Search Results - subject:"Vested Interests"

Reflections on the New Deal: The vested interests, limits to reform, and the meaning of liberal democracy

Henry, John F. - 2018

"liberal democracy". This analysis demonstrates the limits to reform, given the power of "vested interests" as articulated by … South. In the end, vested interests dictated what transpired, but what did transpire required a modification of the …

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Reflections on the New Deal : the vested interests, limits to reform, and the meaning of liberal democracy

Henry, John F. - 2018

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Inhibited privatization: a hurdle race over vested interests

Senderski, Marcin - In: European Journal of Government and Economics (EJGE) 4 (2015) 1, pp. 46-66

This paper recognizes vested interests as one of the primary premises that reduce the effectiveness of privatization …, but the main focus is put on the dynamism of vested interests' character, interconnectedness and evolution. Policy makers … have been long aware of the existence of activities rooted in vested interests including empire building behaviors …

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Public expenditure distribution, voting, and growth

Burlon, Lorenzo - Banca d'Italia - 2014

vested interests across sectors determines public policy decisions. The model predicts that different initial sectoral …

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Vietnam: An Emerging Economy at a CrossRoads

Truong, Quang - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2013

virtually bankrupt as a result of ideological ambiguity, cronyism, vested interests, corruption, poor governance, and the …

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Murder, Sex, Corruption: Will China Continue to Hold Together?

Brødsgaard, Kjeld Erik - 2012

intensified by a number of social phenomena such as increased fragmentation, vested interests, corruption, social unrest …

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Democracy as a Middle Ground: A Uni…ed Theory of Development and Political Regimes

Larsson, Anna; Parente, Stephen - Nationalekonomiska institutionen, Stockholms Universitet - 2010

A large literature documents that autocratic regimes have not, on average, outperformed democratic regimes, although they do display greater variance in economic performance. At the same time, no long-lived autocracy currently is rich whereas every long-lived democracy is. This paper puts forth...

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Advancing and Resolving the Great Sustainability Debates and Discourses

Smith, Michael Harrison - 2009

The focus of this thesis is on whether or not it is possible to decouple economic growth from the physical growth of the economy and its associated negative environmental pressures and pollution. The thesis demonstrates that it is possible to achieve significant levels of decoupling of economic...

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Special Interests versus the Public Interest in Policy Determination

Rausser, Gordon C.; Roland, Gerard - 2009

This paper focuses on recent theoretical developments in political economy and what role they might play in explaining and reforming individual country and global distortions in food and agricultural markets. Four groups of forces are isolated: political governance structures emphasizing the...

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The Role of Preconceived Ideas in Macroeconomic Policy: Japan's Experiences in the Two Deflationary Periods

Hamada, Koichi; Noguchi, Asahi - 2005

This paper examines the role of misleading economic ideas that most likely promoted the economic disasters of the two deflationary periods in Japanese economic history. Misleading ideas deepened the depression during the interwar years, and erroneous thinking prolonged the stagnation of the...

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