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Over the past four decades, the accumulation of policy legacies and public debt has led to a decline in fiscal flexibility in Germany and the United States. By applying an index of fiscal democracy to Germany, the paper illustrates the associated shrinkage of democratic control over budget...
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Flexible markets require flexible societies; humans, however, need a stable social order. According to received wisdom, when capitalist development razes traditional social structures, society fights back, and welfare state policies organize new stability to replace the old. More market produces...
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The concept of global governance has emerged as a key theoretical approach since the 1990s. Applied to the …, this paper seeks to examine the respective theoretical assumptions underlying the concepts of hegemony and governance … United States and balancing or bandwagoning behaviour by other major powers, or the continuation of security governance. …
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The paper traces the rise and decline of solar cell commercialization efforts during the 1970s and early 1980s in the United States. It shows how technology policies for photovoltaic appliances gained and lost support in a time of increasing uncertainty about future resource supplies and the...
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This paper reviews the political economy of extractive resources and the associated resources sector governance agenda …. The consensus that good sector governance improves the developmental impacts of extractive resources exploitation is …
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This study evaluates the absorptive capacity of a government agency for domestic and external funds. It takes the case of the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH), one of the biggest recipients of funds from government and foreign sources. Specifically, the paper a) provides an...
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empirically show that the quality of governance and environmental policy stringency instruments promote the development of …
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