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As a Socialist country undergoing rapid social and economic transition, China presents a revealing case study on the role of ideology in the process of institutional change. Based on Douglass North's theory of institutional change and on David Beetham's theory of political legitimation, this...
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Für Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz bedeuten Globalisierung, Alterung der Gesellschaft und Strukturwandel …: Während in Deutschland seit den neunziger Jahren das Wirtschaftswachstum niedrig und die Arbeitslosigkeit hoch ist, herrscht …-Reformbarometer" vergleicht die Reformpolitik der drei Länder im Zeitraum September 2002 bis September 2006 und bewertet die Reformansätze in den …
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Long-term beneficial welfare state reforms not only face opposition from powerful insiders and beneficiaries of the system in place. While potential losers from a policy change are often relatively easy to spot, ewll-designed reforms generate mostly diffuse gains, and the potential winners are...
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Unterschiedliche parteipolitische Mehrheiten in Bundestag und Bundesrat gelten gemeinhin als Hauptursache für die Reformschwäche deutscher Politik. Simone Burkhart hinterfragt diese Annahme und kommt zu dem überraschenden Ergebnis, dass nicht das sogenannte "Divided Government" zu massiven...
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We explain economic growth by both politics, i.e. government activity including spending as well as regulation, and institutional quality and its interaction with politics. This extends previous work on institution building in transition by looking at its impact and, at the same time,...
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This Policy Brief aims at examining Ukraine's economic woes and what it needs to do to improve economic performance. At the centre of the Brief are the effects on Ukraine of the economic crisis and the policy programme devised to improve economic performance. The crisis hit Ukraine hard and...
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