The research agenda of Europeanization is currently highly focused on issued related to what accounts for the 'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case...

Preface -- Financing the public sector -- Taxation : principles, types, and effects -- The design of tax systems -- Taxation and policy objectives -- Sub-national taxation and fiscal federalism -- Issues in international taxation -- Revenue from foreign aid -- User charges, fees, and...

Water infrastructure regulatory systems are occasionally characterised by the combination of selected features of alternative models of regulation, such as public ownership, discretionary regulation, and franchise regulation. Issues arise regarding why these combined or 'hybrid' systems appear,...

This paper presents a theoretical discussion of how economic actors figure out how to attain desired future outcomes. While most economic theory has been concerned with the optimization of the use of scarce resources, relatively less attention has been placed on the way in which economic agents...

The construction of markets in Asia is a complex political, social, and economic process that unfolds through various parallel and intertwined activities at various societal and organisational levels. Within the field of economic and organisational sociology, the creation of markets is...

In an effort to reconfigure the system for the delivery of agricultural services, the Regional Government of Sardinia in Italy decided, in 2006, to suppress five public entities, and to establish three regional agencies in their place. Based on interviews conducted with managers and staff within...