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Decentralization and local government in Bolivia : an overview from the bottom up
Faguet, Jean-Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
Hundreds of studies have failed to establish the effects of decentralization on a number of important policy goals …. This paper examines the remarkable case of Bolivia to explore decentralization's effects on government responsiveness and … poverty-orientation. I first summarize econometric results on the effects of decentralization nationally, and then turn to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745204
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Rearranging the roles of the performer and the composer in the music industry – the potential significance of Fisher v Brooker
Mcdonagh, Luke T. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012
The composer has historically been at the top of the tree in the music industry; most royalties due to artists flow back to composers/songwriters rather than performers. Over the last few decades, the enactment of stronger performers’ rights has sought to redress this historical imbalance by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746437
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Copyright infringement, 'free-riding' and the lifeworld
Barron, Anne - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
The dominant explanatory/justificatory framework informing scholarly commentary on copyright law, policy and theory … the field of social life that copyright law affects. I conclude by proposing Jürgen Habermas’s social theory as an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071092
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The European Securities and Markets Authority and institutional design for the EU financial market – a tale of two competences: Part (2) rules in action
Moloney, Niamh - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
The purpose of this article, and of its earlier companion article (Part (1) Rule-making, 12 European Business Organization Law Review (2011) p. 41), is to examine the implications of the new European Securities and Markets Authority which was established in January 2011. In the wake of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745044
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When the claim hits: bilateral investment treaties and bounded rational learning
Poulsen, Lauge N. Skovgaard; Aisbett, Emma - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Using the international investment regime as its point of departure, the paper applies notions of bounded rationality to the study of economic diplomacy. Through a multi-method approach, it shows that developing countries often ignored the risks of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) until they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745595
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Do governments mean business when they derogate?: human rights violations during notified states of emergency
Neumayer, Eric - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Whether international human rights treaties constrain the behavior of governments is a hotly contested issue that has drawn much scholarly attention. The possibility to derogate from some, but not all, of the rights enshrined in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746326
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The creation of UN Women
Charlesworth, Hilary; Chinkin, Christine - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The notion of institutional coherence has dominated the agenda for reform of the United Nations (UN) in this century. Motivated by what he saw as the weakness of the fractured UN system, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan led an ambitious reform program throughout his term of office (1996-2005)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071171
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Decision making in committees: transparency, reputation, and voting rules
Levy, Gilat - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
In this paper I analyze the effect of the transparency of the decision making process in committees on the decisions that are eventually taken. I focus on committees whose members are motivated by career concerns, so that each member tries to enhance his own reputation. When the decision making...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884588
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Free trade agreements and the consolidation of democracy
Liu, Xuepeng; Ornelas, Emanuel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We study the relationship between participation in free trade agreements (FTAs) and the sustainability of democracy. Our model shows that FTAs can critically reduce the incentive of authoritarian groups to seek power by destroying protectionist rents, thus making democracies last longer. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884636
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Graph value for cooperative games
Hellman, Ziv; Peretz, Ron - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We suppose that players in a cooperative game are located within a graph structure, such as a social network or supply route, that limits coalition formation to coalitions along connected paths within the graph. This leads to a generalisation of the Shapley value that is studied here from an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884676