It is increasingly accepted that 'institutions matter' for economic organization & outcomes. This text explores the issues perspectives, & models, concerned with comparative institutional analysis. The leading scholars in the area contribute chapters to provide a central reference point for...

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Preface -- The State Also Rises: The Roots of Contemporary State Activism -- I Varieties of State Intervention -- 1 The Transformation of the British State: From Club Government to State-Administered High Modernism -- 2 The Forgotten Center: State...

'How to combine the community, the market, and the state in the total economic system is probably the most important agenda for economists geared towards the reduction of poverty in developing economies'. - Professor Yujiro Hayami This volume brings together leading scholars from all around the...

SIGMA is publishing this report to make more widely available comparative information on administrative law and administrative supervision in central and eastern European countries, and to highlight certain relationships with developments in these areas in Western Europe. Although each country...