapters show how business-state networks in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, Syria, Lebanon, and Jordan have affected privatization programs and the reform of fiscal policies. They help us understand patterns and variation in the organization and outcome of economic reform programs, including the opportunities that economic reforms offered for reorganizing networks of economic privilege across the Middle East.
Author : Philippa Dee
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136304941
While South Asia’s economic reform initiatives of the last two decades were often born in crisis, this alone does not account for their occurrence. This book looks at the processes and institutional arrangements behind these reforms, and analyses what lessons can be learnt about how South Asia can improve its policy efficiency. The book develops ideas about how to overcome the political restraints to reform by drawing on recent theories of political economy and policy learning. It tests these ideas against authoritative case studies of actual reform initiatives in South Asia, which illustrate processes and institutional arrangements that have helped South Asian governments to sustain reform efforts, even in the absence of a strong political base. This offers valuable lessons for the global economy as it moves into a phase of rebalancing, with the structural adjustments that this will require. The book goes on to identify weaknesses that could be addressed by South Asian national governments and regional forums. It is an important contribution to studies on South Asian Politics and International Political Economy
Author : Ngaire Woods
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801456015
The IMF and the World Bank have integrated a large number of countries into the world economy by requiring governments to open up to global trade, investment, and capital. They have not done this out of pure economic zeal. Politics and their own rules and habits explain much of why they have presented globalization as a solution to challenges they have faced in the world economy.—from the Introduction The greatest success of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank has been as globalizers. But at whose cost? Would borrowing countries be better off without the IMF and World Bank? This book takes readers inside these institutions and the governments they work with. Ngaire Woods brilliantly decodes what they do and why they do it, using original research, extensive interviews carried out across many countries and institutions, and scholarship from the fields of economics, law, and politics. The Globalizers focuses on both the political context of IMF and World Bank actions and their impact on the countries in which they intervene. After describing the important debates between U.S. planners and the Allies in the 1944 foundation at Bretton Woods, she analyzes understandings of their missions over the last quarter century. She traces the impact of the Bank and the Fund in the recent economic history of Mexico, of post-Soviet Russia, and in the independent states of Africa. Woods concludes by proposing a range of reforms that would make the World Bank and the IMF more effective, equitable, and just.
Author : Hermann Giliomee,Charles Simkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135297169
Democracies derive their resilience and vitality from the fact that the rule of a particular majority is usually only of a temporary nature. By looking at four case-studies, The Awkward Embrace studies democracies of a different kind; rule by a dominant party which is virtually immune from defeat. Such systems have been called Regnant or or Uncommon Democracies. They are characterized by distinctive features: the staging of unfree or corrupt elections; the blurring of the lines between government, the ruling party and the state; the introduction of a national project which is seen to be above politics; and the erosion of civil society. This book addresses major issues such as why one such democracy, namely Taiwan, has been moving in the direction of a more competitive system; how economic crises such as the present one in Mexico can transform the system; how government-business relations in Malaysia are affecting the base of the dominant party; and whether South Africa will become a one-party dominant system.
Author : Mr.Omotunde E. G. Johnson
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 29 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1997-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781451980608
A government desiring support for its policy reform program, without coercion, behaves as if it faces a political constraint. Citizen support depends on the estimate, by at least some minimum proportion of the population, that the program will succeed and the outcome will be in their individual self-interest. Government behavior has implications for the program, whose contents constitute the set of signals used by citizens to estimate the probability that the program will succeed. The government uses various devices to mobilize support for its program. An informed expert could design a program acceptable to both the government and the citizens.
Author : Carol L. Graham
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815719892
Countries worldwide are attempting difficult transitions from state-planned to market economies. Most of these countries have fragile democratic regimes that are threatened by the high social and political costs of reform. Governments—and ultimately societies—have to make hard choices about allocating scarce public resources as they undergo these transitions. A central, often controversial, and most poignant question is how to protect vulnerable groups and the poor. What compensation, what "safety net" will be provided for them? Carol Graham argues that safety nets can provide an environment in which economic reform is more politically sustainable and poverty can be permanently reduced. However, these two objectives frequently involve trade-offs, as vocal and organized opponents of reform (for obvious political reasons) often concern governments far more than the poor. These organized and less vulnerable groups tend to place heavy demands on the scarce resources available to governments at times of economic crisis. Governments that fail to address the social costs of reform, meanwhile, often face popular opposition that jeopardizes or even derails the entire market transition--the results of the September 1993 elections in Poland are a case in point. The author examines these trade-offs in detail, with a particular focus on how political and institutional contexts affect the kinds of safety nets that are implemented. For example, reaching the poor and vulnerable with safety nets tends to be more difficult in closed-party systems, such as in Senegal, where entrenched interest groups have a monopoly on state benefits. In contrast, dramatic political change or rapid implementation of economic reform undermines the influence of such groups and therefore can provide unique political opportunities to redirect resources to the poor, as in the case of Bolivia and Zambia. Rather than focus their efforts on organized interest groups--such as public sector unions--which have a great deal to lose in the process of reform, governments might better concentrate their efforts on poor groups that have rarely, if ever, received benefits from the state. The poor, meanwhile, may gain a new stake in the ongoing process of economic and public sector reform through organizing to solicit the state for safety net benefits. This is the first book to provide a detailed and comparative analysis of compensation during economic reform. Graham offers specific examples of resource allocation in three regions: Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. She features case studies from Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Senegal, Zambia, and Poland.