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Comparative Public Policy in Latin America
Author: Susan Franceschet
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 329
ISBN-13: 1442610905
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region exhibits many similarities with the North American and European countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating public policy knowledge, Latin American countries are also different in many fundamental ways. As such, existing policy concepts and frameworks may not always be the most effective tools of analysis for this unique region. To fill this gap, Comparative Public Policy in Latin America offers guidelines for refining current theories to suit Latin America's contemporary institutional and socio-economic realities. The contributors accomplish this task by identifying the features of the region that shape public policy, including informal norms and practices, social inequality, and weak institutions. This book promises to become the definitive work on contemporary public policy in Latin America, essential for those who study the area as well as comparative public policy more broadly.
The Good Society
Author: Henrik Christoffersen
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2013-11-26
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 3642372384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Denmark and Switzerland are small and successful countries with exceptionally content populations. However, they have very different political institutions and economic models. They have followed the general tendency in the West toward economic convergence, but both countries have managed to stay on top. They both have a strong liberal tradition, but otherwise their economic strategies are a welfare state model for Denmark and a safe haven model for Switzerland. The Danish welfare state is tax-based, while the expenditures for social welfare are insurance-based in Switzerland. The political institutions are a multiparty unicameral system in Denmark, and a permanent coalition system with many referenda and strong local government in Switzerland. Both approaches have managed to ensure smoothly working political power-sharing and economic systems that allocate resources in a fairly efficient way. To date, they have also managed to adapt the economies to changes in the external environment with a combination of stability and flexibility.
The comparative study of public economics
A Guidebook to the Comparative Study of Economic Systems
Author: Frederic L. Pryor
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 364
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Economists in Government
Author: Alfred William Coats
Publisher: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 384
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Outgrowth of two conferences, the first held April 2-7, 1977 at the Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Italy and the second held March 25-31, 1979 at the Inter-University Centre for Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia.
Comparative Policy Studies
Author: I. Engeli
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2014-05-20
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 113731415X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In the first volume of its kind, a collection of top policy scholars combine empirical and methodological analysis in the field of comparative policy studies to provide compelling insights into the formulation, implementation and evaluation of policies across regional and national boundaries.
Labor in the Era of Globalization
Author: Clair Brown
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 477
ISBN-13: 0521195411
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Analyzes the causes of the decline in labor's global fortunes from 1975 to the 2000s.
Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy
Author: Masayuki Tanimoto
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2018-12-04
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 0520303652
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At publication date, a free ebook version of this title will be available through Luminos, University of California Press’s Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Scholarly discussions on economic development in history, specifically those linked to industrialization or modern economic growth, have paid great attention to the formation and development of the market economy as a set of institutions able to augment people’s welfare. The role of specific nonmarket practices for promoting the economic development and welfare has been a distinct concern, typically involving discussion of the state’s economic policies. How have societies tackled those issues that the market did not? To what extent did those solutions reflect the structure of an economy? Public Goods Provision in the Early Modern Economy explores these questions by investigating efforts made for the provision of "public goods" in early modern economies from the perspective of Japanese socioeconomic history during Tokugawa era (1603–1868), and by comparing those cases with others from Europe and China’s economic history. The contributors focus on three areas of inquiry—early modern era welfare policies for the poor, infrastructure, and forest management—to provide both a unique perspective on Japanese public finance at local levels and a vantage point outside of Europe to encourage a more global view of early modern political economies that shaped subsequent modern transformations.
Public Policy beyond the Financial Crisis
Author: Philip Haynes
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 226
ISBN-13: 1136265260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The economic crisis of 2008-2009 and beyond has provided the greatest challenge to public policy in the developed world since the Second World War, as the use of public monies to support banks and declining tax revenues have resulted in rising government borrowing and national debt. This book evaluates the failures of public policy in the half decade before the crisis, using the conceptual framework of complex systems. This analysis reveals the fundamental failings of globalization and the lack of a robust and resilient public sector paradigm to assist countries in economic recovery. The research has benefited from UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funding for a Knowledge Exchange that applied the most relevant and applied aspects of complex systems theory to contemporary policy problems. Innovative statistical methods are used to profile and group countries both before and after the 2008-09 crisis. This shows the countries that are best prepared for the ongoing and prolonged Euro zone crisis of 2010-12. The book proposes a new model of public policy that asserts itself over the paradigm of market liberalism and places the public values of full employment, sustainability and equality at the top of the post crisis policy agenda.
