This paper considers the degree to which Venezuela was able to exercise autonomy in foreign political and economic spheres over a 60 year period from the 1930s to the 1960s. An oil rich but relatively weak state, Venezuela succeeded, over time, in carving out increased levels of economic...

Whether regulating mutual funds or chemical manufacturers, government's policy decisions depend on information possessed by industry. Yet it is not in any industry's interests to share information that will lead to costly regulations. So how do government regulators secure needed information...

The goal of creating a process based on rational, evidence based policymaking has not succeeded in Romania despite the existence of all formal institutions which could facilitate such a process. There is one essential feature which did not change after Romania's EU accession: the state did not...

This paper describes a model of US bankruptcy policymaking based on the agenda setting literature and interbranch studies of the role of federal courts in policy development. Bankruptcy policy is made in three distinct venues: Congress; a bankruptcy policy community made up of lawyers, judges,...