Deregulation and Its Discontents: Rewriting the Rules in AsiaM. Ramesh, Michael Howlett Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006 M01 1 - 264 pages . . . an extremely interesting collection, full of insights and institutional detail. . . The book definitely deserves the attention of those interested in one of the most debated issues of the last 20 years in economics and political science. Herb Thomps |
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... Global Context (1998); Policy Studies in Canada (1996), and The Puzzles of Power (1994, 1998). His articles have been published in numerous professional journals in Canada, the United States, Europe, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia ...
... Global Context (1998); Policy Studies in Canada (1996), and The Puzzles of Power (1994, 1998). His articles have been published in numerous professional journals in Canada, the United States, Europe, Brazil, New Zealand and Australia ...
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... global dynamics often observed about regulatory behaviour, the 'Delaware effect' in which regulatory regimes converge towards the lowest common denominator and the 'California effect' in which regulatory behaviour can adopt a more ...
... global dynamics often observed about regulatory behaviour, the 'Delaware effect' in which regulatory regimes converge towards the lowest common denominator and the 'California effect' in which regulatory behaviour can adopt a more ...
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... Global Perspective , Westport , CT : Quorum Books . Gibson , Robert B. ( ed . ) ( 1999 ) Voluntary Initiatives : The New Politics of Corporate Greening , Peterborough : Broadview Press . Gilardi , Fabrizio ( 2002 ) ' Policy Credibility ...
... Global Perspective , Westport , CT : Quorum Books . Gibson , Robert B. ( ed . ) ( 1999 ) Voluntary Initiatives : The New Politics of Corporate Greening , Peterborough : Broadview Press . Gilardi , Fabrizio ( 2002 ) ' Policy Credibility ...
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... Global Governance : Linking Territorial Forms of Self - regulation ' , Administration and Society , 33 ( 5 ) , 555–78 . Rubsamen , Valerie ( 1989 ) ' Deregulation and the State in Comparative Perspective : The Case of Telecommunications ...
... Global Governance : Linking Territorial Forms of Self - regulation ' , Administration and Society , 33 ( 5 ) , 555–78 . Rubsamen , Valerie ( 1989 ) ' Deregulation and the State in Comparative Perspective : The Case of Telecommunications ...
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... global pressures for deregulation as part of a package of neoliberalism led to changes in East Asia in the late 1980s (MacIntyre and Jayasuriya 1992). Yet, by the 1990s, a new wave of economic thinking 14 Introduction: governance and ...
... global pressures for deregulation as part of a package of neoliberalism led to changes in East Asia in the late 1980s (MacIntyre and Jayasuriya 1992). Yet, by the 1990s, a new wave of economic thinking 14 Introduction: governance and ...
Contents
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race to the bottom top and middle | 29 |
cases in East Asian regulatory reform | 47 |
electricity refoms in Eastern Europe and Central Asia | 49 |
5 Privatization and regulation of competition in the electricity sector | 80 |
6 Independent power producers in Indonesia and the Philippines | 109 |
8 Governance and regulation of provident and pension funds in Asia | 151 |
9 Regulation and deregulation of the stock market in India | 168 |
PART III Policy design pinciples for reulatory reform | 193 |
10 Design principles for smart reglations | 195 |
11 Universal service and the transition from state control to statemonitored competition | 212 |
the dereregulatory cycle learning and spillover effects in regulatory policymaking | 228 |
Index | 237 |
evidence from the Philippines and Thailand | 124 |
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